Forest Lake pics (Read 21,404 times)

[Morpheous]

Hi all still trying to find photos of my dad Blair Murdochs old saloon car from approx 1970 - 71, numbered p4H, 1952 Chev, but any old saloon or stockcar photos would be cool please.

[pallmall]

Pretty sure I havent got a photo of that car, but I can grant the rest of your request.
Will put some photos up sometime soon.

[pallmall]

First up the programme cover from the first stockcar meeting in 1966, and then some I took the first two seasons.

[pallmall]

A couple of programme scans.

[pallmall]

And some great saloon photos by Heather Hills.

[Morpheous]

Cheers Pallmall, if you could find a picture of Dads old car it would be awesome, if not i'm sure he will love to see some of the cars from that era.

[pallmall]

Some more mixed photos.

Freeballs in his first car, and first 1NZ car.



A couple of Forest Lake, and later Bay Park favourites, Ross Decke and Trevor Gray.




Bob Clarkson/Lewis Wymer car that became Lilly the Pink 0G/R



And some action shots from Heather Hills.

[pallmall]

These are all scans from progammes, years are a bit mixed up.

[pallmall]

[Morpheous]

Just a couple of extra names Pallmall or whoever can help find photos of my dads car, before Dad and Peter Lawson raced they bought it off Ian Barnard and Winston Kerry who used the same number p4H, also i liked the photo of the 63h Vauxhall saloon car, that is my Uncle John Jones, the same guy who makes the original wooden speedway models.

[pallmall]

Murdoch, maybe you should go down and see Porry at his yard and have a look through his photo collection.

A few more assorted scans of Forest Lake days.

The Track:





A few of the great newspaper adverts that Terry Scott used to use to entice the crowds.

[pallmall]

[Morpheous]

Awesome photos Pallmall, the old man is really enjoying seeing them, do you have any pics of stockcar 56h Graham "spud" Leek, he was around the 71 onwards era, any others are much appreciated!!

[Regan O'Brien]

27b just up above is that tub warner?

[pallmall]

May 5, 2008 22:29:22 GMT 12 Regan O'Brien said:

27b just up above is that tub warner?

Think so, this was taken at the Easter meeting 1967, probably the first time ever that there were stockcars from all the North Island tracks in the one place. Even the prior NZ Champs held hadn't achieved that.

[Racerman]

27 is Mike Weymess Hawkes Bays first NZ Stockcar Champion

[King James]

WOW great photos Pallmall.

Before my time, but knew all about the days of Forest Lake & thanks to this thread I have learnt abit about it. Thats great. NZ speedway should have a full full history website of things like this, tracks historys, champions etc all on one site. To this and Baypark had been awesome.

Some great names there, Phil Joyce, Ian Easton, Barry Featherston, Kevin Free & Snoopy to name a few.

Good thread. Appriciate the old times and our hero's that built what we know

[pallmall]

May 7, 2008 8:30:53 GMT 12 Racerman said:

27 is Mike Weymess Hawkes Bays first NZ Stockcar Champion

Doh! Yes of course and I knew it.
Now has anybody got a decent photo of his NZ Champs winning car for my records?

[porry41]

good to see my 41h still popping up all over the place ;D re p4h i got in my records as peter martin /john Fletcher .Winston had a austin sheerline but i cant read the no earlier photo up top is 44 merv fox in side car is nelson Marshall .another pic there billy curtain 84 putting me into fence the car in front c James 61 lost his helmet went over the fence there was another 2 lip vauxhalls at f/l one was bobby olds went well & the other was Dave Belk .77 stocky was built by me new owner putt high bars on it stocky no 8 was sold on to be come 10h sponsered by motor drome but was broken in 1/2 at f/l have photo of my late bro driver of 84h standing in front of it have most of the names of above cars .but gav have you any of my 1st saloon cars the sunbeam talbot p2 that i used to blow Maurice cowling's 100e away in at tok also my ford pilot p2 the zephyr 41h .Murdock i vaguely remember a chevy but not as p4 but ill ask kevy belk when he next comes in .also got an old stocky in yard that needs i.d. ing . cheers

[pallmall]

May 7, 2008 21:01:49 GMT 12 porry41 said:

good to see my 41h still popping up all over the place ;D re p4h i got in my records as peter martin /john Fletcher .Winston had a austin sheerline but i cant read the no earlier photo up top is 44 merv fox in side car is nelson Marshall .another pic there billy curtain 84 putting me into fence the car in front c James 61 lost his helmet went over the fence there was another 2 lip vauxhalls at f/l one was bobby olds went well & the other was Dave Bell .77 stocky was built by me new owner putt high bars on it stocky no 8 was sold on to be come 10h sponsered by motor drome but was broken in 1/2 at f/l have photo of my late bro driver of 84h standing in front of it have most of the names of above cars .but gav have you any of my 1st saloon cars the sunbeam talbot p2 that i used to blow Maurice cowling's 100e away in at tok also my ford pilot p2 the zephyr 41h .Murdock i vaguely remember a chevy but not as p4 but ill ask kevy belk when he next comes in .also got an old stocky in yard that needs i.d. ing . cheers

I have pretty much run out of Forest Lake pics now, apart from loads of Dayne Plummer and a few of the other top dogs.
I do have some newspaper and programme cuttings stashed away that I can't get to at the moment, might be some photos of the ordinary folk amongst them.