The Roaring Season

Know this is not curcuit, but a little bit of what used to happen back then, race Puke one weekend, change tyres and rally and then a good clean, change tyres back and back to Puke. A happy (tyred) crew after Heatway L-R Robin Irving Paul Swann (PJ) Tiger Lyons and Mr Rex Rattenbury (the rat)

Bryan Faloon Escort 1300 Levin 1969 Rothmans 4 Hour Race,Sid Jensen and him finished 4th overall in the race

seaqnmac27 wrote:Some very interesting names in there including I notice one Phil Ornstein who along with his son drove the last 2 Hillman Avenger rally cars in New Zealand, either 83 or 84 would have been their last Rally NZ in them. They may have been Chrysler Avengers by then though

Photos from the 1984 Rally NZ, Phil Ornstein ran the 2 door version (#54) and Tony ran a 4 door (#41) I think they also did the following year.

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By the early 1980s, production racing had mostly lost favour, although in New Zealand, General Motors NZ produced a small batch (30 only) of locally assembled Holden SS Commodores built specifically to be raced. These were one of the last high performance touring cars produced for the sake of winning on a race track in strictly production racing.


Some of those Commodore SS's at the Labour weekend B&H meeting at Baypark.

from the top...
John Morton SS - Wilkinson / Crichton SS - Leo Leonard's Fairmont - Brock / Oxton SS - Bruce Fowler's Fairmont - Denny Hulme SS.

Nice one Martin, great to see the B&H series cars. The Ford teams had to use the automatic Fairmont Ghia as this was the only model in the big Ford range still fitted with a V8 in NZ.