The Roaring Season

Mine was the 1983 James Hardie, stayed up all night watching old Falcons change colours and fell asleep about 3pm and missed the finish.

Gricey won a round in 1980 and the car was involved in a big crash, Waneroo IIRC, maybe written off ?

I'm too scared now.

David Jackson, motorsport enthusiast, model car collector, and mans who's bum is now too big for his seldom used race suit.

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Always a favourite at Goodwood. Looks like an early Tyrrell transporter in background

I can only dream in 1/43rd

I was at Amaroo for the M3s Sydney debut & remeber the amazing noise the JPS cars made as they came towards you. The beauty of Amaroo being you could just walk up to the open carport that they used for pits and look into the cars. Couldn't faults Frank's cars for preperation, rather eat of the floor ...

Yep, absolutely I used that article. I also used 'The Australian Touring Car Championship' book by Graham Howard and Stewart Wilson which was published in 1985 and covered the full history of the ATCC from each year since it began. I also used 'Ford: Falcon, Mustang, Sierra' book by Stewart Wilson ...

Rod I cant say, it was out of our sight. My memory is they stopped the race & the circuit was closed for a long while. My friend & I walked around the circuit & found the car off the track to the right just over the hill & it was a bit of a mess & Romano was out of the car & gone.

Pretty sure the Torana of Bob Tindall was designed/built by himself . The sound of those cars reverberating around Amaroo must have been great Dave .. Loved going to Amaroo. Sitting up on the rocks down at Stop/go, then walking over to the carports & checking out the cars. The JPS cars were always ...

Is the Tindall Torana the ex Gary Rogers car ? I was at that meeting BTW. The good old days, just car racing, no stunt bikes or XXXX Angels.

Shano wrote:I thought they did some Bathursts together, but there's always an alzheimers possibility there. Good excuse to look at my Bathurst dvd collection again as 'research."

Off the top of my head Baz was on TEN & MR on Ch 7, but by no means am I saying that's 100 % right.

Shano wrote:Ditto to Mike Raymond's voice. I always liked his commentaries. Him and Barry Sheene together were outstanding.

I didn't think they had done commentary together ?

Models ? Nah, what a waste, oops hang on, http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg30/david5_album/009.jpg http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg30/david5_album/002.jpg http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg30/david5_album/008.jpg http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg30/david5_album/006.jpg http://i244 ...

Bjorn Kjer, author of a recent transporters book is a major contributor to the Transporters thread on TNF, as no doubt many of you are aware. He claims DSJ is wrong about the vehicles origin that he rode in, the Maser part anyway. He is re-researching his information & hopes to shed more light on ...

Apparently there is some contention as to the origins of this vehicle. There are claims that it isn't ex Maserati, but that Reventlow bought it new.

I didn't know that. When were the gearboxes swapped? Did Riley do this? I think they were both purchased at almost the same time by the Bowdens. In the AMC article on the Total car, Glen Walsmley, the chap who the Bowdens purchased the car from, is quoted as saying that Reilly had swapped the Top ...

Hi David, the Geoghegan car did end up in NZ but it was Rod Coppins who bought it off Geoghegan, raced it for a season, then sold it to Riley. However, the Riley Mustang you see in the photos here is the ex-Paul Fahey car, which was a 1966 Shelby built Mustang. In a 1970 interview with NZ Hot Rod ...

I believe the John Riley Mustang is the ex Geoghegan Total car.

http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg30/david5_album/DSCF2397.jpg http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg30/david5_album/DSCF2394.jpg http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg30/david5_album/DSCF2387.jpg These taken last year on my way to MCM on the Friday. http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg30/david5 ...

Sadly i did'nt win so my 2013 entry's for the ASSC have been canned was a good line up though.. Tony Endmondson reunited with his Alfa, Glen Seton in the Baily 300ZX and myself in a Harry Lefoe inspired Ford powered Hyundai Getz As long as you paint the Alfa in the Elfin scheme I'll come & polish ...

Come on Powerball.