The Roaring Season

Hay Grant E might need a couple pairs overalls.................any thing in the wind ?????? hope you all good over there & thanks for pics etc ...weather pretty stunning here mate at present

Grant,
Speaking of Pukekohe. Who is in this picture with your brother Gary ? About October 1969. I need all the details again please.
Thanks.



(Ken Hyndman photo )

Bay Park. Oct. 1969.
Grant,
Is this Gary going out onto the track at Bay Park ? I think it has Mount Cook Airlines advertising. Not the best photo but it captured the moment.



(Ken Hyndman photo )

Ken ... top photo is Leo with Gary not sure what circuit it is .. the 2n d one is Gary driving down front straight bay park..... odd though he normally had 63 as race number not 5 ...first time I have seen this strange as it is I used 5 on a few of my cars.....5 being an auspicious number ... now would use 333 if I get time etc to have some more fun ...not because of young Scott M....I learnt a little about numbers we leave that there lol

Circuit in the top pic is Bay Park as well, looking back towards the tunnel under the track entering turn 1, behind the Desoto. Tall light towers are at the Te Maunga shunting yard.

Grant Sprague wrote:Ken ... top photo is Leo with Gary not sure what circuit it is .. the 2n d one is Gary driving down front straight bay park..... odd though he normally had 63 as race number not 5 ...first time I have seen this strange as it is I used 5 on a few of my cars.....5 being an auspicious number ... now would use 333 if I get time etc to have some more fun ...not because of young Scott M....I learnt a little about numbers we leave that there lol

For the November 1969 Bay Park meeting the Escort had number 52. Jack Nazer was usually number 63 at that time.

Ive been wrong before yep you are correct was thinking of the Anglia number Thank you Milan Fistonic well done ..

The back of my photo says October 1969 but heck I could have had that film in for months. Sorry I am not any help on the date or event.
Just know it was Bay Park and it was great to have the track there, close to home and the beach at that time. Wonderful memories.

And those guys were great for testing ! Drop into the office in 11th Ave, fork over a massive $5, pick up the key and you were away ! A quick chat with the caretaker Colin Whiteman as you loaded up, home in 20 mins.

Not like now....

October 1965. Back to Pukekohe.
I found this old programme that brought memories of a long day on the hill at Pukekohe. My cousin drove me up especially to see the Fleetwood Motors Mustang being driven by Ivan Segedin and Dennis Simmons. Dennis was a friend of my sister and attended her wedding a year later in 1966 and I remember hanging around Dennis at the reception asking all sorts of questions about the Mustang and how to modify Anglias etc..He was a humble man but very gifted at his engineering skills.
Note some of the great names in this 3 hour Challenge Race. Even Frank Matich joined in.

GD66 they were days before I arrived in Tga... Pete was up stairs in an office on right hand side between 11th & 10th ave heading north , when I arrived Pete gave me s,,,,t lol because I was the younger one to arrive after Gary he tried to get into my head but he could not ...but we soon became to understand each other I didn't give in to his pranks but loved his humour ..as for testing he would say just go over see rabbit [Nevil] at BP & u will be good to go.we never abused this .. Rabbit is still around he pops into work often .........I would buy Pete a beer at the CT club on a Thursday or Friday night I introduced him to max ale when he became ill as it was a natural beer [true story] we meet Terry McCashin the max man ..... at that club before he got the beer flowing at the Rose & Fern that is an other story......lol

Ken , do you have the 1967 entry list ???? who partnered Ernie in the red mk 3 Zodi ...... ten pm here mate got work tomorrow bye for now

khyndart in CA wrote:October 1965. Back to Pukekohe.
I found this old programme that brought memories of a long day on the hill at Pukekohe. My cousin drove me up especially to see the Fleetwood Motors Mustang being driven by Ivan Segedin and Dennis Simmons. Dennis was a friend of my sister and attended her wedding a year later in 1966 and I remember hanging around Dennis at the reception asking all sorts of questions about the Mustang and how to modify Anglias etc..He was a humble man but very gifted at his engineering skills.
Note some of the great names in this 3 hour Challenge Race. Even Frank Matich joined in.

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Roger Smith [18] had only just finished restoring his daimler about a month before he died about fifteen years ago, real hard case ,nice guy, just retired to B.O.I.

October 1965. Pukekohe. Wills Six-Hour race.
Grant, I do not have a 1967 entry list but here it is for 1965 where your dad drove a Jaguar with Ray Archibald.

October 1965. Pukekohe.
In between the Challenge Race and the Six Hour race we were entertained by the amazing skills of Paddy Hopkirk and Timo Makinen in what they could do in Mini Coopers. Wow !



Thanks to You Tube, here is a brief video of them in action at Pukekohe.( I did try a couple of these moves myself without any success which made me appreciate these two even more as they made it look so easy !)

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Was there that day,they wet the track down in front of the pits,very impressive bit of Mini Spinning.

Ross Hollings wrote:Was there that day,they wet the track down in front of the pits,very impressive bit of Mini Spinning.

As well as the back straight without any water on the track!!

khyndart in CA wrote:October 1965. Pukekohe. Wills Six-Hour race.
Grant, I do not have a 1967 entry list but here it is for 1965 where your dad drove a Jaguar with Ray Archibald.

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Thank you Ken .. even Gary was not sure what about the red zodi mk 3 do you know who he shared that drive with .. I have no copies at all ..just old photos soon to be put up ... Thanks Mate

Grant Sprague wrote:Ken , do you have the 1967 entry list ???? who partnered Ernie in the red mk 3 Zodi ...... ten pm here mate got work tomorrow bye for now

The programme has Geoff Sprague partnering Ernie but a photo in Motorman of the winners after the race shows Ernie and Gary. It was a Mk 4 Zodiac number 10 that they drove

Milan Fistonic wrote:The programme has Geoff Sprague partnering Ernie but a photo in Motorman of the winners after the race shows Ernie and Gary. It was a Mk 4 Zodiac number 10 that they drove

thank you Milan Fistonic.... yep they got the name wrong that would have been the red mk 4 zodi for sure there was also a blue one a yellow one also trying to find out more re the red mk 3 zodi history I know for sure Ernie did a lot of production races in it & later sold that car to his friend Peter Wilson