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Smashing End To Season

At the beginning of the stock car season the Tasman Club promised an exciting series of meetings. They kept their word. Each event was well patronised and the drivers turned on the works. The final meeting of the season, at which several top Wellington drivers, including champion Ian Taylor competed, was no exception. There were prangs, rolls and exciting races.

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Amidst a shower of dirt Peter Brown's Jaguar crashes over, in the first of two spectacular rolls during the meeting. This was in the teams race

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Whoomph! Rick Rawson's Oldsmobile gets it in a place starting with "g." It must have hurt, for a wheel came off No. 13. Greenem's Zephyr V-6 fared a bit better but stayed in this position until the end of the race

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Short of a wheel, but still grinning, Rawson's Oldsmobile leaves the track. A grand finale to the season

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Ian Taylor in action

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The Lines brothers' Dodge (No. 14) appears to be heading in the wrong direction. Maybe it's a short cut to the chequered flag

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Wellington drivers Norm Ross and Ian Taylor performed well, especially Taylor who is one of the top drivers in the country

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Locked together, two cars plough along the windrow

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Motors roaring, a large field heads for the first bend in an open race