The Brett Young Collection

[kiwi285]

Mike John told me that they had a whoopsie with the overhauled engine and that it had to come out for repair. Hopefully we will see the car on track very soon. Seems like a lot of people want to see the car in action again.

[Bruce302]

It has always intrigued me why the doors and grill would have been changed, What was to be gained. Then changing back again.
Perplexing.

Bruce.

Yep, well spotted John. As well as the subtle colour changes, there doors also changed. This car was a 1967 RS/SS, but by the 1969/70 season it had 1968 doors with no quarter-windows. Also, the grill changed, from the hidden headlight RS, to a standard 68 then back to RS. But then in the 1972 season when it was painted gold, it had the 67 doors and RS nose back on.

Note also that close up, it was a pretty rough car. These cars really took a lot of punishment.

[fullnoise68]

Bruce, it`s probably as a result of the Camaro that Rod ran in the Glenvale race, and then the car Spinner Black built, as per the photos I showed you a while back. And I think you`ll find Rod ran number 41 - where have you seen that number lately Bruce - instead of 141 because John Riley still had 141 on Rods old Mustang. The following year, as in the last photo, Rod had 141 and John had 222.

[John McKechnie]

Bruce, in fact if you really, really , really want to get into this, the cut off is what I said on the roundal the number goes on, Red for early , black for later.Early has 41, later has 141. However there is an in between photo which shows the red roundal with a very small 1 just squeezed on. If you have nothing better to do Bruce , you could collect all the photos from all the threads and start a thread just on numbers 41, and 141 .Somewhere out there , there is a worker who knows the answer and is laughing at all this ceremony.

[GD66]

Hi Steve, I don't think the track is Baypark - I don't remember any dirt track outside of the sealed circuit. Could it be Levin ??

Yeah, I reckon it's Levin too. The start straight runs east-west, Bay Park ran north-south. Plus the infield of the start straight at Bay Park is the pits and pit apron, in the pic there's just flat infield. Still a good wee pic, though !

[Lurker]

Could the yellow XU1 be Ray Olenius?

Well spotted and indeed I believe the track is Levin

[Bruce302]

I wondered if the Glenvale car was involved in some way. Changing the front fenders is quicker that swapping doors and grill.
Rod would have kept his 141 i'd have thought. (his partner John Ward was 121)
You'd better live up to the 41 Noisy. Those are big boots to fill.

Bruce, it`s probably as a result of the Camaro that Rod ran in the Glenvale race, and then the car Spinner Black built, as per the photos I showed you a while back. And I think you`ll find Rod ran number 41 - where have you seen that number lately Bruce - instead of 141 because John Riley still had 141 on Rods old Mustang. The following year, as in the last photo, Rod had 141 and John had 222.

[Bruce302]

John, I think a Rod Coppins thread is a great idea. We can post and compare pics and pay homage to a great Kiwi racer. He ran some neat cars over his time. Who's first ?
Bruce.

Bruce, in fact if you really, really , really want to get into this, the cut off is what I said on the roundal the number goes on, Red for early , black for later.Early has 41, later has 141. However there is an in between photo
which shows the red roundal with a very small 1 just squeezed on. If you have nothing better to do Bruce , you could collect all the photos from all the threads and start a thread just on numbers 41, and 141 .Somewhere out there , there is a worker who knows the answer and is laughing at all this ceremony.

[John McKechnie]

I know of a neat car that I saw him driving -had No. 1 on it. Any guesses?

After some further thought, there are many legends, not just in saloons, but other groups out there and to run with just one is not the fairest to our heritage.Further to this it came to me-
Our overseer , censor and erstwhile thread-ender Steve Holmes could make this an Almanac (Stevemanac?) with alphabetical listings on both cars and drivers Aussie has one , we dont. Heres our opportunity.
We can have drivers on thread, cars on another threads with a cross over to link them

[Bruce302]

An excellent idea. Steve can you think of a suitable format ?

I know of a neat car that I saw him driving -had No. 1 on it. Any guesses?

After some further thought, there are many legends, not just in saloons, but other groups out there and to run with just one is not the fairest to our heritage.Further to this it came to me-
Our overseer , censor and erstwhile thread-ender Steve Holmes could make this an Almanac (Stevemanac?) with alphabetical listings on both cars and drivers Aussie has one , we dont. Heres our opportunity.
We can have drivers on thread, cars on another threads with a cross over to link them

[kiwi285]

How about these

[Bruce302]

Those are all great shots. I will attempt a Rod Coppins thread later today if time permits.
Cheers,
Bruce.

[fullnoise68]

Bruce, I`ve been talking with Rods daughter Toni, and I`m organising for her and her daughter to come up from Invercargill for the first weekend of the Denny Hulme Festival, she is rapt with what is on here already about Rod, so a dedicated thread to him would be good and you can post some of my photos of him that I showed you a while back.

[fullnoise68]

Mike, have you cropped the photo of John Rileys red/gold Mustang? It looks very much like my father that John is talking to at the front of the car, but my main concern is the identity of the roman sandalled, school bag carrying ( good for souvneir collecting) ginger nut in the right front of the photo. I think I know who he is..........

[Steve Holmes]

Hi Steve, I don't think the track is Baypark - I don't remember any dirt track outside of the sealed circuit. Could it be Levin ??

Thanks Mike, well spotted. I actually didn't look so closely at the track, and made my assumption on seeing Brian Foley in there. I thought he'd only raced at Bay Park and Puke. But he must have stuck around and did Levin as well.

[Steve Holmes]

Bruce, it`s probably as a result of the Camaro that Rod ran in the Glenvale race, and then the car Spinner Black built, as per the photos I showed you a while back. And I think you`ll find Rod ran number 41 - where have you seen that number lately Bruce - instead of 141 because John Riley still had 141 on Rods old Mustang. The following year, as in the last photo, Rod had 141 and John had 222.

Steve, wouldn't the Glenvale car by a standard road car that he took off the lot for the weekend?

[Steve Holmes]

I love this car.

[Steve Holmes]

Heres an interesting one. The signwriting on the side says it was prepared by Trevor Crowe. Is this Crowe's own car, or just one he prepped for someone else?

[kiwi285]

Mike, have you cropped the photo of John Rileys red/gold Mustang? It looks very much like my father that John is talking to at the front of the car, but my main concern is the identity of the roman sandalled, school bag carrying ( good for souvneir collecting) ginger nut in the right front of the photo. I think I know who he is..........

Unfortunately I haven't cropped the photo so I guess that the the young boy will remain semi anonymous unless you want to reveal all LOL Be sure that your past will catch up with you sometime.

[Steve Holmes]

Great shot here of the Rod Coppins Firebird. Given there is no PDL signwriting, I assume this must be from the 1973/74 season? Or did the PDL signage disappear later in the 1972/73 season?