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  1. 02-15-2018, 09:09 AM #1
    Allan
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    He also built a gorgeous sports car.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Allan View Post
    He also built a gorgeous sports car.
    Which is now being rebuilt by Louis McNair, son of Rob who built the gorgeous Riley Moth and Grandson of Wallace. Louis has already built penny farthing, often seen at Leadfoot, boardtrack twin engine Villiers, a plane... Bantam racer... Very talented young man, with more than a bit of parental guidance and skill to draw on.
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    The single seater certainly had some aero issues, it wasn't nice looking at it from the bottom as it reared up around the kink on the back straight at Puke from a flag point!
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    I was dead keen to see it, as it had been featured in the Harold, so went out to Puke, but he had already binned it. Did it sound OK?
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    Quote Originally Posted by SPman View Post
    I was dead keen to see it, as it had been featured in the Harold, so went out to Puke, but he had already binned it. Did it sound OK?
    It sounded incredible, those megaphones were awesome, in the real sense of the word. Heaps of revs. Think of a racing offshore powerboat, but louder!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Allan View Post
    He also built a gorgeous sports car.
    This one with Allan Woolf at the wheel - Manfeild 1992

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  7. 02-15-2018, 09:31 PM #7
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    Quote Originally Posted by Milan Fistonic View Post
    This one with Allan Woolf at the wheel - Manfeild 1992

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    Is that Dennis beside the car ? I am sure he had a beard at some stage.
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