Where Are They Now ???? - Page 15

**GTRMagic** · 22 Dec 2008, 10:58 (Ref:2359641)

Quote:

Originally Posted by M Noske

i drive trucks these days.

At Indy....

**GTRMagic** · 22 Dec 2008, 11:00 (Ref:2359643)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Growling Ferret

Rod Salmon was running a AMG Merc Coupe whale in the recent Duttons Rally when it came to Canberra...

He was big on rallying before V8 Supercars - I remember pushing a (when they were new) brand spanking EVO3 back on to the road after he missed a righthander in a NSW Rally champ round in Canberra. Shame the sump guard and sump were not attached to the car at the time...

... as well as B12 hour winner of 2008 with Mr White & Mr Alexander

The AU chassis ended up with Mr Beikoff... as run by the father & son... and Alex Yoong

mtpanorama · 22 Dec 2008, 11:28 (Ref:2359653)

Quote:

Originally Posted by JackBlahBlah

wheres garth walden these dayss?

Drove the Tander Improved Production RX7 at the last NSW state champioship round at Eastern Creek

Rombles1 · 22 Dec 2008, 12:25 (Ref:2359668)

Quote:

Originally Posted by MattV

Terry Finnigan owns/runs the fish and chip shop at the Winston Hills shopping centre in Sydney.

What ever happened to the drivers of the ride of a lifetime or chance of a lifetime drivers. Gazzard and Bates - I think the car ran with the number 3 in 1990....

Is Peter Gazzard still selling cars in Mt Gambier? I remember a sales rep at my work going down to see him, and coming back and telling me that he had come out of his office to see him on a Segway!

rocks harder · 23 Dec 2008, 01:53 (Ref:2359982)

im pretty sure mark gibbs runs a car part business in slacks creek Qld

billy bigtime · 23 Dec 2008, 03:10 (Ref:2360000)

(What ever happened to the drivers of the ride of a lifetime or chance of a lifetime drivers. Gazzard and Bates - I think the car ran with the number 3 in 1990.... )

It was called Peter Jackson Search for a Champion, I should know, I tried for it. Gazzard won it and I came ?. Oops, that could nearly give the game away

sizzle · 23 Dec 2008, 03:47 (Ref:2360004)

Quote:

Originally Posted by billy bigtime

(What ever happened to the drivers of the ride of a lifetime or chance of a lifetime drivers. Gazzard and Bates - I think the car ran with the number 3 in 1990.... )

It was called Peter Jackson Search for a Champion, I should know, I tried for it. Gazzard won it and I came ?. Oops, that could nearly give the game away

Last?

billy bigtime · 23 Dec 2008, 03:56 (Ref:2360007)

Quote:

Originally Posted by sizzle

Last?

No, I was up the pointy end but quite a bit slower than Gazzard. Our turn was at Winton. I remember drinking Bundy in the spa till 3am next morning with Gricey and a few others, geez, could he drink

alfacors · 23 Dec 2008, 04:14 (Ref:2360011)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Belly13

Dugal MacDougall?
Alan Guuurrr?
Neil Schembri? - one of the nicest blokes I've ever met
Cameron McLean?
Phil Scifleet?
Anthony Robon?
Peter Hills?

Anthony Robson has run the Nurburgring 24Hr with Mal Rose a few times.
Cameron McLean had a few Carrera Cup rides with Sherrin - now doing some car preparation/development
Phil Scifleet was running Fujitsus last year, but I think ran out of funds?

Garth Walden has also been racing the BelGarage Mitsubishi Evo in events like Superlap, and I believe still has the SS Commodore Production Car they ran in the 12Hr which may come out to play again in 09.

david5 · 23 Dec 2008, 04:34 (Ref:2360013)

Quote:

Originally Posted by billy bigtime

(What ever happened to the drivers of the ride of a lifetime or chance of a lifetime drivers. Gazzard and Bates - I think the car ran with the number 3 in 1990.... )

It was called Peter Jackson Search for a Champion, I should know, I tried for it. Gazzard won it and I came ?. Oops, that could nearly give the game away

I remember one of the finalists telling me that besides him & the two winners, the rest were pretty ordinary, so I either know you or your pretty ordinary.

David

MCWB · 23 Dec 2008, 06:35 (Ref:2360037)

Quote:

Originally Posted by racer69

Frank Kleinig & his son (Peter? Can't overly remember at this hour) who ran FVees?

Kleinig Motors in Girraween for Frank. Not sure about Peter.

billy bigtime · 23 Dec 2008, 11:03 (Ref:2360095)

Quote:

Originally Posted by david5

I remember one of the finalists telling me that besides him & the two winners, the rest were pretty ordinary, so I either know you or your pretty ordinary.

David

No doubt about that. How did you go smart arse?

**GTRMagic** · 23 Dec 2008, 11:22 (Ref:2360107)

Quote:

Originally Posted by billy bigtime

(What ever happened to the drivers of the ride of a lifetime or chance of a lifetime drivers. Gazzard and Bates - I think the car ran with the number 3 in 1990.... )

It was called Peter Jackson Search for a Champion, I should know, I tried for it. Gazzard won it and I came ?. Oops, that could nearly give the game away

Funny to have read the Great Race book for Bathurst 1990... to learn that Brett Youlden and Jason Bargwanna both missed out on places in the 'Search For A Champion' competition....

Wrighty05 · 23 Dec 2008, 12:36 (Ref:2360147)

Quote:

Originally Posted by GTRMagic

Funny to have read the Great Race book for Bathurst 1990... to learn that Brett Youlden and Jason Bargwanna both missed out on places in the 'Search For A Champion' competition....

