The Roaring Season

Pukekohe. Jan. 1969 NZGP meet.
One of the first races was for up to 1000 cc class. (Some well known names here )




( Ken Hyndman )

1969 NZGP meet.
Another class field of well known drivers. 1001 c.c. to 1300 c.c. Saloon car race.





(Ken Hyndman )

JacMac is right, it's former MANZ Chief Steward John H Reid. Back in the day he was a racer in the BCM Special and a very fast 1650 Anglia. Looks like AJ McCully on the RH side.

Thanks Don.
Can you identify the man in blue ?



(Ken Hyndman )

Guy in the hat crouched on the LH side is Hank Rossiter, pretty well known around Christchurch in the day. He was a great help to LRAB during those years and was a fairly handy spanner man to a good number of heroes in the sixties. Not sure who the other one is, have my feelers out!

Jan 4 1969. NZGP. Pukekohe.
The Open Race for Saloon Cars would bring the crowd to its feet.
There certainly was a variety of cars. Note the Anglia of Bryan Marshall had a 997 cc engine and Neil Doyle also had an Anglia with a 5463 c.c. Corvette engine in it ! Allcomers included indeed !




( Ken Hyndman )

Description of the 1969 Tasman series.




(Ken Hyndman...1969 programme )

DJMcD wrote:Guy in the hat crouched on the LH side is Hank Rossiter, pretty well known around Christchurch in the day. He was a great help to LRAB during those years and was a fairly handy spanner man to a good number of heroes in the sixties. Not sure who the other one is, have my feelers out!

Might be way off the mark [may have been 1969] but was Bruce Munro not part of LARB squad? Bruce had a lovely Cooper T76 F3 up until his death a few years ago.

khyndart in CA wrote:Description of the 1969 Tasman series.

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(Ken Hyndman...1969 programme )

Ken and others, love the detail on how fast they can go on the Back Straight, 140-150-160 !! mph.[ two straights with a kink in the middle ].
Once did flaggie at the hairpin, NSCC meeting, scary, but the worst was the the point, just after the start, before the left hander to the " Club " circuit, in a concrete circle at one stage - can't get out in a hurry.. close to the action.

Tis a great shame that most of the speeds from this era are quoted in mph.
The new generation reading the speeds have no connection with mph / kph and think that they are so much faster as they speed out to Melbourne's Calders Parks to do pop off's with their crazy but fast cars.

Unfortunately I have a similar problem with miles per gallon and when folk flash me a purportedly stunning consumption figure in km/litre I just sort of glaze over and there's a faint sound of short-circuiting...

A few seconds later after I've converted the kms to miles and the litres to gallons and then done the division, I'm able to join the glee club but it's all too late...

I've driven across the Nullarbor a few times and there's time to nut all that out on the fly, but off the cuff, I'm a joke...

Lotus 49B-R8
Do not laugh at Hyndman's photography. I was 45 years ahead of the photographer for the June 2014 Motorsport magazine !
Same car, same position and note the differences. When I took my "Box Brownie" photo it was a brand new race car. Jan. 4 1969.


K.Hyndman photo..1969


June 2014, Motorsport article.



(Ken Hyndman )

Great stuff, Ken, hope you never run out of motoring information.

Have been delving into my boxes in the garage, big tidy up, to re-discover my books, Graham Vercoes two, Scott Morrisons " Up to Speed - the Ron Roycroft story, which mentions my Uncle Eddie Dowding, other recent ones - and this gem from 1963.
" Rothmans Book of New Zealand Motor Racing ", - with a foreward by BRUCE McLaren "

Thanks Roger, I am getting close to the end !
A young Derek Bell was the 2nd Ferrari driver along with Chris Amon. As I was going to the "loo" at Pukekohe, Derek just happened to pass by with his father and I snapped this photo which he kindly signed at Laguna Seca in 2009. He is a friendly man and very funny when he gets with Brian Redman at the talk seminars at the Historic Race Meets. He had a great career in long distance racing and won at Le Mans five times. (It is said that he got up to a speed of 246 MPH on the Mulsanne Straight while testing for the 1971 24 hr race ! )




(Derek Bell's Ferrari 2.4 litre Dino 246T/69 ( 0010 ) V-6 at Pukekohe. Jan 1969 )
( Ken Hyndman photos )


Bell and Amon prepare to go out to practice at Pukekohe in their Ferraris. Jan. 1969
(Note the much smaller rear spoilers compared to the Lotus and Brabhams )
( Hyndman scrapbook )

Here is a few minutes of a Youtube clip of Derek Bell driving a lap of Le Mans in 1983 in one of my favorite race machines, a Porsche 956.
Note the length of Mulsanne Straight. No chicanes like today. Derek was not only fast and brave he is also a survivor !

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(Ken Hyndman )

That's great footage thank you Ken ........

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khyndart in CA wrote:Description of the 1969 Tasman series.

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(Ken Hyndman...1969 programme )

Interesting that Jim Palmer is listed with a Repco Brabham V8.

I didn't think he ever had a Repco V8?

Have just added to Automobilia for sale ,Shell Albums,Sportscar Talk ,3 editions and another,all for sale before listing on Trade Me if no interest here,Selling off all my book colection next to follow,various books on Porsche,Lotus ,Austin Healey,MG Midget,Scimitar,Mini Cooper and S.MGC GT,General books and workshop manuals,also book on Lotus twin can repair.Also rare David Vizard on Mini tuning and other mini tuning books.

Ross Hollings wrote:Have just added to Automobilia for sale ,Shell Albums,Sportscar Talk ,3 editions and another,all for sale before listing on Trade Me if no interest here,Selling off all my book colection next to follow,various books on Porsche,Lotus ,Austin Healey,MG Midget,Scimitar,Mini Cooper and S.MGC GT,General books and workshop manuals,also book on Lotus twin can repair.Also rare David Vizard on Mini tuning and other mini tuning books.

I'm confused, what has this got to do with the thread title?
Are you going to post it on every thread?