The Roaring Season

Just reading Ken H's introduction to this thread ;
" I found another box of "stuff" that I had dragged back from Kiwitahi to California and although some of it has been presented before I feel one can never get too much of the racing history from the 50s and 60s etc. Some of the old Ardmore programmes give a wonderful insight to who,what and where some of the drivers and cars came from.
I used to cut out pictures from the NZ Herald and Weekly News and put them in scrapbooks and I wanted to share some of that also and encourage anyone else to share what they may have "tucked away" from this era. "

My growing up [ haven't stopped yet !! according to ' her indoors' ] must have been similar, cutting out articles and acquiring motoring " stuff " which is now considered memorabilia.
I have an "Accounts Ledger " that my father put together in the late 1940's - cuttings from UK magazines and NZ papers of various Car Road Tests stuck into the Ledger - it must have rubbed off.

As mentioned on " Old Tracks " a wet day here, so have been editing photos that I took recently of some of my " memorabilia " while going through my Archives - Two large boxes of stuff,plus a bookshelf that all live in the Garage along with around 300 of my Scale Models and few metal signs.

A couple of Books with the NZ connection .. and my part of a set of Le Mans books by Brooklands ;

[attachment=4]Motoring Books #161 Dunedin Scott Thomson 1983 2019_03_29_0703 (3) (528x800).jpg[/attachment]

Thanks to Spgeti for the " Waimate " Book..
[attachment=5]Motoring Books #163 Waimate 50 front 2019_03_29_0705 (2) (535x800).jpg[/attachment]

Le Mans ;
1947 to 1965
[attachment=3]Motoring Books #175 Brooklands Le Mans 49-57, 58-65 2019_03_29_0710 (3) (800x508).jpg[/attachment]

[attachment=2]Motoring Books #176 Brooklands Le Mans 49-57, 58-65 back 2019_03_29_0711 (3) (800x509).jpg[/attachment]

1966 to 1982
[attachment=1]Motoring Books #177 Brooklands Le Mans 66-74,75-82 2019_03_29_0712 (3) (800x495).jpg[/attachment]

[attachment=0]Motoring Books #178 Brooklands Le Mans 66-74, 75-82 back 2019_03_29_0713 (3) (800x509).jpg[/attachment]

[quote="Ike"]The "Beast" at this time looks like an altered Vee.....The body and windscreen are ex-vee, with a VW motor, the gearbox would be VW as the rear wheels and rear brake drums are all VW.....The front end is from something else[/quote]

Look's very cooper cross spring to me, would think not legal for " V "

The "Beast" at this time looks like an altered Vee.....The body and windscreen are ex-vee, with a VW motor, the gearbox would be VW as the rear wheels and rear brake drums are all VW.....The front end is from something else

Thanks Milan, Merv is now departed, but he was a close friend and its great to see the pix again

[quote="John McKechnie"]Roger....my neighbour in the late 70s, early 80s was Merv McDonald who had the Mini Minus...later known as the Beast.It is on other threads here...hillclimbs . Used to be a Cooper and that looks like his body, though dont remember nose being so open It did however run a VW motor in hillclimbs with him and later Steve Browne- Ross H will know. Dont think Merv ran it as early as 1968....but happy to be enlightened[/quote]

This is Steve Browne with The Beast at Anderson's Farm Hillclimb in December 1977. It was running a 1500cc VW engine at that time.

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Roger....my neighbour in the late 70s, early 80s was Merv McDonald who had the Mini Minus...later known as the Beast.It is on other threads here...hillclimbs . Used to be a Cooper and that looks like his body, though dont remember nose being so open It did however run a VW motor in hillclimbs with him and later Steve Browne- Ross H will know. Dont think Merv ran it as early as 1968....but happy to be enlightened

[quote="Milan Fistonic"]Re ; Ken Flashman - built the Mini-Max, which both he and later Ross Hollings raced and Hill Climbed - there is a photo of Ross in the car at Cosseys Farm, Drury on the Northern Sports Car Club thread.


The Mini Max was built by Max Rutherford in 1965. I don't recall Ken Flashman ever racing the car[/quote]

Thanks Milan.. I know Ross had it,may have got a bit Maxed up ..

Re ; Ken Flashman - built the Mini-Max, which both he and later Ross Hollings raced and Hill Climbed - there is a photo of Ross in the car at Cosseys Farm, Drury on the Northern Sports Car Club thread.


