New Brighton Stages (Picture Heavy)

[Minimad5]

Those with a slow internet connection, go pop the kettle on ... or make a 6 course meal. Either way please do return and view the following pictures:

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This Mk2 Escort gave the Impreza a right run for its money ...

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Favourite car of the show :

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Sick Drift Yo

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Hitting the kerb ..

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Rotary Powered Escort Mk2, this thing sounded like an angry wasp in an empty bean can ......

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Look out for Youtube videos of it, as it HAS to be heard and seen.

It p*ssed all over the Subaru Imprezas.

 

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Rotary powered Mk2 yet again, with air horns ablaze ....

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Nova with lights flashing, it stuck to the back of the Escort around corners, but on the straight the Escort pulled away slightly

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GR8 FOR DRIFTIN

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Disastra ..

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Talking about disasters, what's that smoke i see ? ....

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You too can be like the following picture, by simply buying Warren's 205 from him, and wanging on a few Autoshite bumper and window stickers....

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The Micra did a small handbreak then stalled...

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/Ding ... end of round 1

[Minimad5]

/Ding Round 2 .....

 

Damn man got in the way ...

 

That is all for now, as some failed to upload and i think i have missed a small number out.

Feel free to have a look .....

http://s601.photobucket.com/albums/tt93 ... /?start=20

 

In the meantime, check out a number of spots that were found within the local area:

http://autoshite.commlm/forum/viewtopic.ph ... &start=135

[warren t claim]

Love the K reg Mk2 Escort. Early plate madness!

[AXrescuer]

Brilliant pics!

 

I love New Brighton, used to go bowling there when I lived in Wallasey. Shame they ruined the sea views with those bloody wind farm things though.

[Station]

Don't worry AXRescuer, they're preserving New Brighton now by building a much needed retail centre/Morrisons on the seafront. NICE.

 

That TR7 is there every year, as most are.I saw it on a flatbed twice the day before. Who wouldn't like to enter some shite into this and break down on the first corner?

[Cavcraft]

Cheers for sharing Mark, some ace pictures there. Someone my lad vaguely knows was racing there and snapped two driveshafts.

 

What is the format for racing in these sort of things mate? Take it you'd need a specially prepared (and inspected) car or something?

[eddyramrod]

Marvellous stuff! What a perfect venue in New Brighton Prom. My Anglia never did what that yellow one's doing though....

[Minimad5]

Cheers for sharing Mark, some ace pictures there.

 

What is the format for racing in these sort of things mate? Take it you'd need a specially prepared (and inspected) car or something?

Thanks Billy

 

And as for the "format" , i don't 100% know.

But there are guidelines that you have to follow and your car has to pass scrutineering.

A mate of mine got asked to leave the New Brighton Rally / stages, as his rollcage did not conform with regulations. (The Rollcage, harnesses and seats have to be FIA approved)

 

The only thing i honestly know, is that it costs a bomb to do, unless you can find sponsorship.

As you have to get a rallying licence

Prepare the car for the events (Tonnes of Tyres, Fuel and so on)

Trailer the car around and no doubt a lot of other things to boot.

 

Think the best person to ask on here would be Pete-M, as he helped his mates out with a number of Escorts and a Sunbeam

[Pete-M]

It ain't cheap.

 

Licence is the easy bit, it's stuff like fireproof overalls, fire extinguisher systems, FIA cage, etc etc etc that cost the money.

 

It is good fun, but don't be thinking you can do a season for less than a good few grand.

 

Just doing the New Brighton thing yesterday will have cost most of the local competitors about £800.

[RedSparrow]

Thanks fot these! Check out the little Samba!

[Tayne]

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[RedSparrow]

I recon its a Triumph 1500, pre-Dolomite. They had shorter boots.

[eddyramrod]

Not the 1500... the 1300 had the short boot, as did the Toledo, but this doesn't look right for either of those. In fact to me it looks like it's been cut apart and rebuilt around a spaceframe, with the boot simply chopped to wherever the builder wanted it (or possibly to where the accident damage wasn't apparent). Those rear lights look correct for a Dolly (and 1500) as does the boot lip, it's all just a bit closer to the rear window than Triumph intended.

[Pillock]

It ain't cheap.

 

Licence is the easy bit, it's stuff like fireproof overalls, fire extinguisher systems, FIA cage, etc etc etc that cost the money.

 

It is good fun, but don't be thinking you can do a season for less than a good few grand.

 

Just doing the New Brighton thing yesterday will have cost most of the local competitors about £800.

 

My mate's got a Nova in his garage, 1400 16v from a Corsa in it. It's the one I did the wiring in. The car, fully prepped, plus enough spares to give him a fighting chance (i.e. three or four sets of wheels + tyres, a few driveshafts and other oily bits) stands him over £8000 and that's before he's entered any events. It's not cheap, but it looks bloody good fun. Last all-tarmac event, with a borrowed 8v after he detonated the 16v with 16,000rpm in first gear, he was catching Mk2 Scrotes.

[Minimad5]

I recon its a Triumph 1500, pre-Dolomite. They had shorter boots.

 

It was down as a Triumph DOlomite Sprint V8 in the free magazine (If i remember correctly)

Think a Toledo boot has been grafted on, i mean look at the rear wheel arch

[eddyramrod]

Dolomite...

and Toledo...

...both of which were mine. Bodies unmodified, so if you can see them well enough, you can compare wheelarch lines etc.