The Roaring Season

by **Roger Dowding** » Tue May 14, 2024 4:40 am

Milan Fistonic wrote:In the 1964 Matamata programme Pat McLoughlin's Healey is entered as 4000cc.

Thanks Milan, Would like to see the Entry List - the one I have is from Myles Hicks who is restoring the car and is the 1965 event.
- Have some of the 1965 Race Entry Lists and only a couple of pages from 1964.
- Looking for them all -

Myles has posted a couple of photos of how the car looks now - it is being done as raced at Ardmore, the Grand Prix meeting as car #122 in 1961 - its First Event

by **Milan Fistonic** » Mon May 13, 2024 5:28 am

In the 1964 Matamata programme Pat McLoughlin's Healey is entered as 4000cc.

by **Roger Dowding** » Mon May 13, 2024 3:10 am

Posted by Graham Woods on the " Old New Zealand Motor Racing " group page on Facebook - It appears to be from the Morrie Given photos in the Scott-Given Studio collection - they were photographers in Matamata at the time and Morrie is Kevin Hirst Uncle, I understand.
Ross Cammick had previously been given, and scanned, the set of photos by Myles Hicks - who as mentioned has been restoring the car. The process started by his father the late Gavin Hicks after being purchased many years ago

P A T McLaughlin in the Austin Healey " Ruddspeed " 3000, unsure if still with that motor in the 1964 Event, had Race #28.
** Edit ; see note from Milan Fistonic Post #106 car shown as 4000cc in the 1964 Programme.

- It had the 3993cc Austin A125 Motor by the time of the 1965 Event Race #34 - later out to 4200.

The car is running with a protective cover over the muffler under the door sill.

by **Oldfart** » Thu Aug 24, 2023 1:32 pm

My first car in 1966 was a Standard 8, later sold in 1967 to a person in Hamilton who repowered it with a Herald unit. Then I built one for the VCC saloon class that I tried to get going.

Photo Keith Humphreys.

by **Roger Dowding** » Thu Aug 24, 2023 5:09 am

Oldfart wrote:Roger Dowding, I had seen the pic before, but was curious about the comment of no rear doors, and how it was achieved.

Rhys, I had posted the photo on the thread about Grasstrack racing in the Waikato.. car seems to have backdoors, but maybe welded shut like some cars were in the day..
Seems " Desard " was confused though from a comment.
Would like to see more of the car, photos that is !!.

Cheers

Interestingly
My cousin when in the UK late 1960;s had the luxury Standard, from the 8 and 10 range - the Pennant with " Standrive ", some very basic type of semi-automatic transmission. Said it wasn't that good - the transmission, later he got a Triumph Herald,

by **Oldfart** » Wed Aug 23, 2023 6:30 am

Roger Dowding, I had seen the pic before, but was curious about the comment of no rear doors, and how it was achieved.

by **Roger Dowding** » Wed Aug 23, 2023 5:46 am

Desard wrote:Yes you are correct must be my grey hair thanks for the correct details. The day I raced at Puke near the end of back straight an Austin A90 or A110 come passed me on its roof.

Desard,

sent you a private message - through the - Private Message function on your profile on TRS,
Cheers
Roger

by **Desard** » Tue Aug 22, 2023 6:35 am

Yes you are correct must be my grey hair thanks for the correct details. The day I raced at Puke near the end of back straight an Austin A90 or A110 come passed me on its roof.

by **Roger Dowding** » Tue Aug 22, 2023 3:51 am

Oldfart wrote:Desard, I am curious, I can find no record of Standard ever having made the Standard 8 with no rear doors. Lack of a bootlid yes. Can you please confirm? Or was it that the rear doors had been modified to not open?

Oldfart,

This photo from Jenny Lucey archives is of the Mike Miers [ Meir ] Standard 8 at Waharoa Sprints in the early 1960's .. Bit hard to tell from the quality of the photo..

by **Oldfart** » Mon Aug 21, 2023 12:00 pm

Desard, I am curious, I can find no record of Standard ever having made the Standard 8 with no rear doors. Lack of a bootlid yes. Can you please confirm? Or was it that the rear doors had been modified to not open?

by **Desard** » Sun Aug 20, 2023 11:49 pm

The Standard of Mike Miers is an 8 no back door aand no opening boot I owned the car from 1962-1964 the 800cc motor replaced with 950cc I raced it at the first race meeting at Pukekohe and the 64 round the houses at matamata Waikato time had photo of car cornering with inside front wheel 6-8inches of ground. In about May or June I was at a dance at The Starlight ballroom in Hamilton and some one ran into side of car, the insurance paid out and gave me the car and that's when Mike bought the car he got an engine from an engine builder from Kumue named Ted Thompson we used to go up there quite often very cleaver man as he was very deaf but could he tune a motor, I helped Mike fit motor Ted had done some work on it so it was very quick in its day. Mike won his class in a lot of hill climbs etc.

by **Roger Dowding** » Wed Mar 22, 2023 4:31 am

The Man in the middle Dene Hollier in the Lotus is smiling before the start.

