swe62
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it was when Youngy did a massive burn out ,the neighbors rang the police and complained about him testing his brakes ,ah the fickleness of youth, I don,t know how we never got pinched
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is anyone into or know anything about Seagull engines I,ve bought one on a whimandit seems to have a lot of crank end float ,I dont know themodel yet, but looking on google
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imp engine in this one and fully road legal ,if I remember right reg no was WVO3M,good days them we all used to go in the Carlton Hotel with Nottingham Drag and Custom Club,Dereck Hodgetts had a nice jag powered Capri and a strajght 8 Buick ,DaveYoung had a PlymouthSport Fury and a 59 sedan de ville ,Malc Donovan had a 56 I think Pete hadAPontiac ambulance and a single deck london bus then.
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its Pete Farries by the way
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Pete also built the Doctor who three wheeler flying saucer berger viton tin of paint roller skate all on google he also built to my mind the best model t this country has seen with a 389 pontiac in it hes just finished an el camino ,a sixties style t with a small block chevy and is currently working on a sports car project we,ve been pals for more years than I care to think about ,oh yes he
still owns and flies his vintage Auster plane.
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On 8/22/2018 at 11:50 PM, roger peatman said:
Anglo American was owned by Barry Shevalls - a well known and successful top fuel drag racer.
Barry is still around Notts he was brought up on Emerys Road in Gedling him and his brother Dave started racing with a jag engined Austin seven called Pony Express,Barry went on to be one of the best european top fuel racers ,he started drag racing at about the same time as us ,he worked for a firm who used to make audio cables in Beeston and Dave used to work the doors in Notts clubs ,they are still hiring out cars for film and tv work from around the old tv studios in Lenton
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my Rover P4 was sold by Zipsers on Radcliffe Road in 1993 and was strpped and left in Myfords garage in Beeston for 25 years,I bought it in a million bits and rebuilt it ,Marysia Zipser is still in business in Beeston she is Mytiek Zipsers daughter,The Rover still has the Zipser sticker in the back windowand an unused tax disc holder in the glovebox
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Blacknells made the sidecar bodies on the wharfe at Lenton on the canalside ,I cant remember the exact location but it was around the tv studios ,the Garage and pumps was at Trent Bridge end of London Rd ,they sold petrol over the pavement served by an extremely busty young woman!
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the viva was an ha belonging to Alan Wigmore the secretary oy the national drag racing club it was called itsaviva , the castrol rail belonged to Clive Skilton
On 8/23/2018 at 8:19 PM, meeowed said:I remember a Vauxhall viva v8 powered disappearing into the corn field at the end of its run and a rear engined dragster with castrol adverts on it great early days of santa pod raceway meeowed
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the truck with the jet on was used to dry the strip ,can you remember Harold Bills Stripduster rail 803cc a series bmc used to run 9s he used an a series oil pump driven off the front of the crank for the fuel injection pump, it had a grease nipple on the front to add enough lube for a run, Dennis Priddle was the man in those days Tudor Rose AA fueler that morphed into Mr Six superbly engineered cars ,
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Two ton carmen was a mk2 zephyr , the minivan was stripteaser the engine was built by Jim Tester by heck he could make a Jag go ,we used to race the DTV chevette that we built ina lock upgarage in Toton, I have a couple of pics but I can,t get them to post on here
5 hours ago, denshaw said:Seem to remember the van was called Two ton carmen.
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sure do Phil the display was spoiled last year by a load of pillochs in boats who caused it to be further out to sea, I am hoping the vibration causes the summer house that is teetering on Salcombe Hill cliff to fall in the drink ,There,s a sweepstake on it,s demise in the Swan pub!
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On 8/15/2018 at 10:45 PM, denshaw said:
Swe, is that now Kings car sales? There was another petrol station on Westdale near Elmhurst ave.
kings it is ,Ihad some great times there and made lots of friends,Doug Fearn and the lads were brilliant neighbours ,pity you can,t turn the clock back
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red arrows at Sidmouth this friday ,can,t wait
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has anyone any photos of thegulf later became Mobil station on westdale lane next to Doug Fearns builders merchants I ran it for a while in the 80s , open 24 hrs then I had to sneak up to woodborough road and read the rival garages pump readingsto getMobil price support
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why dont macs print the car numbers on the packaging from the drive throughs
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isn,t it about a £600 fine for chucking a pong stick nub away in Nottingham city centre?
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his later passenger was Graham Alcock a good mate of mine who also was on the side of Geoff Gawley ,Graham still has both the outfits he raced in the seventies ,I think Tony Stark ended up with Dales Saab but it had abig Kwack in it
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perhaps its time for a new "keep Britain tidy campaign " the old one has stayed with me for life
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when I used to ring Andy Bones for bits, the coversation usually went along the lines of" hello have you got a so and so bit for a mk8 Itom" " just a moment please DESMOND bloody motor bikes again"this was when they had the little shop on Arkwright Street where the old man built his lovely Paragon pushbikes.
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I have still got a 50 cc Itom bought new from Des Bone in 1965 ,its done 2600 miles and is as new,I would put a photo on but can,t get my head round this computermabob stuff.
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it used to be a good run for him when we did Lyyden Hill near Dover,took him 2 days to get there
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my twin gps on my triumph sidecar had the main jets drilled to5/32" it does around 9 mpg, great times my passenger lives on Benbecula in the outer Hebrides hows that for commitment
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never Knew George Brown was one of us Ian,
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Motorbikes of old
in Pete's Nottingham Transport Forum
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the superblend bearings were the mains I used to have them ground to fit triumph cases and you could rev them till the valves floated with no ill effects ,I have about a dozen pairs of triumph cases with the sides blown out that testifies to it working bodge or not I never broke one after we used the superblends