1958 6 Hour Production Car Race (Caversham)
{{Short description|1958 Australian endurance motor race}}
The 1958 6 Hour Production Car Race was an endurance motor race staged on 2 June 1958 at the Caversham Circuit, in Western Australia.6 Hour Race (production cars), Australian Motor Sports Review, 1958-59, pages 52, 53 & 56 It was open to production cars competing in "Sports Car" and "Sedan Car" classes. The race, which was the fourth in a sequence of annual "Six Hour Le Mans" races to be held in Western Australia between 1955 and 1972Terry Walker, Six-Hour "Le Mans", Around the Houses, A History of Motor Racing in Western Australia, 1980, pages 56 to 59 was won by Jim Harwood and Bill Downey driving a Triumph TR2.
Results
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| style="font-weight:bold" align="center" | Position[https://web.archive.org/web/20180421030627/http://www.terrywalkersplace.com/Results/1958-all.pdf Western Australian Motor Racing Results 1958, www.terrywalkersplace.com, as archived at web.archive.org]
|style="font-weight:bold" | Drivers |style="font-weight:bold" align="center" | No. |style="font-weight:bold" | Car |style="font-weight:bold" | Entrant |style="font-weight:bold" | Class |
| align="center" | 1
| Jim Harwood, Bill Downey | align="center" | 21 | Performance Cars | Sports Cars Over 1500cc | align="center" | 1 | align="center" | 181 |
| align="center" | 2
| Barry Ranford Sr, Barry Ranford Jr | align="center" | 8 | Morgan | Loftus Service Station | Sports Cars Over 1500cc | align="center" | 2 | align="center" | 181 |
| align="center" | 3
| Aub Melrose, (Dick Blythe)Australian Motor Sports Review states that Melrose "drove the whole six hours himself" | align="center" | 17 | A Melrose Motors | Sports Cars Over 1500cc | align="center" | 3 | align="center" | 175 |
| align="center" | 4
| align="center" | 41 | MGA | Mercury Motors | Sports Cars Under 1500cc | align="center" | 1 | align="center" | 174 |
| align="center" | 5
| Dick Blythe, Sid Taylor | align="center" | 29 | Winterbottom Motors | Sedan Cars 1101 - 1500cc | align="center" | 1 | align="center" | 171 |
| align="center" | 6
| David Sadique, Bob Avery | align="center" | 26 | DH Sedique | Sedan Cars 1101 - 1500cc | align="center" | 2 | align="center" | 167 |
| align="center" | 7
| Vin Smith | align="center" | 9 | V Smith | Sports Cars Over 1500cc | align="center" | 4 | align="center" | 165 |
| align="center" | 8
| Jim Ward, Peter NicolThe Sunday Times 6 Hour Production Car Meeting, Australian Motor Sports, July 1958, pages 313 & 314 | align="center" | 35 | J Ward | Sedan Cars Over 2500cc | align="center" | 1 | align="center" | 164 |
| align="center" | 9
| E Allwood, H Magill | align="center" | 24 | Thames | EL Attwood | Sedan Cars 1101 - 1500cc | align="center" | 3 | align="center" | 163 |
| align="center" | 10
| Clem Dwyer, Hugh McKinlay | align="center" | 38 | Diesel Motors | Sedan Cars 500 - 850cc | align="center" | 1 | align="center" | 159 |
| align="center" | 11
| John Glasson, John Hayes | align="center" | 25 | JG Glasson | Sedan Cars 1600 - 2500cc | align="center" | 1 | align="center" | 158 |
| align="center" | 12
| Ray Bettridge, Bill Downey | align="center" | 33 | Modern Motors | Sedan Cars 850 - 1100cc | align="center" | 1 | align="center" | 157 |
| align="center" | 13
| Syd Negus, Sid Taylor | align="center" | 27 | Winterbottom Motors | Sedan Cars Over 2500cc | align="center" | 2 | align="center" | 155 |
| align="center" | 14
| Mal Chapman | align="center" | 43 | MGTC | M Chapman | Sports Cars Under 1500cc | align="center" | 2 | align="center" | 153 |
| align="center" | 15
| Brian Lemon, B Herman | align="center" | 30 | BJ Lemon | Sedan Cars 1101 - 1500cc | align="center" | 4 | align="center" | 149 |
| align="center" | 16
| Bob Annear, Sid Taylor | align="center" | 28 | Winterbottom Motors | Sedan Cars 1101 - 1500cc | align="center" | 5 | align="center" | 147 |
| align="center" | 17
| N Joddrell, H Joddrell | align="center" | 37 | Allwood Motors | Sedan Cars 1101 - 1500cc | align="center" | 6 | align="center" | 145 |
| align="center" | 18
| J Lenton, R Bettridge | align="center" | 32 | JM Lenton | Sedan Cars 1101 - 1500cc | align="center" | 7 | align="center" | 136 |
| align="center" | 19
| Dave Sullivan, Bob Biltoff | align="center" | 36 | Holden | Northside Service Station | Sedan Cars 1600 - 2500cc | align="center" | 2 | align="center" | 48 |
| align="center" | DNF
| G Haynes, Graham Bowra | align="center" | 23 | Morgan | G Hayes | Sports Cars Over 1500cc | align="center" | - | align="center" | ? |
| align="center" | DNF
| Colin Metcher, W Green | align="center" | 40 | MGTC | C Metcher | Sports Cars Under 1500cc | align="center" | - | align="center" | ? |
| align="center" | DNF
| Jack Ayres, D Reimes | align="center" | 31 | Holden | Superior Cars | Sedan Cars 1600 - 2500cc | align="center" | - | align="center" | ? |
=Notes=
References
Further reading
- Jim Shepherd, A History of Australian Motor Sport, 1980, pages 150-151
External links
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=NSju9OXtINsC&q=+six+hour Life's a Hoot: The Autobiography of James Harwood, (pages 39 to 41), books.google.com.au]
- [http://web.archive.org/web/20230921222734/http://www.speedwayandroadracehistory.com/1958-perth-caversham-raceway.html CAVERSHAM RACEWAY 1958, www.speedwayandroadracehistory.com, as archived at web.archive.org]