1985 Rally of New Zealand - Digging out the Old Images

[Marty]

Inky at Mystery Creek and one of the many motorhomes...........

[Marty]

One of the Audi's and Stuart Eyre, somewhere down near Taupo or Rotarua.

[Marty]

These are the last ones I have scanned for now, beautiful scenery in the first couple, it was a hard stage to get a good vantage point.
And I think Will Orr in the Escort.

[Marty]

Here is the continuation of the photo of Reg Cook.
I don't know who to credit for this photo as I downloaded it from another site afew years ago, any problems and I will take it down.

[stubuchanan]

Ahh, I remember it well. I was standing just to the left of the shot, on or behind a wire fence. People were crossing the road between cars, me included, and the two cars before Cook were the two very slow Russian Ladas. I think there were 2 minute gaps between cars at the start of the stage, but the Ladas, seeded far too high at numbers 8 and 9 were so slow that Cook was only about half a minute behind the second Lada at this point (?maybe the Lada had an off?) and the road was still full of pedestrians when he arrived, hence the above incident. Nobody seemed to be hurt and Cook shot off quickly.

On later stages some hoons were yelling abuse at Cook because of this, but when faced with a road full of spectators, he stopped pretty well, I thought.

Don't know whose photo it is; seen it quite often.

Stu

[stubuchanan]

By the way, that's a left hand bend, and Reg had spun the car to slow it, so it wasn't going very fast.

Stu

[Murray Maunder]

My first impression was Riverhead and possibly where I shot the Riverhead shots on day 1 of the video. Looking closely at the shots 1'30" into the Day 1 video bears a resemblance to the last photo. We were in a hurry to head up the western highway towards Warkworth to maybe just catch the Audis (which we achieved) so we didn't stick around until the Skodas and Cook arrived. Have a look and see if this is a closer, low level shot of what I got from 100 yards down the straight. Crowd numbers were so great then that vantage points only gave you a couple of seconds of clear vision of the cars, but te sound was almost worth the effort on it's own.

[Rod Grimwood]

Mr Cook certainly scattered the crowd, so lucky no one was hurt. A couple hit the dirt but nothing serious. It was funny after Reg left, the escape road was left clear for some reason.

[nakedmoose]

Yo Rod did you get my message about info or pics of Bryce Platts Escort ? Think i found somewhere on here you may know him ?
Cheers Nick.

[Rod Grimwood]

Yo Rod did you get my message about info or pics of Bryce Platts Escort ? Think i found somewhere on here you may know him ?
Cheers Nick.

No i have not seen it
can you forward to me please,Ta
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[Carlo]

Re the Ruski Lada's, Mike Fletcher and I had a ball with them during recce trying to find out to get them to talk to us but the 3rd man in the car kept a pretty close eye on them.

We had the 3rd Lada seeded in front of us but were luckier than Cookie as our one rolled in very close to the start in one of the very early stages and was still rocking on it's roof when we passed it. The crew were out and running up the wrong direction in the stage with the safety triangle