Those were two different cars. I don't think Dad owned either one, pretty sure both were leased for the race. Pretty sure the blue one was from Barry Jones, but don't think the yellow one for 78 was...
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Those were two different cars. I don't think Dad owned either one, pretty sure both were leased for the race. Pretty sure the blue one was from Barry Jones, but don't think the yellow one for 78 was...
Sorry, didn't see that post at first. Great to know where it was.
Hey Grant, great to hear from you.
Some friends of our family from the Motorcross days used to own that gas station at the bottom of Queen St, so I may well have been there at some time.
Frank...
I think that was probably the first race for Paul in the car. It was either there, or if there was a race at Baypark before that it would have been there. I am pretty sure we ran the whole domestic...
Those were some fun nights for sure. Our whole family including Frank, Robyn, Paul, Myself and our sisters Kim and Danielle all raced in some of those nights all together. That was a lot of Mazdas to...
Yep looks like him from other pics I have seen, and slides we still have from that time.
I must ask him again, but I believe he put the Jag motor in that car because he served his apprenticeship...
That was Paul.
Paul was always breaking something, especially in his motorcross career. Racing bikes with guys like Graeme Standring someone was always wearing a cast. By the time Pauls...
Great pics, thanks.
It was actually the same car HM5462 in those photos that dad and Bill raced together for a number of years. It started out in it's original Mazda orange, the later was painted...
That brings back more memories Michael. Yes, before the Mazda the March did have a V8 in it, and it had the original 72 March bodywork which was narrow with small front wings, and was painted...
Forgot about that one David, thanks. I remember Dad telling me about it, but as far as I know we've never found any pics of his V8 coupe anywhere.
Some footage from a Retro race in Columbus Ohio I was at a while ago on an original American Blue King track that has been at this same location since the early 1970's. Retro racing using...
A different type of racing at the 2010 IMCA Model Car World Championships in Belgium, with entrants from 30 countries where we raced 24th scale screw together chassis with carbon fibre bodies
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A world endurance race promoted by Italy's NSR using NSR plastic molded 32nd scale cars like the ones most people are familiar with
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUX4j4w94wI
These cars are...
Slotcar racing as it started out in the 60's, scratchbuilt cars raced on routed wooden tracks is still alive and well in many countries across the world.
I started out racing when I was 5 years...
Fantastic pics, many I have never seen before. Thank you all so much
It's dads 75th birthday in October and we are putting together a big collage of both racing and non-racing events throughout...