The Roaring Season

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Taken on a video camera!




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Some people take a bit of time to learn which way the track goes...


...especially this one.






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What several of the recent pictures show is

a) The spectacular results possible from a digital camera

b) what a superb track Hampton Downs is for photographers, regardless of having a media pass.

Getting a wheel off the deck just doesn't happen at many tracks and I just love cars with attitude or cars that are in any way 'different'. It is what really sets classics and historics apart from the Sing Songs and Falcodores racing.

I just wish I could find a way to clean up glass mounts and scan the pile of slides quickly. It takes a fair bit of time just to shrink and upload the digitals!

VCC Chelsea Hill climb tomorrow. I'll be there rather than watching the action from Pukekohe, though that may be worth recording.

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You can see why the Aussies have a ball!








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Just a few minutes at the Chelsea Hillclimb Nov 8th 2015

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Award for the noisiest car - Roger Herrick!




Can someone please identify this car for me?


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I've just realised. Where were all the Austin Sevens this year?

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Interesting pic this one (Bugatti) from my perspective, as it was taken on a recently acquired pocket Canon with an impressive 30 x zoom facility and the sequence shoot facility. All the others were taken on the Nikon D60. Apart from initially being a lot brighter, it just shows the massive advances in camera technology. I used the same camera few minutes later to video my wife's gold medal ballroom dance exams - with excellent results - both the video quality and her dancing!






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Your photo of the 500, Max Rutherford, JBS, same guy who wrote the superb book, "Paddock to Podium" a must have for real enthusiasts.
The sideways Model A special is Ollie, previous owner of Sterling Brake.

Thanks Rhys. I'll re-post the above attachments tomorrow (in the same place) when I'm back on the PC. Saves Steve trying to sort them out. One may even include a certain pea green Austin...

ERC wrote:Just a few minutes at the Chelsea Hillclimb Nov 8th 2015


Award for the noisiest car - Roger Herrick!

Thanks Ray! It sounds faster than it is but great fun to drive :

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An MG stalwart in a Lotus Replica? What is the world coming to...




This makes it 2 x JBS cars running? Fantastic. I also recently spied a (500cc?) Cooper at Kenny Smith's establishment...


Not competing, but the car I'd most like to have taken home with me.



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Last batch from one of my favourite events of the year.

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Once again. Can someone please name this, so that I can file the pic!




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ERC, the Riley " DA 2527 " seems familiar, may have a photo or two of the car at Western Springs Vintage gathering back in 1971, now ... must go and find it. Your photos are great, thanks.. Ray ..

I probably have pics of it there too Roger - but much later of course, as I didn't land in NZ until January 1983!!! I think it is on a slide. There are several other local Kestrels around. To think, when I was about 16, you could pick them up for about 30GBP...

ERC wrote:I probably have pics of it there too Roger - but much later of course, as I didn't land in NZ until January 1983!!! I think it is on a slide. There are several other local Kestrels around. To think, when I was about 16, you could pick them up for about 30GPB...

Ray, have a big interest in Riley's as my uncle Ed [ Eddie from NSCC ] and my dad Mac Dowding [ NSCC auditor in the 50's ] , had several in the late 30's through to the early 50's, Monaco, Kestrel and others sometimes jointly owned - one in particular was modified - engine, the block was planed too much that they needed double head gaskets and aircraft spark plugs to make it run.. ran too hot ~~ !!..
have a few photos of the Rileys, now must find them.

Last of the saloons and sports 'attitude' pics. I won't trawl through the single seaters as I know that there won't be many that would fit into that grouping.

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Roger Dowding wrote:Ray, have a big interest in Riley's as my uncle Ed [ Eddie from NSCC ] and my dad Mac Dowding [ NSCC auditor in the 50's ] , had several in the late 30's through to the early 50's, Monaco, Kestrel and others sometimes jointly owned - one in particular was modified - engine, the block was planed too much that they needed double head gaskets and aircraft spark plugs to make it run.. ran too hot ~~ !!..
have a few photos of the Rileys, now must find them.

Have two pictures of Riley Kestrel " DA 2527 " and another of a similar Riley, Registration " AZ 1275 ", looks like an earlier model with a Fabric covered roof. will be putting them on a Vintage thread as have around 60 photos, plus my Hunua Hundred ones, so close to 90 photos.

Back to Brands Hatch 1971, with the trusty Leica and no telephoto lens... Scanning is so slow.

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F5000 Kitchiner. I'd forgotten all about this car which added a welcome touch of variety to the F5000 grids of the day.


Mike Hailwood driving the F5000 Surtees.


Howden Ganley


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Barry Foley, Lotus. I think he was the star of a long running cartoon in the UK motoring press. I might have to Google that.


A Google search did indeed confirm that. Posted January 2003 on a Lotus 7 message board.

"Barry Foley Saddened to discover, reading this week's Autosport, of the recent death of Barry Foley. For many of you of a similar vintage to me I'm sure you will remember his weekly "Catchpole" cartoons in the self same magazine, featuring the eponymous hero and a host of friends including Grunt, Mad Dog and Booby. This was pre-PC! Until I read the obituary I didn't know he was the genius behind the JPS livery on Lotus Grand Prix cars, nor that he used to race a Seven - no real surprise there then."

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