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As you drive a baby saloon stock, you probably wouldnt understand it. I would rather cop a large portion whilst being strapped into a granny or cortina, rather than be sat in a piece of fwd shat thats going to fold around my ears. Call me old skool, but I have taken a fair few big hits, and dished some out, in grannies and tinas, and they where designed and made far stronger than those chavalier bilge mobiles.

I would rather race a sierra than one of those things, and sierras are complete pooh!

He followed my then boss, back to his garage, then he unloaded the bosses car off the transporter, raced back to the track with the transporter and got someone to hiab the car on for him. He had a late night that night, as he had to unload the truck as we used it for 24hr recovery and we needed it back, just incase. Strange, that for the next meeting he aquired a trailer.

Someone used to tow their banger to Newton Abbot years ago, with a tow truck. It was great for a few meetings, until one night he got fenced heavily, and the car got completely wrecked. As the car ended up with no wheels touching the floor, he couldnt tow it home.

No snow here, just miserable rain and wind, as usual.

My recovery Transit was sprayed in household gloss, mixed with the best gloss thinners that I could find. That was 5 or six years ago, and all it needs is a good wash every now and then to bring it back up. Its had nothing but abuse, been kept outsude and neglected for months on end, but a good wash to get the moss and grime off and its back to tidy again. All my bangers used to be sprayed in gloss, and as long as you key the paintwork underneath realy well, it sticks well and shines to match.

It started its life as a Granada Ghia estate. It now sits on a home made box section chassis, runs a transit rear axle, has tranny hubs on the front, and is powered by a big block yank motor. The pick up back has a hydraulic tipper system on it, and the guy normaly tilts the back up when hes at shows so you can see all the work hes done to it. I saw it at Run to the Sun the year before last. Wouldve been kinder to just strip it and race it in my opinion!

Thats the very one! Just how safe was that track back then?

Twas the other way around Dazza, Ayles followed Whiteman in, putting him through the fence. It was a meeting that will remain in my memory for ever. The two first Autospeed run Smeatharpe world finals where excellent value for your crashing money! Oh, and the report is in issue 19 of Blitz! God, what an annorak I am!

It was the late great Polo that buried the Jags of Adrian Broadway and Mike may into the EXIT of the pit bend! Kev Wisher put in someone called Mark Hobday, who was driving a mk2 granny. The guy had to be helped from his car as he was quite a big bloke, and to help him fit in the car, he used to turned the steering wheels around. As the centre of the wheel was already close to him, it mustve been quite painful! Ive found a pic now, but as you know how quick I am at scanning stuff Daz, it will probably be done for next season.

At the '96 Smeatharpe world final, Kev Wilsher put one of the locals, in a mk2 granny into the pit gate on full chat. Now that was an impressive hit! Ive just looked through my old Bl*#z! mags, but I cant find a picture to scan.

Well smart. If I was still racing I would put em on my cars. Quick question, but is anything being donated from the profits made, say to go towards what Kev pays for the forum, or somthing along the lines of that?

A woman bent over in front of me once and I saw her knickers, does that count?! Only if you have pictures as evidence!

He did use a Datty estate at blockbuster 1 to full effect, by jacking a MK2 granada and getting best hit/wrecker of the race. 10 seconds after he did the granada, I in turn jacked him with a 280 Merc.

My game is guaranteed do that atleast once a night. Sods law dictates that its almost certainly does it on the very first online game of the night, or straight after I use the car manager file. Mine also has the habit of minimising the game at the most critical moment during a race, and you can guarantee that by the time you have clicked on the minimised game tag, someone has piled you in the fence!

N.Ps mate. There was stacks more to write down, but I basicly couldnt be bothered. Plus Dazza would only think I was defecting to stocks from bangers!

Thats what a mis-spent childhood of attending Newton Abbot race course can do for you! Plus Bill used to live at Pensilva in Cornwall, and I used to have relations living there. Im full of completely useless information like that you know Dazza!

Not That I want to offend you Kruiz. , but I think you'll find that Bill Batten actualy raced F2's in the 70's and early to mid 80's, where his number was 667 and he was nicknamed ' The Master', (probably because he could start a race a lap behind, and still manage to walk it like everyone else was out driving a shopping trolley) and because he won everything that there was to win in the sport. He did occasionaly race F1s. He was one of the first to use inboard, coil over shocks on F2's , and his on his tax return his profession was rumoured to be written down as that of either stock car racer , or builder. He packed it all in the mid 80's due to marital problems, but made a comeback in the early 90's, when he had to adopt his new 167 number as Tim Farrell now uses 667. With age comes wisdom.

dont forget the angle iron up the wing rails!

That Merc ambulance was solid. It only folded because it went in square on, or as good as. IMO there was nothing that wouldve stopped the car from bending like that, except much less speed on impact with the fence. Its just a fact of bangers, that every now and then your going to get injuries. I was lucky that in 15 yrs of racing bangers, the worst I did was break a bone in my hand, and suffer some sore ribs, cuts burns etc, but everytime that you do up that harness and put on that that skid lid, you have to face up to the fact that you could cop THE big one of your career, and you may not get out OK. Like it says on the admission ticket " Motorsport is dangerous".

If you make up H frames, sweat tanks and the like, you can subsidise your racing, as well as flogging the bits you strip off your cars, but I wouldnt fancy trying to make a go of it. That said, I did work for a garage a few years ago, and all I did was build the owners bangers for him. Cushty work if you can get it!

No Its like not knowing who David Becham is, after all, everyone knows hes a famous netball player.

Anyone ever heard of some geezer called Barry Lee? I heard that he used to serve Hot Dogs at some of the bigger meetings.

This is the second best hit that I ever dished out. My best was on a dirt track, and I took a lap run up to jack a cortina estate that had already been involved in a head on with a mk2 escort. I totaly turtled the tina, and knocked the driver out cold. Shame I never got a pic of that one!

Eddy just checked the prop shaft, or is it torque tube on them things? I cant remember how to tell the difference now, a few years of sleep depravation and alcohol abuse have taken their toll on my memory. Only pics I have got are the ones Ive posted, so I cant help you there.