Dave Butler- Blast from the Past!
Ollie - October 26th, 2012 at 02:11 PM
Look what I found from 18 years ago!
FROSTY - October 26th, 2012 at 04:37 PM
Has anyone got a photo of Henry's Manx? I like to see that!
Stanley - October 26th, 2012 at 04:47 PM
Normally only run twice a month.....c'mon DB got some catching up to do
1916baja - October 26th, 2012 at 05:10 PM
That's cool!
dangerous - October 26th, 2012 at 05:13 PM
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Normally only run twice a month.....c'mon DB got some catching up to do
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I often DID race twice a month back then, but not all year round.
I was only 25 years old back in 1994. Not bad numbers for a young fella!
dangerous - October 27th, 2012 at 07:28 AM
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Has anyone got a photo of Henry's Manx? I like to see that!
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FROSTY - October 27th, 2012 at 07:58 AM
Hey Dave, have you got a pic of the tube Ghia? Cool Manx too!
dangerous - October 27th, 2012 at 08:04 AM
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Hey Dave, have you got a pic of the tube Ghia? Cool Manx too!
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Only these:
year:1995
dangerous - October 27th, 2012 at 08:10 AM
1916baja - October 27th, 2012 at 08:17 AM
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 - October 27th, 2012 at 09:47 AM
^^ Ghia's still around, Mark may even get it out to play one day....so a little birdy told me.
matberry - October 27th, 2012 at 09:50 AM
I was just getting my car together around then, only running 12's so didn't rate a mention 
dangerous - October 27th, 2012 at 01:46 PM
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I was just getting my car together around then, only running 12's so didn't rate a mention
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Yeah I guess the letter was pretty dated by the time it was published.
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 - October 27th, 2012 at 03:34 PM
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I was just getting my car together around then, only running 12's so didn't rate a mention
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Yeah I guess the letter was pretty dated by the time it was published.
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.
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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.....
FROSTY - October 27th, 2012 at 07:56 PM
Awsome!!! Love the old stuff
FROSTY - October 27th, 2012 at 08:07 PM
Oh shit now its going to take me ages to get through your photo bucket!!
Stanley - October 28th, 2012 at 11:40 AM
That's a cool looking engine in the Ghia
Dak-A-Tak - October 28th, 2012 at 12:58 PM
Dave , need to put stuff in set folders , Yes time flys .
matberry - October 28th, 2012 at 10:20 PM
You want some old stuff Frosty.......this thread prompted me to finally get around to scanning some pics
Henrys manx
matberry - October 28th, 2012 at 10:57 PM
Marks ghia
Mark was a real tease with those Fuch's on his trailer.......
matberry - October 28th, 2012 at 11:00 PM
I loved Dave's beast in it's early raw state.....
matberry - October 28th, 2012 at 11:02 PM
Gary Berg's 300hp flier
A few of the lads....you know who you are
matberry - October 28th, 2012 at 11:10 PM
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)
vassy66T1 - October 29th, 2012 at 05:15 AM
whathaveidone - October 29th, 2012 at 06:16 AM
What happened to mad ash's chop????? Is that Rubens VWRX???
matberry - October 29th, 2012 at 08:35 AM
I think the Pell's onsold it, I'm sure someone will clarify.
HS618 - October 29th, 2012 at 05:11 PM
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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!!
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FROSTY - October 29th, 2012 at 05:43 PM
Thanks Matt! !!!!!
matberry - October 29th, 2012 at 07:21 PM
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Thanks Matt! !!!!!
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Cheers guys...plenty more
1916baja - October 29th, 2012 at 07:33 PM
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I loved Dave's beast in it's early raw state.....
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Wow! so clean and simple! Well, compared to now!