after much debate, plenty of Jack Daniels an hassling from some good mates ,an lack of any real nostalgia bikes ,some of you may know i built an raced a vw bike along with Stan an Thornley Bros in mid seventys we are starting on a build , along the lines of my original one , only blown this time for nostalgia racing, an all vw drag days....... if they let us
1303Steve ·
Hi
This will be cool. Do you know what happened to Rick Thorley? You said Thornley Bros, is that the same guy?
Rick used to work at our local council.
Steve
GooNoo2180 ·
gday steve , yea there was three bros , Jim owned an built it , Sam rode it , Rick was quite young at the time an was the goeffer, but no ,dont know where they all are now
sander288 ·
Awesome stuff!
Just in case no-one has seen a VW powered drag bike have a geez at this
1916baja ·
Thats incredible! This is gonna be awesome!
1303Steve ·
sander288 wrote:Awesome stuff!
Just in case no-one has seen a VW powered drag bike have a geez at this
Imagine how fast it would be with todays tyre technology, it smoked half the track, Pete you must carry your nuts around in wheel barrow😂
Stanley ·
1916baja wrote:Thats incredible! This is gonna be awesome!
X2
GooNoo2180 ·
naa steve theere not that big , you can still get 4" slicks ,we dont want it to go all that fast , resonably fast,lots a noise an plenty of tyre smoke , with todays tyres n track prep, it 'll break the driveline, an wont be a good show
FROSTY ·
Is there any good photos anywhere???
dragvw2180 ·
Thats absolutely bad to the bone !!!! Now that will be a crowd pleaser . Mike McCarthy
hellbugged ·
Have you got a supercharger yet?
We have a marshal with methanol ready twin SU carbs here
Doug Sweetman ·
Noice 🙂
GooNoo2180 ·
hellbugged wrote:Have you got a supercharger yet?
We have a marshal with methanol ready twin SU carbs here
Geoff no we havn't anything suitable , the marshall would be perfect , is that the one off Mark Walkers v twin , i sold it for Mark ,went to paul muller ,then think to you , what sort of money you need
hellbugged ·
that's the one
GooNoo2180 ·
thats it , remember the ramtubes , i ride the v twin for a while ,for mark, damn horrible to ride , didn't handle ,
turboboy ·
Owesome
I saw Joe Cook's bike in the last 60's or early 70's a Ravenswood drag's when I was a wee tacker.
It was the fastest bike in Aussie, it only ran 9's is I recall ,but then it was crazy fast and a site to watch.
There was a bike like for sale about 15 years ago
it maybe still around , have a talk to some of the old racers
turboboy ·
Owesome
I saw Joe Cook's bike in the last 60's or early 70's a Ravenswood drag's when I was a wee tacker.
It was the fastest bike in Aussie, it only ran 9's is I recall ,but then it was crazy fast and a site to watch.
There was a bike like for sale about 15 years ago
it maybe still around , have a talk to some of the old racers
HS618 ·
Hey Pete, are you going to show the modern world how we used to start the drag bikes as well? (before Starter motors) - not too sure if ANDRA would approve
OZ Towdster ·
Spill the beans Henry
GooNoo2180 ·
yea gota figure out a starter motor yet Henry ,andra officials wont like the old way at ALL
dragvw2180 ·
I posted your vid on another VW website here in the US , I really am impressed with your ability to build and drive that monster, hats off to ya. Mike McCarthy
dragvw2180 wrote:I posted your vid on another VW website here in the US , I really am impressed with your ability to build and drive that monster, hats off to ya. Mike McCarthy
Mike ,not me in the vid ,its Stan Pobjoy, his was much more spectacular an faster than mine
GooNoo2180 ·
good one of Joe Cook , try doing this today at a meet
humpty ·
My god it's funny how this is popping up in conversation again.... I was only bench racing here in WA with some dubber mates, and I was telling them about yours and Stans bikes.... Now we have you posting here with your intentions!.... Awesome news!
whathaveidone ·
WTF!!!!!!!!!!!! are those blokes holding the bike back with rope so he can do his burnout????????
humpty ·
whathaveidone wrote:WTF!!!!!!!!!!!! are those blokes holding the bike back with rope so he can do his burnout????????
😂🤪😂
GooNoo2180 ·
the marshall blower pics damien put up here, is off Mark Walker's blown vtwin (late with blower removed ) i rode for a while , home built billit ,4 valve quad cam ,2lltr nitro ,be double nostalgic with that blower whistling away between my legs again
humpty ·
Madman!😵💫
Doug Sweetman ·
Awesome 🙂
Doug Sweetman ·
Awesome 🙂
modnrod ·
YAY!!!!
Real nostalgia dragbike stuff!
(Excuse the outburst, love the old bikes).
Very best wishes for the build. Jeez, that's something I WOULD travel to the other side of the world to see (or East, same as).
Good onya. 🙅
matberry ·
Unreal stuff !!!
I know where some S/P heads are that were from one of the blown Nitro bike engines, maybe you want ???
1916baja ·
You guys are mad.
GooNoo2180 ·
yep been called most of those names ,........thanks Matt we'll go with some big valve twin ports , lota good stuff avaliable now compared to 1974 , got a guy starting on the frame in few weeks , so will put some pics up soon as there's progress
modnrod ·
Bloody lovely! 😀
I've raced drag bikes for a bit now, and always wanted to combine dak-daks and bikes, but knew it probably wouldn't happen.
Very very cool to see you back at it again.
Are you going to use offset Crower-style box and sliders, straight direct drive sliders, one of the new funny-bike trannies?
ocdrbug ·
Will be interesting to see, i'm interested in what drive setup your going to use. Theres a lot of things about vw dragbikes that andra don't like but what the hell 🤪. An old friend of mine (Ronnie Scholes) still has one hangin in the rafters of his shed from memory. I remember watching some of you guys back home in Sydney back in the 60's & 70's before i got involved in Dragbike racing. These days i'm more involved in the new school style bikes ( Outlaw Sportsbikes ) but still have a soft spot for blown or inj vw db's. 😎
vw54 ·
Pete
your a really nice guy but MAD and bigger balls than me
I used to see Rick Thornley in my street about 20 plus years ago he had a mate that lived here I thought he was doing the steering towards the end
thanks Dave your too kind ,Sam rode the bike for a long time , ,in early eighty's a guy the name of Peter Osterio rode it with a blower just before Castlrreagh closed ,
then faras i know was parked for long time then sold , i did some ringin around in Syd last week , an the bike is still in Syd an is for sale , going to arrange a time to look an talk ,
i want to keep it as old skool as posible , but as you know gota meet current ANDRA tech..not good pic of Thornley's , but the best i can do