He does'nt even buy vintage Champagne...
You told me you weren't for sale.
Posted 10 July 2019 - 15:39
He does'nt even buy vintage Champagne...
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Posted 11 July 2019 - 20:38
Posted 12 July 2019 - 11:54
First customer for the book ?
Posted 13 July 2019 - 09:36
Rod, I've just cruised through this thread...
The tragedy is that the vast majority of your cartoons have slipped off (or are tainted) because of the changes in the web-hosting arrangements.
Would there be any possibility of you putting them on Postimage and editing them in where they belong?
And while you're at it, do you think you could post a few of your Austin Healey ones on this thread?
http://www.theroarin...d-Others/page40
Sounds like work --and time Ray. Unfortunately my images are not neatly filed together! I'll have a go when I can.
Posted 13 July 2019 - 09:38
First customer for the book ?
Of course Rich! If and when....
Posted 16 July 2019 - 09:34
Just what Rod calls a 'rough' - but is actually superb - when my neighbour bought a Russian tank to drive round his field - I kid you not . Paddy was our speaker.
Rod has done so many wonderful cartoons for us to present to guests over the last 8 years. Such a shame several image hosts have removed images demanding ransom for re-instatement
Posted 16 July 2019 - 14:40
Posted 17 July 2019 - 02:10
Just what Rod calls a 'rough' - but is actually superb - when my neighbour bought a Russian tank to drive round his field - I kid you not . Paddy was our speaker.
Rod has done so many wonderful cartoons for us to present to guests over the last 8 years. Such a shame several image hosts have removed images demanding ransom for re-instatement
Thanks for the plug Rich. I could bask in that but must 'fess up' as that one is not a rough. You may have been thinking of the Rosemary Smith 'Khyber Pass' one
which was a rough but which I think she has used in her book.
Eric, no pointless scrapping now! I'm wrestling with finding the time.
Posted 17 July 2019 - 13:25
Well here is one Rod did commissioned by F1 driver Mike Wilds in January this year. Mike as all of you will know has had a 55 year career as a professional racing driver driven over 240 different types of racing car , countless wins and I think I am right in saying drove in 5 different cars in F1. A brilliant driver and one of the nicest blokes you could ever meet.
Well Mike got a drive in the very tail end of BRM when it was in the hands of Louis Stanley . Mike gave his honest objective assessment of the 201 in that the engine did not give anywhere near competitive power and suggested to big L that fitting a DFV would instantly make it a far better proposition. Louis Stanley flew in to a rage on the spot and fired Mike then and there for suggesting something unpatriotic - he regarded a Cosworth DFV as an American engine and would not have it .
Now had Mike got the Hesketh drive at that time he would I am sure easily been every bit as good as James Hunt turned out to be at that point in time and history would have been very different .
Posted 17 July 2019 - 23:30
To me the DFV is a English engine, designed and built there. About the only thing American would have been the money to fund it.
Posted 18 July 2019 - 07:31
To me the DFV is a English engine, designed and built there. About the only thing American would have been the money to fund it.
Which is exactly what Mike explained but he still got the sack.
Posted 13 October 2019 - 22:37
Rod's latest that we presented to a delighted Gordon Spice yesterday at his talk and film show day here in East Herts imortalising Le Mans 1988 when Gordon Won the C2 class at LM he came 13th overall and clinched the C2 world championship that year Sun Tan oil company Hawaiian Tropic provided a backdrop.
Posted 14 October 2019 - 04:35
Posted 13 December 2019 - 15:08
Bit of tidying and Rod unearthed this cartoon he did of Stefan Johansson in 1986
Posted 01 September 2020 - 07:40
Sadly with no film shows this year due to the virus restrictions - our model of 80+ people mainly of retired (or close to it) age in one hall sitting and eating together is probably the very last concept to have restrictions lifted. In reality unless by some miracle the virus just dies out on its own( very unlikely) or a vaccine is developed and literally the entire world population gains immunity from it as a result. At present there is nothing we can do. So sadly having no guest speakers I have not been able to ask Rod to do any splendid cartoons really since this time last year to mark the occasion.
In the meantime I can only wish you all well - do continue to take the most sensible precautions to keep out of harm's way - let us hope that normal service will be resumed at some point - hopefully by next year.
Posted 21 February 2021 - 17:38
Very sad news yesterday that Chris Craft has passed away at the age of 81 you will have read many tributes else where. He was our first guest speaker at the Herts Motor racing film show back in 2009 - this was before I had discovered Rod's quite brilliant cartoons so That day Chris went away without a splendid Rod Waller artwork - I had it in mind to have Chris back for a second chat with other contemporaries but sadly he had been a bit below par in recent years and was not quite up to it .
A marvellously versatile driver , indeed a works Ford driver loaned out to Broadspeed famous of course for his Le Mans races with Alain DeCadenet in Gordon Murray designed and modified cars but with many other co drivers and team mates in all kinds of cars all over the world including in Formula one and big sportscars and of course so many saloon cars . A great driver and a quite delightful modest self effacing man - he will me much missed. I so wished we had the chance to see and talk to him again .
Posted 21 February 2021 - 23:11
Sad news
Posted 22 February 2021 - 08:28
I'm sorry to hear of Chris's passing.
Posted 22 February 2021 - 09:06
Rich, thanks for reviving this thread. I found this ancient cartoon the other day which I don't think has been posted.
I guess it's about 50 years old and was for a CAMS magazine article advising on an under-developed skill--
How to promote and market oneself.
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Posted 29 May 2021 - 02:44
Cancelled last year due to Covid, the Albany, Western Australia, 'Round the Houses' meeting is on again next weekend.
Posted 02 June 2021 - 09:37
Speaking of nostalgia......
A celebratory dinner was held last weekend for this Western Australian 'one model' club.
Posted 08 July 2021 - 07:00
Can anyone explain to me how Van Gogh (who never even sold one of his paintings while he was alive ) painted a very simple even caricature painting of his doctor's face and it recently sold at auction for £75M.
On this basis Rod's work, skill and talent by my reckoning is at least ten times better than the afore said Dutch artist in another 131 years will be changing hands at a proportionate figure . It is just lovely work. - Always .
Edited by RTH, 08 July 2021 - 07:02.