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[Jake Alderson]

I am researching Morgan racing history in the 1960s.
I believe Morgans took part in the early Catalina Park meetings. Has anyone details to confirm this?
Thanks
Jake Alderson

[Ray Bell]

Certainly, Ken Ward's Ford-engined car was quite successful there...

It was also seriously damaged there at one meeting.

I don't have any reference material here with me, but I'm sure there would have been others.

Edited by Ray Bell, 27 August 2011 - 19:22.

[Catalina Park]

I don't have all the programmes but here is what I do have,
12 February 1961...#71. Scuderia Veloce, R. Coulston, Morgan 2380cc (Opening meeting)
27 August 61... #56. Morgan Distributors Pty. Ltd./ B Ward Morgan 1991cc
19 November 1961... No Morgans entered!
21 January 62... #56. Morgan Distributors Pty. Ltd./ B Ward Morgan 1991cc
26 August 62... #96. A. J. Reynolds/A. J. Reynolds, Morgan plus four, 2380cc
28 October 62... #96. A. J. Reynolds/A. J. Reynolds, Morgan plus 4, 2380cc
7 November 65... No Morgans entered!
31 January 66... No Morgans entered!
12 June 66... No Morgans entered!
28 August 66... #78 Ecurie Zot/ K Ward, Morgan 4/4, 1498cc
30 January 67... #47 Ecurie Zot/ K Ward, Morgan +4, 1498cc #55 J. Sexton, Morgan 4/4, 1498cc (later in the programme the Ward car is a 4/4)
9 June 68... #47 K Ward, Morgan 4/4, 1498
18 August 68... #47 K Ward, Morgan 4/4, 1498cc
26 January 69... #47 K Ward, Morgan 4/4, 1498cc
15 June 69... #47 K Ward, Morgan 4/4, 1498cc
25 January 70 #47 K Ward, Morgan 4/4, 1498c

K Ward also held the lap record for Marque Sports Cars 1101 to 1500cc with a time of 1.05.0 set on 26/1/69.
His previous records was a time of 1.06.1 set on 9/6/68

B Ward held the class lap record for Production Sports 1501-2000cc with a time of 1.12.8, no date was given but it was in the programme from the 26th August 62 meeting.

There appears to be a gap in the use of Morgans between the Production Sports period of the early 60s and the Marque Sports of the later 60s.

Edited by Catalina Park, 28 August 2011 - 02:43.

[gtsmunro]

I found an old Racing Car News magazine today (20 Anniversary Edition Jul/Aug 81) which came with a re-print of the first issue inside. On page 2 of the reprint is a picture of Ron Coulston's Morgan Plus 4 at Silverdale. The race report sdays that 'Ron Coulston put in a fast time of 48.13 in the Morgan Plus 4'.

Edited by gtsmunro, 29 August 2011 - 04:01.

[Jake Alderson]

I don't have all the programmes but here is what I do have,
12 February 1961...#71. Scuderia Veloce, R. Coulston, Morgan 2380cc (Opening meeting)
27 August 61... #56. Morgan Distributors Pty. Ltd./ B Ward Morgan 1991cc
19 November 1961... No Morgans entered!
21 January 62... #56. Morgan Distributors Pty. Ltd./ B Ward Morgan 1991cc
26 August 62... #96. A. J. Reynolds/A. J. Reynolds, Morgan plus four, 2380cc
28 October 62... #96. A. J. Reynolds/A. J. Reynolds, Morgan plus 4, 2380cc
7 November 65... No Morgans entered!
31 January 66... No Morgans entered!
12 June 66... No Morgans entered!
28 August 66... #78 Ecurie Zot/ K Ward, Morgan 4/4, 1498cc
30 January 67... #47 Ecurie Zot/ K Ward, Morgan +4, 1498cc #55 J. Sexton, Morgan 4/4, 1498cc (later in the programme the Ward car is a 4/4)
9 June 68... #47 K Ward, Morgan 4/4, 1498
18 August 68... #47 K Ward, Morgan 4/4, 1498cc
26 January 69... #47 K Ward, Morgan 4/4, 1498cc
15 June 69... #47 K Ward, Morgan 4/4, 1498cc
25 January 70 #47 K Ward, Morgan 4/4, 1498c

K Ward also held the lap record for Marque Sports Cars 1101 to 1500cc with a time of 1.05.0 set on 26/1/69.
His previous records was a time of 1.06.1 set on 9/6/68

B Ward held the class lap record for Production Sports 1501-2000cc with a time of 1.12.8, no date was given but it was in the programme from the 26th August 62 meeting.

