Just A Mix Of Pics - Ray Green Collection

[Roger Dowding]

Thanks for all your great photos - ERC .. " 1,100,056 " views is a good number .. and it didn't break or brake the vBulletin system !!
Well done.

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Happy that others can share them Roger. A bit of a waste, just locked into my own computer.

Note the ERC pic above, that the Marcos looks decidedly lopsided. After an altercation in a domino type accident or maybe the bad smash on the brow of the hill, I made a determined effort to correct it. It was lopsided due to an obvious accident way before my time, when I presume the bonnet was replaced and the extension to the front chassis rails to which the bonnet swivel hinges are attached, wasn't levelled. It sits so much better now.

Currently working on getting it back on the road again, before offering it for sale. April 2021, I will have owned it for 30 years!

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More groups and grids

1996 Domain

2009 Goodwood's pre 1966 car park - well, part of it

2016 Goodwood

2018 Gaydon

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2010

2011

2018 - camera on full zoom and even then cropped, but hopefully, the next visit (2021) I'll have one camera with the longer zoom. (Not the bazooka lens, but a camera with a 2000mm zoom.) It isn't an ideal camera for motorsport, but OK for an occasional shot.

2018

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TACCOC at Hampton Downs today. I couldn't stay all day - as usual.

Gemini

The Greg Bellingham XJS making a long awaited return to the track today, driven by Todd Forsyth, whose Telstar was being driven by father Paul, but, just behind Todd here is Greg Bellingham, first time out in this MGB GT and also on track, in a BMW, Greg's daughter Casey!

Took the bazooka lens but it was playing up. Not sure why it wouldn't auto focus. Maybe not enough juice in the camera battery?

Nope. I think it needs a repair to the Auto/Manual focus switch. Ho hum...

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From Sunday.

Sometimes, a photograph has an extra dimension because of attitude or something else. Sadly, this is a car that suffered panel damage not long after these were taken.

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Fords

Classic Trial

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Forever known as the Bruce Manon Escort, now in the capable hands of Rob Berrgren

[Milan Fistonic]

Unfortunately B HIND finished the day a little bent.

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Quote for fixing the bazooka lens - $850...

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An influx of Porsche Boxters to the ERC grid. All very well trying to stick to the original concept of older classics, but we need to move with the times - or fold. There is a category within the ERC series for post 1990 cars.

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Swift - static

on the move

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Lola

Elfin

FMZ

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Lola

Gemini

Stanguellini

[Roger Dowding]

ERC, The Lola top photo previous post is that the car that was raced by John Histed, Ken Smith amongst others ?? raced at Matamata in 1964/65. It features in the 1963 Shell Book of NZ Motor racing too !

This car.

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I have no idea Roger. Maybe Roger Herrick will chime in to clarify its history, or any of the other historians/experts on here?

Currently watching on TradeMe, a replacement for the bazooka lens. I prefer the Auto focus to be working, so I'll sell my current one as is. No idea what it is worth but i haven't had good value out of it in terms of the number of shots. Part of the risk of buying second-hand I suppose.

Once again, a car not in the race programme. Reynard.

Van Diemen. (Surprising the number of owners who have an incorrect spelling!)

Trident Palliser

Lola

[Milan Fistonic]

Once again, a car not in the race programme. Reynard.
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Mike Davidson according to the race results.

[Milan Fistonic]

ERC, The Lola top photo previous post is that the car that was raced by John Histed, Ken Smith amongst others ?? raced at Matamata in 1964/65. It features in the 1963 Shell Book of NZ Motor racing too !

This car.
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No it's not the same car.

This part of an email I got from Roger about the two cars.

You were talking about John Histed’s Lola which was the sister team car of mine. John had kept all his spare parts for 40 years and kindly donated them to me when I got my car.

[RogerH]

That's correct - both John Histed's car and my car were part of the three car quasi Lola works team (Team Fitzwilliam Racing) in 1960 predominantly racing through Europe. My car was chassis BRJ1 (the first Lola single seater made) and John's was BRJ3. John's "lost" it's chassis number when it was allocated to a new works car in mid 1960 and came to NZ in December 1961 with the made-up chassis number J.B.M/LJ/1161 - which stood for Jack Brabham Motors (sold to John Histed by Phil Kerr who worked for Jack Brabham Motors), Lola Junior and the date it was shipped from the UK in November 1961. The car has now regained a BRJ3-A identity and lives in the US while the replacement works car is known as BRJ3 (perhaps incorrectly as it was the second BRJ3) and lives in the UK.

[Roger Dowding]

Thanks Milan and Roger H .. great information..
Will get the Histed Lola photo on here later - needs to be scanned or photographed.

Cheers