The Mini Max was built by Max Rutherford in 1965. I don't recall Ken Flashman ever racing the car

Quote from IKE regarding the posts back in August 2015 - the details with the photos added

" This is in reply to the post on ...PAGE 17 .... 30.08.2015 by Roger Dowling & 31.08.2015 By Milan Fistonic

The Meeting is from 1968
Pukekohe Club Circuit .....Sept 1st 1968 Northern Sports Car Club

Photo # 1 (top working down)
My old album, has part of a program listing
#61 as Brian Pellow--- Brabham
#4 is Graeme Morley----ex McRae U2
# ? Could be M Mc Donald ----Mini Minus Special or R Duirs MER
# 3 is Rob Allen .Spencer Allen Motors- Manurewa / Begg & Allen Manuewa ---- Almen Formula Vee
# 6 is Ivan Berry, No Number on the nose --- Ike Formula Vee

Photo #1
[attachment=1]NSCC Pukekohe Club circuit meeting 67-68 #3, single seater dummy grid CCI30082015 (3) (800x55.jpg[/attachment]

Photo # 2
# 6 is Ivan Berry's Ike Vee ----This Vee was the 2nd in the country after Barry Munro. The Ike Vee was built in Australia in 1966
by the owner Ivan Berry. The car was a copy of an Elfin space frame chassis, The body was an a altered Elfin body also built by the owner. The car was raced in Victoria at various tracks before
being shipped to N.Z. mid 1967.
# 3 is Rob Alens Almen Vee.

Photo #2 - That is me looking at the engine knelling down and another Roger [ Rog Allport ] and another Mate Ron Lucka - standing by the car - photo probably taken by Richard or Steve Fowler - we probably all went in the Blue Beast - Rog A's 1960 Vauxhall PA ..
[attachment=0]NSCC Pukekohe Club Circuit meeting 67-68 #4 single seaters dummy grid 2. CCI30082015 (3) (1).jpg[/attachment]

Photo # 4 answer by Milan Fistonic
The photo of the advertisment "FORMULA V DEVELOPMENT" The photo used by Ken McQueen Motors in the Add was
taken by Jack Inwood for "Motorman Magazine" at a track test for an article published in the January 1968 issue of
Motorman... The photos used in the add is being driven by the Editor of Motorman Don Anderson.
Ken McQeen motors sponsored the "Ike Vee" for the 1967/68/69 season and used the chassis design as the basis for the subsequent
McQueen Vee. Ivan Berry was supplying the bodies, seats and windscreens for the McQueen Cars.

Some other memories.......

Peter Bruin ...Bright yellow Cooper Vincent was always competing ..... Dark Blue overalls - Red Helmet!

Ken Flashman... Went on to drive a Formula Vee for Lynn Motors in a "Rebel Vee"...... Ken was unfortunate to damage his hand badly in the intake fan of the VW motor. "

Re ; Ken Flashman - built the Mini-Max, which both he and later Ross Hollings raced and Hill Climbed - there is a photo of Ross in the car at Cosseys Farm, Drury on the Northern Sports Car Club thread.

IKE, as the event was an NSCC event - am posting the details there too.
Thanks so much for the information

[quote="Oldfart"]The "Mini Special" looks very MER like to me, could also be Les Reisterer? He had the first one of several built by Matamata Engineering.[/quote]

Oldfart and Ike - thanks for the details - I will use that and repost the photos, with your comments Gentlemen !! .
Oldfart yes think the MER was mentioned elsewhere when the posted - I must have had two cameras that day as some photos are square, my Brownie Starlet and some rectanguar, some one must have used that camera too as I appear in one of the photos- before the Selfie was invented !!

The "Mini Special" looks very MER like to me, could also be Les Reisterer? He had the first one of several built by Matamata Engineering.

This is in reply to the post on ...PAGE 17 .... 30.08.2015 by Roger Dowling & 31.08.2015 By Milan Fistonic

The Meeting is from 1968
Pukekohe Club Circuit .....Sept 1st 1968 Northern Sports Car Club

Photo # 1 (top working down)
My old album, has part of a program listing
#61 as Brian Pellow--- Brabham
#4 is Graeme Morley----ex McRae U2
# ? Could be M Mc Donald ----Mini Minus Special or R Duirs MER
# 3 is Rob Allen .Spencer Allen Motors- Manurewa / Begg & Allen Manuewa ---- Almen Formula Vee
# 6 is Ivan Berry, No Number on the nose --- Ike Formula Vee

Photo # 2
# 6 is Ivan Berry's Ike Vee ----This Vee was the 2nd in the country after Barry Munro. The Ike Vee was built in Australia in 1966
by the owner Ivan Berry. The car was a copy of an Elfin space frame chassis, The body was an a altered Elfin body also built by the owner. The car was raced in Victoria at various tracks before
being shipped to N.Z. mid 1967.
# 3 is Rob Alens Almen Vee.

Photo # 4 answer by Milan Fistonic
The photo of the advertisment "FORMULA V DEVELOPMENT" The photo used by Ken McQueen Motors in the Add was
taken by Jack Inwood for "Motorman Magazine" at a track test for an article published in the January 1968 issue of
Motorman... The photos used in the add is being driven by the Editor of Motorman Don Anderson.
Ken McQeen motors sponsored the "Ike Vee" for the 1967/68/69 season and used the chassis design as the basis for the subsequent
McQueen Vee. Ivan Berry was supplying the bodies, seats and windscreens for the McQueen Cars.

Some other memories.......