There appears to be a gap in the use of Morgans between the Production Sports period of the early 60s and the Marque Sports of the later 60s.

That is brilliant thank you. I don't suppose you have any Morgan results for the 1961 races?

[Catalina Park]

That is brilliant thank you. I don't suppose you have any Morgan results for the 1961 races?

No, I don't have any results. But maybe someone with some RCN magazines would be able to check.

[Jake Alderson]

That is brilliant thank you. I don't suppose you have any Morgan results for the 1961 races?

I notice your programmes give two Morgan entries by Barry Ward carrying the same number 56. I have a photo of this Morgan following a Jaguar XK 120 (or 140 or 150) fixed head coupe with number 141. It is raining hard. Does this seem more likely to be August 1961 or January 1962?
Sincere Thanks
Jake

[Ray Bell]

Originally posted by Catalina Park
No, I don't have any results. But maybe someone with some RCN magazines would be able to check.

You'd be pretty lucky!

There was probably only 1000 or so copies of the magazine sold in those days, very few would be left. Sports Car World would probably offer a better chance at finding something.

I wonder what David Shaw has on this?

[john medley]

Wasnt Barry W in the green car and Ken in the red, in those days? ( do I recall they had an " agency" at Meadowbank?)
Have you checked with Noel Bryen re this?
And I note the Cootamundra Sprints entry this weekend of John Hurst's Morgan which David McKay memorably drove in the wet at Warwick Farm....( are there questions you would like me to put to John Hurst?)

[Catalina Park]

I notice your programmes give two Morgan entries by Barry Ward carrying the same number 56. I have a photo of this Morgan following a Jaguar XK 120 (or 140 or 150) fixed head coupe with number 141. It is raining hard. Does this seem more likely to be August 1961 or January 1962?
Sincere Thanks
Jake

Possibly the August 61 meeting. There was a Jaguar XK140 number 141 driven by N F Thearle in the same race. There was a lot of wet Catalina meetings.

Wasnt Barry W in the green car and Ken in the red, in those days? ( do I recall they had an " agency" at Meadowbank?)
Have you checked with Noel Bryen re this?
And I note the Cootamundra Sprints entry this weekend of John Hurst's Morgan which David McKay memorably drove in the wet at Warwick Farm....( are there questions you would like me to put to John Hurst?)

Would the John Hurst car be the car that was driven by R Coulston at the opening Catalina meeting? (same number and entered under Scuderia Veloce)

[Ray Bell]

You know, Michael, I went to a lot of Catalina meetings...

I think I missed one in '67 or '68, but that was about all between May '63 and the finish. I never once stood in the rain to watch the races... or I don't recall every doing so.

Yes, often very wet underfoot, that sort of thing, but never that I can recall actually raining on race day. Mind you, the day I did miss it did rain and there was fog and all the other stuff, but that was just one race day in eight or nine years.

[Catalina Park]

I think they had two wet meetings in 61 and maybe a few more in the next couple of years. They also had meetings postponed due to fog in the early years.
By the mid 60s the weather had improved but the crowds had been scared off from the early years and didn't come back.

[Ray Bell]

Wet and foggy practice days, too...

But most people close to racing always associate the circuit with rain and fog! It really just wasn't so.

[cheapracer]

By the mid 60s the weather had improved but the crowds had been scared off from the early years and didn't come back.

Freezing to death at Calder never slowed them down, maybe Victorians more aclimatised?

[Catalina Park]

Wet and foggy practice days, too...

But most people close to racing always associate the circuit with rain and fog! It really just wasn't so.

Two of the first three meetings were held in heavy rain.

[GMACKIE]

It was mid-morning before we got to race, on one occasion, due to the heavy fog. Later in the '60s, the air correction jet 'froze up' in my Vee.........but what a great circuit it was.

[Jake Alderson]

Wasnt Barry W in the green car and Ken in the red, in those days? ( do I recall they had an " agency" at Meadowbank?)
Have you checked with Noel Bryen re this?
And I note the Cootamundra Sprints entry this weekend of John Hurst's Morgan which David McKay memorably drove in the wet at Warwick Farm....( are there questions you would like me to put to John Hurst?)

