Photos: The Gary Clarke Collection - Part 1

[Ellis]

Tony Calvert in the Mustang is correct
If you go to the Perry Drury pics on here you will find other pics of it.

John Zeigler is in Yellow XU1

[Terry S]

Tony Calvert in the Mustang is correct
If you go to the Perry Drury pics on here you will find other pics of it.

John Zeigler is in Yellow XU1

Ellis, I thought Calvert retained the Fred Gibson colours of dark blue with two wide white stripes over the top when he raced it.
This is from a vague memory of seeing him in those colours in some photos.

[Ellis]

[Terry S]

Ellis, I thought Calvert retained the Fred Gibson colours of dark blue with two wide white stripes over the top when he raced it.
This is from a vague memory of seeing him in those colours in some photos.

Ellis, I eventually found the photos I was thinking of. They are on a site called "old race photos", you may have heard of it.

Three of the photos are:
http://www.oldracephotos.com/shop/product3211#1602HCalv70
http://www.oldracephotos.com/shop/product2543#1615HMust70
http://www.oldracephotos.com/shop/product3196#1599HMust70

They show the dark colour with the two wide white stripes.

[Steve Holmes]

[Steve Holmes]

[Steve Holmes]

[Steve Holmes]

[Terry S]

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What is light blue #95 car, and who is driver?

Doesn't look familiar at all.

[Oldfart]

Looks very like a Herald coupe with the bum cut off, but I too am fascinated to know more.

[Terry S]

Looks very like a Herald coupe with the bum cut off, but I too am fascinated to know more.

That's what I initially thought too, but surely would be too extreme even for Sports Sedans.

That Wayne Rogerson going past In S/S Falcon

[seaqnmac27]

Looks a little like an MG Midget

[bry3500]

Looks very like a Herald coupe with the bum cut off, but I too am fascinated to know more.

Could be john Mole's Herald Sports Sedan

[khyndart in CA]

Could be john Mole's Herald Sports Sedan

Bryce,
I saw this quote in a Autosport forum and it seems to match your input.
"Ray Bell

Posted 26 February 2007 - 10:17

Quote
Originally posted by Bondy
In the late 70s maybe early 80s there was a indecently quick Triumph Herald Sports Sedan running at Winton. It was blue iirc, guys name was John Mole.....

I think that had a Datsun 2000 sports car engine... "


(Ken Hyndman )

[Dale Harvey]

What is light blue #95 car, and who is driver?

Doesn't look familiar at all.

I believe this to be the meeting on 2-5-1971 and if that's correct the Driver of car 95 is Steven McGuire and the car is listed as a Triumph Herald.
Dale.

[Roger Dowding]

What is light blue #95 car, and who is driver?

Doesn't look familiar at all.

Herald hardtop, and the windscreen all look right, even the bonnet and front guards, probably shortened the chassis, unusual but good..back in NZ in the late 1970's a Healey guy with a Sprite cut down a Herald Coupe roof to fit as a hardtop,it looked good too!!.

trust Ken H to find some detail, must be a quiet day at Moss Motors, then I realised it is Easter so time off Ken H .. thanks for the information..

[kiwi285]

The shots taken at the end of the main straight at Warwick Farm brought back some great memories. Didn't get to see much of the rest of the circuit.

[Terry S]

I believe this to be the meeting on 2-5-1971 and if that's correct the Driver of car 95 is Steven McGuire and the car is listed as a Triumph Herald.
Dale.

Dale, I believe you are correct.

If one goes into autopics.com.au and search "McGuire" there is one photo that comes up. From this front on view the car could best be described, I believe, as "agricultural". The doors and front spoiler look like they are just hanging on.

in the May 71 WF programme it is described as a "Triumph Herald". In the September 71 WF programme it is described as "Triumph Herald-Datsun", somewhat unusual. In both cases its capacity is 1,595 cc. I still can't recall seeing it at either meeting.

[Oldfart]

Thanks Terry. Yes the front "bit" is just hanging in there, perhaps it's more the bonnet than the doors.
BUT, he is out there "doing it" while a good number of the rest of us were just watchers wishing we were racers. I admire this sort of thing and the ingenuity which wentt with it on a shoestring budget probably

[Ray Bell]

Regarding the Herald, 'agricultural' would be a very apt description from my recall...

Steve McGuire was the son of a publican as I recall, he later had a Mawer Clubman into which he stuffed a 1600cc version of that PUSHROD Datsun engine. This was the Fairlady engine, but the same base engine saw use in such things as utilities and the Homer van. To my way of thinking he was so keen on these engines that this would have been what was in the cut-off Herald.

From the conversation I had with him in 1972 I'd not be surprised if his 1600cc entries were backed by a 2.2-litre car.

Nice to see a pic of Phil Ward's Escort up there. Also Dave Price's ex-Muir S4 on a previous page (before it went to Terry Allan), it's worth mentioning the car behind Phil Lucas' Volvo V8 above is John Bourke from Gosford.

There's a couple of shots, too, of Bruce Cary's Capri V8, the Grace Bros car. Bruce, of course, was later to go to Ralt and stayed in England a long time as a kind of right hand man for Ron Tauranac. His final assignment was to spanner the F3 car of Barton Mawer, but this Capri brought him a lot of grief despite reasonable funding from Grace Bros.