Yeah Brett got very very close from memory.

sizzle · 23 Dec 2008, 13:29 (Ref:2360173)

Quote:

Originally Posted by billy bigtime

No doubt about that. How did you go smart arse?

Aw come on Billy your killing me. You give plenty but are bit touchy yourself. What was it the close or ordinary?

Was Skaife a judge on that program, or Murph?

david5 · 24 Dec 2008, 02:18 (Ref:2360543)

Quote:

Originally Posted by billy bigtime

No doubt about that. How did you go smart arse?

I already knew I was ordinary, the person who told me has now been mentioned so I guess I dont know you.

David

**GTRMagic** · 24 Dec 2008, 02:19 (Ref:2360545)

Quote:

Originally Posted by david5

I already knew I was ordinary, the person who told me has now been mentioned so I guess I dont know you.

David

I thought all you had to do was spend another $1,000 and you became less ordinary

billy bigtime · 24 Dec 2008, 02:46 (Ref:2360555)

Quote:

Originally Posted by sizzle

Aw come on Billy your killing me. You give plenty but are bit touchy yourself. What was it the close or ordinary?

Was Skaife a judge on that program, or Murph?

It was run as a money making venture, so Skaife couldn't be involved-it would have gone broke

Rob Bailey · 24 Dec 2008, 03:43 (Ref:2360565)

Quote:

Originally Posted by billy bigtime

It was run as a money making venture, so Skaife couldn't be involved-it would have gone broke

is Mark related to Pixie Skase?

david5 · 24 Dec 2008, 05:39 (Ref:2360591)

Quote:

Originally Posted by GTRMagic

I thought all you had to do was spend another $1,000 and you became less ordinary

Ahh yes, the magical next $1000.00, fortunately I ran out of money & ability about the same time. I never had much of either to start with.

David

JackBlahBlah · 25 Dec 2008, 01:35 (Ref:2360940)

what has happened to alan gurr these days?

Falcadore · 25 Dec 2008, 09:17 (Ref:2360965)

Quote:

Originally Posted by GTRMagic

Funny to have read the Great Race book for Bathurst 1990... to learn that Brett Youlden and Jason Bargwanna both missed out on places in the 'Search For A Champion' competition....

I remember at the time the program copped a lot of flak through one of the TV current affairs programs because some of the entrants allowed to compete included drivers who had upwards of five Bathurst appearances.

Peter Gazzard has appeared sporadically as an endurance co-driver well into the V8 Supercar era, his drive of the Stenniken Commodore in 1997 was a stand-out. Into the 2000s there were some drive in Production based championships but it all petered out as it does for every driver. It was 18 years ago.

Rick Bates was involved with his brothers racing efforts for a long time, running some of Neal Bates Motorsports satellite efforts, notably Daihatsu's (a Toyota subsidiary) factory efforts in circuit racing with Sirions and Copens in production car racing and Lexus Targa rally cars. There was a NSW Rally Championship in one of Neal's hand me down Celicas, and Rick became very big briefly in the world of international cross-continental historic tarmac rallying, winning some very big events in a Porsche 911S rally car. It was while Rick was running some of NBM Targa Tasmania efforts that he met his future wife, former MTV and then current Ten Motorsport presenter Alison Drower who was initially foisted upon Rick as a celebrity pace noter for Ten's Targa Tas coverage. The two have a family now.

Peter today is 47. Rick is 43. I don't think new racing opportunities will be that forthcoming. But for a time they were good. Quite good indeed.

Spunky · 7 Feb 2009, 23:28 (Ref:2390659)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Belly13

Dugal MacDougall?
Alan Guuurrr? Lives on Gold Coast works at Morris's signwriting
Neil Schembri? - one of the nicest blokes I've ever met
Cameron McLean?Has Mclean Motors in Brisbane
Phil Scifleet?Living on Gold Coast about to become 1st time dad
Anthony Robon?
Peter Hills?

racing days seem to be over though

275 GTB-4 · 15 Feb 2009, 00:19 (Ref:2397644)

Mal Brewster
John Leffler
Ray Gulson
Spencer Martin
Brian Lawler
Warren Weldon
Garry Wilmington
Bruce Stewart and others

....are passing on their vast knowledge to newbies and not so newbies at FoSC meetings.

**GTRMagic** · 15 Feb 2009, 00:26 (Ref:2397646)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Falcadore

I remember at the time the program copped a lot of flak through one of the TV current affairs programs because some of the entrants allowed to compete included drivers who had upwards of five Bathurst appearances.

Peter Gazzard has appeared sporadically as an endurance co-driver well into the V8 Supercar era, his drive of the Stenniken Commodore in 1997 was a stand-out. Into the 2000s there were some drive in Production based championships but it all petered out as it does for every driver. It was 18 years ago.

Rick Bates was involved with his brothers racing efforts for a long time, running some of Neal Bates Motorsports satellite efforts, notably Daihatsu's (a Toyota subsidiary) factory efforts in circuit racing with Sirions and Copens in production car racing and Lexus Targa rally cars. There was a NSW Rally Championship in one of Neal's hand me down Celicas, and Rick became very big briefly in the world of international cross-continental historic tarmac rallying, winning some very big events in a Porsche 911S rally car. It was while Rick was running some of NBM Targa Tasmania efforts that he met his future wife, former MTV and then current Ten Motorsport presenter Alison Drower who was initially foisted upon Rick as a celebrity pace noter for Ten's Targa Tas coverage. The two have a family now.

Peter today is 47. Rick is 43. I don't think new racing opportunities will be that forthcoming. But for a time they were good. Quite good indeed.

Mr Gazzard still competes in Targa Rallies... and has one of his toys for sale here

Would have looked better run next weekend though in the B12