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A few Holdens at Baskerville 50th.......2004

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Next pics scanned from originals loaned by Garth Wigston.
The Roadways car at The Mountain in period...
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A few more Roadways/Wigston pics..

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Garth is a local Tasmanian and well known in racing circles. He has raced from mid 50's starting in FX Holden.
He ran cars in 8 or 9 Bathursts. He is still involved with Motor Sport
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Roadways/Wigston pics cont...(Scanned from G Wigston collection)

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Roadways and Norm Gown / Bruce Hindaugh Engines were long time sponsors along later with Pioneer Sound
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Ellis wrote:Roadways/Wigston pics cont...(Scanned from G Wigston collection)

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Roadways and Norm Gown / Bruce Hindaugh Engines were long time sponsors along later with Pioneer Sound


Love these L34/A9X shots Ellis. Whatever happened to the Roadways team? They were quite prominent in Group C in the late '70s and especially the early/mid '80s when Grice came on board.
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A few photo's from the Muscle Car Masters at Eastern Creek last weekend.

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Round Bathurst in the Yager Performance XY GT-HO.

http://www.mustang.org.au/forum/viewthread.php?tid=15263

Crank it up !!
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That's sensational! Thanks GD! That looks like a lot of power for the rubber and a lot of speed down Conrod for the brakes of the time.
Reverse grid actually works a treat in this instance.
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Awesome collection of images guys. Keep them coming.
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A few more photo's from the Muscle Car Masters.

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The Muscle Car Masters photos are great timbo, keep 'em coming.....
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OK then, here are a few more.

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And sports sedans got a run this year.
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Timbo61: Bring on the photos, awesome. Thanks for shareing them.
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Fantastic photos.
The question is - how do we get some of those jokers to bring their cars over here to NZ for the hampton Downs festival. Imagine that!!
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nigel watts wrote:Fantastic photos.
The question is - how do we get some of those jokers to bring their cars over here to NZ for the hampton Downs festival. Imagine that!!


Working on it?

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organise a historic OSCA vs Sport sedan challange ill bring my Anglia
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i agree 105
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Hell Dale bring it on - that would be a real coup and would really bring in the punters for some of the TransTasman set to's that we had years ago.
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kiwi285 wrote:Hell Dale bring it on - that would be a real coup and would really bring in the punters for some of the TransTasman set to's that we had years ago.


I'll do my best!! always sounds good on paper until it comes down to action!!!

I had 2 meetings with American Historic Trans Am group while up there twice this year and the Australian Trans Am group at EC a couple of weeks ago!! we have some interest happening but we need more than that!! always its takes some planning but if Peirce/Hanna could do it back in the "ol handshake" days we/I/whoever should beable do it todays much smaller "computorised" world.

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