The Roaring Season

105angria wrote:more pics from elsewhere on site

The photos referred to - taken at Pukekohe as noted below.
Now in 2022 ..
In the thread there are two photos of the Wiseman E - Type Both the photos were taken at Pukekohe the Pit area end of the Main Stand.

The Wiseman E - Type is now with Kent Larsen and has been fully restored / rebuilt.

A more recent photo : Kent Larsen own archives. SKOPE 2020 Alan Duncombe photo.
Another old thread rediscovered. while looking for Levin threads - there are two on about 1956 and another about 1966.
Think the Levin Photos can go on
- Either the Pukekohe Thread - North Island story.
[ RIP Pukekohe in April 2023 ]
- Or the Dunedin Thread.
Still mulling it over.

Rod, Sorry I'll miss you mate ,we will be in Canada till the 30th. Doing my very best to get to HD though.
Cheers.

Dave, will be down for Wigram Revival at Ruapuna on 26 to 28th October at Ruapuna so will try and make contact with you.

Cheers

Hi Rod, thats the way I'm thinking at the moment, Mike Sexton has very kindly offered to store the car will in the North so best I get my finger out and get this Blue car set for its debut. Thats providing that Rod wants me and the car . i shall send off a request for an invite soon as.
Cheers Dave.

Dave, think Rods Leadfoot is only couple of weeks from Hampton Festival, could be worth the trip.

Hi Stewart ,thanks for the kind thought, I might look into that. We have not given up on the roll cage yet and am confident of a satisfactory out come. You should get your wheels X rayed at AirNZ. Kerry Rout, old time racer, did my Cooper Vincent wheels when he was running Non Destructive testing. He told me Cooper Wheels vary rarely failed but that was not the case with Lotus ones. You never know, Mimi lites may just last the distance.
Cheers Dave.

I have a suggestion for Dave and the blue car - I was lucky enough to be invited to the Leadfoot Festival in my E Type Roadster this year, I like most particpants, were blown away by the event and it was easily the highlight of my (limited) motorsport carear.

Why not seek an invite for next year via http://leadfoot-festival.myshopify.com/pages/driver-entry-form

You'll probably find the roll cage isn't an issue.

They did ask a couple of months ago for suggestions on which Drivers they should invite this year.

Sadly I don't think i'll be lucky to be invited again but it would be great to see your car in action.

And a piece of trivia, I purchased the magnesium minilights from the Wiseman E via the Toyshop about 15 years ago -used them for a while but then got nervous about their structural integrity.

Stewart

Happy birthday Dave you dont look anywhere near SEVENTY more like seventyseven

SEVENTY YEARS OLD today!!!!

barry walker built the Sabre. i found it under a hedge, rebuilt it and raced it in country gents for couple of years

No I have not, but does anybody have one for sale. Barry crashed outside A J Allen's coal yard.

Yup Feb 65 was the race ..won by Jim Boyd
This was the first race meeting I was allowed out to ( Father wanted me to be an All Black and car racing was waste of time and money ) ...I was about 30 mtrs from where the Mirage came to hit pole and if I remember correctly car was bent up in front with rear still on ground and few hay bales around it ..
The curcuit came down Cumberland left into Police, right into Vogel ,right over bridge and then down into Wharf St, right Strathallan past the old Post Office garages and over raillines and then Right onto Andy Bay Road...
Have you got a program in your collection Woody ?

Cheers Lynds

It was the circuit that went up over the Cumberland St bridge and must have come back along Andy Bay Road. I think Walker hit a pole near the bridge entrance. He was a bit wounded and I always thought he succumbed to his injuries later on but I am not sure. There was a photo in the ODT of the accident.

Yes 65 is on photo

woody wrote:Mirage me thinks. 64 was probably the year.

65...

Mirage it was.

Mirage me thinks. 64 was probably the year.

Hi Woody, Yes I'd forgotten about that accident,I can remember driving past it thinking ''that looks bad" Can't remember what he called it but it was self built and all aluminium. I'm still going for early 60's as I went to live in Auckland in 65 and had built and raced the second XK 120 before that

That street circuit was about mid 60's. It was a one-off circuit. Prior races had been at the cemetary track. Barry Walker in his sports car hit a lamp post at that meeting destroying the car and himself nearly.

Hi Rod, There is a bit of a story to this one. It's at Dunedin in the early 60's, [Al Dick was in charge of crowd control, can you believe that?] All the corners were right angles as it was a street circuit and it included a bridge where passing was not permitted. During practise I had a wee bit of a miss at the top end and an old Pommy mechanic convinced me that what I needed was a set of KLG 220 spark plugs these were his favorite cure all and he just happened to have a set about his person. So I fitted them and lined up for the race. Now these plugs were the coldest ones that KLG made and were either fouled when I fitted them or got that way lining up because the old girl missed and farted like you would not believe. It was starting to come good when I came up to a Lotus 11 on the over bridge. To my surprise he pulled out and passed a slower car, I stayed behind thinking to Lotus would be black flagged, when he was not the red mist descended and I drove the rest of the race like this, inside wheel lit up and a dose of opposite lock. Hell was I pissed, turned out the Hoo Ray Henry in the Lotus never went to drivers briefings, they were just for lower classes.