Hey guys,

Just wondering how you all got into your desired form of racing?

I can't remember......I think I have been a petrol head since birth!!

like racing anything, boats, cars, bikes, MTB's anything, so bought a car that i could work on ( a vw!!!) and away I went. (joining a club helped alot to )

Driving the fire trails of the Hornsby area , at the age of 14yrs, in an early 60's beetle :thumb

Then hooning through Galston gorge on my P's.

Then as stress management !

my dad helped me and my brother build a go-kart when we were about 7-9 and he would only do it if we were there to help and then years later we got give a 71 super bug for the tow truck fee and my dad showed us how to rebuild the motor and slightly modify it soo we spent three and a half hours goin around our http://www.mortlakespeedway.netfirms.com  untill we ran out of petrol!!!! now we are goin RACING on a bigg boyz track lol....

(Craig is going to love this)

It was about 1996?? I think, & my father & I went to Amaroo raceway to watch some beetle racing that had been advertised.
There was some amazing cars there , the mullers little blue beetle was there & many others, but the one that stood out was a white beetle with 69 on the side, it was noticably quicker than anything else on the track.
I still have the photo of it sitting in the pits. It must have been just built as it was very shiny & clean.

Fast forward a few years & I heard that there was this guy by the name of John Ladomatos racing supersprints, I went to watch him & he took me under his wing with my 72 superbug & an 1835 in the back.
Then met Steve Carter & Richard Holzl & the rest is history as they say, I was hooked!!

Jak

I'm glad I inspired you Jak

Amaroo was a great track and that was a fun day :thumb

Yes my car was painted that year, I think !!
Still looks shiny now.................................well if I ever cleaned it b

I'd always wanted to race a beetle . . . just didn't know where to start! I then read a write up by Rizzo in a magazine about the Porsche club being very supportive of VW's participating in their events and thought thats for me!! I've never looked back.

How did I get into racing

Well it started a long time ago far far away….. I grew up in Sydney and as a boy raced motto-x bikes down at Nowra. Then one of my first jobs was with Dunlop Motor sport, so my interests went from bikes to cars after working at races like Bathurst, Oran Park and Amaroo Raceway. My first race was at an Amaroo club day in a GTR Torana and I learnt how to be loose, lol. Then I had the chance to buy a beetle with a 1641cc as a cheap car to get to & from work, boy was I wrong. The Torana was tossed and the bug became a Baja. After a couple of years the 1641 was pulled out for a buggy my bro-in-law and I were going to race. We took the motor to Stan Pobjoy need I say more !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well...

IT was the 2004 Bug-In at Caloundra that started it for me and a kewl as CHICK-A-DEE named THorun! We went to the Saturday show n shine and got talkin to Thorun who was racing Bix/Drew's car on the Sunday out at Mooloolah in a paddock. She asked, begged and pleaded for me to come and join in on the racing with her. We ended up bein two of three chicks out of about 30ppl. We didn't care if we stuffed up the tracks or how slow we went but the main thing was we were having FUN along with feeling SOOO nervously sick! Each race bought on another HOOGE adrenalin rush....

The Offer to purchase a Baja as a race car was put to me approx a month ago and "Chequers" should be home this weekend.

My first project and learning curb as far as motors and body goes should be interesting!

So now im DEFINATELY hooked, and have LOTS to discover!

Ciao
Kat

Lamborgini was my first word (No Joke).

Dad was into Lancias from when I was in the womb to my teens. Weber carbys in my formative years would probably explain my love for the noise (I have IDFs and IDAs).

Dad did a few driving courses and used to drift his Lancia HPE through turns at 180 kmph on the Old Pacific highway when I was asleep in the back seat.

The original Italian Job was my favourite video.

Then Lego, for building cars, was my favourite toy.

Then I modified and raced Remote Control cars at St Ives Showground

Then I started building my oval and buying parts that would make it raceable.

A natural progression really.

CYA CT

nah, that would have made it worth even less.

*BIG FAT LOUD BELLY LAUGHS*


you guys are phunny as phuck.

I only ever watched the Bathurst 1000. Any other car racing didnt interest me. First race meet I ever went to was Pukekohe to watch Lasers race in a one make series. Bored me to no end.

BUT THEN, I found VW's and they had this little thing called Nationals drag racing. AND THEN I paddock bashed at LogBridge farm and choked Dave Becker on oil smoke. AND THEN some crazy guys in Club VW Illawarra like Jeff Unwin, Dave Becker, Russell Brown, Colin Percival, Michael Carr raced at Huntley hillclimb, 2 in kombis, 1 notch and 2 beetles in reverse order) and that was it for me. No longer would that pussy straight line stuff be anywhere good enough for me. The top arms were taken out and bent in a press to give me some neg camber. Some phat sway bars went on, and some A008's on 7 inch cookies replaced the crappy 14inch steel things, then the webbers went out and the turbo went in, and I was doing 29's at Huntley.

Good to sit in the timing shed watching all these 'race cars' that cant beat a 29.05.

[Edited on 14-5-2004 by amazer]

Sounds mad Chris, that pic of your kombi on two wheels is my fave racing shot ever