Round 5 NSW hillclimb championship.
VW's have an outstanding record at Huntley. Come see the best the state has to offer. See road registereds, sports sedans, open wheelers. Cheap day out for the whole family, gold coin donation only.
Where? Huntley Hillclimb, Avondale Rd, West Dapto.
From the north...
Heading south down the freeway take the 2nd Dapto exit (Fowlers Rd exit).
Turn right off the exit ramp.
At the end of Fowlers, turn left onto Princes Highway.
Approx 800m up the hill there is a takeaway shop on the right. Turn right just after it. (Avondale Rd)
Follow Avondale until you get to what appears to be the end of it and turn right again. Follow that to bottom of mountain, and you will see us.
From south...
Take Dapto exit, turn left at the end of offramp.
After you go around a right hand bend turn left into Huntley Rd.
Just follow the road out to the bottom of the mountain (it changes to Avondale Rd along the way).
Craig Paton ·
Who's going?
amazer ·
Five Beetle drivers + possibly the most successful VW engined race car in the world will be there.
Craig Paton ·
Terrific, but who's beetles are going?
amazer ·
John and Nathan Abbot, Greg Ward, Craig Torrens.... eeerrrrm I lied there's only 4. I think theres a non registered competitor who will go quicker than those. Craig will still get a record and trophy most likely... just wait n see.
Other cars to watch are:
the V8 celica of Allan Barnes a very nice sounding car and damn quick.
the very nice Nissan Turbo Gemini of Adam Barnes which will be the quickest tin top if he can keep it on track.
Twin mini engined special of Warren Creagh... looks terrible, very quick.
And my favourite the Suzuki powered jedi, 170bhp in this...
I was looking at a program for 1993. If I had of been able to run my turbo kombi I would have bettered the record by half a second and been a FIGJAM too. Alas commercial vehicles at that time were exiled into Formula Libre.
Craig Paton ·
Thanks Amazer
Are you going to the meeting? If you are could you post some pics of the VW's?
Thanks
amazer ·
Im the event secretary so I will be there. I wont have any time to take pics, probably wont get to see much of the event.
speedster356 ·
It should be a great day, the southerners put on a terriffic event.😉
I'll try and get some pics on Sunday and post.
Just today I've been offered the use of a Suzuki Hyabusa powered 4WD hillclimb car, ex "Race to the Sky" in NZ and has run at Pikes Peak in the US. What a weapon. Maybe next round if it all comes together...:o
I think this is it in 2003 1st place <2ltr
[Edited on 12-5-2005 by speedster356]
amazer ·
OOOPS how embarrassment. Sneaky Pete will be there in the spyder as well.
Craig Paton ·
Great news Pete! I don't suppose that you will have in car camera?
Will a/one else be there with a video camera?
It would be great to see some footage of the meet for us Northerners! :thumb
Kai.A. ·
i think i'm gonna come down and have a look 'round.
never been to a hillclimb event in my life, but i do love just about all forms of motorsport and since there's vee dubs racing i really should check it out....
what time do proceedings kick off? how long does it run? is there a certain period of the day that shouldn't be missed???
hopefully see a few of you there on sunday, and i'll try and bring a camera that can shoot video too 😉
kai
Dannyboy ·
I'll be joining Kai and coming down to have a gander at some of these monsters. First Hill Climb , can't wait ! Hope to catch up with a few AVD folk and Speedster i'll bring the tyre!
Dan:thumb
sax ·
I'll be there, video cam at the ready.
amazer ·
Its due to start at 10:00am.
There's 2 spectator areas, one at the start line, one half way up at the fastest point in the track. There will be buses ferrying people between the two points, its a bloody steep hill. Think 2 litre kombi even with 1800 box being flat to the floor and still not being able to hold full revs all the way.
There is NO shade protection at Huntley. BYO hat and 30+ sunscreen. Also, the weather can be like semi-Goulburn. A hot day at West Dapto is very hot, a cold windy day is friggin freezin.
All the videos seem to make huntley look flatter and slower than what it really is. Believe me that when you walk the 200 odd metres to the spectator area, you're knackered.
