I am driving the peach coloured super-stock rod and Alan Marskell drives the second of the WPVW cars at Goulburn speedway in 1993.....I have pole position for this race
hypo-vw wrote:in the mid 1990's Dave Butler bought his supercharged drag bug to Valla for the VW spectacular . He took his bug around the track at Raleigh Raceway for a couple of demo laps .
WOW!
Thanks Wayne, that was a real blast from the past!
westi wrote:That's mad Alan.
hypo-vwAustralias 1st 10sec street beetle (Jan 2007) 10.49secs@132m
dangerous wrote:WOW!
Thanks Wayne, that was a real blast from the past!
you are very welcome Dave , and there is plenty more to come as soon as I get time to go through more of my VHS tapes .
I even have footage somewhere of Greg Mackie at Amaroo Park in the mid 1970's in his beetle sports sedan , racing against Colin Bond and other known drivers....
WPVW had 2 cars running in the super stock-rods class at Goulburn speedway in 1993 . I was driving the peach coloured bug (not Russell Brown as the comentator thinks) and Alan marskell drives the burgandy superbug , until he gets t-boned....
Ben and myself fire-up his new 2442 supercharged engine at around midnight , only days before the Warwick 2010 drags .
Cindy has a little trouble holding the camera still when the engine is fired-up.....she is trying to hold the camera and cover her ears at the same time.....
this is footage from saturday night of Ben Ford from WPVW driving Horace the speedway bug at Nowra speedway in heat 3 of the 1600 sedans...... enjoy !!
Dear Wayne...who would have thought that somebody would have captured Canberra drags footage !! October,1988 was washed out & it was actually3/1989 that it was rescheduled.The run with the 350 Chev. beetle was out of 3..the vw took the lot on a rebuilt transmission & engine that was not fired etc until it arrived ar Canberra.The diff was destroyed doing wheelstands after the racing..you were close though.Ross
hypo-vwAustralias 1st 10sec street beetle (Jan 2007) 10.49secs@132m
OLD-DOG wrote:Dear Wayne...who would have thought that somebody would have captured Canberra drags footage !! October,1988 was washed out & it was actually3/1989 that it was rescheduled.The run with the 350 Chev. beetle was out of 3..the vw took the lot on a rebuilt transmission & engine that was not fired etc until it arrived ar Canberra.The diff was destroyed doing wheelstands after the racing..you were close though.Ross
thanks for the correction Ross . I am always pleased to be given the correct information and have changed the dates . My own beetle was in pieces that weekend so I ventured to Canberra with the video camera and recorded the entire event .
Great to see the old-dog back on the track again . All the best , Wayne .
incar footage from Horace as Ben Ford wins the 3rd heat at Nowra speedway saturday night . WPVW racecam is facing rearwards to show the fords , holdens and others trying to keep up with our 1642cc superbug....
Ben Ford drives Horace the WPVW speedway bug from Grid position 9 to 3rd place in just 5 laps , then with 1 lap to go the tired old 1642ml engine breaks an inlet valve and ends his race... pics soon of the damage....
