A couple of weeks ago a new car showed up at the Nowra speedway, 1600cc class.

Out in front of the competition, this meet he won every race, and the crowd loved it!!



[ Edited on 23-2-2006 by Menangler ]

Engine is a 1600 built by Rod Penrose, goes very well

one more

wow, that,s great, must have been fun too........... bet the kids were cheering for it

BLOODY FANTASTIC! LOVE IT!

i can hear Alex saying he wants one..:P better than thrashing round the paddock and getting to beat jap cars as well

looks like out the front of yr place ???

Hi

That looks like a superbug, good use for the LH Torana tailights.

Steve

Yep it's a '71 SuperBug,
was stored at my place, used to belong to Buzzbug, he sold it for a case of beer, took them a couple of months to build and it was done. was much better to see the car used for speedway then end up at the tip, (where it was going), the photos on the trailer are at my place, they dropped in to show us how it looked finished

Carbs are dual IDF Webers, runs very smooth.

looks good Beck maybe a dual purpose car ???? Drags ???

this saturday night March 4th , the guys from WAYNE PENROSE VOLKSWAGEN get to unleash their newest toy 'HORACE' the nasty black speedway bug . He will be unchained from the confinds of his trailer and allowed to go and play with Herbie . Should be a fun night for all .

would love 2 c some build up photos of any of these???? would love 2 do the same and build one

would love to see them racing... sounds like a VW night should be planned

look foward 2 the pics

Horace had a few teething problems on his first outing at Nowra speedway . In the first race driver Dave almost put Horace onto his roof when a right rear tyre that was too low in pressure decided to roll under the rim halfway through a sideways corner . The rim dug into the track and sent Horace into a 180 degree piraette on just one wheel , with the front quite high in the air .

Some one got a great pic of this happening and soon as I get a copy I will post it .

Second race was a lot better with higher tyre pressures and Horace came 5th out of 6 cars .( Horace must start from rear of feild for the first 2 race meetings , as per the club rules for new drivers ) . Engine was running fine and was hitting the 7300rpm rev limiter about a second before entering turn 3 .

Third race just didn't happen . Dave strapped himself in , started the engine , warmed it up , drove up to the dummy grid where the cars line up before going out onto the track , had the engine running another 3-4 minutes and when the cars went to move out onto the track Horaces' engine just stopped . The electronic ignition conversion had just failed and we had no spark . Horace was back in the trailer .

All faults have now been rectified , swaybars removed , rear suspension lowered 75mm with 40mm stagger to the left and back to NOWRA SPEEDWAY THIS SATURDAY NIGHT !!

more pics from the last meeting at Nowra

more pics

try again , more pics .

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You guys are out of control now, whish I still lived there. Hopefully I'll be back in a thew years.

Good to see guys.

Horace is looking a bit crashed and bashed after Dave took him to Nowra speedway last saturday night . He started out of 7th position in the first race , moved forward up to 5th position and on the last turn before the finish line found himself sliding sideways through the corner and into a parked datsun which had just seized an engine . Damage to right side of body , both right mudguards and marks on our new wheels .

After a few patch-ups , and a great deal of help from Paul Wright of the Shoalhaven VW club , horace was back on the track for the second heat . He started from position 6 and finished in 4th , with no incidents to report !!

In the third heat Dave started from position 3 , with Herbie in position 1 and a nissan pulsar in position 2 . From the start Dave quickly took 2nd and chased Herbie for 2 laps . Dave then ran a little wide in turn 2 and the pulsar snuck down the inside . Horace and the pulsar went down the back straight side-by-side and through turns 3 + 4 horace got higher and higher on the track until he slammed into the concrete wall exiting turn 4 . More damage to the mudguards and a lot more marks on the wheels but the thing that stopped him was a smashed right outer CV joint .( in the first pic you can see the CV boot twisted ) Goodnight Horace !!

More updates after next race meeting . April 1 , 6pm.

[ Edited on 22-3-2006 by hypo-vw ]

these couple of pics were taken by the track photographer . Both pics were taken at Horaces' first race meeting . the first pic was taken just at the start of Horaces' big spin and shows the bug up on 2 wheels . These pics and many others are available for sale at Nowra Speedway Photo stand on any race night .

Thats unreal nice one Wayne.

come and see Horace and Herbie race in the 1600 sedan title next saturday night at Nowra speedway . A great night out for all !!

That's pretty cool!
This can only be good for the Volksy scene, Good work guys!