Yes, Barry Ward used a green Morgan, but it was Ron Coulston in the red one, the same one John Hurst has brilliantly restored and uses today.
John has helped me a lot with Australian Morgan racing in the 1960s, but thanks for the offer of contact for me. Emails are fine so far.
Best Regards
Jake Alderson

[Glenn Moulds]

That is brilliant thank you. I don't suppose you have any Morgan results for the 1961 races?

Hi Jake, I can help with this as I have a complete set of RCN. The details I have found are -

9 July 1961 - originally scheduled for 4 June but postponed after practice due to adverse weather conditions on raceday
Sports Cars over 1500cc 5th Barry Ward

27 Aug 1961 Wet
Sports Cars over 1500cc 2nd Barry Ward +4
Feature race (fastest 16) 9th Barry Ward +4
Sports Cars over 1500cc 2nd Barry Ward +4

19 Nov 1961 - meeting washed out

21 Jan 1962
Production Sports 2nd Brian Muir +4
Production Sports 2nd Barry Ward

11 March 1962
Production Sports 1st 1501-2000cc B Ward

20 May 1962 - no mention

26 Aug 1962 - no mention

28 Oct 1962
Production Sports 2nd over 1500cc A Reynolds +4
Production Sports 2nd over 2000cc A Reynolds +4

28 Jan 1963 - no mention

10 March 1963 - no mention

19 May 1963 - partly wet
Production Sports 5th West +4
Production Sports 5th West

25 Aug 1963 - partly wet
NSW Sports Car Championship 1st over 2000cc Double Bay Auto Port/M Mander +4

10 Nov 1963
No mention in report but Ken Ward is identified in a photo.

I can search later meetings if you need them - just let me know.

Apologies in advance if this post gets jumbled. This is my first post after lurking for ages and I'm not sure if I have mastered the technology!

Cheers Glenn

[Ray Bell]

The 'West' in there would be Phil West, I'm sure...

Undoubtedly prepared by the late and great Kevin Carrad.

[Ray Bell]

And welcome to posting, Glenn...

Well overdue, obviously! Keep it up now you've broken the ice.

[Glenn Moulds]

And welcome to posting, Glenn...

Well overdue, obviously! Keep it up now you've broken the ice.

Thanks Ray. Yes, it has taken me far too long to get my act together and post!

[Jake Alderson]

Hi Jake, I can help with this as I have a complete set of RCN. The details I have found are -

9 July 1961 - originally scheduled for 4 June but postponed after practice due to adverse weather conditions on raceday
Sports Cars over 1500cc 5th Barry Ward

27 Aug 1961 Wet
Sports Cars over 1500cc 2nd Barry Ward +4
Feature race (fastest 16) 9th Barry Ward +4
Sports Cars over 1500cc 2nd Barry Ward +4

19 Nov 1961 - meeting washed out

21 Jan 1962
Production Sports 2nd Brian Muir +4
Production Sports 2nd Barry Ward

11 March 1962
Production Sports 1st 1501-2000cc B Ward

20 May 1962 - no mention

26 Aug 1962 - no mention

28 Oct 1962
Production Sports 2nd over 1500cc A Reynolds +4
Production Sports 2nd over 2000cc A Reynolds +4

28 Jan 1963 - no mention

10 March 1963 - no mention

19 May 1963 - partly wet
Production Sports 5th West +4
Production Sports 5th West

25 Aug 1963 - partly wet
NSW Sports Car Championship 1st over 2000cc Double Bay Auto Port/M Mander +4

10 Nov 1963
No mention in report but Ken Ward is identified in a photo.

I can search later meetings if you need them - just let me know.

Apologies in advance if this post gets jumbled. This is my first post after lurking for ages and I'm not sure if I have mastered the technology!

Cheers Glenn

Wonderful to get the results! thanks Glenn
Jake

[Jake Alderson]

The 'West' in there would be Phil West, I'm sure...

Undoubtedly prepared by the late and great Kevin Carrad.

Ray,
I have heard of Kevin Garrad as a founder member of the Morgan Owners Club of Australia based in Sydney, and as the owner of a Morgan three-wheeler at the time (late 1950s). I gather he was a good engineer and helped others prepare their cars for motor sport. Maybe you know more?
Thanks
Jake

[Ray Bell]

Jake, Kevin became a good friend of mine in his latter years...

He still possessed the 3-wheeler when he died in 1989 or 1990. I know that because he told me a story about it:

"A number of us with 3-wheeler Morgans started the Morgan Owners' Club in the early fifties. We used these cars regularly, but eventually they were no longer viable so they went off the road. One of our group had a workshop and he dismantled his 3-wheeler and put it up in the rafters as there was nothing else to do with it."

