JonnyBravo

Firstly what a brilliant day out that was ! I know there are a lot of fans of the oldschool on here and it really was a day packed out with some amazing machinery.

I'll let the pics do the talking























































































I have some videos I will upload to Youtube shortly

Fantastic day out, I really hope they get a series together for next year

Richie.

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Beetle = F##king bonkers

JonnyBravo

I thought the same but that was one of many cars just as bonkers.

The Esprit was fooking fast and that Daf V8 weighed 600kgs ! LOL

Great day out, got lots of inspiration for mine now.

pig

I want abit of that in mine son.looked cracking James was to busy in the end with home shir mate

JonnyBravo

No worries Paul, the Mk2 is the one there is a build for on TS, mentally fast in the wet, got eaten alive once it dried out !

kev 3dr

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Jonny is your 309 the old black ccc or fast car mag car ??

Looked a good day from your pics I use to love seeing them at oulton park back in the day when Cleland drove the Carlton, the porsche engined gartrac RS500 etc

JonnyBravo

Mine was the old Mcmillan car, I only know of 2, mine being one, the other being the Morris brothers Fast Car 309.

This was mine originally :



It would of been nice to of seen some more of the later stuff there today but hopefully some more of those will reappear.

Staffi

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Oh man i wish i'd have known this was one, only 20mins away and i've done fook all today too..........

james kiely

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great pics jonny ,any pics of the sierra mate ?

JonnyBravo

The XR8 ? sadly not, nice motor though and was rather quick.

S1MATT

I've got an old "Retro Cars" mag with a very inciteful write-up on both the beetle and the No.55 Daf V8 car. Includes the original drivers thoughts, how the cars passed hands, how the rear was cut off the Daf and was originally sacriledge but then thought as quite a decent mod and finally how they've both not long just been fully resto'ed!
Best stop there or i may aswell just quote the article!!!Lol

If you fancy a read, PM us your addy an i'll pop it over to you.

wattie

Fantastic pics, to see them still used in anger is great it's good there not mothballed in some museum somewhere really need to get my self along to a race meet

Munch

cool motors!

ozmk1cos

Awesome cars and alot of money. Cheers for the photos

carlo

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Cool pics

Steve the Plumber

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Great pics.....

c20tbo

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Very cool

Porkie

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Wow Tricky's old 309! v cool.

I'm still in touch with Ricky if you need to know anything.

JonnyBravo

Thanks Lee, I do speak to Ricky and I've also been in contact with Paul Mcmillan and SHP who built the car for him. Maybe not as well known as some of the Fords but still a cool car and I'm very happy with it ( well will be once its back together ! )

Did you know Ricky has sold the Escort Now that was a nice car with some interesting history.

johnfelstead

I helped build and develop the Esprit working with Simon back in the early 90's onwards, we took it from a poor car that was last on the grid to pole position and winning races with a lot of blood, sweat, tears and the odd big bill too.

It started out with us as a bare chassis and body, and went through various stages of tune starting with a 3.5 litre Rover V8 and FT200 gearbox, with that we learned the chassis was properly bendy, whoever built the chassis missed out some important load paths. Chassis properly stiffened it could then take more power, so it received a TVR Tuscan Series Rover V8, then Simon and I spent a year working with Ian Richardson and together we built the first prototype Wildcat Rover V8 5.0 engine, using Ians new Wildcat cylinder heads. The car then recieved a DG300 box to handle the extra torque. The 5.0 engine ran a few seasons then was ready for a change so Simon built a 6.0 Wilcat Rover V8 and ran with that for a while. It was then time for another change so a new engine was aquired in parts over time, the engine is now a Chevy LS6 5.5 litre in a spec used in the Daytona Prototypes, pushing about 580BHP out.

I was there at the weekend giving Simon a hand, i dont get to spend much time with the car now as i ended up working with Historic F1 and CanAm cars as a job at the other end of the country, but i wouldnt have missed getting back to my racing roots and seeing the car run on track with some of the great cars that inspired us both. To see such a cracking race and to come away with two wins was very much the icing on the cake of a great weekend.

JonnyBravo

Fantastic, it really is a impressive car and as you say it performed brilliantly.

JonnyBravo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCSH1tlQ1gs

JonnyBravo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dl8kb6gh8_c

broadmoor

Jonny...Lee has his Rickys/309's mixed up...He thinks it was "Ricky" Morris's (Dannys brother) old 309 (The fast Car one) Not our "Ricky the Hutch"..

2 x 309's both once owned by "Rickys"

JonnyBravo

Ah ! Strangely I do need some info on that car so I'll drop Lee a pm.

You may be disappointed to hear your artwork has now been removed from the Pug strut top lol