Peter Bruin ...Bright yellow Cooper Vincent was always competing ..... Dark Blue overalls - Red Helmet!

Ken Flashman... Went on to drive a Formula Vee for Lynn Motors in a "Rebel Vee"...... Ken was unfortunate to damage his hand badly in the intake fan of the VW motor.

[quote="khyndart in CA"]I don't know how long this has been happening but it is very pleasing to see Gearbox Grinder's great " Photo Bucket" photos back on this thread (Starting on page 8 ).

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Frank Gardner. Pukekohe. 1965



(Ken H)[/quote]

Have they given up their holding you to ransom because you use their service to store photo's then charge you to use them ??

I don't know how long this has been happening but it is very pleasing to see Gearbox Grinder's great " Photo Bucket" photos back on this thread (Starting on page 8 ).

[attachment=0]Frank Gardner. Pukekohe. 1965.JPG[/attachment]
Frank Gardner. Pukekohe. 1965



(Ken H)

Here is one I stumbled on to recently. The program from the 1969 Riverside Trans-Am race. Note that Mark Donohue's Penske Camaro is still wearing its vinyl top. The two team cars appeared with these tops in the early rounds, but the paranoia of the competition was such that they eventually got the SCCA to have the team remove them.

[attachment=0]_Riverside-1969-10-05.jpg[/attachment]

[quote="Gearbox Grinder"]Those WOF's came in in the mid 1980's,they replaced the old white paper with black number WOF's.The old WOF's were too easy to photocopy,or people used to cut numbers off calendars and stick them over the numbers to extend their warrants.The new design was a step backwards as the numbers were hard too read from a distance and you had to put your head in the car to read the expiry date.I was in the MOT back then.A WOF cost .50c at the testing station back then.[/quote]

Thanks for that info .. cheers Roger

Those WOF's came in in the mid 1980's,they replaced the old white paper with black number WOF's.The old WOF's were too easy to photocopy,or people used to cut numbers off calendars and stick them over the numbers to extend their warrants.The new design was a step backwards as the numbers were hard too read from a distance and you had to put your head in the car to read the expiry date.I was in the MOT back then.A WOF cost .50c at the testing station back then.

Not at all Roger,
That's what the thread is for. The more the merrier.

BTW.. You did not answer some input I put in on page 7 of the Old race transporter thread that I "hijacked" !

Cheers,
Ken.

Putting this request here as is about the 1970's. there is an inquiry on Facebook that I am following
" So if a 1940 American style truck was around and about in 1967 would the truck then have a 1967 plate as I understand it back then a plate was issued each year and it was 1964 that the black and silver plate as we know them as came in? ". Plate was of course not issued each year but the Rego Sticker was, and the warrant 6 monthly.

A Lady has the above truck - presume a light / pickup truck, so on a Private Registration.
from my memory in 1967, the year I got my first car Warrant Stickers were White with Black printing and handwritten details of the vehicle put on in either Black or Blue pen..Ballpoint pens had hit the market in the 60's ..

Licence Plate seen in this picture are Pre- 1967 when permanent plates were being issued - from 1964 to 1966;
[attachment=3]NZ Number plates #3, 1937 - 1966 - 64-66 permanent plates intro..jpg[/attachment]

Registration Sticker -
[attachment=2]NZ Number Plates #8 & Rego, Carless days .sticker . Ben Hutchinson 30072016.jpg[/attachment]

Warrant of Fitness sticker on the vehicle .. looks like an American 1940's style vehicle
These would be newer than the 1960's - look more 1990's to me .. none of my photos show enough detail ..
Front
[attachment=1]NZ Number Plates #10 Warrant Sticker front K Lynn.jpg[/attachment]

Rear
[attachment=0]NZ Number Plates #11 Warrant Sticker rear K Lynn.jpg[/attachment]

Ken hope I haven't hijacked your thread ..
cheers

Roger

#2, & #6, the cars
[attachment=3]NZ Hot Rod card series #2, # 6, 1971 '23 Ford, '36 Ford ;front CCI06102015_0005 (515x800) (502x.jpg[/attachment]

the details
[attachment=2]NZ Hot Rod card series #2, #6, back 1971 '23 Ford '34 Ford ;details CCI06102015_0006 (521x800) (.jpg[/attachment]
#8, #12
[attachment=1]NZ Hot Rod card series #8, #12, 1971 Morris and Plymouth ; front CCI06102015_0007 (514x800) (501.jpg[/attachment]

the details ;
[attachment=0]NZ Hot Rod card series #8, #12 1971 back Morris and Plymouth CCI06102015_0008 (515x800) (483x750.jpg[/attachment]

Need numbers ; #5, #7 and #11 ..
can swap #1, #3, #4, #9, #10, with a bonus extra #9..
anybody have the second series, as mentioned by Steve..
Thanks Ken I used your thread, but thought it appropriate and also these things have travelled, all around Auckland from 1971 to 2008, then to Sydney in 2009 and to Bellara, QLD in 2011..