"Then he died, and another 'old friend' came along to offer his condolences to his widow. In the course of the conversation he asked her what she had in mind to do with the remains of the 3-wheeler bits up in the rafters. He was able to buy them for a song, so he then roughly reassembled it and sold it for a pretty penny."

"Mine is also dismantled and tied up in the rafters of the workshop, but if I know I'm going to die, I'm going to cut it up and get rid of the bits, nobody will have it, it's mine!"

It was only a couple of years after this that Kevin was a guest at our wedding and then some time later I went to visit him and his wife invited me in. She explained that just a month or two earlier they had gone shopping at Macquarie Square and Kevin sat on the bench outside Franklins reading the paper while she went in to shop... as was their normal practice.

When she returned, she found a crowd gathered around the bench and Kevin was dead. Suddenly and without such warning as would have been necessary for him to have the opportunity to chop up the Morgan.

'Pragmatic' I would think would be a good word to describe Kevin. He had a V12 E-type as well, and as it was an early series car it would start instantly. Later models had an inhibitor to ensure that the engine cranked over a few times before the sparks began to fly as this gave the oil pressure needed to prevent the problem Kevin struck... bearings damaged on start-up!

He bought Carrillo rods and Cosworth pistons and put them in the cupboard, he sent the block to Kirby's, an engineering shop of high repute in Sydney, for boring and aligning, he started work on manifolds to convert it to fuel injection and other things he thought might be smart to have in his own E-type.

As things started to come together he started checking them over. He phoned Kirby's and told them that some of the machining wasn't accurate enough. "I'm sorry sir," he was told, "that's not possible. And even if it was you wouldn't be able to check it accurately enough to say so!"

Kevin was ultimately invited to take the block back to them and use their equipment to measure everything to make sure of his findings. They gave him the use of a 12' square surface plate and everything else he might need, and when he was done he was able to show them to their satisfaction that the job hadn't been done correctly.

So they offered him a job!

Naturally enough he wasn't going to come out of retirement to work for them, he only wanted to do what he wanted to do. In real life he'd been a Tax Inspector, and there's a story about that I might tell you some day.

Jim Cross was also one of the founding members, if I recall correctly... and Jim's still alive (despite chain smoking!) at Ballina. He was put into a management position at the CAMS NSW branch in the seventies and was always very close to Kevin. Kevin, of course, was the MOC delegate or alternate delegate to the State Council. It was after these meetings that I got to know Kevin better.

And the connection with Phil West is a logical piece of thought... Kevin as a Morgan man who just two or three years later was preparing an 1100cc Brabham for Phil in which he was virtually unbeatable.

You see, Kevin wasn't for hire. He chose to associate himself with people he wanted to help prepare their cars, people who he felt needed or deserved his help. Enno Buesselmann was another, then Bob Johns with the Lotus 59. That car had a (slight) history of unscrewing its wheels, so Kevin thought the problem through. It had knock-on centrelock wheels with left and right hand threads, Kevin made up some bolts that came through the centre of the hubs and had the opposite direction thread to those of the knock ons. Then he put a cap on the end that engaged the knock on and, if it decided to come loose, the friction of it turning to loosen would tighten the locking nut.

He was impressed when one day Jack Brabham walked past the car. "He was walking along with his head down as he does," Kevin told me, "and he stopped and stepped back to look more closely. He quickly worked it out and went on his way. Jack doesn't miss much!"

He was, in the Phil West/Scuderia Veloce days, roped in to help with the Falcon GT HOs they ran at Bathurst. This gave him an insight into just how unreasonable the 'series production' racing had become when he saw how the heat coming into the rear brake drums was taking the temper out of the springs holding the shoes.

"What's wrong with the system," he said, "is that the manufacturer is the only one who can properly scrutineer the cars." He was alluding to the fact that the 'factory' cars didn't have this problem, undoubtedly because they had different springs in their brakes.

Edited by Ray Bell, 08 September 2011 - 12:22.

[Jake Alderson]

Jake, Kevin became a good friend of mine in his latter years...

He still possessed the 3-wheeler when he died in 1989 or 1990. I know that because he told me a story about it:

"A number of us with 3-wheeler Morgans started the Morgan Owners' Club in the early fifties. We used these cars regularly, but eventually they were no longer viable so they went off the road. One of our group had a workshop and he dismantled his 3-wheeler and put it up in the rafters as there was nothing else to do with it."

