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7 May 2003, 07:51 (Ref:592009)
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Daytona 24 Hours 1970
This weekend before going to the Champ Cars at Brands I dropped my little girl with her grandparents. My dad has recently had returned a set of slides, thought lost, of his time with Trevor Graham Racing at the Daytona 24 Hours in 1970. Their condition leaves a lot to be desired but I have managed to tidy a few up so that they are viewable.
If anybody knows what Andrew Hedges or Piers Forrester are doing nowadays I'd love to hear...especially if they are still racing in the historic formula http://paulsands.org/daytona70.htm ps I posted this in error over in Art & Photog hopefully it'll get moved, merged or deleted |
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7 May 2003, 19:42 (Ref:592750)
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A great piece of motorsport and family history. Any more?
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7 May 2003, 20:22 (Ref:592798)
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http://www.mgcars.org.uk/carclub/sf050201.html
Andrew Hedges apparently living in Bahrain.. at least its a link. |
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7 May 2003, 21:52 (Ref:592936)
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I have some more slides to sift through..I remember at the time seeing one of Mario
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10 May 2003, 19:18 (Ref:595604)
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Great photos Paul. I'd love to see more when you get a chance to scan them.
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18 Nov 2003, 15:20 (Ref:787201)
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Fellow ten-tenther Huge Wally (Martin Spetz) has just returned my slides after spending what must have been a lot of time scanning and cleaning images. For this I salute him and make it known that I owe him at the very least a very very long cold one sometime.
I have posted the cleaned images here http://paulsands.streamlinenet.co.uk...daytona70.html Many thanks again Martin |
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18 Nov 2003, 15:31 (Ref:787210)
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If Piers (Weld-) Forrester was also riding bikes using his trust fund I believe he was killed at Brands on the start line when he came off a TZ700 Yamaha or similar - if I have the wrong bloke sincere apologies etc
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18 Nov 2003, 15:38 (Ref:787217)
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same bloke...killed at Clearways in 1977 I believe
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18 Nov 2003, 16:11 (Ref:787242)
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it was a golden age of motor racing thanks Paul for sharing the sildes with us I never knew him but frds of mine who did said he was a great guy and lived life to the full
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18 Nov 2003, 16:15 (Ref:787249)
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It's odd looking at the history of the car cos most of the individuals who owned/raced it are still going and I knew a lot of them , without knowing this link, while crewing as a snot nosed kid for Frank Sytner in his FF200 and Sports 2000 days
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18 Nov 2003, 16:21 (Ref:787257)
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Did you ever find out about visiting the car and/or the Gulf clothing you were after a month or two ago ?
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18 Nov 2003, 16:22 (Ref:787259)
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Not yet...the annoying thing is Mr Newey raced a Ferrari at Snett a couple of weeks back and I was at Silverstone...something I'm going to work on for the old mans 70th (Jan 2005)
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19 Nov 2003, 09:03 (Ref:787967)
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In motoring news this week,it says that Newey intends to race the GT40 next year in selected historic meetings.
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19 Nov 2003, 09:21 (Ref:787978)
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no way!!??!!
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Quote:
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