Originally Posted by
Rod-Tarry
I agree Stevie it was very different 12 years ago with record attempts & lots of cars involved. They have just got old & outdated. There would have been a dozen Cossies taking on those Supercars. I can name them.
John Nutter, Euan Begbie, Bruce Reid, Mike Rainbird, Kevin Sharp, Neil ( Carwise), Andy Wornell, Ade Young, Dave Moss, Martin Hadland, Lee Manning, Tibb. The great days are long gone like a Nuns convention in here now compared to that list.
Things changed though Rod (possibly for the worst? Can of worms!) People moved on and grew out of the ford scene, think those that want to do top speed runs with tuned cars buy Jap now, don't forget when you lot were doing top speed stuff back in the day an rs500 was only a 15k car and that was halfway there (well not really but you get the idea) and a 2wd saph could be had for under 4k. I can see why, when you can get an early impreza for 2k (will plenty of work) or an evo6 for 5k, or even an R33 GTR for 10k, why go with a cosworth for more? Also the mags could no longer run the tops speed events, performance fords daddy thrash was an excellent way into top speed stuff, but sadly they cant do it no longer, think you could be the lone survivor sorry with top speed stuff. I do wish more would do them but being as I wont be doing them any time soon I cant say anything really.