Just A Mix Of Pics - Ray Green Collection

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Green and yellow...

Goodwood 2000
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Hampton Downs 2010
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Monaco 2012
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[Michael Clark]

Lotus, Cooper, Token, Lotus - always liked the Lotus 16, ever since the slot cars that came with the set

[GD66]

Aha ! Scalextric !

[Bruce302]

Here is something a little bit older. A reverse direction race at Pukekohe, Robin Tanner in his '39 Ford coupe (Edelbrock Special) held off Garth Souness for second place. This is taken from the elbow of the club circuit, photo from Robin Tanner collection.

[Paul Wilkinson]

Ray, even back then there were more than two V6 Marcos in NZ. Dave, Richard and my Father had been mucking around with Scimitars, then Dave & Richard bought their Marcoses. When another Essex V6 Marcos popped up for sale, we went to look at it. Dad decided to muck around with rotaries instead and coincidentally that lead to him buying Tony Rutherford's old RX2 on my behalf -which I then spent the next few years paying for! Don't tell anyone but I actually wanted to borrow money for a Sunbeam Stiletto......

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Just for a change - people...

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[Rod Grimwood]

Graham Park I think it was, its mentioned in the Lost Cars thread, ran with tinted windows and I think from memory on that thread it was burnt out at Baypark?

Yep Parksy sold it to John Coulton.It did have tinted windows...the car caught fire at Baypark..Graham got out ok and damage was super ficial............because no one could see the fire through the windows MANZ passed a directive that all cars will tinted glass (mine included) were to have them replaced with clears.....This was a very well engineered car that had in board suspension and mid mounted P76 turbo charged V8 in it....talking to George Biscuit last week and Graham has purchased the car back and looks like restoring it back to how it was.......Thanks for great photos.....regards, Tony Rutherford.[/QUOTE]

Tony

Caught up with Parksey last weekend at Manfield, (10th/11th/12th Nov.) he was going to look at Marina on Monday. Not got it yet.

[Rod Grimwood]

Brett Willis Commodore
Tony Rutherford RX2
Bruce Manon Turbo Escort
Glenn Jones Datsun 1200
Bruce Anderson Falcon
Peter Yates?RX3
Veen Smith Commodore?
unknown driver Escort
Rod Grimwood Escort
unknown driver unknown car
unknown driver Fiat 124? or is it another RX2? and if so Rex Hawes?
Steve Webling Alfa Romeo GTV
unknown driver Escort
unknown driver and car
Bob Homewood Escort
unknown driver and car but could it be Neville Langley in an Avenger Tiger?
Graham Everson? Holden Monaro?

I know its not a very good answer to what the date is but its a starting point.

unknown in front of me is Dave Smythe

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A bit older -

This 1956 pic (dad's) at Mallory Park was published on another website some time ago. Eventually, we were able to establish the date but I never knew the name of the car as I didn't have a programme.

Out of the blue, yesterday, I received a request from the owner of the car in a later form. I mistakenly thought this was a Tojeiro. Anyone KNOW as opposed to guessing what it is/was?

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Dad used his own Leica at Shelsey (I haven't found the negs yet either) and handed me a 40 year old camera containing 30 year old film. No wonder this heavily cropped image is a bit rough. Is this an Elva? I can't see the race number but I think I may have a programme somewhere.
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Even in 1965 (approximate date) the number of older cars around before they were treasured shows up well here. Taken at our front gate and the garage in the back ground was where dad first met my Mum, when she wheeled her pushbike in and dad inflated the tyres for her. Aaah!

Garage was later the base for Roy's buses (I could tell plenty of stories about those...), then a Volvo dealership and has now been demolished and rebuilt as flats.

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Last pic is interesting on three counts. Firstly, I used a borrowed camera and the first time I'd even had access to anything with anything other than a standard lens.

Secondly, he used Fuji film - which I decided was terrible compared to Kodak (colour) and Ilford (B & W).

Thirdly, this was the only time I saw Tony Brise racing - and he also demonstrated Graham Hill's F1 car at the meeting. Can you imagine any current F1 car doing three laps of a 1.35 mile track at a national meeting today?
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[GeebeeNZ]

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Ray is this the car you have shown above. it is interesting that Reg Bicknell is also listed as driving a Tojeiro at one stage.

Graeme

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Top marks Graeme! Apparently it only ran for a season or so with that bodywork and didn't handle too well. Judging by the two pics, it also had a repaint. Interesting that it also ran with a 5 speed gearbox.

I just love these obscure cars and specials - probably why the VCC events are so interesting, as building a special today appears to be a far more difficult exercise than it used to be. Maybe I should just call mine "The Magneight Special" as opposed to "Mon ZA 8"?

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No prizes for naming any of these either...

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[aussiemonza]

Last pic is interesting on three counts. Firstly, I used a borrowed camera and the first time I'd even had access to anything with anything other than a standard lens.

Secondly, he used Fuji film - which I decided was terrible compared to Kodak (colour) and Ilford (B & W).

Thirdly, this was the only time I saw Tony Brise racing - and he also demonstrated Graham Hill's F1 car at the meeting. Can you imagine any current F1 car doing three laps of a 1.35 mile track at a national meeting today?
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The car that has spun in front of Brise looks like it could be Bob Muir in the Bob & Marj Brown Biranna 272, hint is the front wheel. Any confirmation?

[Dale Harvey]

Well spotted. It does look like a Birrana wheel.
Dale.

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I'll have to dig out the race programme.

Just spent far too much time listing all the negative films on a spreadsheet in date order. Over 400... I don't really relish now going through frame by frame to write up the subjects, but I will eventually. Found a load more to scan, but scanning is so slow...

Cataloguing the slides is less easy as they tend to be currently stored by car make and not by date. At least with the digital pics now, it is all so simple to find out the info, even to which camera and what settings were used, but I haven't yet tripped over a way of cataloguing all that info into a spreadsheet.

To keep you guessing... I wonder if anyone can name all the cars shown in this Mallory pic.

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Yes, a V12....
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And this montage is on our gymnasium wall - no doubt many of you will recognise the originals. I apologise for any copyright issues but I have no way of knowing who took them.

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I only ever saw this car once, so no idea who it is or what happened to it. Probably taken 1983 or 1984

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Apparently Anil Naidu passed away recently and the car has been purchased by a current MGCC racer/member, so it may well be back. Thanks to Grant Kern for the info.

[Oldfart]

A couple I took at last months Historic/VCC meeting

[David McKinney]

No.12's the one you should have concentrated on...

[Oldfart]

David, I do have photos of Richards car, equal detail, but how many on here would have interest (apart from you and me and a very few others). He won a race in it too after a very long resto.

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Shelsey again - 1965
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The BRM at Curborough. I still can't get over why someone would fire up a V12 F1 car for a 900 yard sprint, just for a maximum of 5 runs per day...
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Mallory Park paddock...
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Super Saloons - the crowd favourite in the UK just as here. The main rule there though was that engine and gearbox had to remain in the original location.
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