Bloody hell OB if you look at the picture with the red car you'll see I'm wearing those Goggles . We use those cause they didn't fly forward and hit you in the gobe when you went in the wall at 120 k per hour.
No worries Mac thought I'de put it up anyway just to show peeps the difference.Scotty Dillon is only about 5 foot 5,haha,but that car makes him look big?..
and a pic of the Micro Midgets going around Westmead I think it was a kind of a nursery class for up and coming drivers, but the racing was usually close.
Seeing that pic reminds me of how low the fence was, I can't ever recall a car going over it.
Hey OB,this is my Mum's cousin Walter Giles when he first started racing at Liverpool Speedway!..
He's now a chief mechanic in the States on the Nascars earning huge $$$
Guy's been great reading your posts. I remember the Old man taking me & the bro to the Showground Speedway & Westmead Speedways in the early to late 60's I suppose, but man I can still remember it was a buzz. If I get this right attached are is some pics of guys racing at these venues. Yep that's Sir Jack Brabham & the one I remember Bill Warner in his corvette at Westmead.
Apparently dads older bro "Lennie" used to race his bike at the Maroubra Brick Pit raceway, from the way dad described it was a Harley "flame thrower" beacuse the heads on them went red with heat, dunno if its true. 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ahhhhhhh Uncle my blessed son of the thirsty kind ..... it is good to have you back in the hood brother
So me, a SUP Kook in a longboard forum, has a favourite thread about cars.
Thank you Al G, best thread ever.
your really getting the old memory going thirsty, that pic of Bill Warner may be B&W, but I'm pretty sure the car was orange. It was usually parked at a garage. which I assume Bill Warner operated on the Victoria Rd, Rydalmere first on the left after the railway overpass, travelling towards the city.
Longboard.
( I just said that word to justify going so far off topic )
Yep, the first one was an escarpment run down Ulludulla way, the other 2 were from Stockton in about 2005.
that was the car that finally cured me of all interest in working on cars. I only liked driving it off road in the hardest terrain possible and for every hour I spent in it, I probably spent 4 hours under it.
OBCT, yep your right I remember that unit being like a bright burnt orange kinda colour, he'd come blattin' round the turn of the track gun it & lift the front wheels looked fantastic to me as a kid.
I'm trying to did up pics of some of my old vans. When i work out the "non" filing system & thru the 3 suitcases of pics I'll put 'em up.