The Roaring Season

Hi Michael, no I don't.

Beautiful photos BMCBOY, please keep them coming

I agree Habu - just stunning.

Is #17 Brett Riley in AB's DART? If so, they were a good looking thing. It was hard to make a better looking car than an RT4, but the DART sure went close.

Totally agree, they are great photos BMCBOY,

It was a great era of racing to be involved in......... interesting season working with Ross Cheever, from Davy Jones pancing him in the main street of Auckland, cobbling an engine together out of bits at Randell Edgell's for the GP meeting at Puke (which he won), to fitting a new tub before the last round as he tore up the floor running off the track at Manfield, and winning the series.

Here's a picture of Randell explaining how he did the job..... but Davy doesn't look too interested



Davy looks more interested in someone else................



Happy Days!!

Wow, these colour photos are superbe. Many thanks for posting them BMCBOY. Please continue to do so

"Racing for New Zealand" that brings back some memories. It reminds me that while we think back to the late 60s as the pinnacle of New Zealand's representation in the sport internationally with "trio at the top" but what a wonderful spread of Kiwis we now have competing globally at the moment - Indy, Le Mans, WRC, GP2, GP3, Porsche, V8s etc etc. Despite much of the doom and gloom about motorsport domestically these are good times on the world stage!

that was such a great series.I worked with Doug sheirson racing & tom Gloy in the USA.3 rivers at canada always had F1 drivers do it.at Macau worked for ther flying tigers team,it is a shame it went away

A few shots from the 78-79 International series

Great photos Ross, thanks again for the time and sharing this history.

A couple of photos my brother took at Manfeild. 1982ish maybe??? The Just Juice Series?? I think this meeting may have been my introduction to circuit racing. If not then it was one of the very early ones. For some reason I remember #14 Pye - Riley, #? Pan Am/Citizen - McMillan, #7 Tullen - Millen, #8 AFX Aurora - Moreno & #18 NEC - Oxton. Was young at the time so may be confused about dates.

A couple of randoms from Manfeild, a few years apart.

Sentra Racer wrote:A couple of randoms from Manfeild, a few years apart.




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Barry Thomlinson. The man behind the TRS series nowdays whom I jokingly refer to as Barry Eccelstone

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Richard Lester's RT4 and probably Rob Lester's Ford? Might even be the Bruce Turnbull designed Tull