Who is your favourite retired racer?

fullnoise · 2004-11-26T03:58:15+00:00

I was going through some old nationals photos the other day. There were some pretty inspirational cars around 10 years ago. What racers can you remember? I liked Jeff Unwin's Hell Bug. He took me for a ride in it one day and it scared the crap out of me. I remember going sideways through a busy shopping centre car park on a Saturday morning. I also helped push a wild Karman Ghia drag car at the Nationals when they were held at Parklea. That thing was a work of art. I can't remember seeing it race. I also saw a gun metal grey oval with colour coded cookie cutters at the drags one year. That thing was a rocket but I never knew anything about it and never saw it again. I think I drew a fair bit of inspiration from that car. The other standout is Paul Zanallos car but I only saw that in magazines. Does anyone want to share a memory - hopefully in a bit more detail? CYA CT

vw54 Administrator Always Waiting 4 Friday

16,723 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 4 Dec 2004, 6:50 am

#274503

Hey Birchall, it's no wonder you've made so many posts with incredible insights like that one.

CT LOL hahahahahahah

I read it on FACEBOOK so it must be true

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fullnoise Fahrvergnugen

964 posts · joined Sep 2002 · 6 Dec 2004, 6:49 am

#275285

Mr Birchall, that's more like it!

CYA CT

esratrams

Craig Torrens 6 times Australian, 7 times State Hillclimb Class Champion

8,040 posts · joined Jan 2003 · 6 Dec 2004, 2:53 pm

#275456

Special Air Service wrote:Craig , who from Taree is running a beetle?

Not too sure who, was told someone from Taree had set up a beetle to run in Hillclimb ???

fullnoise Fahrvergnugen

964 posts · joined Sep 2002 · 6 Dec 2004, 3:57 pm

#275484

Doesn't Colin live up that way?

Back to the topic, "Retired VW Racers". I was hoping this would be more VW related than Retired Racer related.

Jim Richards and John Bowe drove VW beetles (Probably Marcus Ambrose too judging by the way he drives!)

CYA CT

esratrams

Anthiron The Baja Rejuvenation Begins

4,936 posts · joined Oct 2003 · 6 Dec 2004, 4:06 pm

#275487

i remember john bowe once telling a magazine or a tv show or something that he lost his virginity in the back of a VW bug and it caught fire while they were doing the deed.

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Craig Torrens 6 times Australian, 7 times State Hillclimb Class Champion

8,040 posts · joined Jan 2003 · 6 Dec 2004, 4:11 pm

#275490

Christian, Colin lives at Tamworth.

Kevin Bartlett also raced a VW at some stage.

Who raced the Beetles at Bathurst during the 60's?

jakjones Officially Full-On Dubber

217 posts · joined Mar 2004 · 7 Dec 2004, 7:04 am

#275754

fullnoise wrote:Hey Birchall, it's no wonder you've made so many posts with incredible insights like that one.

Hi John, welcome to the forum. It will be good to have a voice of reason on here. I hope you stick around.

Hey Craig, are you already practicing your winning speech for the Hill Climb Championship? I've got some thought starters for you:
"I'm just a humble bloke."
"It's the sport that won at the end of the day."
"I'm not going to talk about my engine builder."

And Jak, stop putting people in retirement!

CYA CT

got to love this thread ,

how about some race car vw pics, as well as Jak and CT.:party:party

fullnoise Fahrvergnugen

964 posts · joined Sep 2002 · 7 Dec 2004, 10:20 am

#275833

You make me want to change my name.

I'll go with Christian just so I don't have the same initials as you.

CYA Christian

esratrams

whatnow Custom Title Time!

1,000 posts · joined Jan 2003 · 16 Dec 2004, 5:39 pm

#280607

i was going to say craig but it'd be wrong (and lying :P ).

i couldn't say he's my favorite. but george reynolds is someone whose exploits i'd like to know more about.... i think it was him who ran a mod'd 1200 back in the day that ran standard (sp) heads that had been welded etc and turned into twin ports.... supposedly fast enough to see off 3.8 jag's.
there were also released tuning parts under his name...

anyone got more info?

h.