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Post by The Observer on Mar 8, 2007 19:17:12 GMT 12
Hi guys,
Been for a look for a few pics of Gary Parkes FLatty specials that he drove to a heap of success. Felling a bit ripped, but obviously the board has got a bit big.
Anyway, any pictures appreciated.
cheers
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Post by 64bdannidittmer on Mar 9, 2007 11:36:35 GMT 12
weve got one in the back yard. had a green chassis and purple body. someone saunders owned before we got it
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Post by pallmall on Mar 9, 2007 16:46:11 GMT 12
What another original thread MIA.
I will try and post them again asap.
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Post by bayboy on Mar 9, 2007 16:51:30 GMT 12
Did Brian Winstanley (22n) only have one of Gary Parkes' cars and just paint it differently every year?
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Post by poi on Mar 9, 2007 17:33:50 GMT 12
can any one help me im looking for info on his tank 4p then 45p then  ? and yes iv seen the other threads lol |
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Post by carwrecker on Mar 9, 2007 18:58:28 GMT 12
I gave the rather bent chassis to some one who came into the yard one day.
I heard that it turned up at Wanganui several years after that but never saw it myself.
If you have a photo I could probably identify it.
I have several photos from when I raced it but would have to look long and hard to find them
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Post by poi on Mar 9, 2007 19:59:47 GMT 12
yeh it was pretty bent when mr taylor found it in the out skirts of cuzie cliff . im 99.99% sure it WAS it . il get the photos of it before and after we finished with it .
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Post by pallmall on Mar 9, 2007 20:31:53 GMT 12
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Post by busterbell on Mar 11, 2007 18:31:41 GMT 12
Did Brian Winstanley (22n) only have one of Gary Parkes' cars and just paint it differently every year? yes. |
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Post by Autopete55 on Mar 12, 2007 5:38:19 GMT 12
Did Brian Winstanley (22n) only have one of Gary Parkes' cars and just paint it differently every year? yes. I think if you dig back in the archives a bit,'Brock" sold the first Parkes car to Blenheim and then bought the last one about 1995 and thats the one that Cliff drove at the NZ's at the Glen. Getting a bit fuzzy now but Im not far off.  |
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Post by busterbell on Mar 12, 2007 6:01:08 GMT 12
spot on pete ;D
1st car was sold to jason jeffs.
last car re-emerged in rotorua in the last coupla weeks after spending many seasons in the shed.
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Post by 64bdannidittmer on Mar 12, 2007 8:44:07 GMT 12
that 1 looks alot like the 1 we have
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Post by 4stree on Mar 12, 2007 10:15:29 GMT 12
Jason Redinger has one of the last Parkes flat chassis, and it is not far off returning to the track as a superstock, Jamie Bryant has another at KIhikihi, i sold one to Huntly [41h] last season, was recently for sale on trade/me.
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Post by redman22 on Mar 12, 2007 17:39:49 GMT 12
we brought the 41h car and it is now contracted to wanganui
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Post by 4stree on Mar 12, 2007 17:54:56 GMT 12
good one ,she was a fun machine , hope you have as much fun as i did in her, was very reliable.
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Post by poi on Mar 17, 2007 12:42:21 GMT 12
 Will i hope this worked this is i beleave the last time the parks tank was raced before its death in the car crusher |
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Post by Autopete55 on Mar 17, 2007 14:01:31 GMT 12
 A sad end indeed to the original "AUTEX whale"!!!! Gary never won a race in that car till he came to the South Island for the Woodford Glen and Nelson Teams weekends we had back then. Im sure he cleaned up all the races here in Nelson.It wasnt long afetr that he sold the car to Marty Jones (carwrecker) who diced it and sliced it and it became a potent weapon again. 
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Post by poi on Mar 17, 2007 14:42:51 GMT 12
it was a weapon alright i remember mr rees in his flat chassis trying to kill me lol but the old girl just keeped on going , it was even more bent when we had finished with it . its amazing what mr taylor finds lol
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Post by carwrecker on Mar 19, 2007 23:27:15 GMT 12
looking at the photos I am not so sure that it the same car.
If it is then allot of steel work was changed after I gave it away .
The whole front looks different and also the roll cage .
It also appears to have an independent front end
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Post by bayboy on Mar 20, 2007 7:29:47 GMT 12
Gary Parkes also drove a car in 1988, yellow and blue paint scheme if I remember rightly, that was then driven by the mighty Brian Anderson (mainly white paint scheme) in 1989. Any ideas about this car? Did Gary build it? What happened to it? Any pictures? |
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