Warren Weldon [RIP] (merged)
#1
Posted 03 September 2010 - 01:13
I've just spoken with Mr Warren Weldon on the telephone, and he has invited me down to his place next week for an interview with my magazine. If you could ask 1 question, what would it be ? I will publish the better questions in the mag.
(oh he also has many programmes from the days of Catalina & Bathurst he is willing to allow me to digitise for him)
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#2
Posted 03 September 2010 - 03:01
.........or which are his fondest memories, the Humpy or the Studebaker Bathurst years or later mounts including EH etc.,
#3
Posted 03 September 2010 - 05:15
#4
Posted 03 September 2010 - 08:01
#5
Posted 03 September 2010 - 19:57
Originally posted by wagons46
Perhaps you could ask him "what the hell he was thinking" when he painted his Humpy GT stripes from door to door rather than bonnet to boot.
.....or which are his fondest memories, the Humpy or the Studebaker Bathurst years or later mounts including EH etc.
While I agree that the latter question should get some interesting responses, thinking of supercharged Studes etc, the first should surely be self-explanatory?
They were painted there on the car's return from a rollover...
#6
Posted 04 September 2010 - 01:12
#7
Posted 04 September 2010 - 03:44
.........or which are his fondest memories, the Humpy or the Studebaker Bathurst years or later mounts including EH etc.,
Will do
I've got a fairly comprehensive list ripplestrip ;-0
shoot them through GTS
At one of the meetings at Catalina he was told by the Scrinears to repair a rust hole in the body prior to the Sunday Race, on Sunday morning he turned up with the car repaired, rust hole covered up with BANDAIDS & painted and raced, if it was not true then it sure was in caracter with WW, they were the days of style.
I'll bring that up ;)
ANY OTHERS TO ADD
Edited by ripplestrip, 04 September 2010 - 03:45.
#8
Posted 04 September 2010 - 05:05
Hey guys
I've just spoken with Mr Warren Weldon on the telephone, and he has invited me down to his place next week for an interview with my magazine. If you could ask 1 question, what would it be ? I will publish the better questions in the mag.
(oh he also has many programmes from the days of Catalina & Bathurst he is willing to allow me to digitise for him)
Nice one, make sure you copy any old holdens images along with the programmes.
Ask WW the story how he come to be sponsored by the Waggot bro's in the 48-215 (FX).
When do you hope to have story up online.?
Keep up the good work.
-GO HUMPY'S
#9
Posted 06 September 2010 - 12:49
Dale.
#10
Posted 06 September 2010 - 22:31
He may still have a Humpy race relic (either 4J or 119 or 33 will do) in an old shed.....now that would be interesting.
I'll make a guess and say he was maybe the first well known driver to put the stripes across and not along, but not the last.
Make sure you publish the Katoomba pic with the front wheel high up in the air being pushed hard by another Humpy. It typifies the era very well .
Ellis
#11
Posted 06 September 2010 - 23:17
#12
Posted 07 September 2010 - 00:58
It was an illuminating article covering WW's career on both four wheels and later two wheels. Certainly worth tracking down and reading for research purposes.
#13
Posted 03 July 2011 - 21:28
#14
Posted 03 July 2011 - 21:49
#15
Posted 03 July 2011 - 21:54
#16
Posted 03 July 2011 - 23:05
#17
Posted 04 July 2011 - 01:17
Australian Muscle Car did a really interesting profile on the man about 5 years ago - well worth getting a copy of. Did you know he has probably competed at Bathurst more times on two wheels than on four?
#18
Posted 04 July 2011 - 01:42
His was done that way at least by early 65.... maybe earlier.
The car certainly stood out.
#19
Posted 04 July 2011 - 02:28
Great to see he's still at it. Warren was always very handy on the tiller and it seems he's still got it. Good on him!Motorsport participation is a disease that is very hard to recover from fully.
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#20
Posted 04 July 2011 - 22:18
Warren [or 'Flange'] raced 2 stroke 'bikes for a while, until the vibrations through the handlebars destroyed the nerves in in his fingers - not good. He was a 'traveling Marshall', also. Last time that I spoke to him, [about a year ago], he was battling prostate cancer. I wish him well.
#21
Posted 04 July 2011 - 22:34
. Last time that I spoke to him, [about a year ago], he was battling prostate cancer. I wish him well.
I believe he underwent surgery,so to see him competing again is good news. It would indicate that his treatment has been met with a measure of success. Well done W.W.
#22
Posted 04 July 2011 - 23:12
Originally posted by Ellis French
The stripes across his Humpy was probably among the first if not the first to run them that way instead of lengthways.
His was done that way at least by early 65.... maybe earlier.....
That was after his rollover... the reason for putting the stripes that way...
He'd laid the car on its side at the ATCC at Lakeside and reappeared at Catalina with no stripe, presumably having re-bodied the car. He gave Bo Seton an awful hard time at that meeting so that the Boomerang car finished with fence damage, then by the September Oran Park there was a pair of 'GT' stripes across the car amidships.
#23
Posted 04 July 2011 - 23:28
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Posted 05 July 2011 - 23:00
#25
Posted 28 August 2012 - 02:15
#26
Posted 28 August 2012 - 03:16
His presence faded for me when he went to bikes but later could often catch up at a Historic car meeting at Eastern Creek, the last being 12 months ago at The Muscle Car Masters weekend. He always looked younger than his age and even after his initial surgery seemed to be fit and well.
Sadly there is no escaping the dreaded disease once it sinks it's evil claws into our fragile bodies and it has claimed another, but very significant, member of the Australian motor racing fraternity.
R.I.P. Warren Weldon.
#27
Posted 28 August 2012 - 03:35
He certainly was a driver to be watched at the time and one of the crowd favourites, but I suspect, not of officialdom.
He will be missed.
#28
Posted 28 August 2012 - 07:07
#29
Posted 03 October 2012 - 06:08
perhaps a Mod could combine the three theads?
http://forums.autosp...l=warren weldon
http://forums.autosp...l=warren weldon
Edited by 275 GTB-4, 03 October 2012 - 06:09.
#30
Posted 03 October 2012 - 11:09