The Roaring Season

These photos taken at Otaua Hillclimb both on the hill and at scrutineering. Definitely a dry day and shows that John was using both intermediates and wets that day.

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John can be seen carrying the jack in the scrutineering photo of Joanna - he did a fantastic job checking car safety for the Austin Healey Club who initiated and ran the event those days.

Yep was not wet ............. Good pic of Johns Car.... very pretty car

Grant Sprague wrote:Yep was not wet ............. Good pic of Johns Car.... very pretty car

Yea Grant, he had a couple of nice cars, still got little collection.
Hey BMC, that photo of Wigston with jack, he's pinching it, look at the way he is looking over his shoulder, a common pose for the little toe rag.

John 15, Joanna 18. she went ok as well.

Nice photos! Please keep them coming. Dont know John that well, but know Shane quite well. Have showed him a couple of the photos of the Chevron from this site - he was really impressed.

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Here's a couple of early photo's of North Shore's Vanessa Evans on her first rally in her RX-2 with co-driver Jim Gavin.
Maramarua circa 1985.
Her skills and efforts eventually rewarded her with a couple of works-supported Subaru drives in the 90's
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The RX-2 was replaced in 85 due to this roll in the Riverhead Rallysprint.

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A very rapid little Datsun 1200 coupe was to follow..

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Here's a couple of photo's of Ross McCorkindale attacking Pebblebrook Quarry Road in his special during the 80's


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Whose Chevron was this originally before Wigston?

He still has them, will find out

The McCorkindale special is largely a McQueen Formula Vee. It resided in my shed for a while before I sold it on to someone in Taranaki. I would love to know where it is now!

Oldfart wrote:The McCorkindale special is largely a McQueen Formula Vee. It resided in my shed for a while before I sold it on to someone in Taranaki. I would love to know where it is now!

Was that an ex Paul King Vee?

Chris Read wrote:Whose Chevron was this originally before Wigston?

One of them is the B34 that was used by Bryan Hartley when owned by Norm Lankshear in Feilding. Norm got it from Keke Rosberg who used it in NZ in 1978 or 9

Thats right Crunch, think it is the 18 car, will find out from young John, bugger was only chatting to him last weekend.

BMCBOY wrote:These photos taken at Otaua Hillclimb both on the hill and at scrutineering. Definitely a dry day and shows that John was using both intermediates and wets that day.

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John can be seen carrying the jack in the scrutineering photo of Joanna - he did a fantastic job checking car safety for the Austin Healey Club who initiated and ran the event those days.

Is that a lady driving the number 18 car? A before you all get cheeky and say "No' it's John...but he is a bit of a girl's blouse" , this is a serious question

crunch wrote:Is that a lady driving the number 18 car? A before you all get cheeky and say "No' it's John...but he is a bit of a girl's blouse" , this is a serious question

Joanna - John's daughter? Good peddler too

Grimme, the said toe rag is here with me right at this moment at Highlands, he told me what he said about you last weekend. #15 is the ex Grant Campbell BT39 & #18 is the ex David Oxton then Heather Spurle car that initially came to NZ as the spare car for Keke & Mikko

Carlo wrote:Grimme, the said toe rag is here with me right at this moment at Highlands, he told me what he said about you last weekend. #15 is the ex Grant Campbell BT39 & #18 is the ex David Oxton then Heather Spurle car that initially came to NZ as the spare car for Keke & Mikko

Thanks Carlo, he be down with muscle boys. Just keep a eye on your gear.

Cheers

Peter Van Breugel in Maramarua , probably '85/86

Boy oh boy this stuff's got me fizzing! Awesome... this is of the era that I grew up watching on telly, simply fantastic images! Thanks!

Rich