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 turboboy
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| posted on May 29th, 2013 at 11:10 AM |
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Old WA Drag car
trying again to post this
This is Ron Harris's bug around 1987 in Western Australia
It set the SS/C record at think at 12.02 at 117mph
It was a full steel body , 2 liter + motor with 48 webers. on 6 inch slicks
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| posted on May 29th, 2013 at 02:39 PM |
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Very cool, but where is it now??
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| posted on May 29th, 2013 at 03:20 PM |
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I reckon humpty would know exactly where it is!
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turboboy
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| posted on May 29th, 2013 at 03:32 PM |
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It has been in a shipping container for over 7 years or more
There is a supercharged motor built for it before the car was stored which 95% complete, it running but needs a few more refinements done before
racing.
It did run a blower before 1987 but it dropped a rod and cut the motor in half just about, so he went back to carbies on the new motor
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| posted on May 29th, 2013 at 07:26 PM |
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As in Harris Engines?
Same bloke isn't it?
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turboboy
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| posted on May 29th, 2013 at 07:39 PM |
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Yep
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| posted on May 29th, 2013 at 07:41 PM |
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Cool car...you seem to know it very well turboboy
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| posted on May 29th, 2013 at 07:46 PM |
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Yep, thats the one... Ron did bring it to one of my NoH2O shows many years ago, with the supercharged engine in it and all.... Fired it up too!....
The sound is made was mad!.... Both Richard (turboboy) and I have been on Ron's case to get it racing again, but he's not interested... Maybe when
we get our cars finished he might find the love once more.... We can only hope.
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| posted on May 29th, 2013 at 08:01 PM |
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Did a bit of pit crewing for him back in the days
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| posted on May 30th, 2013 at 12:49 AM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by turboboy
Did a bit of pit crewing for him back in the days
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Betcha that ws fun!
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| posted on June 10th, 2013 at 11:35 PM |
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Another pic turned up today Rich....
John Harney posted it up on FB this eve....
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| posted on June 11th, 2013 at 09:59 AM |
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Cool
If notice there is no megaphone, it did a wheel stand and pulled it off.
Well half off, we tried to pulled it off on the start line, it was hanging on by a spring , I recall, I think, dam old age LOL. but couldn't get it
off.
But if you look real close you can see the end of the mega pointing towards the camera just below the bottom engine lid locking pin.
there where on wheelie bar's on it back then.
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| posted on June 11th, 2013 at 05:51 PM |
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That's cool, so long ago...spewing he is no longer keen to get back into it...
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| posted on June 11th, 2013 at 07:41 PM |
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that looks like Henry Yellow ???
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| posted on June 11th, 2013 at 09:52 PM |
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I remember going to Ravenswood back in the middle eighties and later and seeing this, and I remember gonzo,(I think that is what they called him) he
had a beach buggy that ran 15's, that was at Kwinana though. Good memories.
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| posted on June 11th, 2013 at 11:04 PM |
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Gonzo and that bloody yellow buggy!
HAHAHA! We had a few races back then, he had a 1835 in it, pretty mild but good torque, and damn that car would LEAP out of the hole! I think my
closest race ever was against Gonzo, neither of us knew who'd won until we got the time cards..........0.002secs.
AKA Simon Travaglini, races the black Falcon Doorslammer. I last spoke to him last Westerns, he still had his buggy then.
Yep, good fun! 
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| posted on June 11th, 2013 at 11:16 PM |
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Simon is doing awesome things with his Falcon these days.... Didn't know he ran a buggy though.
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turboboy
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| posted on July 18th, 2013 at 06:37 PM |
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The yellow buggy was Peter Cook's , it did have Ron motor in it at one time.
Peter was another VW nut back in the old days
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| posted on July 24th, 2013 at 08:13 PM |
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we have to get these Perth bugs out for a track day, motorplex on a Wednesday or the weekend would be fine.
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| posted on July 24th, 2013 at 11:15 PM |
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No chance of that happening with Ron, but Turboboy and myself will be back at the track ASAP!
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