A warm sunny day greeted us for qualifyling,Ian & Rose,
Frosty,Dangerous Dave,Adam & some buggy guys.Dave
found it easier locating the muffin hideout than locating the traction.He carded a 6.93 @ 97mph & was so excited
to my surprise he let Frosty drive the "MUFFINWAGON".. Frosty now wants to become a professional drag racer...
Frosty lost his valve gear on No 3 & found out that single valve springs are not really suited for 6,700rpm
when you have non standard valve timing.More to report after eliminations tomorrow...Thank you-Ross
vw54 ·
wheres the PICS PLEASSSSSSEEEEEEEEEEEeee
LOWBUG ·
Nice, who else has done what
Dasdubber ·
Haha....Frosty is an excitable cat at any time - but I bet he was buzzing after the pass in the Muffinwagen!
Look forward to more reports and pics!
Al
ratbug ·
OLD-DOG wrote:He carded a 6.93 @ 97mph & was so excited
to my surprise he let Frosty drive the "MUFFINWAGON".. Frosty now wants to become a professional drag racer...
Some Photos... Looks like a new buyer for the muffinwagon 😂
ratbug ·
rose ·
Great day good to see some vw's up here for a change. I wonder if we will see any more turn up for racing tomorrow?
Frosty did good coming down for some runs the Tamworth Drag Association were very happy that they made the effort to travell from QLD to come drag racing at Gunnedah. Good effort have a safe trip home.
Should be another great day drag racing tomorrow.
mactaylor ·
you're a brave man dave, that bloke looks like he is taking your sister home to see his etchings!!!
FROSTY ·
It was a great day but yep it stopped, it has lots of number 3 inlet guide and the retainers in the rocker cover. I ran a 9.4 at 120.9km (75mph) which is my equal best. I'm still buzzing from the run in Dave's car......!!!!!! I took it real easy from the line and just slowly put the foot down, shifted into 2nd again very easy, into 3rd and eased it up to 6000rpm ( i think it was 1/2 throttle) man that was the real rush, it picked up sooo quick. Only ran a 10.5sec but it was the chance to drive a real race car that was unreal. Dave was going to give me another one but we ran out of time. There was a bit of amazement from some of the other racers that I got a drive too. Again THANKS Dave !!!!! that made my weekend. !!
20bkombi ·
Well done Dave 6.93!!!
Youre a lucky lucky man Frosty, a time you'll never forget.
Sorry to hear about your wows though.
ratbug ·
Some More Pics.
And just moment later...
And The Winnder of Class D, an old Honda Civic that was for purchased for free!
dangerous ·
Just got home from Gunnedah, great weekend of racing and socialising,
as has been the case at all the regional tracks I have been to.
Thanks to Rose and Ian for organizing the Volksies, and for the spiffy trophy, and "anti-rock" mesh.
Also thanks to Ross and Pauline Freestone for their hospitality and car storage,
as well as Ross and Gary's experience at crewing at the track.
Broke out first round(6.94 on a 7.05 DI), with best ever 60 foot time of 1.409.
Not bad for a slippery start line!
Must sleep.
ian.mezz ·
Good to see all the volkswagens that turned up have a great weekend of drag racing. See you all in July at the next one.
whathaveidone ·
we are thinking of coming up next time. do you know what the dates are???
ian.mezz ·
The next one is on in July 17th & 18th we will there
whathaveidone wrote:we are thinking of coming up next time. do you know what the dates are???
ian.mezz ·
ian.mezz ·
t_tuffnut ·
Hey guys,
here are a few pics I snapped on the day. I think the best shot is of Dave's bug laying waste to the commodore.
It was great to see a few bugs competing - a first for me. It's giving me ideas that my girlfriend isn't too keen on.
t_tuffnut ·
These are from the saturday meet. Would have been great to stick around for sunday too. Maybe next time.
Paulc1964au ·
Excellent photos, looks like it was a great day. Who owns the red VW? I really like its stance, wouldnt mind seeing more photos of it.
dangerous ·
Thanks for sharing your photos!
My favourit run was against the green 500 cubic inch two door falcon.
That is 8190cc V8.
Any one have any videos?
Paulc1964au ·
dangerous wrote:Thanks for sharing your photos!
My favourit run was against the green 500 cubic inch two door falcon.
That is 8190cc V8.
Any one have any videos?
what was the outcome?
rose ·
Thanks that's my bug. Heap of pics under my post just have a look through it's everywhere.
Paulc1964au wrote:Excellent photos, looks like it was a great day. Who owns the red VW? I really like its stance, wouldnt mind seeing more photos of it.
rose ·
Dangerous run
dangerous ·
Thanks rose.
This was the one against the Ford.
rose ·
another one
Can you see what is wrong with this video???
Craig Torrens ·
Congrats to all, and well done Dave for your quickest 60fter 👍
FROSTY ·
Still stoked with the weekend even though it was for one day, I didn't realize how slow my run in Dave's car was ( you can delete it now...lol
typethreeking ·
hey frosty, nice sunday drive dude...your a lucky man to drive that car
rose ·
another vid
ian.mezz ·
dangerous ·
Some good pictures there Ian.
Yours is doing a wheely on the other side I reckon!
HotRodMatt ·
So is it on again next year???
ian.mezz ·
Yeah we will do the Quickest Volkswagen next year.
But in the mean time every body is welcome to come and race at Gunnedah on the 17/18 July as the Tamworth drags association like Volkswagen's😊
HotRodMatt wrote:So is it on again next year???
tayloredvw ·
i love that sleeper 71 (the green and white beetle) video, smokin the commodore ute. Ha ha ha.