I'm attempting to upload the best ever huntley video to my web. Its 8.9 meg so might be out of luck.
speedster356 ·
Is that original Huntley video from last years NSW round still on the web?
amazer ·
I dont know, that was the one I was trying to upload. I dont have the room.
Had a great day! Great to catch up with Craig , Greg and Nathan , the boys hammering the vw's up the course. Yes it is bloody steep and great to see the bugs doing their bit. Some awesome cars aswell as the dubs and definatly worth going to see , drag racing up hill with steep bends , brilliant! Pics to follow soon.
Dan :thumb
Kai.A. ·
got to agree with danny, it was a great day!
good to meet the guys i met.
just dropping the pics and vids off my camera now, gonna have to figure out a way of uploading some of the vids for all to see....
kai:thumb
amazer ·
Glad you all enjoyed yourselves. Sorry I didnt get to meet anyone, busy busy busy. I really enjoyed my time in the tower. Got to put shit on everyone I know, without fear of reprisal. Especially enjoyed watching the half loses, and ari vartenan rally cross impressions. Almost lost a beetle, not sure if it was nathan or john abbott but the right rear went in the dirt, the left front come waaaay up in the air with the car at 45 degrees to the track. If only I had a spare hand for a video camera. Greg and Craig both had some handfuls of opposite lock at times, exciting to watch.
let me know if the excel file causes any problems.
jakjones ·
Congradulations Greg.!
and with only 4 spark plugs
bat69 ·
It was me who decided to do the colin mcrae impression and tried to make a vw beetle perform like a wrx. Thinking of my rally days, forgot I was in a veedub. In fact I didnt really decide to do the colin mcrae impression it just happened. . . . . .
Congrats Greg on your win and the other boys for the competition. See you at Grafton.
Nathan
speedster356 ·
Thanks WSCC for another great day......
Oh and by the way, how did you manage to keep the rain away??? Some sort of offering prior to the event?
Craig Torrens ·
Congrats to Greg...............usually always a brides maid..........now he's the bride:thumb
amazer ·
speedster356 wrote:Thanks WSCC for another great day......
Oh and by the way, how did you manage to keep the rain away??? Some sort of offering prior to the event?
Sacrificed a few virgins while downing a few schooners of goats blood. It started raining on me on my drive home. Just lucky.
Craig Torrens ·
Sounds like the 21st I went to the night before...................although it's getting hard to find virgins at that age😉
amazer ·
You should try living in Warilla, de virginise anyone around here and you will end up in jail for sure. Cheap though, you could get em for a bag of lollies.
Probably not actually, the parents would make you give a pack of ciggies and a bottle of bourbon.
[Edited on 16-5-2005 by amazer]
amazer ·
I have changed the excel file, you may have found it didnt print right. Tis all fixed now.
speedster356 ·
I've seen em...that's the electric chair in the state of Texas.
Kai.A. ·
ok, got my first vid online for all to download.
it's just a shade over 4 mb. so if you don't have broadband it may take a little while....
click the link.
when the page loads scroll to the bottom, and click on 'free'.
when the new page loads it will say please wait xx seconds for your download, just wait, eventually a link should appear.
right click on it and 'save target as'
i've put the instructions up 'cos i know how easily i get confused!
if anyone finds it doesn't work, let me know and i'll try another host site.
i'll also upload a couple more once i know that this one works
:duh
kai
amazer ·
woohoo im first to download it. I feel speshull.
5kb/sec on dialup, thats pretty good.
fullnoise ·
I've got quite a bit of video featuring Gregs car from inside and outside. But I don't have anything like that. He's hammering and it sounds fantastic.
Thanks for posting the video
CYA CT
Kai.A. ·
well, now that i know it works, i'll put up a couple more after dinner....
kai
Craig Paton ·
Can a/one post results of all the VW's?
Ta
Kai.A. ·
unfortunately that last vid was the only one i got of a vw from that part of the track, all my others are from the start line.
Had a great day, ended up being quite a long one after getting up at 5am to drive the bug down to Huntley, I didn't want to miss the start and as usual it takes some time before I remembered all the things I needed for a successful day!.
Good meeting Danny and Kai, funny story is that I met Danny in 2000 when he came to install a new windscreen in my bug when I got back into racing!! as he said on the day, something about my car seemed familiar!