The Roaring Season

I've recently had several my late father, Chris Swan, slides converted to a digital format. Among them were a number of shots from the pits at what I believe to be Pukekohe and Levin.

I believe the photos to be from around the 1965 and 1966 season, although some of the other photos do stretch in to the early 1970’s.

I have used other posts in the forum to help put drivers names to cars, and even in a couple of cases to meetings. Please feel free to leave a comment if you recognize anyone.

Over the coming days I will add more photos as time permits.

Cheers
Graeme Swan

Rod Coppins - Zephyr Corvette

Great pics. I am trying to identify the venue for the first ones down t the Fahey car. Levin? Also same venue for the last one? It looks like the Ruahines in the background, but was the paddock area quite so unformed?

This is a wild guess on my part but the first photo reminds me of the Bruntwood straight / Tamahere area near Cambridge in the 60s.
Note the hay bales strapped to the power poles !

(Ken Hyndman )

I wondered about that too. I competed a couple of times there but thought that there were farm fences quite close to both sides of the road.

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Middle photo Breadvan Anglia with Fiat Crusader and Daimler Dart #38 is Pukekohe by the Tote Office and Board

Is that a Jamie A creation in front of the Anglia 117 ?

John McKechnie wrote:Is that a Jamie A creation in front of the Anglia 117 ?

It looks like it John, Sid Mk1 ?

I also like the liberal use of tape over the gaps on the Simpson/Radisich Anglia.

John McKechnie wrote:Is that a Jamie A creation in front of the Anglia 117 ?

Think it's Ross Baker's Heron Mk 2/3 Daimler.

Thanks GD66- I knew it wasnt Sid 1 as front screen was different. still, very low

GD66 wrote:Think it's Ross Baker's Heron Mk 2/3 Daimler.

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GD66 and John Mck .. my photo. Pukekohe 1966 I think,need to go and look and yes the Heron Daimler, was among quite a few Trailer photos I took at the time -. April May meetings in 1966 ..

My notes on the original post on My early years Pukekohe thread ;
" Heron Daimler - built by Ross Baker and Ken Richardson according to Graham Vercoe's book.
unsure what meeting this was but would be 1966 or 1967. The Daimler 2.5 V8 with stack exhausts."

and on the photo says May 1966

However, this from Milan Fistonic ;
" The Heron Daimler was number 16 at the April 23 1966 meeting and was driven by Ken Richardson "

Seems you had a few Daimler 2.5 V8s in race cars in New Zealand...

From memory this side of the ditch we only ever had three or four SP250s racing in modified production form.

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Peter Bennett Lotus Farina

In the Wars

That was a brave driver that competed in a drum braked Mini !
Plus none of these three had any form of roll cage.

John McKechnie wrote:Thanks GD66- I knew it wasnt Sid 1 as front screen was different. still, very low

The same base car isn't it? I think I remember that Sid was the other chassis, but as usual, memory is no longer reliable. Jamie, where are you?
Bobtail Cooper in the background of the Healey photo!

Spgeti wrote:It looks like it John, Sid Mk1 ?

I also like the liberal use of tape over the gaps on the Simpson/Radisich Anglia.

All for another smidgeon of drag reduction

Great photo of the crashed Healey 3000 Graeme
Could you possibly send a high res version of it to me at mailto:?subject=&body= please.

I have owned that car since 1973 and completed a rebuild of it in 1978.

The car was imported into NZ and raced by Bill Dunster in the mid 60's.
The crash happened at Cabbage Tree corner at Levin in 1965.

It looks a lot different today, but still has a few scars from its racing days.



Cheers, Ross Cammick

BMCBOY wrote:Great photo of the crashed Healey 3000 Graeme
Could you possibly send a high res version of it to me at mailto:?subject=&body= please.

I have owned that car since 1973 and completed a rebuild of it in 1978.

The car was imported into NZ and raced by Bill Dunster in the mid 60's.
The crash happened at Cabbage Tree corner at Levin in 1965.

It looks a lot different today, but still has a few scars from its racing days.

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Cheers, Ross Cammick

Email sent, Glad to hear that the car survived.