How about a 'period' classics pictures thread
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Our team (you can see my team mate with the black Midget) were running on "spare" wheels (in my case 2 cosmics and 2 steels) all fitted with secondhand tyres from our local dealer which he would replace for us every couple of events for the price of a pint.
Lady S used to drive the BGT laden with the spare wheels to the events- happy days
Lady S used to drive the BGT laden with the spare wheels to the events- happy days
Some more Karting Pics from the 60's. These two are my father in 1965 (No. 22) at the Dorothy Hyman Sports Stadium at Wombwell. The engines they used were Montessa M100's.
The following shows some of the pit area with an Austin A35 van, MK 2 Jag and MK 1 Cortina.
This next one is later, around 1968. My father had by this time stopped racing himself and prepared equipment for other people. He is the one stood behind 98, with the jumper on. Again at Wombwell. Engines were by this time manufactured specifically for kart racing.
This circuit was the only one in the UK where we raced in an anti-clockwise direction. This wasn't always the case though. The change was made after a driver took the bend onto the main straight and launched himself over a wall into the spectators.
The following shows some of the pit area with an Austin A35 van, MK 2 Jag and MK 1 Cortina.
This next one is later, around 1968. My father had by this time stopped racing himself and prepared equipment for other people. He is the one stood behind 98, with the jumper on. Again at Wombwell. Engines were by this time manufactured specifically for kart racing.
This circuit was the only one in the UK where we raced in an anti-clockwise direction. This wasn't always the case though. The change was made after a driver took the bend onto the main straight and launched himself over a wall into the spectators.
radlet6 said:
Some more Karting Pics from the 60's. These two are my father in 1965 (No. 22) at the Dorothy Hyman Sports Stadium at Wombwell. The engines they used were Montessa M100's.
The following shows some of the pit area with an Austin A35 van, MK 2 Jag and MK 1 Cortina.
This next one is later, around 1968. My father had by this time stopped racing himself and prepared equipment for other people. He is the one stood behind 98, with the jumper on. Again at Wombwell. Engines were by this time manufactured specifically for kart racing.
This circuit was the only one in the UK where we raced in an anti-clockwise direction. This wasn't always the case though. The change was made after a driver took the bend onto the main straight and launched himself over a wall into the spectators.
Interesting stuff, my brother used to race at Wombwell, that would be about 71 to 74 I'm guessing. He raced a Zip with a 200cc Villiers, later called 210 national I think. I used to tag along and watch but was always a bit young... and skintThe following shows some of the pit area with an Austin A35 van, MK 2 Jag and MK 1 Cortina.
This next one is later, around 1968. My father had by this time stopped racing himself and prepared equipment for other people. He is the one stood behind 98, with the jumper on. Again at Wombwell. Engines were by this time manufactured specifically for kart racing.
This circuit was the only one in the UK where we raced in an anti-clockwise direction. This wasn't always the case though. The change was made after a driver took the bend onto the main straight and launched himself over a wall into the spectators.
velocemitch said:
Interesting stuff, my brother used to race at Wombwell, that would be about 71 to 74 I'm guessing. He raced a Zip with a 200cc Villiers, later called 210 national I think. I used to tag along and watch but was always a bit young... and skint
You are right about 210 national. Although the circuit was really a bit too small for the gearbox classes. More suited to the 100cc karts. I bet he used to race at Blyton and Fulbeck too, these were more suited to gearbox classes.I used to race at the circuit between '72 to '77 in the junior 100cc class and 100 National senior class.
I won the 100cc junior club championship in '75 (Blyton in '74 and '75).
I might even know your bro'.
LordBretSinclair said:
I may have posted this picture before but someone's got to get this thread back on track 
Love the Cosmics.I had them on my Mini in 1987...
Dad and I built the motor. I ground the head myself with reference to the Vizard book on Mini tuning.
MG Metro inlet and HIF carb, Maniflow, RC40 and Piper 270 cam.
The dyno at Rally Equipe said it put out 80bhp, which might have been a bit optimistic, but it would keep up with a Mk1 XR2...
I had more fun in that Mini than in all my other cars put together.
radlet6 said:
You are right about 210 national. Although the circuit was really a bit too small for the gearbox classes. More suited to the 100cc karts. I bet he used to race at Blyton and Fulbeck too, these were more suited to gearbox classes.
I used to race at the circuit between '72 to '77 in the junior 100cc class and 100 National senior class.
I won the 100cc junior club championship in '75 (Blyton in '74 and '75).
I might even know your bro'.
radlet6 said:
Some more Karting Pics from the 60's. These two are my father in 1965 (No. 22) at the Dorothy Hyman Sports Stadium at Wombwell. The engines they used were Montessa M100's.
