Making The Dust Fly

For the past two years, the Gisborne Car Club's annual hill climbing contest at Holden's Hill, a few miles from the city, has been held on damp-surface roads, but this year, the day was hot and the road was bone-dry. Result: the speeding cars whipped up spectacular clouds of dust which trailed behind like gritty vapour trails. From the spectators' point of view, the event was made much more interesting by the introduction of a sound system, over which the club secretary, Mr Robinson, commented as each entrant made his run.

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Bill Hegarty approaching the top bend at speed. His time was 59 4-5sec.

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View below shows starting point at foot of hill. Loose surface here made it hard for light cars to get a good start.

Two shots on the top bend, where an error of judgment can easily result in a free ride down the hillside.

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Keith Redstone in his 8 h.p. Ford Special came round sideways. His time for course was 59 4-5sec.

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Mick Sheridan rounding bend in his Alfa-Romeo. His time equalled winner's, 58 2-5sec. but he lost out to George Sutton in the run-off.