"Then he died, and another 'old friend' came along to offer his condolences to his widow. In the course of the conversation he asked her what she had in mind to do with the remains of the 3-wheeler bits up in the rafters. He was able to buy them for a song, so he then roughly reassembled it and sold it for a pretty penny."

"Mine is also dismantled and tied up in the rafters of the workshop, but if I know I'm going to die, I'm going to cut it up and get rid of the bits, nobody will have it, it's mine!"

It was only a couple of years after this that Kevin was a guest at our wedding and then some time later I went to visit him and his wife invited me in. She explained that just a month or two earlier they had gone shopping at Macquarie Square and Kevin sat on the bench outside Franklins reading the paper while she went in to shop... as was their normal practice.

When she returned, she found a crowd gathered around the bench and Kevin was dead. Suddenly and without such warning as would have been necessary for him to have the opportunity to chop up the Morgan.

'Pragmatic' I would think would be a good word to describe Kevin. He had a V12 E-type as well, and as it was an early series car it would start instantly. Later models had an inhibitor to ensure that the engine cranked over a few times before the sparks began to fly as this gave the oil pressure needed to prevent the problem Kevin struck... bearings damaged on start-up!

He bought Carrillo rods and Cosworth pistons and put them in the cupboard, he sent the block to Kirby's, an engineering shop of high repute in Sydney, for boring and aligning, he started work on manifolds to convert it to fuel injection and other things he thought might be smart to have in his own E-type.

As things started to come together he started checking them over. He phoned Kirby's and told them that some of the machining wasn't accurate enough. "I'm sorry sir," he was told, "that's not possible. And even if it was you wouldn't be able to check it accurately enough to say so!"

Kevin was ultimately invited to take the block back to them and use their equipment to measure everything to make sure of his findings. They gave him the use of a 12' square surface plate and everything else he might need, and when he was done he was able to show them to their satisfaction that the job hadn't been done correctly.

So they offered him a job!

Naturally enough he wasn't going to come out of retirement to work for them, he only wanted to do what he wanted to do. In real life he'd been a Tax Inspector, and there's a story about that I might tell you some day.

Jim Cross was also one of the founding members, if I recall correctly... and Jim's still alive (despite chain smoking!) at Ballina. He was put into a management position at the CAMS NSW branch in the seventies and was always very close to Kevin. Kevin, of course, was the MOC delegate or alternate delegate to the State Council. It was after these meetings that I got to know Kevin better.

And the connection with Phil West is a logical piece of thought... Kevin as a Morgan man who just two or three years later was preparing an 1100cc Brabham for Phil in which he was virtually unbeatable.

You see, Kevin wasn't for hire. He chose to associate himself with people he wanted to help prepare their cars, people who he felt needed or deserved his help. Enno Buesselmann was another, then Bob Johns with the Lotus 59. That car had a (slight) history of unscrewing its wheels, so Kevin thought the problem through. It had knock-on centrelock wheels with left and right hand threads, Kevin made up some bolts that came through the centre of the hubs and had the opposite direction thread to those of the knock ons. Then he put a cap on the end that engaged the knock on and, if it decided to come loose, the friction of it turning to loosen would tighten the locking nut.

He was impressed when one day Jack Brabham walked past the car. "He was walking along with his head down as he does," Kevin told me, "and he stopped and stepped back to look more closely. He quickly worked it out and went on his way. Jack doesn't miss much!"

He was, in the Phil West/Scuderia Veloce days, roped in to help with the Falcon GT HOs they ran at Bathurst. This gave him an insight into just how unreasonable the 'series production' racing had become when he saw how the heat coming into the rear brake drums was taking the temper out of the springs holding the shoes.

"What's wrong with the system," he said, "is that the manufacturer is the only one who can properly scrutineer the cars." He was alluding to the fact that the 'factory' cars didn't have this problem, undoubtedly because they had different springs in their brakes.

What wonderful stories, Kevin seems like a real character!
I believe his three-wheeler has been rebuilt?
Thanks
Jake

[Ray Bell]

I don't know anything about his 3-wheeler except that he had one and had dismantled it and hung it in the workshop rafters...

But it wouldn't surprise me if his widow promptly sold off everything he had shortly after his death. They were of no use to her, but she was alert to investment opportunities.

Whenever you want another story, just ask.

