Big saloons not only attraction
Exciting motor-racing action, a mini-fair with rides and sideshows, a skateboard race for the children, a show featuring new and exotic cars, and displays by marching girls and a band—those ingredients will add up to an exciting day out at Ruapuna Park on Sunday.
Ruapuna will be taken ‘ over by the Open Saloon Car Association for a gala day. The highlight will be the OSCA championship races, in which drivers in cars ranging from brutish 500 h.p. Mustangs to zippy Datsun coupes will battle it out at speeds up to 250 km/h on the fast Ruapuna circuit. However, the action will not all be on the track. Just inside the main gate at Ruapuna all the fun of the fair will be in full swing. Attractions will include a ferris-wheel, sideshows, merry-go-round and a noddy train for the youngsters. Midday on Sunday will see a colourful sight on the track as every participating car parades behind a troupe of marching girls and a band. Budding young motorracing drivers getting in their early training on skateboards will also be catered for. At 10 a.m. on Sunday there will be a special skateboard race, with good prizes. It will be open to all children.
The racing programme will begin on Sunday afternoon with a motorcycle race, part of the '“King of Ruapuna” series which is hotly contested by local riders throughout ■the season.
Following the bike race the OSCA C class cars — those with engines up to 1600 cu cm. — will do battle, and then the South Island Formula Ford contenders will take the track. Following them will be the South Island production saloons, a vintage racing-car race, the OSCA A and B class race then the 3ZB Allcomer Saloons, a special race for cars not eligible for S.I.P.S. racing. A tractor race for some of the top “big banger” drivers will follow, and then the other classes will have their second race, culminating in the hardfought OSCA final and celebrity race. Every member of the public attending the Ruapuna meeting could win the chance to go for a ride around the track in one of the big-banger saloons,
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