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  • January 11, 2010 at 5:10 pm #97881

    John
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    Thought i would share this footage of my speedway racing days. This was one of the more fun classes that i raced. It was called cannonball. Basically you took any car you wanted, decked it out ie. rollcage, harnesses etc and off you go. Not to many rules other than the green flag ment go and the chequered flag ment finish and how you got there was your problem. Contact was allowed. you could spin cars out, put them in the wall or whatever it took to finish. In the early days cars had air compressors fitted that shot water cannons and they usually followed this up with flour bombs. The first car i rode in was a HQ wagon with 5 seats and a 427 chev motor running mud tyres. Still couldnt get traction. Then rules started to come in and tightened the safety aspect right up.

    My car is the flouro pink HQ wagon and the good wife is the passenger. She actually raced it a few times as well in the female class.

    January 11, 2010 at 7:49 pm #167997

    glenn
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    ohhh the memories,,the old man use to take us to all the local speedways and we had a ball. they still race like that up here but its now called finding a car park at woolies.

    I do love the concept of the chicane ,,how mad is that,, thanks for sharing that one.

    Boony

    January 11, 2010 at 8:33 pm #168002

    dennis da menace
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    thats fully sick JAK. did you win that race??

    looks like slow and steady gets you through again mate….

    where is your aggression :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

    eye of the tiger man, eye of the tiger :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

    January 12, 2010 at 8:02 am #168007

    John
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    menace wrote:

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    thats fully sick JAK. did you win that race??

    looks like slow and steady gets you through again mate….

    Yep, you could have the fastest, best looking car and get put into the fence. It was basically a race of survival and if you stayed out of most of the barging and looked after your radiator you done alright.

    Cant remember exactly but it was a second or third place. :)

    January 12, 2010 at 9:40 am #167998

    Brad
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    I raced the shitbox for a while when JAK went to WA to live for a while.
    One evening we bombed out and didnt make the final race. By some sort of miracle the car appeared on the track minus me (the driver), i thought i was having an out of body experience. Nah, one of JAK’s mates bribed the officals and got on the track, crashed the car into the wall and wrote it off. Then had the nerve to say it handled like shit.

    January 12, 2010 at 10:06 am #168033

    Dean
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    Looked like a couple of old chargers were amongst that group :ohmy: You wouldnt have been doing that to em if you knew how much theyd be worth in 15 years :blink:

    ahh the Bendigo international speedway :laugh: good stuff B)

    Ollie

    January 12, 2010 at 10:10 am #168034

    John
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    Hey Gob, long time no talk. Finaly got hold of the program to put the old vcr tapes onto disk so theres some old classic footage being done.

    Theres even a bit of your Lion dancing :laugh:

    January 12, 2010 at 10:12 am #168036

    John
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    Ollie wrote:

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    Looked like a couple of old chargers were amongst that group :ohmy: You wouldnt have been doing that to em if you knew how much theyd be worth in 15 years :blink:

    ahh the Bendigo international speedway :laugh: good stuff B)

    Ollie

    The old valients went alright too. heavy with plenty of power from the old slant sixes.

    January 12, 2010 at 10:14 am #167999

    Brad
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    There used to be a bloke with one arm driving an old valiant. Funny to watch when she started to tank slap.

    January 12, 2010 at 10:44 am #168037

    Dean
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    gob70 wrote:

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    There used to be a bloke with one arm driving an old valiant. Funny to watch when she started to tank slap.

    :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

    He would need one of those knobs stuck on the wheel :laugh: :laugh:

    Ollie

    January 12, 2010 at 12:18 pm #168040

    dennis da menace
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    Ollie wrote:

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    gob70 wrote:

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    There used to be a bloke with one arm driving an old valiant. Funny to watch when she started to tank slap.

    :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

    He would need one of those knobs stuck on the wheel :laugh: :laugh:

    Ollie

    when JAK was driving, he was the knob stuck on the wheel :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

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    Finaly got hold of the program to put the old vcr tapes onto disk so theres some old classic footage being done.

    Theres even a bit of your Lion dancing

    i really dont know what that means, but can i have a copy of it please JAK….

    …..or Gob, whoever isnt the victim of the apparent prank on the tape:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

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