Just A Mix Of Pics - Ray Green Collection

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Aussie V8 meeting at Pukekohe 2005

Who can ever forget this incident? Dean Fulford's Porsche landing in the spectator area on the front straight.

[Roger Dowding]

I won't look like this though !! May need one though - have the hammer, not the other things !!!

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Good to catch up Roger - even though it was very brief and in the rush (sold the MGF!) I forgot to give you the Chris Barber CD...

Won't be at the August meet, but for those interested, check out the 'Daffodil Run' for Charity August 26th, starting at Smales farm. Brilliant.

Huge turnout again today and the weather was kind. Will post pics eventually, but in the meantime, more to upload from the scans.

Back to the 2002 Targa - when it was more for classics than moderns.

Rob's Morgan before the extra scaffolding required in later years.

Eddie fettling a Jaguar

[Roger Dowding]

Quote " Good to catch up Roger - even though it was very brief and in the rush (sold the MGF!) "
Thanks Ray yes it was good to talk after 5 attempts meet both here several times and at Chelsea Walsh and I had a chat with Kevin and his wife as you were leaving.
Please you sold the MGF - gone to a good home.
Must have been a dozen MX5's this time about 5 NA series several NB's and a few later ones - one a Black one with an Aston Martin style grille and a name on the back Mazdarati - it look stylish.
No Austin Healeys that I saw quite a few Triumphs though GT6, Heralds and I think a Vitesse that has been there before !!
Took quite few photos but will be a few days before they get downloaded.

Cheers Roger D

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Last outing for my low mileage MGF! Just about to leave when a couple showed interest. Took it for a test run, came back and all OK so the lady bought it.

I'll be taking it up to its new home Warkworth way on Tuesday. My wife rather unkindly said, 1 down, 6 to go... Then I pointed out that the six would include her Mini Cooper and leave us dependent on Goff's tram and Len's trainset, neither of which will be of any help to those of us living on the North Shore.

Note that this was taken well before the supposed 10am start time... If you are not there before about 9.30am, you are banished to the overflow area. Big queues to get in - and out.

[Roger Dowding]

Last outing for my low mileage MGF! Just about to leave when a couple showed interest. Took it for a test run, came back and all OK so the lady bought it.

I'll be taking it up to its new home Warkworth way on Tuesday. My wife rather unkindly said, 1 down, 6 to go... Then I pointed out that the six would include her Mini Cooper and leave us dependent on Goff's tram and Len's trainset, neither of which will be of any help to those of us living on the North Shore.

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Note that this was taken well before the supposed 10am start time... If you are not there before about 9.30am, you are banished to the overflow area. Big queues to get in - and out.

Ray,
Yes good sale !!

Those queues I got the lights at Motorway Overbridge on Northcote Road about 9;40 spent nearly 10 minutes to just get to the entrance and was directed way down the back towards Westlake Girls.
The queue coming off the motorway from North was down the off ramp and the left hand [ kerb ] lane was at a standstill.

Perhaps Protecta and the organising Guys and Girls need to have signs down the various roads that lead to the venue.
Lots of non " C and C " vehicles stuck in the Traffic.

Well worth the wait and the visit

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Back to 2003 and the bad smash that effectively ruined all the body work that had already been done on the car! No one's fault. That is racing but I do sincerely believe that having concrete lining a purpose built race track, with no escape options when things go to custard is a bit dumb.

Left front suspension damaged (later, much later, it was also discovered that the shock absorber was also slightly bent!).

Rear damage was also extensive, with the bodywork damaged right up to and including the passenger door aperture.

...and the recently repaired bonnet.

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After the mechanical work had been done, some months later I attacked the bonnet which had never sat properly anyway so I hacked off the nose!

You can see from the purple lines that all was not very square.

At that point, I was going to update the front with the later, deeper shape and I was well advanced - and Rhys, please don't laugh at my attempts to construct a new front end... The green shaded area on the plywood hinges would have been the deeper shape.

But then I changed my mind and opted to stick with the original shape. It may not be as efficient and looks odd when cresting the brow of turn 3 at HD, but hey, that is the way it is.

Nigel's photo I think, of my last race in 2016.

By the way, what appears to be a lump underneath is in fact the base of the driver's floor which sits lower than the chassis rails at sill height. It is from this angle that the underside of the nose should be deeper and line up with lower part of the sill.

