Just about done a first cut of weeding out the dross from Saturday. Next job is weeding out the duplicates... I also need to send a swag of pics to Mike Feisst for the HMC/HSC Facebook page as Mike forgot an essential piece of equipment. His camera....
Paul Madeley's Porsche 944 Turbo made its track debut in Arrows practice, but a water pipe issue brought his day to a premature end.
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This thread has had over 525,000 views! Its an awesome thread and truly enjoyable to follow. Thanks Ray for sharing all your amazing images with us.
Thanks Steve - for the opportunity to share the images. I get a great deal of pleasure from this website as do many others, and if my own modest contributions are enjoyed by one or two, it is all worthwhile.
Although the next batch should really be the Icebreaker, (I do like things in chronological order), a handful from Saturday's most enjoyable TACCOC meeting, just to whet the appetite.
I have sent a set of HMC/HSC pics to Mike so they may appear on the Facebook page before they, or similar ones, appear on here.
David Thompson (Jnr) who has also supported the ERC Series awards night through BNT, for which we are very grateful. One of my favourite shots of the day.
YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvwQsaDyrxk - race 11
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Back to Saturday Icebreaker...
The ex Ivan Selak Cortina GT given its track debut by ex-Holden, ex-Ferrari driver John Honore.
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Still Saturday Icebreaker. Apart from maybe a Caffeine & Classics meet, nothing else on my calendar until December, so plenty of time to catch up but another few sessions of scanning probably need to be fitted in too. The thought of that isn't exactly exciting as it is so slow and labour intensive.
For the Ford fans and the ERC series (Arrow Wheels and AES/Tradezone) classes - as were the above two sets of pics.
Rob Halliday (snr) Lotus Cortina - Arrow Wheels.
Tony Vujonovich - Capri V8 - and boy, does this car sound good. Phenomenal power. Arrow Wheels
Bruce Manon - still as quick as ever Escort RS2000. Arrow Wheels
Dennis McConnell Escort Lotus TC. Arrow Wheels
Ron Findlay - Ford Capri Perana. Arrow Wheels
Normally seen in a F5000 single seater, Poul Christie, Lotus Cortina. AES. Seems he forgot to add the race numbers... In the race programme as 1, but I think it should have been 32.
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Fast ladies...
Wendy Metcalf
Bronwynne Leech
Tina Glennie
Sunday - Classic Trial - Robyn Riding
Jane Farris
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Melissa Broadbent
Helen O'Sullivan
Steff Chambers - who won the first AES handicap!
Away now for a couple of days. Film crew have taken over the house!
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A few cars from Italy.
The Trofeo grid has expanded from just Alfa's to cover all Italian cars and this is a great move in my opinion. A textbook case of moving forwards rather than suffer shrinking grids. As with the ERC grids, there are critics of allowing in newer cars, but with ever increasing costs of putting on a race meeting, outlawing newer cars just to keep to some arbitrary age limit of say 1977, is no longer viable. Flicking through any of my photographs, even from the 1990's, makes and models seen regularly, are now mothballed, trailer queens or cherished, so we have to move forward.
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Und zum of ze German contingent...
Northin 1
Northin 2
Mike Delmont's well known BMW 2002 Turbo
More Italians...
Sometimes, even a small car doesn't find the track wide enough! This little rocket sounded good though.
Sunday's weather was grim first thing. Surprisingly cold too. PPG Classic Trial.
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Excellent work Ray, Thank you very much.
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Apologies for so many from the same viewpoint. I prefer to mix them around, but still a few to upload, so it is much quicker to do it this way.
Dry - no mudguards
Wet - no grip
Called at Hampton Downs for a couple of hours today as Targa was getting organised. Spotted this, the G B S, from 1986. Chevrolet engine. Back on the road today after finally getting the LVVTA plate.
GBS looks very different to when I had it in my possession. I wonder what gearbox they are using. At one time it had a Corvair, but apparently often broke as the loads were going in the wrong direction. I hope for their sake that it has been sorted.
Rhys, I happened to be there when Andy Culpin asked to have a look and he asked about the gearbox. Apparently it is now a Renault unit. As it was only road legal today or yesterday, it will be interesting to see how it goes as I doubt it has done much testing.
Don Webster's Alpine was running too. Pics later, but I am still on Icebreaker, then the TACCOC meeting. Coming up this weekend is the Hampton Downs GT meeting, but I'll only be there Saturday.
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One of the less easy tasks is trying to research where a particular car is manufactured. Thanks to Vic Clarke, this 'GLH Formula Ford' was manufactured in NZ. 'Google may be your friend', but there are still huge gaps in easily identifying some cars. Often, you have to spend a ridiculous amount of time and often to no avail. Now I need to know where the PRS was manufactured...
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