The Roaring Season

Here is the great Jimmy Clark at Pukekohe Jan. 1968 in his Lotus 49 displaying the Shell Racing sticker.
Note the difference.
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(Ken Hyndman )

Oh dear, got it wrong again!

khyndart in CA wrote:Here is the great Jimmy Clark at Pukekohe Jan. 1968 in his Lotus 49 displaying the Shell Racing sticker.
Note the difference.
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(Ken Hyndman )

Thanks Ken, that's the one. Quite different, was beginning to have my doubts. That is the one I'm after somehow....

I am searching through my stuff for originals. There were different versions different years from memory.

There were at least 3 versions of this Shell decal Rob, depending on year and the reds and yellows changed too. I had mine printed into vinyl after checking the correct item for what was 1973 in my case.

Bruce.

Rob Brown wrote:Would like to find a source for the Shell Racing New Zealand decals as used in late sixties/early seventies which featured Shell logo and white steering wheel on red background. They were on just about every NZ car raced in the era. I had a couple on my Lotus when I raced it in Historics. Full size or scale are ok.
Cheers, Rob 021 1875697

Talking of years- what colour was car registration sticker for 1969 ?

Rob,
Perhaps if you can get a copy of this 1968 NZ Shell Motor Racing magazine there might be some suitable photos within.
Looks like at Teretonga in 1968 that the Jim Clark sticker had changed but the Amon Ferrari and McLaren BRM had the Shell sticker.



(Ken H)

A stunning front page when the cars looked different and a sounded different!

Ray- they only really looked different when Tyrells P-34 6 wheeler arrived in 1976 to win a race ...LOL

bry3500 wrote:not in the same league but cool nevertheless

Bry3500, they are cool I had the Zephyr and Anglia [ Matchbox ] left the Zephyr standard but turned the Anglia into a Breadvan type .. then unscrewed the base and put in on a Faller 1;72 scale slot car chassis, was no good, body too heavy,
my brother in his Porsche alway2 beat me.. s

khyndart in CA wrote:Rob,
Perhaps if you can get a copy of this 1968 NZ Shell Motor Racing magazine there might be some suitable photos within.
Looks like at Teretonga in 1968 that the Jim Clark sticker had changed but the Amon Ferrari and McLaren BRM had the Shell sticker.
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(Ken H)

Thanks for suggestions guys. I do have those Shell year books among others showing these decals on various cars, but none are good enough to use as a reference. Your photo is the best I have seen Ken, and as luck would have it, the very car I am modelling, the 49T as raced at Puke and Levin 1968 ( I was there) before the big change to Gold Leaf colours at Wigram. Will scale it off as best I can and consult a graphics dude. Good work team!!

Rob Brown wrote:Thanks for suggestions guys. I do have those Shell year books among others showing these decals on various cars, but none are good enough to use as a reference. Your photo is the best I have seen Ken, and as luck would have it, the very car I am modelling, the 49T as raced at Puke and Levin 1968 ( I was there) before the big change to Gold Leaf colours at Wigram. Will scale it off as best I can and consult a graphics dude. Good work team!!

Hi Rob,

I guess I haven't been looking at this thread for a while! I've got an original Shell Racing sticker from around 1972, which I had copied and digitally repaired by a graphic designer friend a few years ago. I emailed it to Dale Mathers when he was looking for it (he confirmed it was the version he was after) and I'll happily forward it to you too - just PM me your email address.

The one thing I'll highlight with it though is that the red in my jpg is a little too orange, but that sort of thing can be digitally altered (apparently).

Cheers,
Alan.

Rob,
The Hyndmans will assist you as best as we can.



Ken Hyndman

I'll have a go at uploading the image (last time I tried the image was too poor quality to upload once it was small enough to be allowed).

Here's the original sticker:

And here is the tarted up version (I still can't find a way to maintain the quality of the image):



As I said earlier, the red is not the correct shade.

Cheers,
Alan.

Alan Hyndman wrote:And here is the tarted up version (I still can't find a way to maintain the quality of the image):

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As I said earlier, the red is not the correct shade.

Cheers,
Alan.

Thanks Alan, great work, we are going places now.........
Rob

Last One. I think it's recognisable

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Last One. I think it's recognisable

I can't believe I missed this! Amazing work, that is just epic.

Thank you Steve. I think a majority of this thread has gone down the turley with the Photobucket debacle

Maybe you could go back to the original posts and repost the pics on here chaindrive? One of the real bonuses of this site as opposed to all others, is that there is no time limit on editing. That means you can delete the original attachments (via advanced) and add a new pic. Time consuming, but it can be done.