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BIMF carpark
The carpark at the BIMF had a few classic cars, I've just started a thread in the historic racing section so I thought I'd throw a few pics up here too. HERE is the link for the gallery - mostly photos of the production cars that had a 12hr race on the Sunday, won by a BMW 335i.
This is a 1975 Ford Falcon John Goss Special. Goss had won the Bathurst 500 the year before, so what better way to celebrate (ie flog a few more cars) than with a V8 and lairy 70s paint scheme. Note the rear wheels (7") are lost in the rear arches, which were designed to take 10" rims for racing. ![]() 1968 Holden HK Monaro GTS 327 - Holden's first entry into the muscle car market, and was also successful at Bathurst the same year. ![]() This drag racer (1971 Holden HG Monaro) is "somewhat" modified (1000+hp worth of modified!), it certainly did some big, smoky, block-out-the-sun burnouts on the front straight! ![]() And several miles further from the wall, this is a WWII Ford Blitz truck with a Bristol Viper jet engine on the back. This also did some demonstration runs at lunch time, and while the yellow Monaro did not, this had me blocking my ears - the afterburner/reheat came in with a visceral thump and you could feel the heat from 50m away... I realise this is stretching the whole "classic" thing, but both the truck and the jet are classic in their own right, right? ![]() ![]() |
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errr ..... right!
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Looking back, I really should have taken a photo or some video footage of the afterburner - it produced flames nearly twice the length of the vehicle, a really spectacular sight
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I didn't get to see the truck in action, but i certainly heard it! The smoke was visible hundreds of metres away!
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David, the smoke came from the yellow Monaro drag car.
I had a look through the photos for any other photos of your car, but no luck sorry. There was an XU1 similar to yours on display on the Friday: ![]() Last edited by johnh875; 17 May 2007 at 02:13. |
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