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WOOLFY

Even without the personalised plates, you knew the car driving up the service road at Hampton Downs was being piloted by motor racing royalty – for one, there was the wee man behind the wheel that you’d first seen racing a Triumph Herald at Pukekohe decades earlier, but also because alongside, as she’d always been, was ‘Mrs Woolfy’.

Together, Allan and Colleen Woolf were part of the very fabric of the local motor racing scene – it didn’t seem to matter whether it was a Grand Prix (GP) or a humble club meeting, they’d be there. When I interviewed Allan at the Farewell to Pukekohe dinner only a few

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