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[Ray Bell]

And it won't be long before Westpac close the branch, I don't imagine...

 

Do you know whose trailer it was, Terry? Certainly not theirs.

[Terry Walker]

Would probably be Sid Taylor's.

[cooper997]

Rod Styles' garage corner Sussex Street and Albany Highway East Victoria Park Perth WA. On the other corner (it is a T-junction) was Sid Taylor's dentist business, and it was Rod who built the TS Spl (Taylor-Styles). The McLarens put up with Sid Taylor on their visit. Very low budget! (The garage is long gone, now a Westpac Bank Branch; the dentistry is long gone, now parking area for a shopping mall).

 

Terry, do you recall the name of Sid Taylor's daughter who took this (and the other related) photos please?

 

Stephen

[Terry Walker]

I was racking my brain when I posted, trying to recall. It is not Taylor, but her married name, which I was told just once, and my memory for names is famously porous. I remember faces forever, but often not the names attached. And I checked my photo file and found them, all of them, filed under "Taylor", 2013, Which is no help.  Ken Devine might know.

Edited by Terry Walker, 10 April 2020 - 13:21.

[Jerry Entin]

Wally Willmott in the pits with Bruce McLaren this was the 1965 McLaren Tasman effort.

 

 

photo: Wally Willmott collection

[Jerry Entin]

Bruce McLaren #10 and Phil Hill #11 Team McLaren Tasman Series

1965 at Longford, Bruce McLaren won the event and Jack Brabham was second and Phil Hill was third and Graham Hill fourth.

 

 

photo: Wally Willmott collection

Edited by Jerry Entin, 11 April 2020 - 00:03.

[cooper997]

I was racking my brain when I posted, trying to recall. It is not Taylor, but her married name, which I was told just once, and my memory for names is famously porous. I remember faces forever, but often not the names attached. And I checked my photo file and found them, all of them, filed under "Taylor", 2013, Which is no help.  Ken Devine might know.

 

Thanks Terry. I recall the Styles Garage McLaren photos appearing on TNF before I joined. In fact those and the Wally Willmott threads are the reason I did join. 

 

I do have a distant memory Sid Taylor's daughter was named here somewhere. Although a bit of a needle in a haystack. Hopefully Ken drops by this thread and may recall her name.

 

Stephen

[Tim Murray]

Here she is:

It was so much simpler then. Western Australia, 1962, AGP time. Bruce McLaren right, Eoin Young left, open trailer, Austin A55 towcar. The location is Rod Styles' garage, East Victoria Park, just two blocks from where I lived at the time, where the Cooper Climax was stored. Bruce and his wife stayed at Sid Taylor's house.

Photo taken by Sid Taylor's daughter, now Mrs Lyn Morgan.

[cooper997]

Tim, thank you for finding the answer. Much appreciated.

 

Stephen

[Ray Bell]

That Longford photo, Jerry, is from the Friday...

 

I'm pretty sure it's one of the pics previously posted by kaydee.

[Jerry Entin]

Wally Willmott getting ready for action

This car was called the Inside out Car. It started as a Star car and Wally modified it to this configuration. Everyone thought he drove

it very well.

photo: Wally Willmott collection

Edited by Jerry Entin, 11 April 2020 - 23:43.

[Jerry Entin]

Wally Willmott and Jim Clark around Jan 30,1965


Photo: Michael Clark collection

[group7]

Thanks Jerry for all the wonderful images ! in post 255 above from the '65 Tasman, is that Tyler Alexander sitting on the rear tire reading what looks like the program ?

[Ray Bell]

Or maybe the latest Motorman magazine?

 

Certainly looks like it.

[Jerry Entin]

Zerex Special ex Bruce McLaren ran sports racer

Here is the car at an event in I believe Argentina.

 

 

photo: Luciano Patruno

[Jerry Entin]

This is the Zerex Special when owned and raced by Oklahoma’s David Morgan, before it went to South America.

The photo was taken at Hammond, Louisiana.

 

all research: Willem Oosthoek

Photo credit: David Seibert

Edited by Jerry Entin, 20 April 2020 - 13:59.

[nexfast]

Zerex Special ex Bruce McLaren ran sports racer

Here is the car at an event in I believe Argentina.

 

 

photo: Luciano Patruno

 

I wonder if it could be somewhere else in South America. The presence of a carretera, a single-seater and several GTs all together is not in line with the several different well-organised categories running in the country in the sixties. Then again it could be a regional race (they had plenty). I'm not very familiar with the Zerex Special history so there might be conclusive evidence the race is in Argentina but you did not sound very empathic about it, hence my comment.

[Doug Nye]

I doubt that photo was taken in Argentina, the background resembles that of Los Proceres road circuit in Caracas, Venezuela...the street lamps match, for a start...

 

DCN

[nexfast]

Indeed, it is Los Proceres. See below at 0.30s.

 

 

https://www.youtube....h?v=pbY3VkPkJ3A

[raceannouncer2003]

Could be the 1967 6 h Caracas ?  Look like the winning 906-158, #96, of Armando Capriles of Venezuela.

 

https://www.racingsp...2-10-17293.html

 

Vince H.

[Lee Nicolle]

I wonder if it could be somewhere else in South America. The presence of a carretera, a single-seater and several GTs all together is not in line with the several different well-organised categories running in the country in the sixties. Then again it could be a regional race (they had plenty). I'm not very familiar with the Zerex Special history so there might be conclusive evidence the race is in Argentina but you did not sound very empathic about it, hence my comment.

That would be a scarey race, prototype Sportscars, road sports cars, open wheelers and sedans.

[Ray Bell]

Like the 6-hour relays formerly held at Calder and Amaroo...

 

Huge car-type and speed differences.

[GazChed]

The 750 Motor Club still holds it's 6 Hour Relay every Autumn at Silverstone on the Grand Prix circuit. Entries range from super quick Sports Racers such as Radicals to standard Smart cars and Austin A30s although cars such as Austin 7s are now excluded from entering.

As well as the speed differential there is also the size difference, wide range of braking and cornering (and driver!) capabilities which often cause incidents. In spite of that the 6 Hour Relay remains as popular as ever and with it's handicap section means any of the teams have a chance of victory.

Edited by GazChed, 22 April 2020 - 08:43.

[Lee Nicolle]

The 750 Motor Club still holds it's 6 Hour Relay every Autumn at Silverstone on the Grand Prix circuit. Entries range from super quick Sports Racers such as Radicals to standard Smart cars and Austin A30s although cars such as Austin 7s are now excluded from entering.

As well as the speed differential there is also the size difference, wide range of braking and cornering (and driver!) capabilities which often cause incidents. In spite of that the 6 Hour Relay remains as popular as ever and with it's handicap section means any of the teams have a chance of victory.

The Austin 7 club of SA used to run relay races. That too was a wide entry with a couple of Austin 7s inc then club president which was actually faster than some Vees,, until the crank broke! And Sports Sedans, sports cars, any thing competing locally. 

I had my first Vee drive,,  being towed by the incident vehicle!

Marque Sports still do run them.

[layabout]

I think the posts have wandered off-track because I fail to see how a discussion of Austin 7 racing has anything to do with the memory of Wally Willmott. May we please get back on topic? 

 

Thank you.

[Jerry Entin]

Wally Willmott and Dave Brown and Howden Ganley

They are standing next to Big Ed the GT 40 Roadster.

 

 

photo: Howden Ganley collection

Edited by Jerry Entin, 23 April 2020 - 21:14.

[Jerry Entin]

Wally Willmotts daughter Samala and family

Son in law Mark Bolton and Grand kids Angus and Finn Bolton.