The Roaring Season

Grant Sprague wrote:[ATTACH=CONFIG]35564[/ATTACH]Good days , Grant & Roy fighting it out for the finals NZ Championship North & South Island combined ..............great days both cars are still running in the S I ...

Looks like and old Mercury Comet back there in the grid somewhere LOL and a Galaxie/Fairlane next to it

Here you go Grant, did you know this was out there.
[video=youtube_share;ACgKhQdEb_E]https://youtu.be/ACgKhQdEb_E[/video]

seaqnmac27 wrote:Here you go Grant, did you know this was out there.
[video=youtube_share;ACgKhQdEb_E]https://youtu.be/ACgKhQdEb_E[/video]

The early days in Anglias, I can still se the temp gauge rising on that grid......great to see Bay Park again & didn't the Jag sound cool...our anglias dominated even over the v,8s....probably 5 yrs in a row that when we decided to go into v8,s....Thank you Seamac

Grant Sprague wrote:The early days in Anglias, I can still se the temp gauge rising on that grid......great to see Bay Park again & didn't the Jag sound cool...our anglias dominated even over the v,8s....probably 5 yrs in a row that when we decided to go into v8,s....Thank you Seamac

I should have added as the yrs rolled by more v8,s came & did get quicker that the anglias..........THEN we had to join in with the 289s

The boys after winning ANZ , Gary,Pumkin, Dad &Alby..Promo photo Chch for Ford Motor Co

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The boys after winning ANZ , Gary,Pumkin, Dad &Alby..Promo photo Chch for Ford Motor Co

Grant, do you know anything about Ernie running an 1172 cc Morris Minor in 1954 at Dunedin, it features in the programme on my Dunedin Street races thread .. the Morris Minor in the same field has the 918 sidevalve..?? could it be a Ford side valve, did it to run over 1000cc , but don't think they had that category then, 0 - 1000, 1001 - 1300, 1301 etc .. classes in 1954.

Roger Dowding wrote:Grant, do you know anything about Ernie running an 1172 cc Morris Minor in 1954 at Dunedin, it features in the programme on my Dunedin Street races thread .. the Morris Minor in the same field has the 918 sidevalve..?? could it be a Ford side valve, did it to run over 1000cc , but don't think they had that category then, 0 - 1000, 1001 - 1300, 1301 etc .. classes in 1954.

Hi Rog, I have a photo some where of Dad with a low light minor grey I think in colour , would have been late model I would think in the day , really not sure on the class etc it was never really mentioned from him , but sure it would be a side valve being a low light model .. hope you well over there Roger ...

Grant Sprague wrote:Hi Rog, I have a photo some where of Dad with a low light minor grey I think in colour , would have been late model I would think in the day , really not sure on the class etc it was never really mentioned from him , but sure it would be a side valve being a low light model .. hope you well over there Roger ...

all good, Grant, thanks for the reply, Spgeti,Bruce Dyer, sent me these programme's and am slowly putting them on TRS.. cheers, Roger

Roger Dowding wrote:all good, Grant, thanks for the reply, Spgeti,Bruce Dyer, sent me these programme's and am slowly putting them on TRS.. cheers, Roger

................ Roger Gary mentioned a few months ago he is happy to catch up with you next time he is in Melbourne .....to add a bit to NZ motor racing ....history that would be cool , appreciate yr input for Steve's site

Grant at Wellington 2000

Gary at Timaru 1968

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Thanks for sharing these , they were great years for sure .. I would have been there , plus a glimps of the Anglia & 3.8 Jag of Dads Gary would race the Anglia & Ernie the Jag , I would be eating mums bacon & egg pie ....& collecting empty fizz bottles in between watching ... as the yrs rolled on it was my turn, I think Ruapuna is such a great track ....

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These are awesome! Out of interest, what ever happened to the white XD Falcon in the bottom photo? This was one of only three Falcons that competed in NZ under Group A rules. Even in Australia the Falcon never raced in Group A.

Steve , Peter did a deal with a guy in Cambridge , swapped it for a falcon S and some cash the difference , I forget the mans name but foggy knows more about the history of it than me he might add to this a name like Buckridge springs to mind then I might be wrong , the car raced in some class at Taupo, when I racing my SCANZ car & I recall it then , it seemed to go backwards from there no disrespect to that owner , as I think he put him self in the deep end ......Pump
kin & team were happy to move on ..and that was about it Steve

In the video - Jim Palmer in the yellow Monaro won the Production Endurance race, Boot open on the Mercury Cyclone which didnt finish.Kennedy in the white Mustang and Baker in the Plymouth

Grant, the mans name was Tim Buxton.........ruined a historic car and turned it into a 'hot rod'....... Dont know where it is now, but the son, Darren took it over. It will lying in a shed somewhere.......a heap of junk. At the Taupo meetings, the engine was lucky to last a couple of laps.......I think I know who the engine builder was but my lips are sealed...

John you would be correct , I do remember Jim bringing the Monaro down from Hamilton it must have been new in those days , oddly enough I only met Jim for the first time at Hampton last year , a really good down to earth funny kiwi bloke still has a car sale yard must look him up next time over there ..

Thanks AMCO ............ that would be correct ......yes you are right .

AMCO72 wrote:Grant, the mans name was Tim Buxton.........ruined a historic car and turned it into a 'hot rod'....... Dont know where it is now, but the son, Darren took it over. It will lying in a shed somewhere.......a heap of junk. At the Taupo meetings, the engine was lucky to last a couple of laps.......I think I know who the engine builder was but my lips are sealed...

I remember here is a picture of possibly this car on TRS a side view with it looking like a bit like a Sports Sedan,anyone else remember this ?

http://www.theroaringseason.com/showthread.php?444-New-Zealand-Sports-Sedans-Database-Histories-And-Whereabouts/page2&highlight=buxton
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