Any event or series winning TNF members?
#1
Posted 09 July 2006 - 10:36
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#2
Posted 09 July 2006 - 13:19
Though neither has posted for a while
#3
Posted 09 July 2006 - 14:23
#4
Posted 09 July 2006 - 14:56
No, I didn't think so.
#5
Posted 09 July 2006 - 15:04
#6
Posted 09 July 2006 - 15:58
Mark
#7
Posted 09 July 2006 - 16:22
#8
Posted 09 July 2006 - 16:40
Ian Stewart
Dan Gurney
Teddy Pilette
have all poked their noses in at one time or another, Ian, much more than the others.
#9
Posted 09 July 2006 - 22:41
Anybody know where he's gone to
#10
Posted 09 July 2006 - 23:21
Originally posted by D-Type
Nobody's mentioned Buford yet!
Anybody know where he's gone to
You just missed him!
#11
Posted 10 July 2006 - 09:20
Originally posted by Vitesse2
You just missed him!
How about a co-drive win at Daytona and Sebring?
Henry
#13
Posted 10 July 2006 - 21:34
Originally posted by Richie Jenkins
have all poked their noses in at one time or another, Ian, much more than the others.
Truly sorry to have withdrawn my nose temporarily, but have been in and out of hospital like a yo-yo, and felt it better to shut up until I could properly put up!
#14
Posted 10 July 2006 - 21:47
Originally posted by Ian Stewart
Truly sorry to have withdrawn my nose temporarily, but have been in and out of hospital like a yo-yo, and felt it better to shut up until I could properly put up!
Welcome back Ian!!
Sorry to hear you've been in hospital, I trust & hope you are a bit better now?
It will be a pleasure to read or even re-read more of your tales should you have the time...
#15
Posted 26 September 2006 - 08:55
Class wins in the Australian Motorkhana Championship three times. In a Holden Camira wagon.
Bruce Moxon
#16
Posted 26 September 2006 - 09:03
#17
Posted 26 September 2006 - 09:07
Originally posted by Vanwall
The championship is marvellous. The type of car makes it bloody marvellous!!
Awwww - shucks.
Credit to the car, really. When things weren't falling off, or liquids escaping, or engine mounts failing, or handbrake brackets pulling out of the floor or driver's seats breaking or engine mounts breaking or CV joints rattling or engine mounts breaking or fuel injection going berserk or engine mounts breaking, it was a pretty good car.
Oh, yeah, the diff blew up once. And it finally died at 60km/h in fourth gear when the crankshaft broke in half. And it had a broken engine mount at the time.
Seriously, a car with great handling (honest - well, for its day) and jus the right wheelbase.
BM
#18
Posted 26 September 2006 - 10:18
And we go on endlessly here in Oz about the P76.....
#19
Posted 26 September 2006 - 10:25
Originally posted by Vanwall
Wow!! You must have lucked into a Camira in the top 5% of their quality audits!
And we go on endlessly here in Oz about the P76.....
Haven't seen a Camira, so couldn't comment, but is the P76 the Leyland that Evan Green rallied?......if so without being rude, it was a mighty ugly car...probably designed by a commitee that did not talk to each other!
#21
Posted 26 September 2006 - 10:32
That is all.
#22
Posted 26 September 2006 - 10:38
I won a couple of races in a HQ Holden.
#23
Posted 26 September 2006 - 10:42
Thing is, if you could look past the styling and the quality problems - a rather large ask it must be said, but significantly overcome before the end iirc - it was a damn sight better thing than contemporary Kingswoods, Falcons and Valiants*.
I should now shut up ... having last weekend become the owner of a Zetland built Wolseley 15/60.
*I'm given to understand that at that time, the sign on the front of the Tonsley Park factory screamed "CHRYSLER ROOTES AUSTRALIA".
#24
Posted 26 September 2006 - 10:48
Originally posted by Vanwall
Hah! try here. And here!
Thing is, if you could look past the styling and the quality problems - a rather large ask it must be said, but significantly overcome before the end iirc - it was a damn sight better thing than contemporary Kingswoods, Falcons and Valiants*.
I should now shut up ... having last weekend become the owner of a Zetland built Wolseley 15/60.
*I'm given to understand that at that time, the sign on the front of the Tonsley Park factory screamed "CHRYSLER ROOTES AUSTRALIA".
1500cc 60 BHP.....they knew how to make 'em in those days!
#25
Posted 26 September 2006 - 12:16
Originally posted by seldo
I've had a few wins - long time ago though
Not so far removed from my two 1600cc NSW Clubman titles...
Difference is that you did it with panache.
#26
Posted 26 September 2006 - 19:40
I won a Scalextric competition at the Gamages store in London in 1964 beating over 2000 other entrants.
I've still got the trophy to prove it.
Sorry.
#27
Posted 26 September 2006 - 20:02
Originally posted by Barry Boor
Whisper it....
I won a Scalextric competition at the Gamages store in London in 1964 beating over 2000 other entrants.
I've still got the trophy to prove it
Why whisper?
#28
Posted 26 September 2006 - 20:12
Somewhere I've got a pic of us on the platform racing against Gerry Marshall. The cars weren't Scalextrics as such; more like wings on wheels, and pretty quick and grippy (although the blokes running it - who were racing marshals as well as slotters - kept telling us that they were detuned!).
We each won, IIRC, an ill-fitting Mazda jacket and a Polaroid camera (the ones which gave you an *instant* print.)
We left the show without the jackets, and neither camera worked from the word go...
#30
Posted 27 September 2006 - 08:27
#31
Posted 27 September 2006 - 08:50
I entered my Lotus Elan (a 26R replica) as a SPORTS LIBRE - didn't fancy Modified Production as there are usually a mass of those indecently quick Westfields to contend with!
I always planned to just do enough rounds to get a 'maximum score' and in fact through illness only managed 8 events. However imagine may shock when I found at mid-season I wasn't just doing well I was leading the SPORTS LIBRE CATEGORY! I managed to maintain my lead to the end of the season and will receive the winner's trophy in November at the awards evening.
The trouble is I will now have to defend my title! :yawn:
#32
Posted 27 September 2006 - 08:54
Or retire as undefeated class champion!Originally posted by Stephen W
The trouble is I will now have to defend my title! :yawn:
#33
Posted 27 September 2006 - 08:57
Originally posted by Twin Window
Or retire as undefeated class champion!
The thought had crossed my enfeebled mind!