[gtsmunro]

I think they had two wet meetings in 61 and maybe a few more in the next couple of years. They also had meetings postponed due to fog in the early years.
By the mid 60s the weather had improved but the crowds had been scared off from the early years and didn't come back.

Probably a bit off topic but as a kid I can clearly recall being in the "bottom" playground at the local primary school on a Friday listening to the cars doing practice around the track for the weekends meeting. I can remember jumping the fence of the school onto Park St deliberately looking for 'errant' football/tennis balls that rolled down the hill  while trying to catch a glimpse of the cars at Dunlop!!! I l still remember that mum used volunteer in the control tower while dad was a flaggie, usually at Craven A. In the meantime, my brother sold programmes for the weekend. One of lifes great regrets was when we moved from above Dunlop Curve to Leura!!!!We moved from the action!!!

[Ray Bell]

That's news to me...

But a lot of things are!

I never knew there was any private or pre-meeting practising went on at Catalina.

[GMACKIE]

Lots of fun in the rain.

 

 

And even more in the dry.

[gtsmunro]

That's news to me...

But a lot of things are!

I never knew there was any private or pre-meeting practising went on at Catalina.

There wouldn't have been many cars there Ray, but it was unusual to see cars running around there during school hours on a Friday. Not that I minded!!!! 

[SJ Lambert]

Ken Ward ran his 1098 cc Renmax there too, it was entered as car #21 at the January 1966 meeting.

[Ray Bell]

Originally posted by SJ Lambert
Ken Ward ran his 1098 cc Rennmax there too, it was entered as car #21 at the January 1966 meeting.

Quite so...

He never achieved as much success with the open-wheeler as he did in the Morgan, however.

Phil West, on the other hand, was never a star in the Morgan but came to dominate F2 racing with his 1098cc Brabham - aided, of course, by Keven Carrad.

They were both there on the grid for the NSW ANF1½ Championship, Phil on the front row of the grid alongside Max Stewart and Glynn Scott with a time of 58.7 seconds while there were three 1½s and another F2 car - that of Alec Lazich - faster than Ken's time of 1:04.2. Phil was to finish second in the 32-lap race after Stewart's clutch failed, but he crossed the line in neutral as his gearbox broke in the last corner!



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Edited by Ray Bell, 03 April 2017 - 20:50.

[Ray Bell]

Does anyone have a programme and/or results from the meeting on April 23, 1967?

The RCN report has a photo caption which mentions that one race (in which the 250LM ran) was stopped and run later in the day, but I'm not sure whether that race is covered because actual race reports don't mention this.

It's all about the 250LM. It was in Event 9, a handicap for sports cars and in a combined event in which it finished second to Greg Cusack's Brabham.

I find it hard to believe that there wouldn't have been a scratch race for open sports cars, the only other sports car race mentioned was for marque sports and clubmans.



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Edited by Ray Bell, 03 April 2017 - 21:12.

[Glenn Moulds]

Ray, re the 23 April 1967 meeting. Event 5 was a 10 lap Sports Car Scratch Race (and yes, the 250LM was listed). As you say, Event 9 was a 6 lap sports car handicap and Event 14 was a 6 lap Div 1 Racing Car Scratch Race with Invited Sports Cars.

[Ray Bell]

Thanks, Glenn.

So now I need to know if the Ferrari won that 10-lapper...

And, if possible, the race time.

[Glenn Moulds]

According to the Ray Simpson report in Australian Auto Sportsman quite a few races were cancelled or shortened due to the fog. Event 5 was red flagged after 2 laps with Bill Brown having lead all the way in the 250LM. No mention of the race being re-run later as in the RCN photo caption. The Sports Car Handicap took place (Event 9 on the programme) and Brown finished 14th (having been given a huge handicap no doubt!). Brown finished second to Cusack in the combined Event 14. No race times listed unfortunately.

[Ray Bell]

And AMS didn't report on the meeting at all!

[Wirra]

Vivid memories of attending that meeting as a schoolboy armed with an Instamatic.

 

[Lee Nicolle]

A very good pic for an instamatic.

[DanTra2858]

Seems to a lot of fog Lee.

[SJ Lambert]

Anyone capture the Phil Hotchkiss Elfin Mono at the January 67 meeting?

[ellrosso]

Few from Catalina. Not a bad colour one of Ken Ward from 1970. The b/w shot is not so great although Paul Meyer in the No97 Elan at the back is in focus. Jim Quinn Elan, Ken Ward Morgan, Walker Lolita Mk1, Brunninghausen Alfa, Meyer Elan.