Geoghegan Family Cortina In New Zealand

[Terry S]

This is an entry list from the Warwick Farm meeting on 5 December 1965. The numbers don't match but it does show the three Neptune Racing Team cars.

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The Neptune Team normally ran with #2 for Manton, #3 for McKeown and #4 for Beechey at all circuits except Warwick Farm.

You can see from the above that it numbered strictly down the page in order. Only the unlucky #13 was omitted.

If there was a Division 2 race the numbers continued from Division 1. Not that they really liked Division 2 races.

It was no place for favourite numbers. You had to have a good supply of peel off numbers.

It was very "pukka" and English, the influence of Geoff Sykes. It was not for nothing it was called "Aintree Down Under".

[Ray Bell]

Was it?

I can't say I ever heard it called that...

[Milan Fistonic]

Found this article in the November 1964 edition of Sports Car World.

[Terry S]

Was it?

I can't say I ever heard it called that...

See this:

https://www.pitstop.net.au/browse/search?ipType=&searchKeywords=aintree

[Ray Bell]

A name for a book planned fifty or sixty years after the event, yes...

But never the circuit or any mention whatever in the day.

[928]

in #43, the first photo caption
i bet the chrome rocker cover was good for 8-10 mph. lol

[bill hollingsworth]

Aintree of the south seems a very apt title Ray, whenever it was dreamed up. I only went to Warwick Farm once, in 1974 which sadly was the last car race meeting ever held there.

[Ray Bell]

Frankly, I don't think so...

It had its own character and even if Geoff had been an Aintree (BARC) man he came here with some definite ideas to do it better than Aintree.

1974? You mean on the Club circuit?

[Terry S]

Found this article in the November 1964 edition of Sports Car World.

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It is incredible how much ATCC winning cars have changed.

This car had only 130 horsepower and 5 and 1/2 inch tyres..........

[John McKechnie]

and the competition was Beechey and Muir in their S4 Holdens

[Terry S]

It is incredible how much ATCC winning cars have changed.

This car had only 130 horsepower and 5 and 1/2 inch tyres..........

This car was the lowest powered ever to win the ATCC

It had been preceded by four Jaguars and was followed by five Mustang V8’s

[bill hollingsworth]

It was 1973 not 1974 thanks Ray for the correction.

[Ray Bell]

Originally posted by Terry S
This car was the lowest powered ever to win the ATCC.....

Also the lightest by a big margin.

It's interesting that this car wasn't significantly faster than the best of the 48/215 Holdens in 1963.