Dutch Rocket Bike

[Transmitter Man]

I'm trying to find any info on a Dutch rider called I believe Henk Vink who I remember seeing at Santa Pod way back.

I hope I've spelled his name correctly.

Can anyone fill me in with more info?

Thanks

Phil
79 De Tomaso Longchamp GTS

[CRR]

Why don't you just do a web search, there's loads of info out there?

[Dilligaf10]

I remember Henk Vink bringing a rocket bike to Blackbushe many years ago. All the press were there waiting to get a photo of it running and, as he cracked it open, it made them all jump and hardly any of them got a photo!! Chuckled for hours over that one!

[fordcorsair]

Blackbushe, May 1983.

[Taximan]

Henk Vink was close with Sammy Miller.
Too bad they are both no longer with us
Vink's rocketbike ended up in the Feeler/Teboul camp

[Transmitter Man]

That's right. I'd heard he'd passed away a few years back.

I remember he used a rather nice American looking van to tow with but cannot find pictures of that anywhere. Will do some further searching.

Phil
79 De Tomaso Longchamp GTS

[jon c]

Taximan said:

Henk Vink was close with Sammy Miller.
Too bad they are both no longer with us
Vink's rocketbike ended up in the Feeler/Teboul camp

Its not the bike Eric rides now, though

[Benni]

Hi TM !
I saw Henk on the 2-wheeled rocket in 1986 @ Zandvoort,
(last real dragrace there) and was stunned .
I do not have any information/pix,
but you can try it at the forum of explosion,
the dutch dragracing association (also english spoken there).
There are some "old-timers" and buddies of the late (and great) Henk Vink still active,
so they might supply you with more info and/or pics.
www.explosion.nl is the address, click the dutch flag,
and on the bottom left there is the forum button.
Benni

[Muddytalker]

Wasn't the bike on display at the Donington Racing Car Museum sometime ago! I'm sure someone told me it was there on display in the late nineties turn of the century.

[Transmitter Man]

Many thanks Benni,

Will visit your Dutch forum.

Phil

[spaximus]

I saw him at the Pod, what a machine and what a madman. I swear that when he set of his arms stretched at least a foot, it was like a cartoon caracther where they were catapulted off a cliff, the middle part of their body goes first and then the rest follows.

[spaximus]

I saw him at the Pod, what a machine and what a madman. I swear that when he set of his arms stretched at least a foot, it was like a cartoon caracther where they were catapulted off a cliff, the middle part of their body goes first and then the rest follows.