Old Speedway Photos

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I`m pretty sure both Allen Ford and Dennis Short built the HQ Monaro with Jerry Clayton paying the bills. I see Allen quite often so I`ll ask him.

[Steve Holmes]

Thanks for that info Steve. Rochelle Ford, Allen's daughter, said on our Roaring Season Facebook page that Allen is wanting to build a replica of his championship winning Monaro. I think they're looking for a donor car. Would be great to find out more about that next time you speak to him.

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Tony Baker

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Tony Baker.

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The boys with the stock cars A framed from Auckland to P/North & return.Must be early 1960s.
as it looks like a TK Bedford unloading fuel at the servo.

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[Rod Grimwood]

Great colour photo of Ford and Monaro, they were a great combo, see quick Humber 80 of Ray Chatfield in back ground and Ray Wrights XU1. Chatfields Humber was a very clever car and he was a damn good mechanic/fabricator. Worked for the Scott's and looked after Ash's Victor and Johns Firebird along with his car in between keeping the trucks going. Nice guy's.

[Steve Holmes]

[ATTACH=CONFIG]25186[/ATTACH] The boys with the stock cars A framed from Auckland to P/North & return.Must be early 1960s.
as it looks like a TK Bedford unloading fuel at the servo.

Awesome pics. This one is outstanding! I'd love to get my hands on that nice '37 Ford coupe.

[Steve Holmes]

Hopefully someone can help me with these two pics. Couple of neat looking Chevelles from the US, for Donny Graham and Jim Hopkinson. Are these two different cars racing at the same time, or the same car visiting on two different occasions with two different drivers?

Thanks to Steve E for the pics.

[Steve Holmes]

Maybe this should also go in the 'Old Road And Race Cars Ads' thread? This is one of the scans Steve E sent me from various old speedway race programmes. Makes for interesting reading. Check out the price for the Mercury Montcalm. You could have bought a house for that sort of money in 1975. And I reckon a nice '73 Montcalm would struggle to make 12.5K in todays money! So probably not a great investment for whoever stumped up the cash.

[225sloper]

Does any one know who raced this car has Invercagill on it,is it the Peter Woods car as he was from Gore?

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[quote="Steve Holmes"]Hopefully someone can help me with these two pics. Couple of neat looking Chevelles from the US, for Donny Graham and Jim Hopkinson. Are these two different cars racing at the same time, or the same car visiting on two different occasions with two different drivers?

Thanks to Steve E for the pics.


They were both here racing at the same time Steve.

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Does any one know who raced this car has Invercagill on it,is it the Peter Woods car as he was from Gore?[ATTACH=CONFIG]25196[/ATTACH]

Email the photo to Tony Cardwell at Cardwell Race Supplies, he`ll probably know.

[seaqnmac27]

Jac Mac will know for certain as he worked with Woods, but I am certain that reads Peter Woods under the window front left. I saw a pic of Woods' Mustang in a MotorAction just the other day will look and confirm

[Racefan]

Cars were here at the same time remember it well one of the cars had a cartoon of a child with a meat cleaver with it finger cut off car was called the butcher. I was in the pits one of the American driver was try to pull a local drivers pant down "to see how hairy these kiwis are"

[Steve Holmes]

Hopefully someone can help me with these two pics. Couple of neat looking Chevelles from the US, for Donny Graham and Jim Hopkinson. Are these two different cars racing at the same time, or the same car visiting on two different occasions with two different drivers?

Thanks to Steve E for the pics.


They were both here racing at the same time Steve.

Thanks Steve

[Jac Mac]

Email the photo to Tony Cardwell at Cardwell Race Supplies, he`ll probably know.

[color="#0000FF"]Merv Nelson Invercargill, chassis built by Don Black, think AB might have been part of the build as well , later went to Ron Omelvena, cant remember where from there..... not Peter Woods Car.[/color]

[Steve Holmes]

Cars were here at the same time remember it well one of the cars had a cartoon of a child with a meat cleaver with it finger cut off car was called the butcher. I was in the pits one of the American driver was try to pull a local drivers pant down "to see how hairy these kiwis are"

Ha ha, cool story!

[Steve Holmes]

Does any one know who raced this car has Invercagill on it,is it the Peter Woods car as he was from Gore?[ATTACH=CONFIG]25196[/ATTACH]

Yes, Peter Woods, and also went through several others drivers too. Ended up with the Boultons. They raced it like this for a while, then cut the body off and replaced it with a (then) modern '90s Mustang body. The original body they then buried in one of their farm paddocks.