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Post by pallmall on Apr 19, 2009 10:56:35 GMT 12
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Post by pallmall on Apr 19, 2009 13:37:32 GMT 12
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Post by pallmall on Apr 20, 2009 19:29:59 GMT 12
Stockcar Meeting 4 1963:Newspaper Report.  
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Post by pallmall on Apr 20, 2009 19:55:46 GMT 12
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Post by pallmall on Apr 21, 2009 17:56:21 GMT 12
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Post by pallmall on Apr 24, 2009 21:13:12 GMT 12
After a very succesful first season, stockcars were to return to the Palmerston North track for the 1963/64 season with 15 meetings planned and the addition of a 6th race on the program. Ray New ran a short season of Speedway through November and then installed the stockcar fence for action to commence in December. Stockcars came of age in the second season with new cars being built featuring fabricated chassis instead of a reinforced car chassis, the start of the stockcar flat chassis era was about to begin. An Australian Team was imported for the early January meetings, but in cars that were far from stockcars, the Auckland drivers returned for another late season stint including a rematch with the Palmerston North Team after Gloucester Park in Onehunga closed for the final time.  to be continued.  |
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Post by pallmall on May 1, 2009 21:30:18 GMT 12
One of the features that Ray New had lined up for the 1963/64 Palmerston North season was a visit by an Australian stockcar team. There had been two 8 driver/car teams race at Epsom in Auckland in 1958 and 1959, but when 1964 Australian Team turned up at Palmerston North they had brought over SuperModifieds, or as they were called in Australia at the time "Hot Rods". Why I do not know, maybe there was a possibility that in the mind of Ray New they were the type of car likely to replace stockcars as they were starting to do in Australia, and to a certain extent in Christchurch, or his mate Peter Dy kes pulled off a good deal. The upshot was the NZ cars were not allowed to hit the Australian cars and of course the Aussies had much faster and better handling cars. The fact that the Palmy drivers managed to get into the placings says much for their driving skills, especially of Lew Mungavin and Sam Anderson who were very much the top Palmy drivers that season. The Australian team was Peter Dy kes (an expat Kiwi, ex solo rider, good mate of Ray New and Australian Hot Rod Champion), Ron Wanless, Dutton Stibbard, and Mall Pullen. 34 Peter Dy kes in Australia in the car he raced at PNth.  Stibbard, Wanless, and Dy kes with their slightly armoured Hot Rods.  Lew Mungavin  |
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Post by Go Slideways on Dec 20, 2010 16:42:38 GMT 12
This picture, along with quite a few others of Bill Dorn's cars, is on the office wall at Ace Auto Dismantlers, Keith St. Palmerston North.  |
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Post by stockbuff on Feb 10, 2014 12:01:21 GMT 12
In about 1972 my family visited the Harris's and to see #4 at Marton . Mr Harris was good enough to fire #4 up and gave me a ride along a gravel road at the back of there business along to the rail goods yard. #4 had a deafening roar and heaps of grunt, but the fun came to a end when the top hose burst and we were enveloped in a cloud of steam . . . Thanks Betty for that memorable day . . .  |
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