The Roaring Season

A small selection ; need help to ID the single seaters.
Have many of my own shots but bought these from ODT when working in Dunedin for a couple of weeks and stayed there instead of returning home to Auckland.









and from a previous time a book issued in 1983 and purchased at the races in 1984.

Roger Dowding wrote:A small selection ; need help to ID the single seaters.

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ERA (1) is probably Bill Moss as the car also appeared at Whenuapai - a meeting I sadly missed having elected to do the family thing and spent the day with my now ex-wife and son.

I presume the Allard with diabolical positive camber would be Rob Boult.

24th October 1971 ; Auckland to Hunua 100 miles.
Charles Liddell's Model A Ford, with crew of Charles Driver, Roger Dowding Navigator, Peter Firth Timekeeper.
The Official Check sign;

The Model A Ford Official photo.


The crew Left Peter Firth, Roger Dowding, Charles [ Charlie ] Liddell. owner.
Ken Hydman reckons we were really a Bootleg Gang from the late 1920's The car I think was a 1930 model, almost the last year for the Model A

The Model A at the finish - Hunua

Have just a few photos of other cars - to follow, and I fortunately wrote details on the back in 1971

1920/30's Bentley's

Hispano - Suiza

1920's Renault

1932 Chevrolet


any information on theses cars and their owners, please contribute.

Would the Renault be George Mahalivich ?

John McKechnie wrote:Would the Renault be George Mahalivich ?

Somewhere, " my usual comment " I have a series of photos - about 30 of another VVCC meeting and a list of entrants, from around the same time, could hold the key, but think you are correct, John M.

Uncle Jack me today that the Hispano -Suiza came from Hamilton..also That is Georges Renault

[quote="Roger Dowding"]A small selection ; need help to ID the single seaters.
Have many of my own shots but bought these from ODT when working in Dunedin for a couple of weeks and stayed there instead of returning home to Auckland.

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Dunedin photos, as seen in Thompson's Dunedin book and also his 'Roycroft Years" book often had interesting things, like ships, in the background. Some years it was the Harbour Board dredge, sometimes a Caltex oil tanker, this time the good ship 'Almazniy' maybe another tanker. However I have only ever seen one picture with the Dunedin Railway Station in it, a very gloomy background shot. Perhaps in the 1950's it was very grimy from decades of smoky steam trains, not the present-day cleaned-up masterpiece of designer 'Gingerbread George' Troup - worthy of Monte Carlo at least. Are there any other pictures from the '50's?

Stu

stubuchanan wrote:

Roger Dowding wrote:A small selection ; need help to ID the single seaters.
Have many of my own shots but bought these from ODT when working in Dunedin for a couple of weeks and stayed there instead of returning home to Auckland.

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Dunedin photos, as seen in Thompson's Dunedin book and also his 'Roycroft Years" book often had interesting things, like ships, in the background. Some years it was the Harbour Board dredge, sometimes a Caltex oil tanker, this time the good ship 'Almazniy' maybe another tanker. However I have only ever seen one picture with the Dunedin Railway Station in it, a very gloomy background shot. Perhaps in the 1950's it was very grimy from decades of smoky steam trains, not the present-day cleaned-up masterpiece of designer 'Gingerbread George' Troup - worthy of Monte Carlo at least. Are there any other pictures from the '50's?

Stu

Have had a look through the 40 or so photos I took, including the ERA sitting in a showroom, prior to racing, and lots of buildings at the port in the backgrounds, no railway station though.
Probably the set of photos is better in a separate thread, so will get to work and scan a resize the pictures.
As mentioned stayed the weekend in Dunedin, so had plenty of time to wander around, take photo's then during the next week, visit the Otago Daily Times - to get the B and W shots like The ERA and Minis and Jag's already posted.

it stops the itch from mosquito bites

John McKechnie wrote:it stops the itch from mosquito bites

oh, well in Aussie to keep away the " Aussie Mossie ". there are all the hints on the sides of the cans these days..

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Use # 598 - " Cleans Crayons from walls " think the comments in the use of the product have different meanings these days.

A set of cars in a card series by Sanitarium, obviously ate lots of Weetbix at the time.
there were 12 in the series have 9, plus 4 duplicated and one triplicated.
Does anyone have #5, #7, #11.

Fords,

Fords the details - back of the cards.

Morris Minor and Plymouth

Minor and Plymouth the details.


That is it, I know the forum is a lot about Motor Racing/ Motorsport , but Hot Rods are just another part of the New Zealand Car scene..

If anyone does have the cards, would love to swap.. have duplicates of the first 5 shown, so need those numbers 5, 7, and 11,

I did have some of these...somewhere. Weetbix did the same thing with smaller cards and a booklet. I have the whole set of Hotrods and the booklet at home...somewhere!!

I had a T bucket that had been featured on the back of the Weetbix packet and card but it may have been later than '71.
The pics above were taken at the Rotorua Show in January 1971.

Bruce.

Bruce302 wrote:I had a T bucket that had been featured on the back of the Weetbix packet and card but it may have been later than '71.
The pics above were taken at the Rotorua Show in January 1971.

Bruce.

Bruce, thanks for identifying the venue.

Growler Re; I did have some of these...somewhere. Weetbix did the same thing with smaller cards and a booklet. I have the whole set of Hotrods and the booklet at home...somewhere!!

I know the feeling and it has annoyed for a while that I could finds negatives [ old B & W ones ] but not the prints, well grey day here in South East Queensland today so went through a huge storage box of photos and found .. over 60 B & W's from 1966 to 1971, of racing and in the pits at Pukekohe, at least 5 different meetings as I wrote on the back of some .. just as well. and more colour photos from Ohakea Reunion meeting in 1982.
The Black and Whites are from April May 1966 meetings November 1967, Grand Prix 1968 [ Brian Foley and Mini etc plus some unknown dates and a few from 1971.
Included in the shots are the Morrari, Humber Jag, Johnny Riley Ford V8 Coupe, Stanton Corvette, Heron Daimler Sports Car, The #55 Mini Sprint - before and after the crash.
Think best to do them as a collection rather than here or Minis and Imps etc,

Roger Dowding wrote:Bruce, thanks for identifying the venue.

Growler Re; I did have some of these...somewhere. Weetbix did the same thing with smaller cards and a booklet. I have the whole set of Hotrods and the booklet at home...somewhere!!

I know the feeling and it has annoyed for a while that I could finds negatives [ old B & W ones ] but not the prints, well grey day here in South East Queensland today so went through a huge storage box of photos and found .. over 60 B & W's from 1966 to 1971, of racing and in the pits at Pukekohe, at least 5 different meetings as I wrote on the back of some .. just as well. and more colour photos from Ohakea Reunion meeting in 1982.
The Black and Whites are from April May 1966 meetings November 1967, Grand Prix 1968 [ Brian Foley and Mini etc plus some unknown dates and a few from 1971.
Included in the shots are the Morrari, Humber Jag, Johnny Riley Ford V8 Coupe, Stanton Corvette, Heron Daimler Sports Car, The #55 Mini Sprint - before and after the crash.
Think best to do them as a collection rather than here or Minis and Imps etc,

Have posted the Minisprint crashed car on Minis and Imps,
and shots of Ron Browns Mini,
Here is the field of the Saloon Car allcomers race Pukekohe 14th May 1966, one of the " lost photos ".



Will post the rest and these on a new thread of my early photos, 1964 - 1971 approx ..

Croydon's name was mentioned in a thread **, and here are a couple of photos taken at a Grasstrack meeting at Riverhead in early 1971







Think it was a sidetrack of Shano's - Minis and Imps thread.