The Roaring Season

Horst Kwech Monza and Lola T332 I attended all F5000 races in USA and Canada in 1975-1976, and centre seat Can Am races from !977 to the end of 1981 and, whilst encountering Horst Kweck on odd occasions I have no recollection of him ever racing in those series.Maybe I'm suffering from CRAFT ...

Sometimes an old slide shows up and this one reminded me of being at Oran Park, June 28 1970 and not having much luck with my camera. After the racing was done I managed to take a couple of photos before heading home. I found this buried in a closet at home recently and had it developed yesterday ...

Ray, Thanks for the information on the first two photos. I am being greedy and asking who can you recognize in these next two photos and then I will leave you alone ! Your input is truly appreciated. Ken. Amaroo Park, Sept. 1970. Frank Matich taking the McLaren M 10B Repco out onto the track ...

Hi there, im looking to get in touch with don and/or david. don imported 5 reynard formula fords into aussie in 1988/89,2 of which went to david ratcliff. ratcliff ran a ff for craig lowndes.any one knowing what happenned to the other reynards or who worked for these men, would be appreiciated ...

I would hardly have called it ''patina'', more of a rough and tatty appearance.There's a need for much time and money to make it look like Graham Adelmans similar Dino Ferrari which appeared at Tasman Revival meetings at Eastern Creek in recent years.The exhaust was a ''cut and shut'' series of ...

The event organiser you spoke to would have been Peter Addison. The car was obtained from Andrew Cunningham in Timaru around the mid 1980s and given a pull through.It was indeed black at this stage.Peter Herbert obtained it back in the 1990s and to the best of my knowledge it hasn't been seen since ...

Well that's me shot then. Never heard of him. Bill Smith was from Hastings, a ''motor engineer'' he liked referred to himself as. If my memory is correct he took the Brabham to Barpark but found the pace a little too hot, and offered the drive to Ken Smith, who may have had a problem with his own ...

According to my copy of ''The Twenty Year History of the Levin Motor Racing circuit 1956-1976'', competing at the 22/10/1956 meeting was Syd Jensen in #5, Bruce Webster in #9, Bob Hugill in #3,Arnold Stafford in #14 and Len Gilbert in # 12 (mk7 Cooper). Great pictures, i'm sure David McKinney will ...

Hopeing to be able to share some of these with you, am making contact with some people. Amazing history in these I have these two, plus most of the Shell annuals. I did comment to Allan Dick once some years ago that he has the Coppins Zephyr photo reversed, making it look like its left hand drive ...

The 1969 New Zealand Motor Racing Shell annual by Peter Greenslade and Euan Sarginson has quite an article about the Fahey Mustang.Quote: Fahey visited Carroll Shelby's Los Angeles headquarters in 1966,tried out a 7 litre prototype but opted in favourof the works Mustang,as raced by Jerry Titus ...

No Rod, all those pics were taken in the Hawkes Bay area. LF 84 suspects the blue Fiat 124 is Mike Langley and taken at a Dannevirke shingle hill climb.

The mini # 53 in post 42 and the Chev coupe were at a sprint near Taupo, on the road to Acacia Bay if memory serves me right, in the early 1970s. The red Hillman Imp is driven here by Gary Deakin who later raced the Heron TC sportscar.

Driving the Escort whilst Gary rode on the bonnet is Don McIntyre, father of "Johnny Mac''.
Garry Simkin

The orange sports car in post # 6 is Gary Deakin in the ex Baron Robertson Heron T/C Ford at College Rd, Pukehou, Hawkes Bay during the running of the Gold Star event held there in december 1969.The blue open wheeler is Ken Bleakleys Cooper Ford, he won the open wheel class at the same event. The ...

Final post. Nice portrait shots, chilling in the pits. [ATTACH=CONFIG]6421[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]6420[/ATTACH] Part 2 will follow. Thanks Garry for sharing these. The three guys in this shot from Levin are Bill Simpson, USA, Frank Matich and his mechanic Graham ''Lugsy''Adams, later to become ...