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[GD66]

141 mph ? Have to be a flying quarter...

[wenoopy]

....12...mercury race..heat one..coppins...heat two...fahey..
....13..ernie spragues gtho..quarter sprint.best speed...141.6...mph..
....15..name of clyde collins speedboat......clyde ankle...!!

Clyde Ankle - singing "High School Oo-Oo" on Stan Freberg's "Old Payola Roll Blues" - 50 years ago!! Surely I can't be that old.

Mercury $1000 Saloon Series - I guess there were at least 2 Ruapuna Rounds in the series. I was talking about the February 8 round, where the front row was Dawson Fahey Crosbie Thompson - pictures in Auto News 23 Feb and Motorman March 1970. Heat placings were (H1) Fahey Crosbie Coppins and (H2) Dawson Thompson Nazer as reported by both. But the judge's word is final, the moving finger writes... etc. Didn't have the later Auto News, was busy getting married and going overseas.

Edited by wenoopy, 09 January 2011 - 05:32.

[Tim Murray]

thank you for your participation.....!!!.

Thank you for your efforts in setting these things, Ron. Polly and I are proud to have won one, and are looking forward to the next. Sorry to hear it's a bit damp down your way - we've been seeing dramatic flood pics on our TVs here in the UK.

Edited by Tim Murray, 09 January 2011 - 07:08.

[ronmac]

hi.
...sd.66.....141 mph...yes i agree ...flying quarter...there was no j.a.t.o. attached to the car....(thank you )

,...wenoopy...thank you for reminding me....yes from stan freberg..high school oo..oo..by clyde ankle..
...i had forgotten where it came from..
...i have been having a laugh...i looked up stanley victor freberg on you tube...and got...
...the banana boat song...dayo..dayo..would you mind leaving the building..!!
...yellow rose of texas..
...heartbreak hotel
...(on tip of the freberg ) all good stuff..
...at the time i was in air force military camp..hobsonville..auckland..new zealand..54 years ago..!!!..

...mercury series 1970..must have been two races..(.so take a highly recommended for your efforts )

[ronmac]

hi tim thank you for your comments..
..and my regards to polly..
..if anone wants to know what the hell we are on about.
...have a look at tims member.........profile.......photograph..
..and admire tim murray and polly the parrot.!!!

[wenoopy]

...at the time i was in air force military camp..hobsonville..auckland..new zealand..54 years ago..!!!..

...mercury series 1970..must have been two races..(.so take a highly recommended for your efforts )

You will be sad (or maybe happy!) to know that Hobsonville Air Base has closed. Being turned into residential and schools. One of those 2-storey officers houses overlooking the water would be nice. RNZAF now all at Whenuapai just up the road from us (wenoopy = QLD RSL raffle seller version of 'Whenuapai"; we thought it was cute, so adopted it as unofficial house name and email addr).
Highly Recommended?? At least a Gold Star out of Petty Cash, surely!

[ronmac]

hi wenoopy..
...thanks for the information.about hobsonville..that i was not aware of ..some good memories..some not so good ..
...14 weeks..driving bedford trucks..!!
...i read somewhere that wenoopy came from an intelligent australian who thought that is how the air base was pronounced ?? (ron )

[275 GTB-4]

I watched her chat with Don Lane on youtube last night, what a good sort. Tidy, AND quick ! But sharp, too. Wouldn't surprise to discover she broke 300 in the jet, but it's VERY hard to find so far...

Some would say quite a Babe!

[ronmac]

HI..275 GTB 4......I see that we are going back to Jan.7 th 2011...But worth the wait..
Photo of SUE RANSOM...as mentioned by Ray Bell and GD 66 on posts 23 28 42 43 and 44.....
Yes I AGREE...a real BABE..!!!(Sue.s comment would be welcome ).!

[David McKinney]

And a photo from when she raced in NZ, posted by me in another thread which I can't find right now

[GD66]

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The Don Lane chat.

As noted, a card-carrying Good Sort...

Edited by GD66, 10 September 2011 - 07:44.

[Ray Bell]

Sue is, without question, a very nice lady...

Somewhat older than in that pic now, in fact, she was older than that when I saw her about twelve or thirteen years ago!