Austin-HealeyÂ’s and the Austin Healey Car Club of NZ and Others

[Roger Dowding]

One of Jim's brothers photos - Ohakea and looks like the 1955 Trophy Race, Single seaters Specials and Sports cars.
Taken from a different angle to the ones in the Graham Vercoe Book.

a small photo ;


The field as they lined up - by drivers :

" 6th Ohakea Trophy
Date: 5th March 1955
Venue: Ohakea Airfield
15 laps of 3.218kms (48.27kms)
Starting Grid: (The runways were wide enough to allow the cars to line-up in three rows)
Row 1:
Roycroft, McMillan, Smith, F Shuter, McDonagh, V Shuter, Simpson, Stafford, Frost, Jensen, Stanton, Harrison, Lee, Freeman and Petersen.
Row 2:
Caldwell, Palmer, McCutcheon, Seabrook, Cowie, L McLaren, Powell, McInally, Drew, McDougall, Orr, Aitken, Harris, G Brown and Edwards.
Row 3:
Bern, Clements, Weaver, Buchanan, L Brown, Culver, Buckthought, Jonathon, Long, Bransgrove, Tilsley, Gilroy, Wells and B McLaren. "

the Healeys are - not in order ; above in bold
Peter McInally NZ Austin-Healey 100 / Austin 2660cc 4cyl
Graham Cowie NZ Austin-Healey 100 / Austin 2660cc 4cyl
John Seabrook NZ Austin-Healey 100M / Austin 2660cc 4cyl
Les McLaren NZ Austin-Healey 100 / Austin 2660cc 4cyl "
Phil Neil also in a Healey 100 did not start.
For more info go to this link for the details

" https://www.sergent.com.au/motor/other1955.html ".

[ERC]

When you could brag you were on row 2 of the grid - with a straight face...

[Roger Dowding]

When you could brag you were on row 2 of the grid - with a straight face...

Yupp - the widest but shortest grid ever seen -Don't think they did that at Wigram ??

[Roger Dowding]

Does Joe still have his Sebring 100/6?

Ray Bell, [ late reply ] must find out - Joe posts on a couple of AH Club pages and also on some Austin Healey pages too !!

[Roger Dowding]

Ray Bell - has Joe still got his 100/6 Sebring .. ??

Ray Bell, [ late reply ] must find out - Joe posts on a couple of AH Club pages and also on some Austin Healey pages too !!

Ray - the answer - its is a 1965 BJ series [ BJ8 ] not a BN 100/6 which Joe has owned since 1976.

Here a photo I got from Joe today !!.

Not a good shot -must see if there are more around, I think so !! on some of AH Clubs Aussie Fb pages !!

[Ray Bell]

Okay, I was sure that it was Joe who owned the Sebring 100/6 back in the seventies.

[Roger Dowding]

Okay, I was sure that it was Joe who owned the Sebring 100/6 back in the seventies.

Joe has just posted some photos of the car when it was in the UK - the NSW Rego is the same as the English Rego Plate number.except for the " C " suffix
Joe Armour has owned the car since 1976 ..

Joes note on the photo's " 1965 Works Sebring 3000 being raced in UK by owner at the time Steven States USAF. Date late 1969 - 1970s "
The other car from Jonathon Whitehouse-Bird " That I don't know Joe ... too late for 9253 WD. It's an early sidescreen car on wide rims, but beyond that... "

Will look for more Photos.

[Roger Dowding]

From Jim Bennett archives - photo show Jim's brothers in their Morgans with Fred in AHS3802
Dunedin around 1960 - Car has low windscreen but AH 100 Bumpers ..
Will put it with Jim's stuff on Dunedin thread too !!.

Jim said Ivan looked at buying the car after this event. He didn't.

[ERC]

Roger, I have started scanning old race programme entry lists and over time, there will be various UK Austin Healeys listed. Just keep a check on the web pages now and again.

http://www.monza.org.nz/UK_entries/entries_01.htm

[Roger Dowding]

Roger, I have started scanning old race programme entry lists and over time, there will be various UK Austin Healeys listed. Just keep a check on the web pages now and again.

http://www.monza.org.nz/UK_entries/mallory/162_0423_02%20Mallory.jpg

http://www.monza.org.nz/UK_entries/entries_01.htm

Thanks for the Heads Up Ray - will do and some details " May = Will " appear on the Austin Healey thread. I have discovered that quite a few AHCC members follow the thread and I get Emails from a Ross Osborne in Dunedin - who assists and corrects me from time to time..

Cheers

Roger D.

[Roger Dowding]

Ross Jensen took the car to Melbourne in 1956 for the Australian Grand Prix meeting at Albert Park, Melbourne.

His was one of four 100S and another four 100's were entered in the main Sports Car race as shown in the entry lists.
from Graham Edney on Old Motor Racing Photographs - Australia - shared by Wayne Watkins an Australian Healey enthusiast.

Stirling Moss and Jean Behra ran Maserati 250F's in the Grand Prix and Maserati 300S Sports cars in the Trophy race.
Ron Roycroft was there in his Ferrari as well for the GP event.

The shown in this montage at the refueling Bay at Albert Park [ lower left pic ]. Allan Dick archives as published in NZ Classic Driver.

The Car today - well when the NZ Classic Driver Magazine issue #70 came out Jan-Feb 2017

Haven't managed to find any results yet - must take the time to look it up!!

