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[Howard Wood]

Beowulf are you sure your mystery man raced F Atlantic? Certainly FF in NZ 1975/6, then FF2000, F3 etc in UK or did he return here at some stage?

ps What else would you call a Rolling Stones tribute band?

[Grant Ellwood]

OK ERC, A Formula Pacific driver, raced extensively in Europe up to F1. A guitarist with a well known band. Sought after coach for F1 drivers. Born in Auckland in 1952. Name please and for an extra point the name of his band?

Rob Wilson - The Strolling Bones?

[ERC]

I didn't know that. Try this for size... Not easy.

OK, two original tunes written and recorded by former Lotus owner/racer Chris Barber and his band, with a motoring theme, pre 1975.

[David McKinney]

OK ERC, A Formula Pacific driver, raced extensively in Europe up to F1. A guitarist with a well known band. Sought after coach for F1 drivers. Born in Auckland in 1952. Name please and for an extra point the name of his band?

You're talking about two different people, right?
I'm surprised no-one's got the first one...
I was at the last Strolling Bones gig, back in 1987. Rob's been playing with Grand Prairie for the past few years, as well as numerous smaller bands

[Grant Ellwood]

Then there was the scandinavian guy who played for abba (bo-?), briefly in f1 then trucks and then one of the wellington street races. we shared a flight back north with mr schnappes,thats all i remember,mr schnappes always has the last word...

[stubuchanan]

Then there was the scandinavian guy who played for abba (bo-?), briefly in f1 then trucks and then one of the wellington street races. we shared a flight back north with mr schnappes,thats all i remember,mr schnappes always has the last word...

Slim Borgudd.

[ERC]

I didn't know that. Try this for size... Not easy.

OK, two original tunes written and recorded by former Lotus owner/racer Chris Barber and his band, with a motoring theme, pre 1975.

OK - you give up. The first was called "Cortina Run" and the second "Brands Hatch" - where the band played after at least 1 F1 GP. I also remember them playing after a Mallory Park meeting on the smallest stage I have ever seen. About the size of four wooden pallets!

[Russ Cunningham]

Then there was the scandinavian guy who played for abba (bo-?), briefly in f1 then trucks and then one of the wellington street races. we shared a flight back north with mr schnappes,thats all i remember,mr schnappes always has the last word...

Was this the same flight that an ambulance with a police escort was called to assist you off the plane?

[Russ Cunningham]

Here's a tricky one for you beowulf!

Who was the Formula Pacific peddler, an accomplished violinist, who accompanied a local lass playing her fallopian tube for an hour or so at the St.Amand in Tauranga, the night before raceday at Baypark?

DGM knows the answer of course.

[woody]

Are you sure he was not having a fiddle ?????????

[David McKinney]

Here's a tricky one for you beowulf!

Who was the Formula Pacific peddler, an accomplished violinist, who accompanied a local lass playing her fallopian tube for an hour or so at the St.Amand in Tauranga, the night before raceday at Baypark?

DGM knows the answer of course.

DGM might once have known the answer. He's older now...

[Lurker]

Are you sure he was not having a fiddle ?????????

Perhaps he though she was highly strung

[Carlo]

Perhaps he though she was highly strung

Whilst he was adding another string to his bow

[Grant Ellwood]

Whilst he was adding another string to his bow

She didn't know how to conduct herself in public....

[ERC]

That is f# - so I hope she wasn't b flat.

[Grant Ellwood]

Appealing to your bass instinct ERC?

[jamie]

You are A BUNCH of dirty old men CAN I JOIN in Jamie A

[Oldfart]

Was she a woodwind player?

[928]

did her tuning with a flute i think

[Grant Ellwood]

did her tuning with a flute i think

Daggan,look what Cunningham started. Russ, remember when Flux raced down here in the F Pacific Ehrlich,wasn't he the original flautist?