Front row of the grid with John(ny) Riley Lotus Climax, Dene Hollier Lotus and Graeme Lawrence Brabham Twincam [ Ford ]. photo from Allan Dick - Classic Autonews archives.

Riley won both the Festival Road Race - the feature race and the Formula Libre Race.
In the latter race they finished Riley, Hollier, Lawrence - as they are in the picture

by **Trevor Sheffield** » Thu Mar 02, 2023 12:57 am

jellywrestler wrote:I was talking to the guy wh owns and races in in chch at the weekend, he's had it 35 years.

The red car was the latest imported and was displayed by the agents as quite special, having chrome wire wheels. It was purchased as a replacement for the car restored and raced by Steve and David Oxton being written off. Steve's head mechanic looked after the car, which strangely had a significant advantage in respect of performance, much to Steve's annoyance.

A batch of SP250's became imported as a result of the agent's desire to use up import license on hand with there being a delay in the delivery of saloon models.

The V8 engine proved troublesome in the SP250 due to a significant defect.. The oil-way in the crankshaft, opened up in diameter at each crank pin, thus creating a chamber, which became blocked with lead, deposited due to this becoming what amounts to a centrifugal filter. It was presumed that the saloon models with automatic transmission did not suffer due to the engines running at higher average RPM and therefore temperature.

by **jellywrestler** » Wed Mar 01, 2023 6:56 am

Milan Fistonic wrote:Car 26 is B. Merrett's Daimler SP250, powered by a 2.5-litre V8 designed by Edward Turner. The car was released in 1959 and was originally to called the Daimler Dart but Chrysler objected to them using that name so it was changed to SP250.

I was talking to the guy wh owns and races in in chch at the weekend, he's had it 35 years.

by **Milan Fistonic** » Wed Mar 01, 2023 2:04 am

jellywrestler wrote:does anyone know anything about car 26 in the second piccie here please? I beleive it had an Edward Turner designed engine , he also designed the triumph speed twin and Ariel Square Four

Car 26 is B. Merrett's Daimler SP250, powered by a 2.5-litre V8 designed by Edward Turner. The car was released in 1959 and was originally to called the Daimler Dart but Chrysler objected to them using that name so it was changed to SP250.

by **jellywrestler** » Tue Feb 28, 2023 11:08 pm

does anyone know anything about car 26 in the second piccie here please? I beleive it had an Edward Turner designed engine , he also designed the triumph speed twin and Ariel Square Four

by **jellywrestler** » Tue Feb 28, 2023 9:03 am

Roger Dowding wrote:" Thanks for the memory. ( Fun times close to home !)
Ken H "

These are for you Ken H, Rhys N and Kevin H too !! the locals, and for all the guys on TRS.

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The Start point was moved for the 1965 races but still near Tui Street and the pits in the park area at Huia Street.
This photo from the other side of the road - still the 1964 event, I believe.
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anyone know anything about car 26 here please? i bleieve the engine was designed by Edward Turner who designed the Ariel Sqaure four and Triumph speed Twin?

by **Oldfart** » Tue Jan 17, 2023 8:22 am

Greg Stokes wrote:Fantastic to see the Morarri in these pics

It was even more fantastic to see it in person just around the corner from home !
I distinctly remember the frost in the "Motorman" post too. Thankfully being just round the corner meant we could go home between first getting there at the crack of dawn and first practice to get warm.
Another thing that happened while we were at home was that a certain road going D type was looking for a place to park, so I suggested he park in our garage. The only time my family will have one in our garage

by **Greg Stokes** » Mon Jan 16, 2023 11:42 am

Fantastic to see the Morarri in these pics

by **Roger Dowding** » Tue Jan 10, 2023 3:44 am

This image from Milan Fistonic vast archives was on the Morrari thread -

The Motorman report on the event with the results and a photo of two young men who had written a Free Plug for Motorman in the ice on the roof of a Morris Minor - the two lads are in the bottom picture;

A TRS member had asked for the image to be posted .. go to the Morrari thread to find out more.

The Roaring Season

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