Old Programmes, movies and memories from the Fifties, Sixties and Seventies.

[khyndart in CA]

Pukekohe, Jan. 1964.
They had the race for NZ drivers only, although some of the top drivers e.g. Tony Shelly, Jim Palmer were saving up for the main race later. Roly Levis competed in both events, was he the winner of this race ?
I would like to see some pics of some of these cars, such as ; Jim Boyd's Valour, Jamie Aislabie's A.R.T. Special, Garth Taylor's Dynafour and R.Alder with a 500 cc T.S.R. ?

(Ken Hyndman )

[khyndart in CA]

Pukekohe. 1964.
The race before the start of the NZGP was the "Auckland Star" Sports Car Trophy Race. I think this is one of the first time in years that the Lycoming Special was not entered in the Grand Prix. What an amazing piece of Kiwi ingenuity.

(Ken Hyndman..programme )

[khyndart in CA]

On the back page of the 1964 NZGP programme was this advertising.
( Note the prices )

Remember this ; On Monday 10 July 1967 ("Decimal Currency Day"), the New Zealand dollar was introduced to replace the pound at a rate of two dollars to one pound (one dollar to ten shillings, ten cents to one shilling, 5⁄6 cent to a penny).

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Roger, They should have used you in the Triumph ad when the TR 4 A came out ! Great photo.

Roger Dowding driving his Triumph TR 4 A at the limit !

(p.s. Thanks for your comments )

(Ken Hyndman )

[khyndart in CA]

How the Pukekohe Track looked in 1964.

(Ken Hyndman .. 1964 programme has now come to an end. The next one I have is 1969. Shall I continue ? )

[Oldfart]

Shall you continue?
Is the Pope a Catholic? Do fish swim in the sea?

[Grant Sprague]

ha ha .........Ken do u have program 1963.........does a beer sh.t in the woods

[Roger Dowding]

ha ha .........Ken do u have program 1963.........does a beer sh.t in the woods

The Bear is flat !!, the beer is DB or Lion Red; Auckland , unless you live in Wellington ; Redband, Christchurch ; wtf, Hastings ; Leopard, Dunedin, Speights, Wairarapa ; Tui. Hamilton; Waikato. West Coast ; Monteiths..

GS, KH, seems to have everything, taken from Kiwitahi, to the US of A, we are so lucky.

[Roger Dowding]

How the Pukekohe Track looked in 1964.

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(Ken Hyndman .. 1964 programme has now come to an end. The next one I have is 1969. Shall I continue ? )

and a car from the previous Post..

[Roger Dowding]

On the back page of the 1964 NZGP programme was this advertising.
( Note the prices )

Remember this ; On Monday 10 July 1967 ("Decimal Currency Day"), the New Zealand dollar was introduced to replace the pound at a rate of two dollars to one pound (one dollar to ten shillings, ten cents to one shilling, 5⁄6 cent to a penny).

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Roger, They should have used you in the Triumph ad when the TR 4 A came out ! Great photo.

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Roger Dowding driving his Triumph TR 4 A at the limit !

(p.s. Thanks for your comments )

(Ken Hyndman )

Ken, thanks for your comment, that photo, your version of it looks better than the one I have, can you sort them out, I just scan and attach.

[khyndart in CA]

Roger,
I will give it a try.

Roger Dowding on the grid in his Triumph TR4 A. Pukekohe. 1980

[Roger Dowding]

On the back page of the 1964 NZGP programme was this advertising.
( Note the prices )

Remember this ; On Monday 10 July 1967 ("Decimal Currency Day"), the New Zealand dollar was introduced to replace the pound at a rate of two dollars to one pound (one dollar to ten shillings, ten cents to one shilling, 5⁄6 cent to a penny).

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Roger, They should have used you in the Triumph ad when the TR 4 A came out ! Great photo.

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Roger Dowding driving his Triumph TR 4 A at the limit !

(p.s. Thanks for your comments )

(Ken Hyndman )

My copy of a print of the photo,

where did you get yours, your photo ??

[Roger Dowding]

Roger,
I will give it a try.

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Roger Dowding on the grid in his Triumph TR4 A. Pukekohe. 1980

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Ken, your a champion, the guy I am looking at was the President of the NZ TR Register, forgotten the name. the TR did a lot of sprints Hillclimbs in 1978 - 80, before i was involved in an accident, had just got some " mudgrip tyres " for the metal hillclimbs for the 80/81 season and went for a drive, going up Mount Atkinson, in Titirangi, Auckland quite slowly and a younger guy in a Cortina was on the downhill run, saw me hit the brakes and, of course lost all steering, So, into the right front of the TR.. no more racing for a while.
Had the car rebuilt, and was sold to help buy a house, the buyer was a Charles Matschek, from Portland Oregon, who lived in NZ with his Kiwi wife, well he went racing in it, Wings and Wheels at Whenuapai, Pukekohe Classics, and others fitted Dell'Ortos in place of the SU's which I had. last heard of in around 2006 the car was in Christchurch, unregistered under the licence plate DF4958.
If anybody knows where it is now, would love to find out.

