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17 Nov 2008, 14:21 (Ref:2336418) | #276 | ||
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Auger car was built on a T492 according to Mawp in about 1980. Beetle NOT broken up, I saw it 3 weeks ago!
Did Tony Dickinson have the original Skoda, the 73-74 Chas Beattie/Chris Meek car, at one point, rings a bell? None of them tho' were as quick as Derek Walker's 'home-made' LB14 car. Fastest 2-litre I ever saw. |
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17 Nov 2008, 16:42 (Ref:2336449) | #277 | |
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i wonder if teh Auger skoda went to TD
his T290 based car was the car that Dorset racing had at LM in 77? entered under Cloud engineering TD bought the complete team 1 car spares extra chassis and had Pilbeam narrow the tub fitted rollcage skoda body built it up from the spares the complete Gp 6 car sat for 25 yrs in the barn as it last raced at LM until they restored it to race again in CER the skoda tub sits a yard as tub rollcage! VW Beetle i was told was dismantled as the corners where F5000 and of use to some car owner What was the Derek Walker skoda based on? |
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Agree with Chunterer; this is now much more about the history than what these cars are doing now! Moved!
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17 Nov 2008, 20:12 (Ref:2336575) | #280 | ||
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Yes Driftwood , that is me , 23 years old , and at the time a full-time student doing my first degree at the University of Sussex . I neither suspected nor guessed what life had in store for me ; but then again , which of us did ?
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17 Nov 2008, 21:11 (Ref:2336613) | #281 | |
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so what yr saying then University is a waste of time has nowt to do with getting a job in relation to what you studied when you should have got a job in a race team in the first place and your mother would still have moaned at you regardless of what you did !!!!
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17 Nov 2008, 21:13 (Ref:2336615) | #282 | |
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what uprights did he use?
where is this car now as it was not a sports car it obviously was not converted back to its former guise! before the Skoda he had a quick Escort |
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18 Nov 2008, 13:26 (Ref:2336968) | #286 | |
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i know it should be on another thread but can u post foto of the car in full body its long time since i saw it run as he was a norvener and rarely came south to race
i recall circa 1980/81 TV thruxton race with derek in the pits had a good 30 secs of TV coverage in the skoda |
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18 Nov 2008, 16:14 (Ref:2337042) | #287 | ||
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The Ladybird Escort
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Nice looking car.
Why is it when i see any old photo's the grass always looks terrible |
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18 Nov 2008, 21:03 (Ref:2337208) | #290 | |
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i assume dereks escort was full spaceframe car not steel cockpit and tubes
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19 Nov 2008, 05:12 (Ref:2337402) | #292 | ||
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BMW M1 THUNDERSALOON
[quote=chunterer]That's right, i'd forgottten he had an Arrows later on!
Yeah when he had the AC he was up against the likes of Jeff Wilson's Cosworth V6 BMW M1, Chunterer, I found this thread from way back, i beleive bernie harris installed the gaa engine into this BMW M1 and ran the car for Geoff, am i right? mark |
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whoaa!! is that really you in that beautiful car!!! GEE! WHAT A WASTE OF MACHINERY!!! |
19 Nov 2008, 09:11 (Ref:2337473) | #293 | ||
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Errm, no idea to be honest?!!
The interesting thing to me there is would the GA engine that Bernie put into Jeff's M1 be the one Bernie ran in his Capri and therefore 'The Brode' previously? |
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Im sure ive seen a Escort but painted Red which looks very very similar to that racing at Oulton probably mid - late 90's. Would this be the same car ?
Chunterer How the hell do you no all this info its great stuff |
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19 Nov 2008, 12:35 (Ref:2337578) | #295 | ||
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Well going slightly OT for a moment as my old man used to say when I was in school (I drove him to distraction):
"If you 'flipping well' spent half as much time with your head in your school books as you do in your 'flipping racing mags', you'd get far better results.' I dunno Shrew, the imagination and capacity to absorb info about car racing just happened when I were a lad. When I was little I would pore over the programmes, the mind would conjure up images of some old thing trundling round, then when I actually saw the cars with my own eyes I was quite often gobsmacked by what I saw and the noise they made!! The Ginger Marshall Relliant Kitten is probably the greatest example of that. I was mouth open when I saw it for the first time at Thruxton in 1984 hurtling up Woodham Hill towards the chicane. I couldn't believe that that noise and that speed came from that car. Fabulous! I've always been into saloon car racing (as well as certain single seater categories), regardless of how 'saloon' the cars actually were so to speak!!! A lot of things on here develop from speculation (or educated guesses) and then people come on and either confirm or dispel. Take the Rover thread, like this one, a member started off enthusiastically listing cars he remembered and eventually even the previous owners or people involved in building them came on. It's absolutely brilliant on here!!! So many enthusiasts whether they have been hands on or not make it such a great forum. |
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19 Nov 2008, 14:38 (Ref:2337657) | #297 | ||
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Im kinda in the same boat as you when you saw the Kitten.
I used to go to every meeting at Outon from a very young age during the 80's. Actually the first racing car i can remember was some sort of sports saloon ( I think ) The car was painted black and white like a Zebra which is probably why i remember it. I seem to recall seeing it race a fair few times at Oulton. I no this is not a lot of info but its all i can remember. Can anyone tell me who and what this car was ? I used to drive my Dad crazy every time we went to Oulton 'is the Zebra car racing today' then after every race 'is it on now' etc and i used to wave at the car every time it went past |
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19 Nov 2008, 14:46 (Ref:2337660) | #298 | |
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The BMW M1 car was the chevron B30 ex purley f5000 car he bought from the channel islands it was with the GA
later sold to the McPherson brother sister racers bernie had his GA in the capri saw the car at circuits in the 80`s but never saw it run! then GA went into a 1985 lola f3000 car he had for BOSS in the late 90`s |
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19 Nov 2008, 16:17 (Ref:2337706) | #299 | |||
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19 Nov 2008, 16:23 (Ref:2337707) | #300 | ||
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Derek Walker , Special Saloons , and Oulton Park .
Before he did Special Saloons , I believe that Derek raced a home-built Clubmans car ( or series of cars? ) called a Ladybird . Story is that he is about to reappear in one of these !
I can remember the Escort , which I think was powered by an 1850 cc BDE ; by the way the only size for a genuine BDE ! He once wrapped it up in practice at Oulton Park , and repaired it for the race using tubing 'borrowed' from various parts of the infrastructure at Oulton Park . Later on , he built a Skoda with , I think , the same engine . His Chief Mechanic at that time was his teenage daughter , Eliz(s?)abeth . He raced principally at Oulton , but was a leading light in the Aintree Racing Club , and could also be seen at Donnington and Mallory . IMHO , a far better driver than some of those who raced similar cars , but had much better funding . Just as an afterthought on the subject of Derek Walker ; did he not also at one time run a Fiat 850 Coupe ? Not , I think , the Norman Lackford car , either ; to me , Norman epitomised the very spirit of club motorsport , and deserves to be the subject of a separate string all of his own . Any takers ? Clive |
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