Old shite pics

[Guest Hooli]

Sounds like it nearly worked. Did the cat give it away? I can see it going for a look & cats are untrustworthy little shits.

[hennabm]

A few of my old ones;

 

A Fiat Uno 70S taken in 1993. Belonged to my first wife.

 

Renault 12 in 1981. taken after I had coach painted it red. When purchased there was mucho rust in the doors etc so I bought a replacements from some scrappies but all in different colours.So to make it look half decent I hand painted it.

 

Renault 18 GTS - 1984. I bought it from a Lancia dealer with 100k on the clock and took it to 140 before selling it on for a 316 E21.

 

Cortina 1600e. Bought when I was just 17 and passed my test. Insurance would only do me TP only. Still a fortune in the day. kept it a while before selling it on to one of the lads in the workshop.

[hennabm]

More??

 

 

Cortina 1200 two door. Bought for £55 and sold 18mths later for £125. 

 

Passat 1.8. My second Passat as I had a 1.6 on a W plate a few years before this one. A basic car but reliable and good on the juice.

 

 

Tipo DGT 1.4. Bought when 7 years old and 23k on the clock from a Fiat dealer in Whitburn. Kept it for a good many years until the rot set in. Sold it on the a guy from Glasgow.

[Amishtat]

Nice shine on that Renner for a brush job

[Amishtat]

Completely unprompted, my cousin has just helped me by forwarding a picture his mum just sent him. B556WHK ready to go to France, probably early 90s

[Amishtat]

With massive thanks to my aunt who brought these with her on their annual trip down from Ardersier

My grandparents, father and aunt, summer 1974.FE VX4/90 RHK466M.

Nan & Grandad with their new VX4/90 automatic LDX321P, autumn 1975

My dad before he was my dad with his new Viva, summer 1974.

[Fumbler]

Have a Viva (or what we think is one) steering wheel from a rather famous long dead illegal breakers yard on someone's land. The daughter and hubbie were shooed out because the house was sprayed from the Crittol windows to the floor with asbestos.

[Amishtat]

I'm wrong, it was RHK566M. Four years before I was born anyway.

[Amishtat]

Found a couple of undeveloped disposable cameras in the shed a couple of weeks ago, didn't have a clue what was going to be on the photos until I picked them up this morning.

Hednesford pre-68 2005.

[hennabm]

Ah

 

My weapon of choice back in the 80s when I did auto cross.

 

I remember paying £50 for the car and then selling all the good bits to fund the car.

 

 

It ran an over bored 2.0 pinto with a twin choke on it. and a four branch.

[Amishtat]

That must've been great fun, bet it flew!

[Amishtat]

All through the summer after I left school (1998) I kept bumping into this chap in the Queens Head who kept trying to sell me his mk.1 Escort, a red k-reg 1300 2 door. Wanted a bit of welding to pass an mot but otherwise pretty good but his wife was giving him ballache about it sitting in the drive. He wanted £100 to start with and by September I reckon it would've been just take it away. Never liked them enough to do more than walk round and take a look. Another one I kick myself over but who knew then they'd ever be worth what people will give for them now

[Amishtat]

I know we've had this already but whatever. Spring 2005 when I was using it as a runabout.

VBOA Billing 2005.

[hennabm]

That must've been great fun, bet it flew!

 

It was great, cheap fun.

The diff was mig'd and the petrol tank was a small LPG tank bolted in the boot. It held about a gallon and a half and was just enough for a race.

 

The best fun for me was racing when it was wet. The visor soon muddied up and so vision was restricted to a small slot formed by raising the full face visor just a little. This was accompanied by a steady stream of mud that was constantly clogging one's nose and mouth.

How I ever finished a lap in conditions like that I don't know but we were all in the same position, except the leader.

 

Look back on those times with fond memories.

[Spottedlaurel]

Does autocross happen much nowadays? There was a club local to me (Crownwheel Auto Club IIRC), they held a few field-based events each year on the Suffolk/Essex border.

 

Ford Escorts, Autocross early 1980s by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr

 

Escorts on the startline, Autocross early 1980s by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr

 

Datsun Bluebird (510)? & Ford Anglia 105E Autocross early 1980s by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr

 

Some competitors used proper rally cars, others were whatever they hauled out of the scrapyard, most were somewhere in between. I remember oddities like a cutdown Ventora and a Jensen-Healey over the years.

[Amishtat]

Where were those taken?

[Amishtat]

Somewhere in Somerset I think, June 2005

[hennabm]

Spottedlaurel

Nice photos.

 

I used to race at the Bluebell track (Spilsby) and Sturton track (Lincoln Show Ground).

 

A lot were Minis of all engine sizes. I remember an Imp with a Rover V8 in the back. Escorts were also popular. Not been a contact sport as such, a car could last a few seasons and old rally cars were quite popular. Mine was between that and the scrap yard (just).

 

No glass was allowed in the clubs I was in. Mesh had to be so big to allow vision. The NSF door had to be cut down to allow entrance/exit. All other doors welded/bolted shut.

 

On one meeting the OSF inner wing gave out and the only thing stopping the strut from leaving through the top was the bonnet. Didn't stop me as some dexion and bolts across the inner wing split meant it was ready for the next race.

 

Also for one meeting a guy turned up with an ex Formula Ford chassis and trounced everyone in their class.

[richardthestag]

RallyX

 

Brands and Lydden Hill

 

My mate was in the blue mini clubman, it was quick 

 

 

[richardthestag]

been going through family albums and found these of the sibs and me, I am the tall one

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[richardthestag]

more RallyX v early 1990s

 

doing what group B should be doing rather than polished and hidden away. but that was then.....

