The Roaring Season

Steve Holmes wrote:Not sure where I got these, might have been from Gavin Evitt, as he was a real speedway enthusiast. But here are some old saloon car racing pics from around New Zealand. I always loved the saloons, particularly when they were built out of real cars.

This is Gary McKelvie. He recently built up an HT Monaro to race in Central Muscle Cars. A long time Monaro enthusiast.

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Steve, I have seen this photo in one of my MotorActions, 75 I think, its listed as Barry, not Gary.

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Glouster Park - Onehunga? Looks like Mangere Mountain and mangere Bridge in the background. Before my time!

Not truly speedway, but rather the Northern Sports Car Club's April, 1975 Western Springs meet

Alan Boyle in the Coke Viva, he won the final for the 8 fastest saloons


Rod Millen driving Fred Watchlins Torana, finished 3rd Mike Marshall splitting he and Boyle

seaqnmac27 wrote:Not truly speedway, but rather the Northern Sports Car Club's April, 1975 Western Springs meet

Alan Boyle in the Coke Viva, he won the final for the 8 fastest saloons
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Rod Millen driving Fred Watchlins Torana, finished 3rd Mike Marshall splitting he and Boyle
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Some familiar names in the events including Alan Woolf in his Capri, thought this was the event that ran in conjunction with Heatway Rally Special Stage, but may have been quite separate, Sean, I will borrow these for my NSCC the early years Thread, as it is now linked to NSCC's website and Facebook page, cheers
Roger

One of the many very cool photos Bruce Robertson has sent me for the Kiwi speedway book I've been working on.

This is Bruce in the very first Tank, in its original covered wheel guise, having some fun on the Bay Park circuit track.

#302 & #303 are actually Steve Millen (in Torana)
They got it wrong in mag.

In the speedway book I just finished, Shane McIntyre, from Hypermac, who builds very successful Super Saloons down in Cromwell, is featured. He sent me a scan of Stockcar & Speedway Sport magazine, from 1973. The Camaro on the cover was built by his Dad John, who was teamed up with Keith Marriott in the Shermac team.

They built this Camaro that raced out of Palmerston North. This is the same car raced a little while later by Ian Easton. The article said the Camaro started life as a 1972 Z28 that had been rolled. The magazine is from 1973, so the Camaro must have been wrecked almost straight off the showroom floor! The article says it had just 13,000 miles on it. There can't have been many new Camaros in NZ at the time, so this must have made news.

Steve, is that Bruce Robertson from Wanganui? (Hint Steve, you have my new address)

Looking for something in my library today and I came across the book by Allan Batt which I don't think has been mentioned in this thread before. Anyway something to look out for in the 2nd hand bookshops. "Stock Car Racing, A Pictorial History of Stock Car racing in Canterbury The First 21 Years 1954 to 1975". A couple of other books he did included The Dusty Trail (1936-1975) Midget Car Racing in Christchurch; Aranui A Speedway legacy and the Speedway Kings of Kilbirnie.

tonttu wrote:Looking for something in my library today and I came across the book by Allan Batt which I don't think has been mentioned in this thread before. Anyway something to look out for in the 2nd hand bookshops. "Stock Car Racing, A Pictorial History of Stock Car racing in Canterbury The First 21 Years 1954 to 1975". A couple of other books he did included The Dusty Trail (1936-1975) Midget Car Racing in Christchurch; Aranui A Speedway legacy and the Speedway Kings of Kilbirnie.

tonttu, can you post the covers ?? , those things are treasured

As always, any help with ID's always appreciated.

Here's some stuff from the programme of the first meeting promoted by Cowan- Black at Waikaraka Park.

Can you put a date on that Milan?