One Cooper Damaged, One Without Engine
(New Zealand Pi
-ess Association)
AUCKLAND, Dec. 21.
The Tasman Coopers of Bruce McLaren and Bruce Abernethy and the Lotus to be driven by Jim Clark were unloaded from the Port Hobart at Auckland today. These are the first cars to arrive from overseas for the Tasman Cup series of seven races which opens with the New Zealand Grand Prix at Pukekohe on January 9. McLaren’s Cooper, which has never been raced before, had received some damage to the bodywork in transit and part of the perspex wind-
screen was broken. The other cars made the journey from England unscathed. The 2.5 Cooper which will be driven by Phil Hill, of the United States, will arrive from Australia by charter flight next week. The engine for Abernethy’s car is installed in Hill’s Cooper. Four more racing cars will arrive by ship from Australia on December 29. These will include the two 2.5 Brabhams of Frank Gardner and Lex Davison, and the 1500 c.c. Lotuses of Leo Geoghegan and Arnold Glass.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30630, 22 December 1964, Page 19
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