The Roaring Season

ERC wrote:E Type at 1989 Ardmore was Rex Day.

I'm not posting any more pics until whatever the bug is has been fixed. There was a message last night that the site was down for maintenance, but it hasn't restored anyone's pics - yet.

It's difficult to know where to host your pictures. I used Photobucket and had major issues when they demanded payment for 3rd party hosting. I'm on Imgur now. The problem with hosting on Steve's server is that he won't have the same level of resource to protect your files and also the more you put on, the more it will cost him. I hope you've archived them all properly at home. If you have, it's an easy process to upload them to a new hosting site. Practically impossible to go through and replace all the embedded links on sites like this though.

I hope it gets sorted. I enjoy looking through your pictures. I occasionally see people I knew back in the day - like Dave & Richard with their Marcoses, or see events I was at. A couple of other threads I've seen my car way in the background and I may have seen it in the corner of one of your more recent Whenuapai pictures. I enjoyed the pictures of Ferris's cars too, he was a good friend.

Thanks Paul.

Whatever pictures I post on here are obviously shrunken copies of either digital or scanned images, so I don't lose anything.

Thankfully, the number of visits over the years to this thread have been substantial and if for any reason, the previously posted pictures don't reappear, then logically, I will just start another thread. I was a bit late in storing those copies in a separate directory, but certainly, all the more recent ones are logged.

Maybe we need to tip Steve a few more dollars to keep this fabulous site running so well, as without a doubt, it is an amazing resource and meeting place for enthusiasts, and not just NZ based enthusiasts either...

I have just bought Steve's Ford book - only to see a couple of my images in print of course!

John - if you have a rego plate for Rex's XK150, I can do a quick check, but suspect I have already posted pics of any XK150 coupes in NZ.

Do we start again? Hope not, but this is from my first post on this thread.

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Thankfully, the site has now been fixed - we can live again! Woohoo....

Where were we...

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Domain Hillclimb, 1997. The ex-Glen Thompson MGB in Budapest Pickles colours, driven by Barry Hare, who now runs an SD1 Rover in ERC.


Budapest Pickles owner Andrew Eszes


Onto Pukekohe, May 18th with Kerry Bowman's Mini. Kerry was on the BMC Series Committee.


Paul Reynolds with his TR8 that was refused a CoD on spurious grounds, but a Wolseley with a 30% capacity increase wasn't. It was about this time that there was a lot of concern about the CoD system and how it was being applied.




I think this was a TACCOC practice day (when the track hire fees were affordable) August 1997.

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Steve Whitren graduated from the MG Magnette to this Lotus Elan.


The Sunbeam was eventually sold to Greg Bellingham of Tracer Interiors, then raced for a while by Todd Forsyth, but from memory, it suffered with cylinder head or gasket problems.


Skidmark Parsons pointing forwards.


Geoff Bonham started sponsoring the series and was instrumental in getting the series real recognition, so much so, that there are still people who call it the Leisuretime series. This car was raced whilst in Geoff's ownership, by Glen Thompson and a young upcoming driver called Ray Williams. (I wonder what happened to him?)

When Geoff was forced to retire I bought the car and trailer but the car always was for sale.

Eventually purchased by Derek Moore it then passed on to the late Stephen Harris at AES, also a series sponsor. Quite a history for a humble MGB.


John Ure's XK12 Jaguar at Taupo in October 1997. Gee, is it really 20 years ago?

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Not often I am so far ahead with the scanning.
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I meant to ask Ken Williams at the weekend why we haven't seen the BBM Mercedes out for a while.








At this time, Andrew's XJS Jaguar still had the automatic gearbox. That a was before Walter York got hold of it...

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The 2017/2018 season is underway. Mixed weather Saturday. Wet Sunday. Shame. I only managed half a day, but thankfully, enough time to see most cars. Sunday, my hands were so cold, I thought I was back to an English spring day.
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A couple of new additions. This Healey is up from Nelson - Saturday. The owner was present but wasn't the driver - this time. It only took to the track Sunday - in the wet - and was going well. I gather it isn't exactly bog standard.


Sunday wasn't the best day to be running a sports car. A very welcome addition to the ERC Series, one of several cars/drivers new for this season, with 74 paid up so far.

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These two pics uploaded from the Laptop - not even on the PC as yet.

Ray the BBM was on Trade Me - I haven't found out if it sold.

I nicked-named the BBM 'Tory Canyon' - after it blew up in front of me at Manfeild a few years a ago. It was a big one and Ken eventually spun on his on oil at Higgins.

The nick-name was nicked from the Jo Siffert driven Cooper-Maserati in 1967 - can't recall who the author of the nick name was

ERC wrote:
The Sunbeam was eventually sold to Greg Bellingham of Tracer Interiors, then raced for a while by Todd Forsyth, but from memory, it suffered with cylinder head or gasket problems.
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This was originally ( maybe not original original ) owned by John Boyd, who worked around the corner from me in East Tamaki in the '90s, and he ran it at the Whangerai Street Race, and was a regular at Whenuapai, if my memory isn't failing me.

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1997 October Skidmark Parsons with a more typical on track presence.


2017 September 30th - the Hooters Vintage Series hopefully will grow. We need to see many more cars out on the grid. Old Fart will no doubt be pleased that they are running at a mainstream Classic meeting. These pics in the morning sunshine means it had to be practice.

A new vantage spot for me to give it a try, but this is with the access bonus of the pink tabard.






HRC's Tim Hill, part of the organising committee for the whole meeting.



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Andrew Metford wrote:This was originally ( maybe not original original ) owned by John Boyd, who worked around the corner from me in East Tamaki in the '90s, and he ran it at the Whangerai Street Race, and was a regular at Whenuapai, if my memory isn't failing me.

John Boyd poured a lot of money into that car, owned for a short time.Guy who bought it from Boyd has owned it since back then.
You and your Dad met him with me at a HSS event some years ago.
Car just sits..............

2009 with Todd Forsyth at the wheel.

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In this case,looking at the year- must be a different Tiger to the one I know

It is not a Tiger John. It is an Alpine - 4 cylinder.

John Boyd had a Tiger....so this isnt that Tiger...so John Boyd owned Tiger and Alpine?

This is John Boyds Tiger .Markson

Markson-Great for this pix.
Thats cleared that up John Boyd had a Tiger-#1775, and Alpine -#1768

Manfeild Whittakers 1997.
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One for you Andrew!









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That is correct John
John Boyd had a Tiger and at a later date, built this racing Alpine .Markson