The Roaring Season

Ok so, here we have the 1972 and 1973 Heatway rallies as well as images from the 1981 Daybreaker rally from the Higgins gravel pit special stage in Palmerston North. Ok so starting with 1972 from Paeroa and from the Domain in Auckland. There is very little information to identify drivers here so any help gratefully received.

Brian Green BMW Paeroa

Datsun Bluebird #15

Mini #33

Escort #56

Escort #1?

Ferrari Daytona at Paeroa with Reg Cook refuelling his Escort in the background

Fiat 125T

Reg Cook atanding at the bowser and Steve Horne is co driver at the drivers door

Peugeot 504 #67 refuelling at Paeroa with a Mitsubishi Galant behind it

Datsun 1600 #39

Paeroa scene with the L&P bottle in the background and a Toyota Corolla #50 in mid picture

Porsche 911 #22

1973

Firstly if you have not seen it then you need to check this out

[video]http://www.nzonscreen.com/title/survey-rally-like-little-boys-in-a-man-sized-sport-1974[/video]

All these images are from the Pukekohe special stage of the 1973 Heatway

A Datsun 1200

Colin Bond Torana XU1

Hannu Mikkola approaches the entry to the Elbow

Hannu Mikkola enters Elbow while looking at Dad

Mikkola at speed

Ford Escort #82

Marshall and Mikkola underway in the Pukekohe special stage

Evan Green approaches the Elbow

Mike Marshall

Group 2 starts

Group 2 about to start

Jim Richards Escort

Colin Bond in the XU1

Jim Richards Escort

Paul Adams? BMW 2002

Mike Marshall Escort

Evan Green Monaro

Some great photos here. I love that three wheeling Mike Marshall one. Thats really pushing an Escort. If the Fiat 125 was Trevor Tapper I believe that was a South African 125 Scorpion and not a NZ 125T. That makes it a very rare car in NZ I wonder what happened to it. An interesting Name as the Abarth badge is of course a Scorpion.

There is an interesting article on the 125T Fiats and their involvement in the B & H in a recent Classic Driver. I believe they were all yellow and seven were entered. It must have been a lap scorer's nightmare let alone the service crews.

Oh wow, these are amazing!

#2 Porche Tim Bailey

PorSche my old mate

jim short wrote:PorSche my old mate

Front Porche or Back Porche, Jim you know they look the same. I used to have lisssp

Here I can be of no assistance. I was 8, and I am seen standing to the left of the foreground of the shot of the Chrysler Avenger, all I can tell you is the Hunter is a chap Bond, and the Mitsubishi Lancer I thick was Bruce Herbert

Gee Rod how did I miss this one porche so wet needed a smile

Jim, She did a bit in the old days that car. Note all the Escorts Aye Jimmy, they knew what a Porche looked like in the mirror, Mind you can remember seeing stones coming out the back of yours occasionally. (one windscreen at Taupo thanks to Jigger and you playing hard)

I watched Jigger at Taupo in the v8 in his last yr. no one ever drove better than him that day such a good bloke.I have no doubt with these Induro. races coming up that black no 5 would be in the hunt seeing the driver enjoyed LAP after LAP and to think its just sitting there!!

i've got reg's old tc escort back in the UK now, brought it off of trademe, car looked better in the photo's than it really was, now restoring it

by the way, would you mind if i copied the reg cook pictures, and post them in the UK, also any more history or phot's on it would be great

thanks
brett

Making a nice job of that Escort, yessirree.

now finished and on the road