The Roaring Season

CUSTAXIE50 wrote:Yes i know of a gent who raced a xu1 and he said he did that with the pistons also.

Back to front pistons....May not have been illegal
It happenned in GTHO Ph3 engines in 71

Section from Ford memo on the QC engines dated 8/4/71 (This is prior to the HO3 being released in May)....

No, adrenaline is brown...

GD66 wrote:No, adrenaline is brown...

So are some of the sleeves on TRS

Oldfart wrote:So are some of the sleeves on TRS

Wise man rolls up sleeves before stirring ****

Jac Mac wrote:Wise man rolls up sleeves before stirring ****

Brown arm not clothes!

Come on, everyone is deadly serious on here.

Some thought I bent the rules once, but it was just interpretation, (there's not mine of course). I still have those 'springs' hanging on the wall.

928 wrote:no sutch thing as cheating, there is only getting caught. a nascar expression i think. and one I follow

No idea who you are as you hide behind a nom de plume. However, you are a very unimpressive fellow to say the least. How can there ever be a level playing field when cheats exist??????

RUSS CUNNINGHAM wrote:No idea who you are as you hide behind a nom de plume. However, you are a very unimpressive fellow to say the least. How can there ever be a level playing field when cheats exist??????

problem is that cars that I have built and prepared won enough races to satisfy me. you have won?

RUSS CUNNINGHAM wrote:No idea who you are as you hide behind a nom de plume. However, you are a very unimpressive fellow to say the least. How can there ever be a level playing field when cheats exist??????

Lighten up Russ, nobody is taking this thread very seriously!

Oldfart wrote:Lighten up Russ, nobody is taking this thread very seriously!

Im with Russ on this one oldfart.

Jac Mac wrote:[color="#0000CD"] So would putting the chassis of a car inside the body instead of underneath, or fitting a 1500cc Cortina 5 bearing crank into a 109e 3 bearing block be considered cheating or just getting creative? Funny how the guys with non de plumes cant take anything seriously, now whats a Buckler?[/color]

Jac Mac, yes you have been that forever, I am just an Old Fart but nom de plume or just being honest?
I presume that a good South of the Mainland like you is tongue in cheek about Bucklers as there were several from the town on your neck of the woods, and not too long before your time. Kelvin Brown did exactly that crank into block thing you mention(in his Tahuna Beach Ford 8), only rule was capacity class. Is that "cheating"? Is it possible to "cheat" with an allcomer?

A couple of great quotes.

One by Douglas Bader (WW2 Fighter Pilot)
"Rules are for the guidance of wise men & the obedience of fools"

Unknown
"May the best cheat win"

Another funny little story I heard of Harry Firth (the king of bending rules to breaking point) from the 70's after he left Ford & went to HDT. He put in a complaint about illegal parts being used on the falcons. When he was questioned about how he would know about those parts. He replied I put them on!"

Also in the days of the Cortina GT, to qualify the cars to be production cars all parts had to be listed in the factory parts catalogue & available in the local dealer. So Harry would re write the Ford parts catalogue & make a few available to certain people.
A couple of days before the race a crate would arrive at the local ford dealers that no one but Harry was allowed to open. If the scrutineers questioned the parts used on his car, he would pull out his special parts catalogue & then take them down to the dealer & crack open the crate showing that the parts were available at the Ford dealer. Not cheating but cutting it very close.

CUSTAXIE50 wrote:Is brown the colour.

I reckon the colour is grey, that's the shade where innovation and cleverness lurk

OK, at the Glenvale 200 in 1973 Jim Richards rolled up in the Norris Miles GTHO (A C Gill menswear) and was lapping 4 seconds faster than Leo Leonards Charger- he was lapping in 64 secs. He was allowed to run in production race. Was that cheating, or is it the fault of the scrutineers and organisers for accepting it? it was described as ... looking more like a Bank of Wales car than standard production .Also was s comment- cars were no more standard than OSCA cars.

John McKechnie wrote:OK, at the Glenvale 200 in 1973 Jim Richards rolled up in the Norris Miles GTHO (A C Gill menswear) and was lapping 4 seconds faster than Leo Leonards Charger- he was lapping in 64 secs. He was allowed to run in production race. Was that cheating, or is it the fault of the scrutineers and organisers for accepting it? it was described as ... looking more like a Bank of Wales car than standard production .Also was s comment- cars were no more standard than OSCA cars.

John

How did his times compare to his McMillan Ford GTHO from 71/72

Ellis- I dont know, but I do know that Allan Moffat told the world that Leo Leonard had the fastest Charger in the world after it dusted his GTHO at Wigram.
.There was a time in the race when Leo was putting up faster times than Richards, but then he pulled out
.In 72 it apparently was really wet. Jim Richards was driving Escort 1300 GT came 13th
My point is only- when there are no rule or clearly defined rules ,there is no cheating.
That is why standard production and production racing then was so hard to police-look at those running racing tyres in these races- Francivic did at Wigram in his GTHO- the organizers allowed him

Jac Mac wrote:[color="#0000CD"] So would putting the chassis of a car inside the body instead of underneath, or fitting a 1500cc Cortina 5 bearing crank into a 109e 3 bearing block be considered cheating or just getting creative? Funny how the guys with non de plumes cant take anything seriously, now whats a Buckler?[/color]

Robbie did all of that,so it must have been all right at that time.

I remember hearing the comment made at a B & H race "if you win it drive it into the rubbish tip at the end of the back straight on your warm down lap".