The Roaring Season

Here's a final bunch of photos from 1977 - mainly Baypark. These are all I'll post for 1977 as I'm keen to start on going through my 1978 negatives.

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I'm still looking for photos or information about the B49 Chevron that Graeme Lawrence ran in Malaysia in Rothmans colours in 1979, We are rebuilding it for a customer to run in the Atlantic/Pacific series next year.
Barry L

Damn these are good. I am loving this stuff!!

Michael Clark wrote:Damn these are good. I am loving this stuff!!

Me too, so many memories of magic times with neat people

Barry wrote:I'm still looking for photos or information about the B49 Chevron that Graeme Lawrence ran in Malaysia in Rothmans colours in 1979, We are rebuilding it for a customer to run in the Atlantic/Pacific series next year.
Barry L

I take it you have already asked GL and Eli ??

TG

Sure have, GL only raced the car once and photos seem to be really thin on the ground

Michael Clark wrote:Damn these are good. I am loving this stuff!!

Many thanks for the encouraging comments re photos guys - it has been fascinating going over all the old negatives I took 35 years ago.
An awful lot of these photos I have never printed before, so it has been good to get them out there for others to enjoy also.
Although it takes quite a bit of work in Photoshop after scanning to get results that are acceptable to me, I think it has been worth it.

Here's a teaser for the next batch - sorry its not the Chevron B49 Barry, but an interesting car also.

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Something you guys may be able to clarify for me. In Ross' posts #239 and #259. 239 is a side shot of Chevron #26 driven by Albert Poon. Then again in #259 there is a Chevron #25 first following Jim Stone in the Cuda as they pass Ivan Tighe in the Elfin, then on the outside, presumably allowing Andrew Miedecke to pass in his Lola, yet thi sis also Albert Poon, however Poon was entered as #24. Yet on here http://www.oldracingcars.com/results/racelist.php?CategoryID=ZB and But car #25, was Beng Saswanto in his Lola? can some explain?

#25 is a Chevron

As I recall, the Saswanto Lola was run #14 in the GP because GHL drove it - Milan and/or David will have the details closer to hand than me but I'm guessing the Lola must have otherwise been #24

I've just breezed onto ORC - as correctly stated by '27', that site records race numbers that are different to the photos.

Given that the photos don't lie, and that two cars with the same number isn't a realistic option, I think we can say ORC has the race numbers around the wrong way.

Oh hell - until you look at the photos on page 12 and we see Poon now in #26...

And i have pics of both Lawrence 14 and Saswanto 25 at Pukekohe

The way I remember it was like this - Saswanto got crook and his car was made available for Graeme Lawrence who, not surprisingly, ran with his familiar 14 because it was available

Yeah, just been reading the season review. Very clear that the pictures I have of Saswanto is Saturday and Lawrence Sunday. Poons number 26 is confusing but the pics of the Chevron number 25 instead of the listed entry, is because that at BayPark, they Saswanto and Poon swapped cars, so therefore so as not to confuse time keepers, they took their numbers with them.

seaqnmac27 wrote:Yeah, just been reading the season review. Very clear that the pictures I have of Saswanto is Saturday and Lawrence Sunday. Poons number 26 is confusing but the pics of the Chevron number 25 instead of the listed entry, is because that at BayPark, they Saswanto and Poon swapped cars, so therefore so as not to confuse time keepers, they took their numbers with them.

This could have been taken in practise

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Thank God Steve started this website otherwise these great photos might never have seen the light of day.

I didn't see a lot of these cars in period, but would sure like to see them back on track again in the future. We appear to have quite a collection of them here in NZ and doubtless Australia has its fair share. Now that would be another class to get the adrenaline flowing.

Yeah, its obvious when you look at the helmet!

I wonder if that rear wing support was sturdy enough...

I would never regard the cars from that wide nose/'hammerhead shark' period as being things of beauty - handsome perhaps, but never gorgeous. It was part of the reason I always admired the Cuda.

I always thought the early bodywork on the RT1 as being the least attractive of the cars of the day but I've just been forced to reconsider - Lola is the winner!

GL raced it at least 3 times. Once maybe twice in NZ, this is after its arrival on April 20th 1979. It was then raced at the Penang GP where he finished 2nd behind Ken Smith and another which I can't remember off the top of my head. Beyond that he soon got rid of it and replaced it with the March 80a. The Chevron was on sold to Peter Haskett and Charlie Thomason.