[Roger Dowding]

No theme - just stuff I have come across recently - a collage /montage ??

Posted the 100S Castrol series card before -here it is in the set of Paul O'Neill's he has the full 24 cards.

The Joss [Josh ] Timms often in entry lists as E Tims /Fred Losee 100S Joss' wife on the car

1961 a couple of photos from !! .. Wigram

Cooper Bristol and AH 100 Sean [ seaqnmac ] archives.

The Healey in action Cobber Hurley [ Hurley Hurling the Healey around ]. seaqnmac archives

[Roger Dowding]

Following on from the Castrol Card series - I remember these books from the 1960's had several years of them, but now gone - where ?? Was only 13 when this one came out - must have pestered my Dad to get hold of them.

He used to bring home the " Bedford Transport Magazine " from his work at Briscoe and Co - the real Briscoe's hardware and Ironmongers, and New Zealand Agents for " Michelin Tyres ".

He told the story once of the Michelin Man - not the logo one !!, arriving in New Zealand for a meeting with Briscoe and Co, about Tyre supplies [ subject to strict Import Licensing in those times ] and was asked about them setting up a factory in NZ - the response was they could make in One Day enough tyres for whole New Zealand tyre market's annual sales.
That was around the time that Goodrich had helped Reidrubber set up a factory in NZ with locally made tyres. - had some on my cars over the years,
before preferring Dunlops on my Mini's and that TR and had Pirelli's on my yellow Sprite.

Own photo of the Sprite and Mangere Town Centre in 1974.

Dennis Green of Northern Sports Car Club - their photographer, took this photo - when BMC BOY was doing the same for Auckland Car Club.
More action in the D Green photo !!

These from Paul O'Neill, who had the " Castrol " Cards - Racing Car Series -
They have been put on ERC's " Bookshelf " thread.

The 1960 edition -pages related to Austin Healey - including the front cover with URX 727 the Pat Moss Ann Wisdom [ Riley ] car.

[John McKechnie]

He told the story once of the Michelin Man - not the logo one !!, arriving in New Zealand for a meeting with Briscoe and Co, about Tyre supplies [ subject to strict Import Licensing in those times ] and was asked about them setting up a factory in NZ - the response was they could make in One Day enough tyres for whole New Zealand tyre market's annual sales.
That was around the time that Goodrich had helped Reidrubber set up a factory in NZ with locally made tyres. - had some on my cars over the years,

Roger.....can you guess what company makes worldwide the highest number of tyres per year?

Dont anyone else put the answer up, this is for Roger

[Ray Bell]

Just imagine the supply lines keeping the materials coming for that kind of production level!

[Oldfart]

Michelin told me their production capability world wide could do every inflatable tyre in NZ in around 14 minutes when I was importing some specific ones in the 1990s. No wonder we had to wait on occasion!

[Roger Dowding]

He told the story once of the Michelin Man - not the logo one !!, arriving in New Zealand for a meeting with Briscoe and Co, about Tyre supplies [ subject to strict Import Licensing in those times ] and was asked about them setting up a factory in NZ - the response was they could make in One Day enough tyres for whole New Zealand tyre market's annual sales.
That was around the time that Goodrich had helped Reidrubber set up a factory in NZ with locally made tyres. - had some on my cars over the years,

PS my Dads comment was from the late 1950's early 1960's ***

Roger.....can you guess what company makes worldwide the highest number of tyres per year?

Dont anyone else put the answer up, this is for Roger

And here is one commentary on that Figure ..... a few years old .. no one mentioned car truck bus etc .. or full size tyres or tires .. ??

" And the World's Largest Tire Manufacturer Is… Drumroll Please…
Company Tires produced (2011)
Lego* 318 million
Bridgestone 190 million
Michelin 184 million
Goodyear 181 million "

and by Dollar Value - Bridgestone !! guess the average Lego tyre cost only a few cents or a dollar or so !!.. Lets not mention wheelbarrows and motor mowers !!

Interesting topic - as off this very morning to see Steve Abbott, son of Russ Abbott of Rallying Triumph Dolomite fame to price two tyres for my daily driver .. didn't want to go and see Del Trotter !!.

Have found the Original of the above photo with Del and Rodney - the tyres are photo-shopped.

See here the original photo !!

[Roger Dowding]

Two Works cars both well known .
Photos from Karsten Stelk archives ;

DD 300 went to the USA in 1990 for the USA / UK Team Challenge.
believe it was also in Australia at Bathurst in 1985 for the all Healey race that preceded the Bathurst 1000 - won by the Jaguar XJS V12 Coupe.

Another photo of VOK490 - in readiness for a Rally - year unknown.

and finally the Main photo for the Facebook group " Old British Car Club "

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[Ray Bell]

Hmmm...

'All Healey' race at Bathurst? I'm sure that was 1998, with a follow-up in 1999.

[Roger Dowding]

Hmmm...

'All Healey' race at Bathurst? I'm sure that was 1998, with a follow-up in 1999.

That has got me thinking Ray Bell, !! But,
- pretty sure the Race I am thinking of was 1985 as I had it on VHS tape -which I stupidly dumped many years later as we had a DVD player by the mid 1990's should have had it converted to DVD or CD Rom .. and remember I was still living in Herne Bay at the time, sold that place in 1995..

Others may know more !
But you have got me thinking, Mate !! Cheers