George Reynolds (racing driver)

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:This is about the Australian racing driver. For similar names see the disambiguation page George Reynolds (disambiguation)

Haldane George Reynolds (8 May 1928 – 2 March 2012) was an Australian racing driver.{{cite web |url=http://www.rallysportmag.com.au/home/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6594&Itemid=2 |title=RallySport Magazine - Vale: George Reynolds |publisher=Rallysportmag.com.au |date=2012-03-14 |access-date=2012-09-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120317062928/http://www.rallysportmag.com.au/home/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6594&Itemid=2 |archive-date=17 March 2012 |url-status=dead }}

The career of Reynolds, who was born on 8 May 1928,Telephone conversation with Reynolds on 1 March 1988 extended from the late 1950s into the late 1960s. Known primarily as a touring car and sports car driver, Reynolds won Class D of the 1962 Armstrong 500 at Phillip Island, sharing a Volkswagen with Jim McKeown.

However, Reynolds is best known as outright winner (although outright winners were not officially acknowledged at the time) of the Armstrong 500, now held at Bathurst, in 1964.{{cite web | url=http://www.uniquecarsandparts.com.au/bathurst_1964.htm | title=Bathurst 1964: Armstrong 500 }} With three time winning partners Bob Jane and Harry Firth split amongst the entries of the factory supported Ford touring car team both Jane and Firth needed co-drivers for the 500-mile classic. Reynolds was paired with Jane and assisted Jane to his fourth consecutive Bathurst victory.{{cite book | title = Australia's Greatest Motor Race 1960-1999 The first 40 years | last = Greenhalgh | first = David |author2=Thomas B. Floyd |author3=Bill Tuckey | publisher = Chevron Publishing Group Pty Limited | location = Hornsby | chapter = 1964 Here come the works team | year = 2000 | isbn = 1-875221-12-3 | pages = 122–129 & 452 }}

Reynolds was later one of a group of drivers who raced for David McKay's Scuderia Veloce team.Courier Mail, Monday, 1 September 1968 He continued to race at the front rank of Australian drivers into the late 1960s, taking a top ten finish at the 1968 Surfers Paradise 6 Hour driving a Ferrari with Phil West as well as a top five finish at the 1968 Hardie-Ferodo 500 co-driving a Holden Dealer Racing Team Holden Monaro with Brian Muir,{{cite book | title = Australia's Greatest Motor Race 1960-1999 | last = Greenhalgh | first = David |author2=Thomas B. Floyd |author3=Bill Tuckey | publisher = Chevron Publishing Group | year = 2000 | isbn = 1-875221-12-3 | pages = 154–161 & 456}} both times in entries fielded by Scuderia Veloce.

Reynolds died on 2 March 2012.{{cite journal |last=West |first=Luke |date=July–August 2012 |title=AMC salutes Ford legends |journal=Australian Muscle Car |issue=62 |page=3 |location=St. Leonards, New South Wales |publisher=Chevron Publishing Group |editor1-first=Luke |editor1-last=West |issn=1446-5647 }}[https://tributes.theage.com.au/obituaries/82063/haldane-reynolds/ Haldane Reynolds]

File:1966 Isuzu Bellett 1500 Race car (23109875104).jpg driving this Isuzu Bellett. The car is pictured in 2015]]

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