The Roaring Season

Don't think so. John Richards was a leading light in the formation of the Pukekohe Car Club in the early 1960's, and raced or hill-climbed a Daimler SP 250. He was of somewhat more solid build than Jim, whose origins were in Weymouth, near Manurewa. Stu Correct John was a larger than life fellow ...

Just a mention that probably belongs in this thread ,Bevan Cossey of the Cosseys Farm Hillclimb connection ,passed away a couple of days ago ,sadly another long time friend gone miles before his time

leave it with me Ray ,no promises but I will see what I can come up with

Trevor Sheffield wrote:Exactly, it was not a place for sissies. LOL

You are right Trevor ,it took some hard dedication to keep the foot flat there

This photo features in Graham Vercoe's book p 17 as Mt Eden Hillclimb 1949, Ron Roycroft in the " works " Austin 7 R type " Rubber Duck " , midgets of Bill Massey and Des Herrick and Laurie Powell's Ford V8 Vercoe shows photo source as unknown, Does Bob know who took it !! an example of a New ...

I don't recollect the Stanton being at too many events till Boydie got it, and that needs checking for timing. Yes I think Barney's Brabham too. Ray I don't recall any Pug powered single seaters over here. U2 in the first one of this batch? Barney Pellow's Fiat engined Brabham for sure ,I saw the ...

That photo was in Lester's old scrapbook as the Kidston Hillclimb Cup and according to what else I have been able to decipher was that although he had labelled it 1949 it was actually on December 11th 1948,and apparently it used a flying start, i.e no hockey stick was used .Sometime I must have a ...

Thanks for a great insight ,I know how hard first hand , it is to reconcile a lot of these old facts and deal with fading memories ,one thing that you can add to your files is that the engine from the Palmer /Kennedy Brabham ended up in the Rorstan engine bank as well ,when I was working for Jim, he ...

Thanks ,Oh well ,we will just keep chipping away ,like a lot of the other multitude of things sitting here waiting for a answer

928 wrote:I know that robinson won port road sprint in the car with no body fitted. that was after the levin shunt

OK ,did it get damaged at a later event again ,that is the only trouble with a lot of this information you have to sift through it ,did Colin Roberts race it after that

928 wrote:what sprint, when,where

I'm not sure ,that is why I asked ,I believe it is being confused with when it got damaged at Levin ,as a point if interest did it ever run again as a complete car after that incident,as the informant may be partly right ?

Thanks again old fart.I just had a look at the site and is confirms a lot of what I knew. great to see history of modifications carried out. shame the car never ran again as a sports car. Now to find the missing bits Does anyone know Colin Roberts or where he lives? I was told that the engine went ...

Rod ....Griffiths were the Rootes group people ,Steve was working at Supertune for Bill when I came back from the South Island I nearly went and worked for Bill at that time .

Yes from Dave Simpson to Crosbie ,That Escort was as said to have been for John Ward ,but via Bill Norrish ended up with David Simpson ,Bill of course had a previous sucesfull involvement with Dave when he won the Salon car championship in the Lotus Anglia

Sad news indeed , I had a long friendship with Ivan going back to 1960 ,a real good guy and a master craftsman now sadly gone

I had a phone call earlier from across the Tasman ,that Frank Matich passed away today , RIP

Grant ,good to catch up with you
again on the weekend ,its been too long between drinks

So they knocked cheeky little buggers off the track back then Bob, thought this was a new thing. No mate its not a new thing it was there way back in the early 60's when I started ,usually round the back of the circuit where the officials didn't see ,I guess how ever I could give back as good as I ...

Yes remember it well ,big pool of water left there from the rain in the days before ,what the story doesn't say is was I was helped in there by the stupidity of someone who should have known better and yes it did end a good race for me ,the GTE had been punching well above its weight before that

Yes that is right ,that is it, at the time of that post I found some other photos of it for David ,I will have to go back and see if I can find them again and also I think we sort of put the Rotorua ,BOP connection together a bit more Dave McKinney's trailer photos are a couple of pages back in this ...