Random Photos Thread

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Quote Originally Posted by richard lester View Post
as a kid at levin i remember nancy sinatra's "these boots are made for walking' playing over and over on the PA..

It's funny how these things stick in your mind, at Waikaraka Park in the 80's it was "Computer Games" every Saturday night.
I heard it on the radio a few weeks ago and instantly craved a hot dog and bucket of chips.
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In my "good vibrations" I actually tired to quote post #192 but the site failed me, have another look and think :)
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So....Good Vibrations.... :cool:
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not with those exposed rods
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Grant Sprague wrote:Richard [I also remember that song lol ] but I think your dad was probably a little more reserved than mine... RE THAT SONG I was up at the wills 6 hr race probably 13 or 14 & all the Timaru boys had done their practice etc etc ....... i think was a friday night & off into town to the pink pussy cat [or was it the purple onion ] , any way me tucked in between the big boys ..in we went looking at these tarts getting the geer off & guess what they were dancing to THESE BOOTS ARE MADE FOR WALKING & that just what they will do lol .. it was big time as a kid , never told Mum ........but told ALL my school mates ..lol


Were you still wearing your cowboy hat on your big night out Grant?
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No mate but when I got back to Timaru I learnt about policemans helmets no cowboy hats needed.....was one step ahead of John Wayne ......street wise ...........lol
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Naughty boys, good thing i never did anything like that
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Off topic I know, but too good not to share with you lot..Miss Atomic Bomb 1950
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lol Bry I think I wud like to be the 3 stripper....... on top .. as for :confused: Steve E ....yea sure Steve....I know u
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I am not sure if this is the right thread for it but I found this NZ herald cutting of my next door neighbors uncles car, the Coca Cola Blydenstien powered Viva GT. Alan Boyle kindly took a snotty nosed 14 year old around the track in this car at the end of the day and that was it, HOOKED!!


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Gavin Shaw runs a Facebook page in which he has been posting up his own old New Zealand racing photos, plus those of others.

A recent posting was this oddball, which nobody has yet identified. Its a second gen Camaro, and appears to be at Bay Park. The Camaro appears possibly to be a speedway car, converted to run on tarmac, and with equal sized wheels left-right. Its hard to tell, but it appears also to have a windscreen fitted.

Does anyone know who this is, and when this was taken?

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I don't know anything about this. Just saw it on Facebook and had to share it here. Its awesome!!!

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Steve Holmes wrote:I don't know anything about this. Just saw it on Facebook and had to share it here. Its awesome!!!

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Hard case eh Steve , reminds me of a slot car
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Grant, did you see the white one at Ruapuna, what a neat little rocket ship. Thought I had photos, but if any one has can they put them up please.
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Rod would Lindsay or Brett Willis or maybe Ralph know whose Camaro that is in #209? I sure as hell can`t remember it ....
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Rod .. that Renault { Fiat not at Ruapuna that I saw ) I am sure was a re production of the car ran in the early 70,s [Mullins ??]....just a rocket ship .....not sure on the lap times but guessing would be 160 mph on front straight ......with out a doubt crazeeeeee..... but guess it complies ....also talked to Brent that weekend [ Colins] and mentioned about going out racing with one wheel stud missing [stripped] that could have also turned out not good ....all a part of the old Timaru Thing......270k glad the wheel let go on a slow corner ..... Hey Going to catch up with Kev Ban at H/ D on 3rd May he is running his Honda Cup car this will be very interesting we will catch up again hope u all good .....
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Grant are you talking about the Dauphine Chev recreation, from Nelson, pretty close to the original?

That Fiat is in Italy, heaps of them like this over there.
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Just had a fiatbambina run at levels a rew weeks ago, it was fitted with a yamaha r1 1000cc engine,6 speed sequential, it was also a rocketship
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paul lancaster wrote:Just had a fiatbambina run at levels a rew weeks ago, it was fitted with a yamaha r1 1000cc engine,6 speed sequential, it was also a rocketship


Is that Yambina that Mike Lowe (Enzed Targa Abarth fame) had for a while, and previously ex Otago with a Rotary?
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Oldfart wrote:Grant are you talking about the Dauphine Chev recreation, from Nelson, pretty close to the original?

That Fiat is in Italy, heaps of them like this over there.
Yep Old Fart , that's the one ...... was similar to the Miller car [not mullens]...... I did not see the fiat there though
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