Event Autoshite's most unpopular event - Now with many a picture

[solid61]

Exellent meeting,i went last year but gonna have to miss it this year,if your in two minds about going just go and you wont regret it,banger racing with rotten old cars is rare these days and so much better than the mondeo rods it has sadly become.

[Junkman]

Is there actually someone who won't miss this this year?

The way it looks atm the GGG will be very lonely in its quest.

Well, what else is new?

[Ghosty]

Bugger, thought this was next weekend. I don't have enough pez money to go, and I've ended up going to the cinema, ticket paid for and all.

[Junkman]

I'm starting to feel rather lonely.

[Junkman]

We'll be either around Primadoner's or in the turn 1 area.

[DodgeRover]

Malc has posted a youtube video

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eEaNI0iFRik

[Junkman]

That Sappo was sensational.

 

 

 

 

Not a molecule of Bakelite left on the steering wheel:

 

 

Also, the rulebook says you must have a metal plate bolted to the floor in front of the driver's seat.

This car complies.

 

Sticker on dashboard should delight PShome:

 

 

Still with four digit postcode.

 

 

There was less interesting ex Soviet chod as well:

 

 

 

Three Litre:

 

 

 

Three Litre:

 

 

 

I have no idea:

 

[Junkman]

 

 

 

Still no idea:

 

 

 

Rare Humber Sceptre MKII

 

 

 

 

 

Ireland was represented with this delightful horizontal limousine:

 

 

 

Deffo not Irish built and full metal. My guess is Binz or Pollmann, but there was no coachbuilder's plaque anywhere.

 

 

North London hitman:

 

 

Rare estate:

 

[Junkman]

 

I haven't seen this many Three Litres in a long time.

 

 

 

This guy finds one of these folding things every year:

 

 

He then proceeds to race them with the roof propped up.

 

 

Pure art:

 

 

 

The Mob was out in force as usual with impeccably decorated cars, as always.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Junkman]

What was left of a Citroen AC4:

 

 

 

 

 

This P6 had better panels than either of mine:

 

 

According to the owner the shell was terminally rotten, though.

 

Delightfully decorated RM:

 

 

 

How they manage to paint Corn Flakes is beyond me:

 

 

This car put on a remarkable show throughout the meeting.

Despite shedding a square foot of bodywork each lap, it just kept on going around at race pace.

 

I can't understand how it held together at all:

 

[Junkman]

This was the only car I think shouldn't have been raced:

 

 

 

It was largely solid and IMO well doable.

 

 

 

Fins high!

 

Higher!

 

 

This Hooper Empress didn't have enough woodwork left in the body to make a match:

 

 

 

 

 

 

You could make the body wobble by pushing it with a finger.

 

 

We were told by some corporation Amazons are shit for banger racing.

 

 

We can now confirm they are.

 

 

 

From a distance I deemed this 1937 Studebaker way too straight for being raced:

 

 

Close up it turned out to be burned out and thus a Cat A.

 

 

 

That's the spirit:

 

 

 

Not sure what these were reknown for:

 

 

 

Popeye's P6 was the ropiest one I've seen so far:

 

 

It was botched together from the leftovers of a restoration.

 

 

This was simple superb:

 

 

 

 

 

You don't often see these being raced:

 

 

Hole in roof was repeated in the floorpan.

 

Those pickups fold up nicely when hit:

 

[Junkman]

More absolutely hanging P6 wrecks:

 

 

 

 

 

 

There is always the guy who has all the fun.

 

 

He was a bit of a Mike Hawthorne type.

[Junkman]

And some post race shots.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[danthecapriman]

Brilliant pics JM, just about all of them were absolutely hanging by the looks of it.

[chaseracer]

The 'plate' in the Zap's floor; was that to cover the ice-fishing hole...? 

[DodgeRover]

Did you get any front end shots of the Kingswood wagon? I would like to think it was my old one which while saveable was very very tender but I have a feeling the GTS parts were taken off and sent back to Aus and it went straight to frag when Panda sold it though

[Junkman]

Brilliant pics JM, just about all of them were absolutely hanging by the looks of it.

 

The condition of the cars was the funniest bit. Nearly all of them were incredibly hopeless piles of shit.

I thoroughly enjoyed the sories of some drivers how they got them and in what state. Most weren't even half arsed, they were quarter arsed at best.

