Random photos from the 60s

[Grant Sprague]

Thanks Milan so damn good to see these , never before seen photos keep them rolling , I never knew Ernie drove a fiat with Barry Cottle , as the years rolled on Gary also share a fiat with Barry........ oddly I race two of them as well.. Ken your photos are fantastic too .............. Thanks Guys

[Milan Fistonic]

Just found this slide of the Stanton Special being carried away after running over David Young's FJ Cooper at Mount Maunganui in December 1963.

[Milan Fistonic]

A couple more from the NSCC Hillclimb at Birdwood Road Massey.

Bill Stone

Jim Boyd

[John H]

Thanks Milan. I was in the same spot. The marshals had no problem keeping the spectators back after seeing this. I think the little Cooper was just behind the truck against the fence? How no one was killed.

[Ray Bell]

Strange wheels for a Cooper!

[Oldfart]

Why Ray? Certainly a mix, but both ends are different versions of Cooper wheels, "Bananas" on the front, and they look like 500/ Cooper Bristol wheels on the back aren't they? Perhaps a way to have dirt tyres ?

[Ray Bell]

My apologies...

I confused the Stanton Special with the Cooper.

[Grant Sprague]

Great photos thank you for sharing , I did not even know David raced the cooper up here, [but a young boy at the time ] I recall the Stanton Corvette though chain driven , I think it was Levin the chain let go , & Ernie saying lucky no one got hurt .... [or killed]

[Cooper997]

Great photos Milan. Thank you for showing us.

I take it that Bill Stone's Cooper is the ex Denny Hulme T52? If so, that should mean the rear wheels are the original style fitted to the first Cooper Formula Juniors.

Would anyone have a date (even approximate) for the Hillclimb the Stone and Boyd photos were taken at please?

Stephen

[Milan Fistonic]

Thanks Stephen. I would think they were taken in 1965.

Yes the Cooper is the T52 that Hulme brought to NZ.

[Cooper997]

Milan, thank you for confirming those details.

Stephen

[Oldfart]

The Boyd photo has to be after 1964, number plate is the clue there, it's still on the skinny wheels and before he put on the roll bar. It's still shiney and tidy too

This is Breaker Bay

[Milan Fistonic]

A couple of shots from the pits at the 1966 NZIGP meeting.

Neil Doyle's Anglia Corvette and Rod Coppins' Zephyr Corvette

Pete Geoghegan's Mustang and Leo Geoghegan's Lotus 32

[Milan Fistonic]

These are from the 5 January 1966 meeting at Levin.

Bill Caldwell, Graeme Lawrence and Ray Thackwell with Roly Levis sitting on the tyre of Caldwell's Brabham.

Ken Sager, Dene Hollier and John Riley

Spencer Martin with Attwood's BRM and Red Dawson's Brabham behind.

[GD66]

Lovely colour Milan, are they from slides ? And would that be Alistair in attendance beside Bill Caldwell's Brabham ?

[928]

yes, that is alistair

[Milan Fistonic]

And yes they are from slides.

[Oldfart]

Stunning pics Milan, thanks for sharing

[Milan Fistonic]

These are from Levin 1965.

Bruce McLaren. Ray Stone in the overalls.

Phil Hill & Bruce McLaren

Jim Clark watching a saloon car race IIRC

Phil Hill

Bruce McLaren

[Milan Fistonic]

Piers Courage at the practice day for the 1969 NZGP at Pukekohe