Now I have sold the MGF, I'll shift the MGB GT down to Hampton Downs and bring the Marcos back home and fettle it ready for a possible sale. I've had it for 27 years and I'll be very, very sorry to see it go but the new HD directive is just another nail in the coffin of just going out for a track blast or even an occasional Classic Trial.


Believed to be the most raced Marcos Volvo 3 litre Volvo anywhere in the world! it has history. (Dr Jonathon Palmer did run a Ford V6 engined one and most of the cars racing in Historics are the early 1800cc 4 cylinder cars.)

Send me a PM if you are interested, but I won't be doing anything about it until the end of September.

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Ray, you misjudge me I like creativity!

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Thanks Rhys, but what takes me weeks, months, or in the case of the Magnette, years to achieve, a pro would have had it all wrapped up in a few days! The joy of fibreglass. Don't like, it, cut it out and have a another go! Not sitting well, cut out a vee and reglass it.

There is a link between this Mini and my Magnette. At the time this was taken, 2003 both owned by Don Bell. Always interesting to see what is in and around By'Gone Autos.
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Domain Hillclimb again. Brian's Humber 80 Special.

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[Roger Dowding]

Domain Hillclimb again. Brian's Humber 80 Special.

Think that is the car that Ross Hollings owned at one stage the Humber 80 Special is a good looking car - I thought it was Buckler when I first saw photo's of it.have gathered a few photos of it >

Good luck with the work , only 6 cars left !! and I thought your MGF looked very tidy !!
This HD and other things with Reg's - destroying Classic Racing - very SAD ..

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Roger, the Humber 80 special did use a de Joux body, that didn't make it a Buckler despite what a newer book than the much criticised book on NZ racing cars says.

[Ross Hollings]

Yes, I did own it,went to Brisbane area Australia he bought the trailer also,the plan was to keep the trailer and look at buying a Formula Ford,spoilt my plans!Visited the car few years back,he had the motor out ,looked a bit sad,he had also imported a Mistral from NZ and had that there.
Conventiional spaceframe set up with Triumph front suspension etc.When I bought it from the then owner in Siverdale he had it stored in an old chock shed,looked just like a barn find when I went to view it.!!

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Whilst I was struggling with a fibreglass jigsaw puzzle, Dave Giddens loaned me his second Capri 3 Litre for the Classic Trial. Reading through my diary I see that Geoff Bonham also offered me the MG BGT that I eventually bought from him and returned to me a month or two ago.

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Clive Taylor & Phil Foulkes both consistently quicker in MG Midgets than less highly modified MGBs.

Given the popularity of Reliant Scimitars, I have always been surprised how few made it to the tracks, especially in the ERC series. Kim's SE5 and Terry's SE4 are the only ones that have appeared.

Paul Cook's BMW was sold on to Philip Adamson and raced at HD just the once I think, by Mal Clark.

A bunch of happy ERC drivers

Dave Giddens #1 Capri

[Paul Wilkinson]

There were quite a few Scimitars racing in the early '80s. Of course Dave and Richard then graduated to racing their Marcos's instead and my father started setting himself on fire in a rotary Chevron so that reduced the numbers by three.....

Dad in his Scimitar and then entertaining the crowds in his Chevron....

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Funny you should say that Paul, as not only were Dave and Richard Scimitar and Marcos owners, but also Phil Jackson - who I have never met, but he was restoring a V4 Marcos to an incredibly high standard. Good pics!

Caught up with Dave (& Carole) last month, as they are regulars at MGCC meetings and events - and one of their daughters was best buddies with my wife's daughter. Small world.

Yes, Scimitars were running back in the days of the annual Le Mans team races, so were Lotuses, Daimler SP250's, Morgans, Bucklers etc. and several others we no longer see out on track.

[Paul Wilkinson]

Mum and Dad are still good mates with Dave and Carole. As well as mucking around with the Scimitars, our families used to sail catamarans together way back in the day. Mum and Dad go to the occasional MG Club event - they've had a couple of MGFs and currently have an orange BGT.

[Ross Hollings]

Our Scimitar SE4a,owned 1985/88 ,raced it at Pukekohe and Whenuapai,was the ex Ganley car.1St pic out in front of my old school Auckland Grammar.