Abandoned, Forgotten, Neglected, Race And Road Cars Thread

[David McKinney]

The Dyna-Four apparently had two single-cylinder 500cc Lawrence aircraft-auxiliary engines mounted back-to-back. I saw it race once or twice around 1963 or '64 (in dark blue), and believe it was in the Bay of Plenty area a couple of years after that, but haven't heard of it since.

I took these photos at scrutineering for the first Pukekohe GP meeting

[jim short]

The Dyna-Four apparently had two single-cylinder 500cc Lawrence aircraft-auxiliary engines mounted back-to-back. I saw it race once or twice around 1963 or '64 (in dark blue), and believe it was in the Bay of Plenty area a couple of years after that, but haven't heard of it since.

I took these photos at scrutineering for the first Pukekohe GP meeting

The last time I was at Ted Thomsons he was building a special with 2 starter motors of some plane 1961? he also had modified his Healy 4 bodywise?? along with his lovely 39 coupe,at one hillclimb Ostridge Road the V8 had 8 Ammal carbs, and to think he was deaf how he tuned it was amazing,then again was he really deaf???

[Oldfart]

Thanks David, that's it! Is it more likely that these are 2 twin cylinder 500s? There are 4 pipes, called Dyna 4 ...?

[David McKinney]

Yes, I believe they were 500s

[Oldfart]

Hi David, not being pedantic, your reply #219 you said 2 single cylinder 500s, is it possible 2 twin cylinder units?

[David McKinney]

Yes it is possible. I only repeated what I'd been told

[stubuchanan]

The Dyna-Four apparently had two single-cylinder 500cc Lawrence aircraft-auxiliary engines mounted back-to-back. I saw it race once or twice around 1963 or '64 (in dark blue), and believe it was in the Bay of Plenty area a couple of years after that, but haven't heard of it since.

I took these photos at scrutineering for the first Pukekohe GP meeting

This photo was taken at a Pukekohe CC hillclimb at Ararimu Road, Paparimu around 1964-65. Not sure what colour it was then, or who drove it.



The car's origins seem to be several years earlier. At the NZ Championship Sprint at Aka Aka(Eastern Drain Road?) run on 19 November 1960, Eric Watt set a NZ Class G (751-1100cc) record for the Standing Kilo in a Dynafour Special of 34.62 sec. Not particularly fast, the 500 cc cars of Jeffares and Learnan were a second or two faster, but obviously faster the the existing class record.

Does anyone know who built it or when?

Stu

[RogerH]

This photo was taken at a Pukekohe CC hillclimb at Ararimu Road, Paparimu around 1964-65. Not sure what colour it was then, or who drove it.



The car's origins seem to be several years earlier. At the NZ Championship Sprint at Aka Aka(Eastern Drain Road?) run on 19 November 1960, Eric Watt set a NZ Class G (751-1100cc) record for the Standing Kilo in a Dynafour Special of 34.62 sec. Not particularly fast, the 500 cc cars of Jeffares and Learnan were a second or two faster, but obviously faster the the existing class record.

Does anyone know who built it or when?

Stu

Was it the Dyna Four built by Ted Thompson and Curley Brown (see Vercoe page 110).

[stubuchanan]

Was it the Dyna Four built by Ted Thompson and Curley Brown (see Vercoe page 110).

Quite possibly. Re-reading Vercoes story doesn't help, but Pukekohe programmes from 1963 and 1964 show both Robert Rankin and Garth Taylor entered it as the Dina Four, of 977 and 948 cc capacity. 1960 news clipping refer to the Dynafour Special so maybe they were 2 different cars with very similar name. Pity there isn't a photo of the Eric Watt car.

Stu

[markson]

Hi While working in the bush the other day,collecting fire wood,I came across the remains of this rusty,trusty,TREKKA???, it look like it rolled,I am not sure if there is a body ,or bones under it???

[markson]

[markson]

[markson]

[markson]

Any one looking for a life long rewarding resto project

[Ekwah]

Where is it now??

[225sloper]

Driving down the road a number of years ago and this is what i spotted on side of road.Me and my son pulled up,got out and took some photos.I noticed some more cars in the distance one of them looked like a Vailant Charger.Also was a guy with a digger and truck in the same paddock,so we went up the drive jumped the fence and headed to the digger driver to ask if we could get better photos of the Merc,when really my interest was the Charger.He was the owner of property and was digging up vehicles that had been buried for a number of years.What i saw was a pile of rusty panels,rear ends,front ends just rubbish.He was taken it to the scrapyard as the price of scrap was good.Havent been down that road since,but pretty sure it all ended at the scrapyard

[225sloper]

Here is the rusty Charger

[Steve Holmes]

Wow, that is amazing! Of the 'big three' the Chryslers were always the poor cousins, both in the US and Aus, but now they're demanding really big money for the right cars. This Charger would be worth plenty now if its condition wasn't so bad.

[Steve Holmes]

Ummm...

[fullnoise68]

Hey John McKechnie, when most people get an old car out of a shed they take an air tank to pump up the tyres. They don`t usually need an air tank to view the car!!!!