Also remarkable is how plucked over the cars are nowadays. Not ten years ago, it wasn't uncommom to find some trim, light housings, grilles, bumpers, etc. left on them.

You would be hard pressed to find as much as a badge now.

It's incredible to which lengths they go to make these cars move at all, sometimes with remarkable enginuity.

Most of the ones we inquired about, out of interest whether they have any leftover bits, were literally bodged together from the rubble leftover from restorations.

Sadly the banger racing scene is thus no longer a good source for parts, they now mostly work with parted out carcasses that are on the way to the scrapyard anyway.

For example, not one of the P6 racers had anything available, since they all only got a rolling shell to begin with.

Only one of them still had a Rover engine, complete with autobox.

 

 

The 'plate' in the Zap's floor; was that to cover the ice-fishing hole...? 

 

No, it was literally to comply with the rules, specifying that "a metal plate must be bolted to the floor in the driver's footwell area".

The applied solution did indeed raise the eybrow of the scrutineer, but ultimately he passed it on the grounds,

that he was unable to argue that a metal plate was indeed bolted to the floor in the driver's footwell area.

[Junkman]

Did you get any front end shots of the Kingswood wagon?

 

I do not. Maybe Mr Conelrad has, I hope he will eventually post his pics.

The car was painted in what could be Orchid Metallic before it got its racing livery.

 

[DodgeRover]

Not my old one then, that was a bronze/ gold originally.

Did it run with the original engine?

[Ghosty]

 

 

I have no idea:

 

 

 

Looks a bit like a P38 but a few bits are wrong.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

I do not. Maybe Mr Conelrad has, I hope he will eventually post his pics.

 

I came into this thread to do just that, only to find there is nothing I photographed which you haven't photographed better. 

[Junkman]

Looks a bit like a P38 but a few bits are wrong.

 

It doesn't look even remotely like a P38.

 

[Junkman]

Not my old one then, that was a bronze/ gold originally.

Did it run with the original engine?

 

It was running something looking similar to a Stovebolt Six.

[AlabamaShrimp]

Great pics and I know I've said it before but every driver has to be a total nutter to take what is essentially shaped rust and smash it in to anything harder than a fart.

 

Still don't know how they find them though, there's stuff I've never even heard of let alone seen.

[MorrisItalSLX]

The Kingswood looks to be a HQ judging by the badging, dash etc.

 

The engine could be the original straight 6 - 186 or 202

 

As an Australian, this really bothers me to see a kingswood wagon end its days like this, there worth a ton of money here, and someone went to the trouble of bringing it to the UK (I an unaware of them being sold new there, if they were let me know) so what a waste of what looks like a solid car.

[DodgeRover]

I think they might have been available to special order if you were in the know, I believe the Australian Embassy used them as well.

Mine was a personal import running the 308 V8 on gas, it was a '78ish HQ with a HZ front clip but registered as a '72, it had genuine GTS guards and clocks.

Valiants (including the only two R/T auto chargers), Falcons and Fairmonts were all sold new during the late 60's and 70's in very small quantities through selected dealers

They are worth more in Aus than over here, sadly for me they are still worth quite a lot here too.

[Junkman]

That Kingswood could have been saved, but it was ropey.

I don't even want to know what it would have involved, what with sourcing spares from Australia and stuff.

My experience hitherto with enquiries Down Under yielded more uncooperative results than even France.

 

The only other car we spotted that was remotely still a car was a Marina, which was actually solid enough

to make me wonder whether someone might be missing one.

The rest was complete rubbish, the vast majority downright hilariously fucked.

[MorrisItalSLX]

I think they might have been available to special order if you were in the know, I believe the Australian Embassy used them as well.

Mine was a personal import running the 308 V8 on gas, it was a '78ish HQ with a HZ front clip but registered as a '72, it had genuine GTS guards and clocks.

Valiants (including the only two R/T auto chargers), Falcons and Fairmonts were all sold new during the late 60's and 70's in very small quantities through selected dealers

They are worth more in Aus than over here, sadly for me they are still worth quite a lot here too.

 

78 HQ??? They were 1971 - 1974

[Guest bangerfan101]

I know most of the forums anti banger racing.

 

But what an absolute belter of a meeting.

 

Rust flying everywhere

[AnthonyG]

First unidentifed one is a Datsun Sunny Estate circa 1978-9. The second is a early 1980s Toyota Carina - I think!