The Roaring Season

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Melissa Broadbent


Helen O'Sullivan


Steff Chambers - who won the first AES handicap!

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Away now for a couple of days. Film crew have taken over the house!

A few cars from Italy.

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The Trofeo grid has expanded from just Alfa's to cover all Italian cars and this is a great move in my opinion. A textbook case of moving forwards rather than suffer shrinking grids. As with the ERC grids, there are critics of allowing in newer cars, but with ever increasing costs of putting on a race meeting, outlawing newer cars just to keep to some arbitrary age limit of say 1977, is no longer viable. Flicking through any of my photographs, even from the 1990's, makes and models seen regularly, are now mothballed, trailer queens or cherished, so we have to move forward.



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Und zum of ze German contingent...
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Northin 1


Northin 2


Mike Delmont's well known BMW 2002 Turbo







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More Italians...
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Sometimes, even a small car doesn't find the track wide enough! This little rocket sounded good though.




Sunday's weather was grim first thing. Surprisingly cold too. PPG Classic Trial.







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Excellent work Ray, Thank you very much.

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Apologies for so many from the same viewpoint. I prefer to mix them around, but still a few to upload, so it is much quicker to do it this way.
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Dry - no mudguards


Wet - no grip









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Called at Hampton Downs for a couple of hours today as Targa was getting organised. Spotted this, the G B S, from 1986. Chevrolet engine. Back on the road today after finally getting the LVVTA plate.
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GBS looks very different to when I had it in my possession . I wonder what gearbox they are using. At one time it had a Corvair, but apparently often broke as the loads were going in the wrong direction. I hope for their sake that it has been sorted.

Rhys, I happened to be there when Andy Culpin asked to have a look and he asked about the gearbox. Apparently it is now a Renault unit. As it was only road legal today or yesterday, it will be interesting to see how it goes as I doubt it has done much testing.

Don Webster's Alpine was running too. Pics later, but I am still on Icebreaker, then the TACCOC meeting. Coming up this weekend is the Hampton Downs GT meeting, but I'll only be there Saturday.

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One of the less easy tasks is trying to research where a particular car is manufactured. Thanks to Vic Clarke, this 'GLH Formula Ford' was manufactured in NZ. 'Google may be your friend', but there are still huge gaps in easily identifying some cars. Often, you have to spend a ridiculous amount of time and often to no avail. Now I need to know where the PRS was manufactured...



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Whoops. Accidentally posted the same batch of images twice! Will add more to this post later.

Another Targa pic to fill in the gap.
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Hopefully, these will be first time posts...

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Max van Maanen (green Alfa Sprint) mixing it with the ladies.











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Back to the past for Jaguar fans - 1999.

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Rob Moston


The late Bryan Wyness




John Ure - one of his Jaguar collection.



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From the scanner...
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1985 - February


1999 - Manfeild


2000 - Whangarei Street races


Tom Scott telling Hans where to go...


Ellerslie Concours February 2000


FJ Emeryson/Elfin then owned by Nigel Russell and now owned Tony Ollissoff, and run at the 2016 Goodwood Revival.

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Very rare Jowett owned by Hans Compter. I was lucky years ago to be taken for a ride in it.
Does this car have Le Mans history Ray ?.
Body by Farina and they only made a few.