[Roger Dowding]

Ken, your a champion, the guy I am looking at was the President of the NZ TR Register, forgotten the name. the TR did a lot of sprints Hillclimbs in 1978 - 80, before i was involved in an accident, had just got some " mudgrip tyres " for the metal hillclimbs for the 80/81 season and went for a drive, going up Mount Atkinson, in Titirangi, Auckland quite slowly and a younger guy in a Cortina was on the downhill run, saw me hit the brakes and, of course lost all steering, So, into the right front of the TR.. no more racing for a while.
Had the car rebuilt, and was sold to help buy a house, the buyer was a Charles Matschek, from Portland Oregon, who lived in NZ with his Kiwi wife, well he went racing in it, Wings and Wheels at Whenuapai, Pukekohe Classics, and others fitted Dell'Ortos in place of the SU's which I had. last heard of in around 2006 the car was in Christchurch, unregistered under the licence plate DF4958.
If anybody knows where it is now, would love to find out.

Here is the car at Bright Road 1979 Bardahl Series . again Ross Cammick photo.

John Hatton, raced a Ford Zepthyr at Pukekohe in the Auckland Car Club Autumn meeting 4th April 1964, had the program to be given away.
It is now in my hands along with a MotorAction 19th April 1974, and the Auckland Car Club 75th Anniversary Book 1932 - 2007.
with many contributions from Ross Cammick, Kevin Lancaster and Milan Fistonic.
Thanks to John,and will scan and post some information from them when I return to Queensland

[John H]

Hi Roger. Love the sideways photos of your blue Triumph. Pleased those books went to a good home. Take care..

[khyndart in CA]

Towards the end of 1964 McLaren built the first M1 sports car and painted it in NZ colours of Black & Silver. I think I spent the rest of my high school days trying to draw sports car pictures.( it was a beautiful machine built in mediocre shop conditions that we would just shake our heads and wonder how did he do that ! )I even offered free art to any girl that would help me with my homework ! My teachers got sick of opening my school books to see this stuff ! I thought I could be a car designer without being any good at math. I even wrote to the GM design school in Detroit. (Never heard back ! ) I thought if McLaren could do it then I could dream of building my own" Apollo" sports car.

Hyndman's dreaming and sketching from the 1960,s.

After a day at Pukekohe. 1966.

Detroit, please let me in !

(My "Apollo GT"..the fastest road car in the world. (1967)

(Ken Hyndman.. the ultimate dreamer !)

The McLaren M1 _Oldsmobile that was my dream car.

[Roger Dowding]

Towards the end of 1964 McLaren built the first M1 sports car and painted it in NZ colours of Black & Silver. I think I spent the rest of my high school days trying to draw sports car pictures.( it was a beautiful machine built in mediocre shop conditions that we would just shake our heads and wonder how did he do that ! )I even offered free art to any girl that would help me with my homework ! My teachers got sick of opening my school books to see this stuff ! I thought I could be a car designer without being any good at math. I even wrote to the GM design school in Detroit. (Never heard back ! ) I thought if McLaren could do it then I could dream of building my own" Apollo" sports car.

Hyndman's dreaming and sketching from the 1960,s.

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After a day at Pukekohe. 1966.

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Detroit, please let me in !

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(My "Apollo"..the fastest road car in the world. (1967)

(Ken Hyndman.. the ultimate dreamer !)





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The McLaren M1 _Oldsmobile that was my dream car.

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Wasn't that originally Roger Penske's Zerex Special with a 2.7 litre Climax Motor, ??

[Michael Clark]

Ken, was the convertible a front or mid-engine?

[khyndart in CA]

Roger,
The Zerex Special became the Cooper-Oldsmobile 3.5 litre.
The McLaren - Oldsmobile Mark 1 was introduced in September 1964 and had a Traco built 4.5 litre V8 in it.


( Ken Hyndman )

[khyndart in CA]

Michael,
I had it as a rear engine with a front radiator and a backup air cooled system for any emergency if a hose blew.
Also had a detached hardtop that incorporated a roof spoiler as I thought the down force would be better in front of the rear axle so it would handle better at high speed and not be too light in the front. Made it look like a shark fin from the side but you could drive to the track in a convertible and then install the roll bar and the roof and away you go. Remember this was me doodling in school books 50 years ago ! 1965. (Please do not laugh )

( Ken Hyndman )

[Noo Noo]

The supporting races had some well known names in them as you will note in these race events. January. 1960.
First for the saloon cars.

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Excuse my ignorance, but what was a De Joux ? ( I have since found what the De Joux was. )
Was this the converted 1951 Ferrari 375 that was built into a sedan by DeJoux and then later
converted back into a single seater and then owned by Bernie Ecclestone ?
Or did he race his Holden Special in this race ?



(Ken Hyndman )

In 1977 I bought this 1948 Riley RMB for a restoration project. Cost me $600 and other than a couple of small dents and a bit of rotten wood framing it was in pretty good order. However other activities took precedent and in 1985 I got sick of it taking up garage space and started thinking about getting rid of it.
At around the same time up north of Auckland, a bloke named Jim Welch had returned to NZ after many years living overseas and wrote an article for the NZ Riley Club magazine reminiscing about racing the Riley he owned from 1955 to 1960, finishing by saying that if the car still existed he would dearly like to have it back.
Well, it did and I owned it. Long story short, Jim tracked the car and me to Masterton where we living at the time, did a deal over the phone, came down to collect it and the last I saw of it was on an A frame going out our drive. That was after Jim told me he was going to restore it to take out the concours at the 1986 Riley national convention.
He also told me about racing it at the Grand Prix meetings, at Ohakea and other venues. So, looking at the above, No 108 J. Welch would be him. He raced in good company - Bruce McLaren, Red Dawson, John Riley etc. I never knew the car had such good credentials.

David Hunter