Where Are All The '70s And '80s Photos?

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Entry list kindly supplied by Milan Fistonic

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[Steve Holmes]

These are truly fantastic photos Ross! Thanks for posting.

Were these cars allowed after-market wheels? Seems several of them have them.

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If my memory serves me, I think the aftermarket wheels had to be manufactured in NZ. So the cars tended to use Cheviot and Aunger branded wheels.
For a time alloy wheels were manufactured and exported from the Ford plant in Wiri, probably because the cost of raw material was competitive and they were of very good quality.

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This is from the March 8, 1981 meeting at Pukekohe. The start of a Production Supercar Race.

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11 - Trevor McLean
3 - Mick Quin
8 - Bob Cullinane
62 - Gary Bromley

The start of this race is featured in Steves thread on the Cullinane Monaro

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Great stuff - as always. Could I ask a small favour? The exact date might be a great help, as from 1983 to 1991, when I was a flaggie, we never got a programme, so if I was able to take pics, I often have no idea of the date and I file all photographs, scanned or digital.

Your pics from 1983 onwards are great for assisting me to date some of mine! That 'To Be Dated' folder on my PC is way too big.

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28th October 84 Ray,

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[Steve Holmes]

Outstanding photos Ross! Thanks for posting.

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[Steve Holmes]

These are awesome photos Ross! The Commodore's pictured are the extremely rare GM-NZ built SS cars, which were specifically constructed on the local assembly line to contest the B&H series. The rules required only 25 locally produced homologation specials.

Robin Curtis had been in charge of running the GM Dealer Team's Chevette rally cars, and when GM-NZ withdrew from rallying, they set their sights on touring car racing. Curtis brought in Peter Brock to help oversee the project, and to supply parts. In the end, 30 cars were produced. 29 were painted white with red and blue stripes, and 1 was black with gold stripes.

My friend Mike Price owns the yellow Midgley car pictured above. This is one of the two GM Dealer team cars from the previous season, and was driven by Denny Hulme and Peter Janson. The other GM-DT car was driven by Brock and David Oxton, and is now owned by Mike's father Garry.

This is the Hulme/Janson car as it looks now.

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The start of the 1974 Benson & Hedges 500.

30 seconds to go with Leo Leonard (4) and Jim Richards (3) on the front row.

Leonard stalls as the flag drops but manages to get his car off the track.

The field streams past Leonard stranded on the grass.

Leonard gets the Charger going and joins in at the back of the field in position 40.

After one lap Leonard was up to 25th, after two he was 20th, after three he was 14th. By lap 60 he was leading the race. Leonard and co-driver Gary Sprague went on to finish first only to be excluded from the results because of a technical infringement.

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Outstanding!

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