The following shows some of the pit area with an Austin A35 van, MK 2 Jag and MK 1 Cortina.
This next one is later, around 1968. My father had by this time stopped racing himself and prepared equipment for other people. He is the one stood behind 98, with the jumper on. Again at Wombwell. Engines were by this time manufactured specifically for kart racing.
This circuit was the only one in the UK where we raced in an anti-clockwise direction. This wasn't always the case though. The change was made after a driver took the bend onto the main straight and launched himself over a wall into the spectators.
Epic photo's!! I love the guys helmet/visor in the third one, I had one of those when I rode my first motor bikes in the late seventies, thought I was Agostini with that on!The following shows some of the pit area with an Austin A35 van, MK 2 Jag and MK 1 Cortina.
This next one is later, around 1968. My father had by this time stopped racing himself and prepared equipment for other people. He is the one stood behind 98, with the jumper on. Again at Wombwell. Engines were by this time manufactured specifically for kart racing.
This circuit was the only one in the UK where we raced in an anti-clockwise direction. This wasn't always the case though. The change was made after a driver took the bend onto the main straight and launched himself over a wall into the spectators.
Pat H said:
What was unusual about it was that it had been cosmetically modified from new as follows. Mechanically it was 100% standard.
Genuine Wood & Pickett bull-bars front and back
Genuine Wolf Race slot mags all round with wider tyres
Black plastic wheel arch spat set like yours
Black vinyl roof
Full length Webasto sunroof
In-car telephone and corresponding long antenna (in a Mini, in 1980!)
Redesigned dash with integrated high-end Clarion component music system with self-seeking radio, cassette player, amplifiers etc.
As kids, my brother and I loved it to bits. Sadly it didn't stay in the family very long and my parents committed the truly unforgiveable crime of part-exchanging it for a Talbot Solara! Their excuse being that we boys were growing up and so the family would need a bigger car.
Sat angrily in the back seat on the Mini's final journey to the dealer (Stephen Rayns, Leicester), my brother and I muttered all the way there and told our parents that we refused to be driven back home in the ghastly Talbot. Even as 11 & 13 year olds, we knew our parents were making a terrible and embarassing mistake. Of course we eventually gave up the struggle and the Mini was gone.
A few years later we received a phone call from the police informing us that they had found the Mini upside down in a Fenland ditch and that it had been stolen and used as a getaway car. They wanted to know if we could assist them with their enquiries.
cjb1 said:
The following shows some of the pit area with an Austin A35 van, MK 2 Jag and MK 1 Cortina.
I've not seen a kart lifting a front wheel before, thought only Mk1 Lotus-Cortina's did that, absolutely brilliant and epitomises how the true spirit of motor racing was back then!
Great picture ,but as a pedant I have to point out that it is not an A35 van but an A55 !I've not seen a kart lifting a front wheel before, thought only Mk1 Lotus-Cortina's did that, absolutely brilliant and epitomises how the true spirit of motor racing was back then!
LotusOmega375D said:
Pat H said:
What was unusual about it was that it had been cosmetically modified from new as follows. Mechanically it was 100% standard.
Genuine Wood & Pickett bull-bars front and back
Genuine Wolf Race slot mags all round with wider tyres
Black plastic wheel arch spat set like yours
Black vinyl roof
Full length Webasto sunroof
In-car telephone and corresponding long antenna (in a Mini, in 1980!)
Redesigned dash with integrated high-end Clarion component music system with self-seeking radio, cassette player, amplifiers etc.
As kids, my brother and I loved it to bits. Sadly it didn't stay in the family very long and my parents committed the truly unforgiveable crime of part-exchanging it for a Talbot Solara! Their excuse being that we boys were growing up and so the family would need a bigger car.
Sat angrily in the back seat on the Mini's final journey to the dealer (Stephen Rayns, Leicester), my brother and I muttered all the way there and told our parents that we refused to be driven back home in the ghastly Talbot. Even as 11 & 13 year olds, we knew our parents were making a terrible and embarassing mistake. Of course we eventually gave up the struggle and the Mini was gone.
A few years later we received a phone call from the police informing us that they had found the Mini upside down in a Fenland ditch and that it had been stolen and used as a getaway car. They wanted to know if we could assist them with their enquiries.
I had a girlfriend with a Clubman. Fitted on the front were two giant Cibie Bi-Oscars that her father had insisted would help her see in the dark. Sadly her parking was as poor as her night vision and they were always being hit. I remember driving through Windsor one evening with her lights shining at planes landing at Heathrow.
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