Look what I found from 18 years ago!
Ollie ·
Aussieveedubbers · General Chit Chat
Dave Butler- Blast from the Past!
https://forums.aussieveedubbers.com/threads/99398/dave-butler-blast-from-the-past
FROSTY ·
Has anyone got a photo of Henry's Manx? I like to see that!
Stanley ·
Normally only run twice a month.....c'mon DB got some catching up to do
1916baja ·
That's cool!
dangerous ·
I often DID race twice a month back then, but not all year round.Stanley wrote:Normally only run twice a month.....c'mon DB got some catching up to do
I was only 25 years old back in 1994. Not bad numbers for a young fella!
dangerous ·
FROSTY wrote:Has anyone got a photo of Henry's Manx? I like to see that!
FROSTY ·
Hey Dave, have you got a pic of the tube Ghia? Cool Manx too!
dangerous ·
Only these:FROSTY wrote:Hey Dave, have you got a pic of the tube Ghia? Cool Manx too!
year:1995
dangerous ·
1916baja ·
Wonder where the ghia ended up?? Id love to look through all your drag racing photos from your time in the sport Dave! I reckon it would be gold!
matberry ·
^^ Ghia's still around, Mark may even get it out to play one day....so a little birdy told me.
matberry ·
I was just getting my car together around then, only running 12's so didn't rate a mention 🙁
dangerous ·
Yeah I guess the letter was pretty dated by the time it was published.matberry wrote:I was just getting my car together around then, only running 12's so didn't rate a mention 🙁
It was probably 1993 when I sent theletter
because that ET I quoted was back in late 1992, still with a carb on the blower,
and by march 1994 I had run 10's with the injection sorted out.
Gene and Dee Visited Valla that year,
and returned the next year with the car and Gary,
when we all had a chance to run against him.
Lots of pictures on my photobucket account.
http://s113.photobucket.com/albums/n216/dangerous_05/?start=all
matberry ·
Yeah mate, I thought the same thing, in those days it was normal for magazines to take 18 months or more to publish contributions. Even the Gary Downunder article was 2 years or more by memory. I had the VW Trends photographer do a shoot of my baja in '88, didn't come out until '93 or so.....🤪dangerous wrote:Yeah I guess the letter was pretty dated by the time it was published.matberry wrote:I was just getting my car together around then, only running 12's so didn't rate a mention 🙁
It was probably 1993 when I sent theletter
because that ET I quoted was back in late 1992, still with a carb on the blower,
and by march 1994 I had run 10's with the injection sorted out.
FROSTY ·
Awsome!!! Love the old stuff
FROSTY ·
Oh shit now its going to take me ages to get through your photo bucket!!
Stanley ·
That's a cool looking engine in the Ghia
Dak-A-Tak ·
Dave , need to put stuff in set folders , Yes time flys .
matberry ·
You want some old stuff Frosty.......this thread prompted me to finally get around to scanning some pics
Henrys manx
Henrys manx
matberry ·
Marks ghia
Mark was a real tease with those Fuch's on his trailer.......
Mark was a real tease with those Fuch's on his trailer.......
matberry ·
I loved Dave's beast in it's early raw state.....
matberry ·
Gary Berg's 300hp flier
A few of the lads....you know who you are
A few of the lads....you know who you are
matberry ·
Mr Page 1988
My first ever drag race at the first Jamboree
Mad Ashley's cool looking chop, the ex Madness car (sorry blurry pic alert)
My first ever drag race at the first Jamboree
Mad Ashley's cool looking chop, the ex Madness car (sorry blurry pic alert)
vassy66T1 ·
👍👍👍
whathaveidone ·
What happened to mad ash's chop????? Is that Rubens VWRX???
matberry ·
I think the Pell's onsold it, I'm sure someone will clarify.
HS618 ·
matberry wrote:Marks ghia
Thanks Matt for the photo.
Mark and myself has a small contest going as to who could get their roofline the lowest - both of us got to "belly button" height but as can be possibly seen by the photo - Mark eventually won!!! (Dave B's stature standing beside the buggy should give you an idea as to how low we eventually got)
I still say I won as I am shorter!!
FROSTY ·
Thanks Matt! !!!!!
matberry ·
Cheers guys...plenty moreFROSTY wrote:Thanks Matt! !!!!!
1916baja ·
matberry wrote:I loved Dave's beast in it's early raw state.....
Wow! so clean and simple! Well, compared to now!
hellbugged ·
Went from here back to Pagey's.... Then down to Victoria with the guy that was running the turbo fastie.... I think he sold it as wellmatberry wrote:I think the Pell's onsold it, I'm sure someone will clarify.
http://forums.aussieveedubbers.com/viewtopic.php?tid=85240&page=1#pid794855
dangerous ·
Here are some old links for you history buffs.
http://forums.aussieveedubbers.com/viewtopic.php?tid=46915&page=1#pid437583
http://forums.aussieveedubbers.com/viewtopic.php?tid=47146&page=1#pid439836
http://forums.aussieveedubbers.com/viewtopic.php?tid=46915&page=1#pid437583
http://forums.aussieveedubbers.com/viewtopic.php?tid=47146&page=1#pid439836
LOWBUG ·
Can anyone throw some dates on these pics
dangerous ·
Chris the Berg shots are all 1995.
Henry's buggy was featured in VW Power Magazine late 80's, and was racing at the 89 nats from memory.
(11.41 all time best from memory before retired) One of the shots with a young(40?) Henry was 1990 nats.
Marks Ghia was first completed around 1989 or racing early 1990, but did not run into the 11's until the mid 90's.(11.41 best NA)
The early one of mine with the big tyres is 1991.
Some of the ones with Henry's buggy are 1990,
and I think the one of pagey with the Veedub Imports signage may be 1990 VW nats since that is what is on the guys shirt.
The one with Pagey racing Matt's 911 is the first Jambo which was 1991.
Henry's buggy was featured in VW Power Magazine late 80's, and was racing at the 89 nats from memory.
(11.41 all time best from memory before retired) One of the shots with a young(40?) Henry was 1990 nats.
Marks Ghia was first completed around 1989 or racing early 1990, but did not run into the 11's until the mid 90's.(11.41 best NA)
The early one of mine with the big tyres is 1991.
Some of the ones with Henry's buggy are 1990,
and I think the one of pagey with the Veedub Imports signage may be 1990 VW nats since that is what is on the guys shirt.
The one with Pagey racing Matt's 911 is the first Jambo which was 1991.
matberry ·
Yep, sounds right to me 😉 thanks Dave
matberry ·
Mad Ash's 1303 chop top was a bit later, maybe '96 or '97
Dak-A-Tak ·
The Madness car is coming back to Qld . When Ashly race it , it had my weld wheels on it , of the yellow car scene at first Jamboree meeting pic .
westi ·
awsome stuff,and there is more cars coming out of the woodwork every event,great stuff.
i love the old pic's.few rinkles more between now and then,hey boys.🤪
crazy how the time fly's.
cant wait for sydney,hopefully everyone comes .
i love the old pic's.few rinkles more between now and then,hey boys.🤪
crazy how the time fly's.
cant wait for sydney,hopefully everyone comes .