The Roaring Season

The name is Bond, Laurie Bond. Not exactly the best front end treatment by a country mile.





That almost brings me up to date with the current stuff, apart from a few damp Ferrari pics so now I'll need to either get back to scanning old stuff or delve into the archives to see what I haven't published before. Here's one I scanned recently for the ERA Facebook site.

Earl Howe at Donington 1937 in ERA R8B.

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I have always liked the classic front engined Ferraris.



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Meanwhile, inside the pavilion...

I'm not a huge fan of one make, one model racing but made the trip to HD hoping to see more than just Ferrari 488's. As it turned out, we didn't see anything out on track at all and several pit garages were closed, so no apologies for the sameness of the next batch or two.

Fantastic pics Ray, You have captured the atmosphere of that meeting, damp as it was.

Bruce.

Gad it was miserable Bruce! The atmosphere was indeed damp and depressing. I have only published the pics because I took them, not because I am in any way proud of them. Like Nigel, not sure that I'd bother to go again, even it was fine, as the programme was basically a Ferrari Owners Club bash, despite all the publicity.

When TACCOC had a Ferrari race at Whenuapai, it at least had a variety of Ferraris on track. When you look back at the photos you have taken, no matter what the one make/model series is, you tend to skip through them. You take your time when there is true variety, even if it is just a variety of models. Quite simply, any one model series means that the optimum line through a corner is the same for every single car and as we all know, you are not going to get the varied lines and car attitudes seen in Central Muscle cars, Pre 65's or any of the saloon series for that matter.













And that's a wrap.

ERC have borrowed - stolen the Healey pic, car is ex Germany,new to NZ this year.

We only called in a for a few minutes to the April Caffeine & Classics quire late on, so needless to say, many had already left. Never mind, there were still one or two we hadn't seen before or worth a snap.

Back to Ferrari and Italian...




Ferrari GTC Lusso






Never realised before just how similar some hatchbacks are, so noticeable when they are painted the same colour. There was a time when we had 3 small Fiats running in the ERC series.

Hampton Downs (today) Sunday - guess what the weather was like in the morning...

Some very impressive driving by the youngster in the D Type replica (Louis McNair?). I for one am happy to see good replicas like the C type and the D type as otherwise, Kiwis would rarely get the chance to see some of the world's more iconic cars. Even some of the 'real' cars have so many replacement parts that they are hardly original anyway. It certainly makes for a more attractive (ie varied) grid and this was the best grid of the day for me.


Thankfully, the weather cleared up later and young Louis had a tremendous battle with the two leading Formula Juniors - but I haven't yet got that far with sorting the pics! Several hundred taken to add to the library.

Back to C & C just to keep things chronologically correct.

Last batch from C & C.
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How often have you seen one of these in NZ? Matra Djet







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HRC Series Finale, two day meeting. Just the Sunday for me as the Hooters cars were only doing Sunday. Wet practice, so a good opportunity to try out the waterproof cover I'd made for the camera. It seemed to work OK but the monopod, fully extended, is a few inches too low for me.

The mixed grid provided some interesting car combinations. How often has an Austin A30, even a Speedwell one, had a Formula Junior Jocko filling its mirrors? This is now Tim's cover photograph on his Facebook page. He emerged from practice with a shredded fanbelt so VCC Scrutineer, Kevin, was busy replacing it afterwards, so that Tim could race again.








Not sure that a MSNZ Scrutineer would be happy with Bevan's roll bar height...


French car, British engine. The Roycroft Bugatti Jaguar.

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Thanks for posting the Matra Ray.

Some useless info.

It belongs to my son and we are on the final stages after a complete body off restoration. This car is a Jet 6. The French dropped the "D" in the name for these last models. It is No.139 of 222 Jet 6s made during '67 and '68. This one being a '68. An estimate of about 70 remaining.

Regards, Francois.

Thanks Francois. I might have guessed you had something to do with it! Thanks also for the info about the 'D' being dropped. I didn't know that.

Like Nigel found a couple of days ago, no pic uploading option at the moment.

Its back...

The Jocko is going very well these days.






Badger U2


Speedex Silverstone - with Hamish Andrew

Specials. Luv 'em.

BSA and Riley Moth


Triumph Lotus Special


BSA


AJS (Alfriston Jaguar Special)


Bagby Special.

2KCUP CARS. Some may not be classics or historics as yet, but I took the pics, so may as well show them! Will return to the Hooters grid later.




Chris Watson