KERRS ROAD DRAG RACING [NZ]

Manukau: NZ.

KERRS ROAD DRAG RACING.

KERRS ROAD DRAG RACING. Opening meeting. 27th November 1970.

DRAG RACING on Kerrs Road.

Drag Racing has comenced at Kerrs Rd and is to be hailed a big success. The New Zealand Hot Rod Association has entered

into a deal with the Manukau Council to hold a six meeting Drag Racing season series on the new freshly sealed, public Kerrs Road. While the National Association provided the sanctioning of the meeting's, it would be the Pukekohe Hot Rod Club that would run and promote the six meeting's. This era would see a shift in comitment from

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1970's - Croydon Thompson in his early Ford F100, a very impressive street driven pick up. Photo: Allan Porter collection.

1970's - Jim Richard's take's the daily driver, HT 350 Holden Monaro down the strip. Photo: Allan Porter collection.

1970's - John Paton put's down a quick time in his Dragster. Photo: Allan Porter collection.

1970's - Peter Lodge in his Fiat Topolino bodied Fuel Altered, named Baloo would go on to do the first ten second pass in New Zealand at Napier Airstrip in April of 1973. Photo: Allan Porter collection.