 

 

4x4 sierra was mates upgrade from the mini which was rendered obsolete by changing regs. this came under group N iifc

 

stolen recovered. missing all interior. bought at auction and rallyx'd quite sucessfully

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Spottedlaurel]

Where were those taken?

 

These shots were taken at Wissington, out in the countryside near Nayland on the Suffolk/Essex border. They also raced at fields in/around Boxford (where I grew up) and I also saw them race at Tattingstone near Ipswich.

 

 

Spottedlaurel

Nice photos.

 

I used to race at the Bluebell track (Spilsby) and Sturton track (Lincoln Show Ground).

 

A lot were Minis of all engine sizes. I remember an Imp with a Rover V8 in the back. Escorts were also popular. Not been a contact sport as such, a car could last a few seasons and old rally cars were quite popular. Mine was between that and the scrap yard (just).

 

No glass was allowed in the clubs I was in. Mesh had to be so big to allow vision. The NSF door had to be cut down to allow entrance/exit. All other doors welded/bolted shut.

 

On one meeting the OSF inner wing gave out and the only thing stopping the strut from leaving through the top was the bonnet. Didn't stop me as some dexion and bolts across the inner wing split meant it was ready for the next race.

 

Also for one meeting a guy turned up with an ex Formula Ford chassis and trounced everyone in their class.

 

Thanks. I remember a few Minis. One was some sort of cutdown mutant with a straight-cut gearbox that made it sound like a squealing piglet.

 

The family who ran the scrapyard at nearby Assington were quite involved with it. The son had an Alfa 1750 GT or the like which he raced and I remember seeing another one of the racers down there one day looking over a Fiat 125 as a potential candidate.

 

I recall ex-FF chassis being used as the basis for autograss specials. For some reason I never got to see any autograss racing.

 

Nowadays I suspect the towcars and vans in the pits would be of equal interest to us.

[Amishtat]

I live about two miles from Wissington and this is the first I've heard of this. Unbelievable! Thanks for enlightening me, got any more?

[Guest Hooli]

more RallyX v early 1990s

 

doing what group B should be doing rather than polished and hidden away. but that was then.....

 

 

4x4 sierra was mates upgrade from the mini which was rendered obsolete by changing regs. this came under group N iifc

 

stolen recovered. missing all interior. bought at auction and rallyx'd quite sucessfully

 

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Rallycross is a brilliant spectator sport, I've no idea why it's not always on TV instead of F1.

[Fumbler]

Father and I go to Brands Hatch to watch some good old rallycross and track day stuff. Last time I was there I saw a burbly V8 something go into the barriers. We then go to where the cars are parked and nerd off with the drivers.

[Spottedlaurel]

I live about two miles from Wissington and this is the first I've heard of this. Unbelievable! Thanks for enlightening me, got any more?

 

Sadly I don't think so, but I'll keep my eye out. I used to cycle there with a mate when I was about 14/15.

 

I think the field they used was near Wissington Grange, somewhere around here: https://goo.gl/maps/wTxBJuV5RCx

[155V6]

RallyX

 

Brands and Lydden Hill

 

My mate was in the blue mini clubman, it was quick 

 

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John Welch's Astra,I used to love the battles between him & Will Gollop in the black Metro 6R4.

John's workshops are about a mile from me,always something interesting in the yard when I go past 

[richardthestag]

John Welch's Astra,I used to love the battles between him & Will Gollop in the black Metro 6R4.

John's workshops are about a mile from me,always something interesting in the yard when I go past 

 

it was never dull watching them race. I remember Will Gollop reducing his 6r4 to component parts in a nose tail roll at Lydden in early 90s. put him out for the season

 

There were a few nutters in the sport, I have tons of pics someplace

 

going to have a gander on this channel

 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZ3mBosyMdEokOpeqLLWC9g

 

oh and just found Barry Mcguigan who seemed to always be rolling his Nova. 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

been going through family albums and found these of the sibs and me, I am the tall one

 

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Proper snow in those days.

[artdjones]

Lately i found a small album of car pictures at my mother-in-law's.Some of them were of two Renault 4s that we (my father-in-law and I) renovated for my sister-in-law,one in 1992,the second in 1994.

 

We bought both cars from a friend who was good at trashing vehicles.The first car,a TL,was only nine years old at the time and in addition to the damage in these pictures also had door damage where the top half of the driver's door had been bent at 90 degrees to break in.We bent it back to a reasonable approximation of it's normal state and towed the car home.It cost £50.

 

Mechanically it was basically ok.Renault 4s are tough.I borrowed an Apollo electric sprayer and bought a litre of primer and a litre of blue enamel at the local Ford tractor dealer.We picked a colour called Nacton Blue,which apparently suits various Ransomes equipment.After a good deal of work with fibreglass and filler it was wheeled into the garage and came out looking like this:-

We never got the driver's door to fit properly,which made for a draughty experience on long runs.

 

The car lasted about 2 years until the chassis started to rust badly at the back.

The previous owner had replaced it with a beige 1982 GTL which had had dozens of tiny blue stars hand painted onto it by the hippies he bought it from.He didn't use it for long,and it lay there until we bought it for,you guessed it,£50.Unfortunately,there are no pictures of the car in beige with blue stars.We decided on a colour change,this time to Massey Ferguson red and I borrowed the Apollo again.

 

Here we see the car after being wheeled out into the sunlight after one coat of primer,a rubdown,and two coats of red.

Note the beige on the inside of the door.

And next to it's predecessor before having the lights put back on.

 

And the final result.

 

Then we had to get rid of the TL,so it was cut upon the front parking area:-

I saved one torsion bar to use as a very long drift and it's still in my garage,

 

Ironically,my sister-in-law's husband then decided he didn't like it,so it was sold and replaced with this:-

 

A 1.1 for maximum misery.