The Roaring Season

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This Escort was on the club track.




Mazda in a less smoky pose than some of the others.


Classic trial MG BV8


Alan Horner's Austin Healey Sprite - but not A Series power...

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France, Germany and GB do battle in the Arrow Wheels grid. The owner of the Jaguar is building a C type Jaguar replica and also has a Lloyd.


More like it. Spectacular up to a point, but the clouds of acrid smoke drifting across the National track on a regular basis from several drifters made it a very unpleasant place to be, especially for the flag marshals who had no option but to stick it out for the day.






I bet the Cobra replica driver doesn't get too many speeding tickets judging by the location of the front number plate.

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Ray,
As I am not part of the NZ scene I would like to ask who is the gentleman on the left with the cane looking down ? (Post # 1855 )
I do recognize Bruce T. who left me to go lunch with the rich and famous at Laguna Seca and the other is a man I almost met at Laguna Seca, Dale Mathers.

(A lonely Kiwi looking in from the outside, Ken H.)

The gentleman on the left is AMCO, Gerald Fogg, Angus Fogg's dad.

In the far right corner of the garage is Racing Ray Williams and it looks like Paul Madeley's Porsche 944 Turbo, prior to its maiden track run, on the left.

khyndart in CA wrote:Ray,
As I am not part of the NZ scene I would like to ask who is the gentleman on the left with the cane looking down ? (Post # 1855 )
I do recognize Bruce T. who left me to go lunch with the rich and famous at Laguna Seca and the other is a man I almost met at Laguna Seca, Dale Mathers.

(A lonely Kiwi looking in from the outside, Ken H.)

Didn't I bring you some bones Ken ?

B.

No bones Bruce, you had your steak and BBQ chicken lunch with dessert and I found an old packet of sunflower seeds at the bottom of my back pack so it was all good mate. Perhaps we can do it again next August.
Cheers,
Ken


plus thanks Ray for the identification of Mr. Fogg.

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Still on the club circuit. Frasers were out in force, but looks like a Caterham behind this one.




Tony Olissoff's Brabham stopped on the exit to turn 1 during it's first race. Not sure why.




The ladies were collecting for breast cancer awareness.


Always something in the car park to look at.

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Some red cars just for spgeti.

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Ellerslie 2000


Somehow or other, a set from Goodwood 2016 didn't get uploaded. Never too late. The 'Motor Show' hall was busy, probably with many sheltering from the rain on the Saturday. But this was Friday when the weather was fine.









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GeebeeNZ wrote:Being a former Mallock owner I am very interested in the Badger special which has an uncanny resemblance to a Mk 6 Mallock.I recall a similar car in the NZ Sports Car club in the early years. Does anyone have any history on it.

The Badger.

Hi GeeBeeNZ,

I’ve checked with a couple of friends who knew the previous owner (John Heaney) better than me and have come up with the following information on this car.

[color="#0000CD"]John Heaney owned the car from the 1980s until just before his death in April 2015. He always referred to it as the Badger. He ran it in competition briefly while living around Auckland in the late 1980s (it may be remembered by others who were messing with sports cars around Auckland at the time). John only ran it a few times as the handling (or lack of it) scared him![/color]

In all the time I knew John, I never consciously laid eyes on the car but we talked about it a few times as it had a similar appearance to my car (Triford Special). For much of the last 25+ years of his ownership, it was down here in Wellington, dismantled while John contemplated fixing the rear end so as to resolve the handling issues.

The car is in Graham Vercoe’s Historic Racing Cars of New Zealand (as usual, not all information relating to the entry is correct). From memory it was built by Ian Macrae with a fully enveloping body but, obviously, was changed to the open wheeled configuration at some point.

Basic details of its assembled parts are: space frame, split beam front axle, Cortina 1500 pre-crossflow engine, trailing arm rear suspension with a Triumph Herald differential and (by the look of it) a 4 link set up.

Another mix as I try and catch up.
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Gordini


Maserati


Smoke machine aftermath


Ironic background as our erstwhile commentator JT was on the phone at the time to try and get the hot water restored to his HD unit!



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Seems the uploader system isn't working for me...

Can't select the files in bulk (six) at the moment. No idea what has changed, but it is too long winded uploading one at a time.

Steve is aware of the issue, could be related to improved security settings, so in the meantime, I'll busy myself with filing the recent pics - and maybe weeding out some of the near duplicates of many cars. This is more of an issue in the digital age, where instead of taking two or three rolls of film at the most, in a day, say 100 shots, now it can be 700/800 a day easily - more so with an event such as Goodwood, with so many fresh subjects.

Taking pictures of the same car at different meetings and from different locations is fine, but sooner or later, you end up with near identical ones. Culling them later however, is a major, time consuming mission and has to be slotted in with the other computer housekeeping.

Just one upload at a time... Still with the October 14th meeting.
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Jim's Ferrari replica, 1997


Can someone please confirm country of origin for this PRS Formula Ford? Even our friend Google doesn't easily come up with the answer.

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English - a short lived but fairly successful outfit. I have always regarded Dave's car as arguably the prettiest FF

Thanks Michael. It's amazing what you CAN'T find easily on the internet.

Uploading issues still not fixed, so only a couple. Looking forward to Hampton Downs (short track) for the annual low key HRSCC meeting on Sunday. (Replaces Taupo.)

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Keram FF




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Rob Berrgren at the wheel this time.




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Track goes the other way Dennis...

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Trying to slim down the library of photographs, whilst the uploader problems persist.

Made a start on the British Road cars. In terms of makes, from 'A to E' only, so far, slimmed it down to 1465 pics...