The
Editor,
Northland Auto Sports.
Sir,
Having
just read Brian Skudders first article of the history
of our club, I would like to congratulate him on his idea of doing such a
thing.
For
someone like Brian who now has no active connection with the Club but who was
one of the most colourful ‘characters’ during his competitive and
administrative activities in the club, it is pleasing to see he still has an
interest keen enough to write these articles.
As
he says in his letter he has some hazy recollections of past events and I’m
sure a few of us can help out with the parts that Brian has trouble
recalling. For instance, because I used
to take photos of hillclimbs when Brian was competing
I now have references on which to look back on for dates etc, and like he says
in the article on the old Northland Special that John Windleburn
sold the car before competing in it.
Well
in actual fact Johny did use that car in competition
and I would like a photo I have of him driving it at Austins
Road, printed in this issue of our mag.
The shot was taken at the top corner of Austins
Road, Hillclimb on April 19th 1964.
I
would also like to provide a few photos to coincide with various events of
vehicles that Brian may write about to hopefully make things a little more
interesting. Also perhaps we could run a
pictorial on some of the large range of vehicles used to compete in our events
by Brian Skudder who turned out in some rather
wonderful but weird machinery at times, perhaps only outdone on the weird side
by Doug Marsh and Ken McLennan.
Rowan
McLean
(November
1979 mag)