Dunedin Street Races - revival meeting January 1984

Allan · Post by **Allan** » Wed Nov 11, 2015 11:29 pm

Can someone please identify cars 16 and 18?

Roger Dowding · Post by **Roger Dowding** » Wed Nov 11, 2015 11:49 pm

Allan wrote:Can someone please identify cars 16 and 18?

Allan, #18 is a Citroen powered special, built by Doug Haig have seen it elsewhere in books

woody · Post by **woody** » Wed Nov 11, 2015 11:50 pm

#16 is C Read in the B. C. M. special. #18 is R Smith in the Citroen special.

Roger Dowding · Post by **Roger Dowding** » Wed Nov 11, 2015 11:58 pm

woody wrote:#16 is C Read in the B. C. M. special. #18 is R Smith in the Citroen special.

Woody you just beat with details of #18,- the Doug Haigh built Citroen Special and it was owned and raced by Ralph Smith, who has the Lycoming, the Citroen was made from a Light 15 with the Motor/ gearbox final drive turned back to front for the rear wheel drive, which is quite normal for racing cars these days. Interestingly an early photo in Graham Vercoe's book it has #18 on it - so a permanent number from the 1950's

rf84 · Post by **rf84** » Thu Nov 12, 2015 12:21 am

Pity about Vercoe's "Historic Racing Cars" book-it was riddled with inaccuracies. They started before you even opened the book-the dust jacket shows (amongst other cars) a blue Lola T70 which is labelled a Lola T1!
To make matters worse many knowledgeable people such as Max Fisher and David McKinney went to great lengths to correct the errors but, alas, they wasted their time and energy. When the second edition was published it was word for word the same as the first edition.
As "Oldfart" says, the info it contains needs to be looked at very critically.

Roger Dowding · Post by **Roger Dowding** » Thu Nov 12, 2015 3:55 am

The field

The Capella

Capella close up

The field racing

Ferrari and Stanton Cropduster

Ferrari BCM and GCS

Roger Dowding · Post by **Roger Dowding** » Thu Nov 12, 2015 4:02 am

and as I like Riley's the Ransley Riley Engine

and that upside down engine again

That is it the whole 50 or so photo's
and thanks for the information to identify the cars

John H · Post by **John H** » Thu Nov 12, 2015 4:13 am

Hi Roger re the G C S. As a 10-11 year old we went to Murewai beach racing about 1956-57. We walked up the beach to see the racing. The cars were all just sitting around and I touched the tyre on this car. I guess it was George Smith who told me not to do that as the sand would get into the engine. Sadly no racing took place as the tide or something was not right. Very disappointing but amazing to think perhaps Bruce McLaren and others could have been there.

Chrs ...

Roger Dowding · Post by **Roger Dowding** » Mon Nov 23, 2015 11:34 pm

GD66 wrote:Cover courtesy of Steve Nesbitt
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Found another dozen photos including some of the straight sprints and a few of the cars in the pit area

Roger Dowding · Post by **Roger Dowding** » Tue Nov 24, 2015 5:52 am

A view of the city - peaceful for the moment and a lonely Mini in the carpark.

from the Sprints on the Saturday - organised by the Otago Sports Car Club

Huge crowd and not much safety as was in the time and earlier, much like the 1960's 70's

Oldfart · Post by **Oldfart** » Tue Nov 24, 2015 6:01 am

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Huge crowd and not much safety as was in the time and earlier, much like the 1960's 70's

And as it could be/should be if we were not living in a nanny state, when people actually had enough sense to be self preserving.

Roger Dowding · Post by **Roger Dowding** » Tue Nov 24, 2015 6:37 am

Cooper Vincent
the car known as "Jilly " and raced at one time by Dave "Jaguar " Silcock

the Vincent engine end.

A Sports Special ** which we now know is Furi 2, built by Jim Bennett with help from his brother Cliff [ bodywork ] and Ivan - engineering.

(Think this is ) the engine from the special - It is using the Roots type twin vane Commer TS3 Truck supercharger.
Supercharged Jaguar

any comment appreciated, maybe from the programme Steve Nisbet !!

Roger Dowding · Post by **Roger Dowding** » Tue Nov 24, 2015 6:45 am

New-ish

Oldish the B C M Special

the engine

Older - and a Favourite. the Stanton Special

I think that will be all from the 1984 Dunedin races, unless you guys have some to add.
Please do, and enjoy these.

Rascal · Post by **Rascal** » Thu Nov 26, 2015 1:37 am

Very good presentation Roger, many thanks.
We competed much later when the races were revived and ran clockwise & used the motorway over to 'THE GLEN" then up to and over Cemetary Hill & back around the "OVAL" Pic attached , maybe someone can do a spread on those later years, that have now also, Sadly gone forever it seems.

Roger Dowding · Post by **Roger Dowding** » Thu Nov 26, 2015 5:06 am

Rascal wrote:Very good presentation Roger, many thanks.
We competed much later when the races were revived and ran clockwise & used the motorway over to 'THE GLEN" then up to and over Cemetary Hill & back around the "OVAL" Pic attached , maybe someone can do a spread on those later years, that have now also, Sadly gone forever it seems.[ATTACH=CONFIG]31861[/ATTACH]

Hope there are more photos out there, feel free to add them here or on a new thread.

Re : " Sadly gone forever it seems " wasn't it at Dunedin that there was a Spectator death ??, and MANZ [as it was then ] didn't support the organising club(s) and only intervened when the Clubs Officials were to be charged with the death

thanks

Roger

woody · Post by **woody** » Thu Nov 26, 2015 5:11 am

Roger, The accident was at the Queenstown meeting.

Roger Dowding · Post by **Roger Dowding** » Thu Nov 26, 2015 6:48 am

woody wrote:Roger, The accident was at the Queenstown meeting.

Woody, thanks I was unsure, but do know that it had a big effect on organising street events.

Roger Dowding · Post by **Roger Dowding** » Sun Dec 13, 2015 4:00 am

Can post details from the programme.

Otago Sports Car Club were behind the 1984 event too !!

Oldfart · Post by **Oldfart** » Mon Dec 21, 2015 8:05 pm

Can someone please give me street names for the earlier circuits ASAP?
Thanks

Roger Dowding · Post by **Roger Dowding** » Mon Dec 21, 2015 8:57 pm

Oldfart wrote:Can someone please give me street names for the earlier circuits ASAP?
Thanks

Oldfart, will have a look at Scott Thomsons book and the programme above, will scan them to here, later today !!, cheers Roger
Have a quick look at post #1, as Scott's book has a couple of the maps - a bit small though !!, will try to resize for you..

The Roaring Season

Dunedin Street Races - revival meeting January 1984

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Dunedin '84 the single seaters my final photos. Capella Ferrari BCM and others

Dunedin - finally - the last photo - full view and a couple of engines.

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Dunedin ; more photos to follow

Dunedin 84 the sprints

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Dunedin In the Pit area - some unusual cars and engines.

Dunedin - finally - the last photos - old specials and new car

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Great shot of a later Street races, thanks " Rascal "

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Programme from the 1954 Dunedin Street Races, 30 years earlier - copy Bruce Dyer

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