The Roaring Season

Go Slideways wrote:Hi all, first post here.. I photographed an old speedway program from Palmy which has lots of cool pictures in it.

I like the Sunbeam Tigers, I think thats Blondie in the background.

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Go Slideways wrote:Graeme Stretch racing his Ford V8 at Palmy, and a couple of photo's I took on 6th October 2009 shortly after the same car was rescued. I think it was found in a paddock in Pahiatua. The last time I saw this pretty cool car was in Jacob Bakers workshop in Palmy, Jacob still owns the car and it is being restored by Barr Motorsport . Graeme Stretch was the very first official 1NZ Stockcar Champion, not sure if it was in this car, but I'd love to know more about this car. I love the open exhaust pipes. I once visited a house down a long drive in Maxwells Line in Palmy that Graeme made several of his cars at, and there was a clean up going on. Unfortunately my mate and I were a week late and didn't have the chance to save some historic items. I think Pervy from Palmy might have got a couple of cars. We did buy a few interesting things including a Lincoln Zephyr V12 engine and about 100 hubcaps..

PS: I would absolutely love to see any pictures of Ian Taylor 21w or Ian "Jac Jac" Eston.

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I'm doing a project on Ian Taylor and Ian Easton and would love to see photo's or hear stories of these two.

Ian had a pretty cool Sprintcar, I admired the old school open faced helmet, no gloves, rolled up sleeves, open exhaust headers and I think dragster slicks on the rear attitude. I think he's still wearing his watch... no SNZ or Osh in those days.

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Go Slideways wrote:Graeme Stretch racing his Ford V8 at Palmy, and a couple of photo's I took on 6th October 2009 shortly after the same car was rescued. I think it was found in a paddock in Pahiatua. The last time I saw this pretty cool car was in Jacob Bakers workshop in Palmy, Jacob still owns the car and it is being restored by Barr Motorsport . Graeme Stretch was the very first official 1NZ Stockcar Champion, not sure if it was in this car, but I'd love to know more about this car. I love the open exhaust pipes. I once visited a house down a long drive in Maxwells Line in Palmy that Graeme made several of his cars at, and there was a clean up going on. Unfortunately my mate and I were a week late and didn't have the chance to save some historic items. I think Pervy from Palmy might have got a couple of cars. We did buy a few interesting things including a Lincoln Zephyr V12 engine and about 100 hubcaps..

PS: I would absolutely love to see any pictures of Ian Taylor 21w or Ian "Jac Jac" Eston.

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I'm doing a project on Ian Taylor and Ian Easton and would love to see photo's or hear stories of these two.

Ian had a pretty cool Sprintcar, I admired the old school open faced helmet, no gloves, rolled up sleeves, open exhaust headers and I think dragster slicks on the rear attitude. I think he's still wearing his watch... no SNZ or Osh in those days.

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Kiwiboss wrote:Graeme Stretch moved to Tauranga probably late 70's early 80's, he lived two streets over from my parents house, remember him visiting a few times back them, I know he had a son whom I think may still live in Tauranga, not sure? I remember him saying he was the first NZ stock Car Champion. Dale M

Steve Holmes wrote:Awesome! There were a few of these Sunbeam Tiger speedway saloons being raced in the '70s. I assume they started out as Alpines? There is even one currently being raced as a Streetstock, which was one of the old original saloons rediscovered.

Steve Holmes wrote: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.

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Kiwiboss wrote:Fantastic pictures Go Slideways, keep em coming............in the meantime when time allows I will add some of my old Stock car/Speedway pics. Dale