cobbya
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Post by cobbya on Apr 10, 2020 9:15:41 GMT 12
Watching old clips of Palmy Teams ,which is a great way of spending time, what year did team colours come in to play , I see the Busters had them in 2003 .
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Post by hbhornets on Apr 10, 2020 11:35:22 GMT 12
Watching old clips of Palmy Teams ,which is a great way of spending time, what year did team colours come in to play , I see the Busters had them in 2003 . 1994? |
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Post by hienekenno1 on Apr 10, 2020 12:31:34 GMT 12
In the 70s the Auckland Pall Mall team had the red team bodies as well as the Panthers with the black bodies,then a big break till the 92/93 season when the Baypark dream team had them led by the one and only Clark Proctor.
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Post by midway on Apr 10, 2020 12:58:05 GMT 12
The Todd & Pollock colours certainly were the icing on the cake leading into the more modern era of stockcar racing ,but not to say the pall Mall team wasnt of any interest ..With Square Bush the clown he must rank one of the best all time entertainers the sport has ever seen ..
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Post by graemeh on Apr 10, 2020 14:22:30 GMT 12
In the 70s the Auckland Pall Mall team had the red team bodies as well as the Panthers with the black bodies,then a big break till the 92/93 season when the Baypark dream team had them led by the one and only Clark Proctor. AVD team in Auckland was before the Baypark team, also have vague recollections from pictures of a "Jesters" team from wellington and maybe a team from the Waikato area in the Bob Clarkson era Triang team or something similar. Dont know if they were 4 car teams or not or maybe a figment of my imagination. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2020 21:14:18 GMT 12
What was called in the day, a syndicate...Snoopy syndicate, jesters were a syndicate that started off as a basketball team i heard. no need to be a 4 or 5 car team as we know them now. I remember counting 8 cars in a syndicate one night, cant remember who that was but part of the success of the 70s in welly was due to the battles in open racing and the fact the syndicates were trying to keep the prize money away from everyone else..and the fact the cars were so large in number they backed right round turns 4 and 3 and then some, especially with the "all in 20 lapper" at the end.. I never witnessed actual teams racing (as we know it now) back in those days.
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Post by BarryB on Apr 10, 2020 21:56:04 GMT 12
In the 70s the Auckland Pall Mall team had the red team bodies as well as the Panthers with the black bodies,then a big break till the 92/93 season when the Baypark dream team had them led by the one and only Clark Proctor. AVD team in Auckland was before the Baypark team, also have vague recollections from pictures of a "Jesters" team from wellington and maybe a team from the Waikato area in the Bob Clarkson era Triang team or something similar. Dont know if they were 4 car teams or not or maybe a figment of my imagination. My memory - which is most definitely not what it once was - puts the Centra AVD team after the Todd & Pollock Baypark Busters debut? Barry B |
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Post by graemeh on Apr 10, 2020 22:16:31 GMT 12
AVD team in Auckland was before the Baypark team, also have vague recollections from pictures of a "Jesters" team from wellington and maybe a team from the Waikato area in the Bob Clarkson era Triang team or something similar. Dont know if they were 4 car teams or not or maybe a figment of my imagination. My memory - which is most definitely not what it once was - puts the Centra AVD team after the Todd & Pollock Baypark Busters debut? Barry B You could be right, I was thinking Clark was in the original Buster's after the AVD team which he was in. |
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Post by BarryB on Apr 10, 2020 22:57:34 GMT 12
My memory - which is most definitely not what it once was - puts the Centra AVD team after the Todd & Pollock Baypark Busters debut? Barry B You could be right, I was thinking Clark was in the original Buster's after the AVD team which he was in. Looking at images online there's a pic of the AVD drivers riding on one of the cars, and Clark is wearing T & P overalls. So the AVD will be later, but I still can't recall exactly when. I'm guessing maybe after the old Baypark closed? |
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Post by hienekenno1 on Apr 10, 2020 23:05:40 GMT 12
By memory the Avd team was in the 95/96 season and also led by Clark Proctor, the rest of the team was Billy Neill,Brian Bowater, Peter Drake and Noel Hawthorne and boy did they make things interesting.
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Post by BarryB on Apr 11, 2020 0:03:47 GMT 12
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Post by helterskelter on Apr 11, 2020 3:13:10 GMT 12
Original Baypark Busters in Todd&Pollock colours was the 1992/1993 season.
Craig Richards, Dutchy and Proctor all contracted to Baypark that year to form the team alongside Carlyle and Decke.
111 Ian Carlyle (1m)
112 David Decke (88m)
113 Craig Richards (2m)
114 Frank van Vroonhoven (24m)
115 Clark Proctor (7m)
Wasn't Ian and David the instigators behind the team originally and captain was Carlyle?
I remember Craig Taylor, David Roigard, Mark Decke and Craig Pierce were also in the team in later years during the old baypark days
Pretty sure the AVD team was a little later in 1995/96 season
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Post by nakifans on Apr 11, 2020 5:39:01 GMT 12
Have a photo of the days when Stratford had two super stock teams. Scrappers and Gladiators ,and the photo is them lined up to teams race each other.
Must be way back in the day.
Scrappers: Black Body , Yellow Bumpers and side rails
Gladiators : White Body, Orange Bumpers and side rails.
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Post by graemeh on Apr 11, 2020 8:25:52 GMT 12
As the saying goes "Cool story bro"  |
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Post by sonic33 on Apr 11, 2020 12:49:30 GMT 12
Did Clark Proctor break away from the busters to form the AVD team? I seem to remember something of the sort, but that was a few beers ago and may have been an incorrectly remembered rumour. If that was the case not sure it was amicable or not.
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Post by helterskelter on Apr 11, 2020 14:17:07 GMT 12
Did Clark Proctor break away from the busters to form the AVD team? I seem to remember something of the sort, but that was a few beers ago and may have been an incorrectly remembered rumour. If that was the case not sure it was amicable or not. After the old Baypark closed down in 1995, Clark contracted back to Auckland again in 1995 for the 95/96 season. I dont think was any hard feelings as Baypark was no more, and his home track was always Auckland... I think (hazy memory) Clark had 2 cars at one stage if I remember correctly. One was based in Tauranga at his Can Man building in Judea (1992ish?)- this was the one that caused a bit of controversy due to the highbar design which SNZ made him remove. |
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Post by midway on Apr 12, 2020 13:31:54 GMT 12
As the saying goes "Cool story bro" [/quote Does that story ring a bell Graeme ? was about around your time on the council of chiefs maybe Had to smile about poor old Stanley Ruka ,perhaps Dave and him couldnt work on each others cars in the pits .. Ritchie Wright was a character i think he had more rover v8 crankshafts than any one did in Onehunga grinding Services workshop .one of his cars was nicknamed the Ugly Duckling with its independent suspension .. |
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Post by graemeh on Apr 12, 2020 16:32:38 GMT 12
Was interesting times, the "story" is a mixture of fact and fiction and the truth is somewhere in the middle Was really all about two strong personalities with different points of view and a bunch of others either picking sides or adding fuel to the fire without really knowing all the facts. Thats my "story" and I'm sticking with it Hahaha. |
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Post by hienekenno1 on Apr 12, 2020 19:12:04 GMT 12
Yep Frank Irvine and Clark Proctor didn't like each other in the end but man the racing was awesome when the allstars and dvd teams met and that was just in the normal racing at waikaraka,good times.
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Post by beachboy on Apr 12, 2020 20:28:45 GMT 12
Remember that meeting being very farcical and costing the sport many spectators at the time.
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