The Roaring Season

Steve Holmes wrote:Thanks Ellis, great work! Yes I think the Brocklehurst car must be the Jewel Green one in your list. I believe its been returned to this colour once again.

This car was featured in either NZ Driver or Classic Car magazine a year or so ago.

Was green...then white.....then green. Located in Nelson area. Another mint P3......lucky owners!!

Here are a couple of photos of racing Falcons from the late 60's

Pukekohe January 1973


Patrick Smith

Someone may know the GTHO by its number plate FV6314 and sponsorship from Continental Car Services Ltd on the boot.

If you look back to the Richards/ McMillan falcon you will see that it has the same number plate

Thanks George well spotted.

Haga wrote:The elec blue/saddle trim P3 (who the owner told me was ex JR) was in the lower South Island.

I know the location and owners name but will not publish them here on a public forum.

The car was in great original condition and was still being used. I would not think the owner (not Tom Grace) would sell it.

I am sure Jacmac probably knows whether it is still there, without quoting names/location?

Thanks Haga
Its alive and well with only approx 42K miles as of couple of years ago. I have spoken with or mainly emailed the owner on quite a few occasions over the past years. He has an interesting XU1 as well or did have last time I was in contact with him.

Haga- that is a very good point about this being a public forum , and these cars are now private.

kiwi285 wrote:Here are a couple of photos of racing Falcons from the late 60's

Clyde Collins PDL Falcon

Many thanks to those who have posted so far.
and
Ditto the privacy (Haga and John) the owners of the cars deserve.

I /We dont need to know where exactly they are housed ...just their history
and see some old "happy snaps" of their glory days.

Its also great to see some pics of the cars at shows or doing demo laps whether
restored or in as raced condition with a few old battle scars or replacement bits/panels etc

Ellis

Someone may know the GTHO by its number plate FV6314 and sponsorship from Continental Car Services Ltd on the boot.

Tim Bailey bought the car (straight from from McMillans I think) and raced it for a few meetings before selling it as a road car. The Torana parked behind it is the ex Roy Harrington XU1 owned by Ray Olenius at the time.

Steve Holmes wrote:Thanks Ellis, great work! Yes I think the Brocklehurst car must be the Jewel Green one in your list. I believe its been returned to this colour once again.

Believe that's right Steve, and it lives in top of South Island.

Ellis wrote:Clyde Collins PDL Falcon

Yes thats right. Not actually a GT-HO, or even a GT, but still a very interesting car.

The ex-Goss Phase III on the front cover of Motorman.

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Patrick Smith at Bay Park.

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Steve Holmes wrote:The ex-Goss Phase III on the front cover of Motorman.

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Thanks Steve..

Thats Bay Park in Jul 73 Glenvale 200
JR driving and co drove with owner Norris Miles.

Miles drove solo at Pukekehoe (B'd if I can spell that) a few weeks later that year...he had pole in the dry but race was wet and he dnf

John McK sent me a scan of that yesterday

The least photographed seem to be ...

Bruce Anderson
Grady Thomson
Patrick Smith

Would that be because they raced them less or were lower profile ?

Did E Sprague run one or did he only run the Green HO2 ?

The most photographed ones seem to be those that raced in the 1972 Castrol GTX series, from what I can tell. There were several that raced, and they were all competitive. But by the time of the 1973 GTX series, the E49 Charger had been released, which seemed better suited to production racing on NZ circuits, and these cars pretty well cleaned up. Pretty sure the Patrick Smith car raced in the '73 season, but not '72. The Anderson car had only limited outings. I think the only regular from 1972 who also ran in '73 was Brocklehurst.

In an article on Grady for the 1991 Nissan Mobil 500 Wellington street race -Grady will be racing a stock standard GTHO in the MVDI Classic Invitation race. Thats all I know of this car, it is Bronze with Gold stripes.I do know that there was 2 Bronze wine HO’s brought to new Zealand and the other one definitely went back to Australia, it had black stripes. There were a total of 18 Bronze Wine GTHO’s made.

I have a early NZ Hot Rod Magazine 1972 were they do a road test in Francevic GTHO with the number plate FV7231,will put pics up soon

seaqnmac27 wrote:Pukekohe January 1973

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So who is in car 80?