Stock Car Racing In The U.k. - Great Videos

[ancrdave]

Check out this site from the U.K. - Some great video here... The "Banger" cars are a blast, especially at Wimbledon!!
www.rollingstart.co.uk/videoclips.html

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Some cool racing Dave. Wild wings....

[FromBehindTheMIC]

Memories, Memories, Memories!!!

Dave, Bob, I raced Banger cars when in was in England from 1980-1984. Mine was a Moscovitch from Russia. Double wall construction throughout. Weight a ton, won several races, but we did team racing, where several cars were from the same team and if one of your team members won, you all won. So you joined a group quick. It was easy for me to get a team together because we had the air base auto shop to prepare. The number on my car was the base fire dept land line extention #555. HEhehehe was great fun. Lost the Mosky in a figure eight chamionship at Amphill road track just before I left to head for MacDill AFB in summer 84.

Thanks for the memories.

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Hi Bill, I didn't know you were Air Force. At least if you told me I had a Senior
moment. I wish I had looked for racing when I was overseas, I was more interested in skirts. I was putzing around on the internet a while back and I found a site, which I can't remember, that showed really serious racers in the UK. It looked kinda like it was here in the 50's. Does it cost a lot to race there? I crewed a C-130 as a loadmaster. I was a Recip Mech before that.
43252 I think. You know what that is don't you? Bob......

[FromBehindTheMIC]

A11390C Instructor Flight Engineer on MH-53J Pave Low's in the end, simulator instructor at time of retirement.

The cars raced in the UK when I was there, were autos that did not pass MOT (Ministry of Transportation) (like our DOT) nspections. You could get a great car for about $75-80 American bucks. You used an "H" scafolding, bolted to the floor and roof just behind your seat. The fuel tank in mine was an old Brass soda/water fire extinguisher. I remember taking the cars original fuel tank out from under the car and bolting it where the back seat use to be, filling it with water and running hoses to the motor to keep it cool long enough so you did not need a radiator. All totaled I had 35 hours in the Moscovitch for labor and about $200 in car, paint, fuel cell, extra-long water hoses and "H" Scafolding.

Loads of fun, on a shoe string. Heck, finding a car trailer in England took 3 weeks and cost more than the car....LOL!

[Frasson118]

I don't know how you'd adapt it to the US, but everything I've seen about this kind of racing is a kick-in-the-ass. Contact is encouraged, fast cars (teams) start in the back, the crowd goes wild, and you can't hardly beat those things to a pulp. A combination of Tank, Sprint car, and Crash-A-Rama. from most reports I've read, a crowd of over 10,000 people is somewhat normal.

Mike Peters.... are you seeing this?

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Durn jerry, don't give Mike any ideas. We'll be inundated by limys and ausies.
I could afford to race at those prices. Thats pretty much what I gathered from those web sites. It was pretty much run whathya brung and the rules were slim. As many times as I was all over europe I never went to a race over there. Course I flew with MATS so I wasn't in any country for long unless we broke. Heaven forbid that happening. We lost an engine going into
Athens Greece one time and spent 2 weeks there waiting for an engine from Mcquire AFB. musts come on the pony express. I was young and I didn't care if it took a month. We were living in hotels and eating in Restaurants, and hangin in the greek hony tonks. You talking about a site for sore eyes. A red neck lose in Athens Greece. Ain't a pretty site...

[ancrdave]

Wish some of my Air Force days would have been in either England or Germany... I ended up in Korea for awhile, but eventually got to see some really good racing in West Texas then did my final five years at Homestead which gave me a chance to see some racing down south at Hialeah, West Palm and Miami-Hollywood in the '70's... Hard to belive that most of the Air Base down there, the apartment I lived in, my wife's old house and the church we were married in were all leveled by Hurricane Andrew... Was a Quality Control Specialist on F-4D's and F-111's plus did a stint with Armed Forces Network...

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A whole raft of old Air Force veterans. When I was first on Mcquire I think SAC was flying F4D's, They were always noisey. How long were you in Dave? I was 4 years active and 6 inactive. I would probably have re-enlisted on active duty if it hadn't been for Vietnam. I got a taste of it but I got out in
'65. Loadmaster wasn't a hot career field yet. It got pretty hot around '68 or '69. I really enjoyed my time as a loadmaster. It wouldn't be much of a job for a married man though. I didn't spend a lot of time at my home base. Course a lot of that was because of me volenteering for trips. I tried to take the long trips so the married guys could have the shorter trips. In fact thats what got me to SE Asia. I volenteered to go and fly with WESTAF and lo-n-behold we ended up in Nam. Only in and out. That trip lasted a while, but I got to see the Pacific, Wake, Midway, Okinawa, Hawaii, and all stops west. The funny thing was, i went to all those places and all I saw for the most was Ethnis Honky tonks. Ya ain't lived till you see a Japanese Honky Tonk. Agin imagine a Red Neck in Japan! Bob.........

[ancrdave]

I did 8 years... would have stayed if they let me cross-train into Information Services... they didn't, so I got out... 'Nam was over by then and they weren't all that interested in keeping people in...

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When I was processing for discharge they came out with an extention. 6 months I think. I was able to get under it because I was alleady processing.
My geat Grand Daddy died while I was processing And the only way they would let me go to his funeral was if I extended or re-enlisted. I allways thought that sucked, but thats our uncle Sam. What is the arm Forces network And what does infrmation services do? Thanks Bob ........