The Roaring Season

by **Roger Dowding** » Sun Jan 30, 2022 8:06 am

Jeff wrote:Great photo's Bob !
Thanks for posting. Interesting to see the condition of the roads in your particular era of competition. Love the Anglia. 35.9 is a hell of a time !
I'm unsure when Anderson's Farm ceased being used by car clubs but I'm thinking it was in the late 80's / early 90's.
I would love to know what the course record finally ended at ?

Ken H, alerted me to this thread, which I had not visited before..
I thought that the Auckland University Car Club used it and was their event in the Bardahl Series in the 1970's into the early 1980's, which means I may [memory not clear ] have run on it in the 1979/80 Bardahl Series in my Triumph TR4, running for Triumph Car Club..

Would like to know the answer to Jeff's questions myself ;
- " I'm unsure when Anderson's Farm ceased being used by car clubs ? "
- " I would love to know what the course record finally ended at ? "...

the question were asked in January [ 28th ] 2014, !!

Can anyone assist ???

Cheers

Roger

PS,this was the Triumph ; on another of the Bardahl Series events, ACC's run at McLaughlins Rd, near Kaukapakapa.

by **Oldfart** » Thu Jan 30, 2014 1:48 am

Thanks Ross, that's a Burman box.

by **Ross Hollings** » Wed Jan 29, 2014 6:57 pm

The story as i Know it ,I sold it to a guy who i think was called Dennis Samson but i stand corrected there.Many years ago i had a desire to trace it and restore it,i got as far as Nelson where i was told that it had finished up in the tip after i presume being stripped,the Triumph Bonniville motor would have been worth saving along with the Burnham Gearbox [probably wrong spelling]all that was retained was the steering wheel........of course that would be all you would need today for a full restoration, [just joking].I had lots and lots of photos of the car when i completly stripped it at the end of one season....alas these were all lost along with all my slides and photos of south island race circuits taken in the 60,s while i was in the RNZAF,we had an old house we restored and they got destroyed by damp and mold.Very sad to say the least,i photgraphed the whole strip down so i could put it all back together again .!!!!

by **Jeff** » Wed Jan 29, 2014 10:47 am

Arrgh ! a tragedy.
Thanks for the update

by **Oldfart** » Wed Jan 29, 2014 7:46 am

Jeff, as I was told by the builder of the Minimax (who sometimes comes on here) there was only one Minimax, and a later owner told me that it became reinforcing for a driveway. Sad huh?

by **Milan Fistonic** » Wed Jan 29, 2014 7:40 am

Thanks Ross

by **Jeff** » Wed Jan 29, 2014 7:00 am

Hey Ross , did yours or any of the other Minimax's survive the years ?

by **Ross Hollings** » Wed Jan 29, 2014 4:23 am

Hi Milan, Got that thanks,no problem ,will get onto it asap. Ross

by **Milan Fistonic** » Wed Jan 29, 2014 3:10 am

Ross

I have sent you a PM.

Milan

by **Ross Hollings** » Tue Jan 28, 2014 7:23 pm

by **Ross Hollings** » Tue Jan 28, 2014 7:20 pm

A few months back was staying with friends at their beach property at Scotts Landing /Mahurangi. They like entertaining and regularly invite all the locals for meals etc,they are not into motorsport really but one of their neighbours came for dinner and it was Bruce Anderson................never met him in the flesh but that was no problem as we had a common interest.....well we had a great night talking about his cars/family and Andersons farm and how it came about while the prison nearby was being built.Bored the socks off our friends for sure.Then the next night they had another local for a BBQ and he turned out to have raced bikes at Western Springs......another boring night for our friends !!!

by **bob homewood** » Tue Jan 28, 2014 7:59 am

Jeff wrote:Great photo's Bob !
Thanks for posting. Interesting to see the condition of the roads in your particular era of competition. Love the Anglia. 35.9 is a hell of a time !
I'm unsure when Anderson's Farm ceased being used by car clubs but I'm thinking it was in the late 80's / early 90's.
I would love to know what the course record finally ended at ?

Looked back through my book I kept for that period out of interest ,and it looks like the first time I got the record was 37.7 ,then 37.2 .next time it was a 36.4 ,then the last time was a 35.9 ,all on different days over a period from October 69 to March 70 ,had another day in that period as well ,it had rained and the track was not as good still managed a 37.0

by **Jeff** » Tue Jan 28, 2014 7:00 am

Great photo's Bob !
Thanks for posting. Interesting to see the condition of the roads in your particular era of competition. Love the Anglia. 35.9 is a hell of a time !
I'm unsure when Anderson's Farm ceased being used by car clubs but I'm thinking it was in the late 80's / early 90's.
I would love to know what the course record finally ended at ?

by **bob homewood** » Tue Jan 28, 2014 5:58 am

[ATTACH]23408[/ATTACH] I ran there in 1969/ 70 ,I owned the Hill record for quite a while ,broke my own record on three ocassions ,left it at 35.9 before I moved away to live in the South Island

by **escorthvn** » Mon Jan 27, 2014 7:18 pm

Thanks Rod for posting photos,its a waste of good fishing time to find out how to post photos.Call in any time to look at my scrap book as I keeped allsorts for the early 70s. Jills a good cook and also knows more about BDA escorts than most woman,She had to to live with me.Pete.

by **Jeff** » Mon Jan 27, 2014 7:25 am

Great stuff Rod ! Thanks to Peter and yourself for posting this.

by **Rod Grimwood** » Mon Jan 27, 2014 3:37 am

This information was sent from Whangarei Ford man Peter Bryan who these days has the Woolmark MK1 and ex Howard Collier Mk11 Escorts in his collection (both minters). Pete has done a fair bit over the years both here and overseas in his younger days being mechanic on single seaters etc. in Europe and is also a dab hand at steering as well. Maybe we can sit down and check out his 'scrapbook' and knowledge and put it up here at some time. (rumour Jill is dab hand at scones, so a Sunday maybe)

I have copied whole article and then broken down for better view.

I can remember these cars and the yellow clouds of dust.

The corner that Peter in his Anglia is negotiating is the one that had drums stuck around outside that I mentioned previously.

by **Rod Grimwood** » Mon Jan 27, 2014 2:34 am

Correct David, it was along time ago and names get mingled. Yep Alison was it.

Correct SPman

The Magnette that Ross ran was a very quick tidy car and he did a lot of events in it back then.

by **SPman** » Fri Jan 24, 2014 3:52 am

David McKinney wrote:Judy Durham was a member of The Seekers and therefore Australian

It was Alison Durbin who sang I Have Loved Me a Man

It was a cover.......and being an Aus in NZ is common enough.....didn't the drummer from AC/DC live here for some time..with his GT40.

by **David McKinney** » Thu Jan 23, 2014 12:09 pm

Judy Durham was a member of The Seekers and therefore Australian

It was Alison Durbin who sang I Have Loved Me a Man

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