Lamborghini/De Tomaso track day at Castle Combe - 1989
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Over Christmas I dug out some old photos that I took when I was young, when a friend's dad took us both to Castle Combe for the Supercar test day organised by the De Tomaso and Lamborghini owners clubs, as well as one of the car mags at the time (World SportsCar I think?). Anyone else remember going to this? I think this one was in 1989.
Here are some of my photos - there are more on my website.
Quite a few quids worth lined up on the grid!
Here are some of my photos - there are more on my website.
Quite a few quids worth lined up on the grid!
I thought I was there, but looking at the other pics on your website, I think I must have been there the year before.
I was a very overexcited teenage passenger in Dad's Testarossa. Seem to recall completing 4 very spirited laps before the brakes set alight and it ejaculated its brake fluid all over the front of the car.
After a short sense of humour failure, the TR was cast aside and Mum's "Gti Engineering" 2 litre Mk2 Golf was brought in as substitute, and we doggedly pursued a particular Pantera for the rest of the day. Destroyed all the tyres except the right rear and the front disks and pads in the process, and whilst we could keep up, we never quite had the beans to get past it.
Hilarious day out, but things were a little frosty when Mum got her car back....
Thanks for the bringing the memory back - great days!
I was a very overexcited teenage passenger in Dad's Testarossa. Seem to recall completing 4 very spirited laps before the brakes set alight and it ejaculated its brake fluid all over the front of the car.
After a short sense of humour failure, the TR was cast aside and Mum's "Gti Engineering" 2 litre Mk2 Golf was brought in as substitute, and we doggedly pursued a particular Pantera for the rest of the day. Destroyed all the tyres except the right rear and the front disks and pads in the process, and whilst we could keep up, we never quite had the beans to get past it.
Hilarious day out, but things were a little frosty when Mum got her car back....
Thanks for the bringing the memory back - great days!
Could that white BMW M1 be the same car that was up for auction with RM: http://www.rmsothebys.com/ny15/new-york---driven-b... I think it was unsold. Maybe due to overestimated valuation.
By the way, great pics ehasler. Supercars are so common, mass produced and easily spotted these days so it must have been very exciting to see those toys in the 80s, when they were harder to find and obtain. Life seemed so simple back then.
By the way, great pics ehasler. Supercars are so common, mass produced and easily spotted these days so it must have been very exciting to see those toys in the 80s, when they were harder to find and obtain. Life seemed so simple back then.
Edited by zondaboy on Sunday 27th December 21:33
Edited by zondaboy on Sunday 27th December 21:41
Yes loved the old Coombe ....... nice and dangerous if you went off ..... and I did , high speed sub 60 sec laps no chicanes eeek . Like the old Snetterton out of Coram flat in top little lift before the big challenge ..... sadly now another chicane....... ahh well safer now I guess..
zondaboy said:
Could that white BMW M1 be the same car that was up for auction with RM: http://www.rmsothebys.com/ny15/new-york---driven-b... I think it was unsold. Maybe due to overestimated valuation.
Unlikely, but it's possible. I've not seen a picture of one with the standard wheels painted white before. The number plate would indicate that it's a continental European car.I think I was there aged 13
My father and I were obsessed with lamborghini's back then (still are now to an extent), so we went to everything we could, and Combe is just 20minutes down the road from us too
You'd never get any of those cars on the track there now due to the noise regulations imposed by the nimby's, which is a real shame
My father and I were obsessed with lamborghini's back then (still are now to an extent), so we went to everything we could, and Combe is just 20minutes down the road from us too
You'd never get any of those cars on the track there now due to the noise regulations imposed by the nimby's, which is a real shame
I think I was there aged 13
My father and I were obsessed with lamborghini's back then (still are now to an extent), so we went to everything we could, and Combe is just 20minutes down the road from us too
You'd never get any of those cars on the track there now due to the noise regulations imposed by the nimby's, which is a real shame
My father and I were obsessed with lamborghini's back then (still are now to an extent), so we went to everything we could, and Combe is just 20minutes down the road from us too
You'd never get any of those cars on the track there now due to the noise regulations imposed by the nimby's, which is a real shame
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