Out and about today drive down to my sisters home ...road testing ...got her down from the tower to take a photo Image Unavailable, Please Login
Someone posted this on fakebook last week, a whomo at speed on tweed in 2007 Image Unavailable, Please Login
The owner of a significant Carby Ferrari in Melbourne , has just purchased what in 1925/6 was considered the fastest car in Australia ,one of 18 built ...a W.O Bentley model known as the 100mph Super sports , guaranteed to do a 100mph, the model was 9 inches shorter then the standard 3.0 W.O ....to many the holy grail of W.Os. This car had a long competition history in Australia including fastest car in the 1st Alpine rally ,after the war it continued to race i.e Fishermans bend ,Albert Park. The car spent close to 20 years at the Bill Harrah reno museum .Before retuning to Australia in the 70s. One of the most important pre-war cars in Australia. 1st photo is 1926 Alpine rally out the front of the then Canberra hotel (Grand Hyatt) 2nd photo Le-Mans start 1954 Fishermans bend. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
I don't understand why someone who doesn't know anything about 037's would make such a silly post. The car has huge Bilstein shocks and of course we rebuilt them. 2 on the front, 4 at the rear. I had both sway bars on full stiffness and at the point of that photo had just got on the gas. The car has lots of grunt from low revs thanks to the supercharger and the rear end doesn't squat, so it picks up the inside from wheel. It doesn't affect the handling. The 037 was well known for wheelstands in period, look for early WRC footage.
Ian it was a throw away line ! In reference to the ability of Frank Gardner to look at a car through a corner and to tell if a shocker was ficked or not. Years ago while the Lola T430 was been tested at Calder he mentioned by sight a shocker was rooted ,the team changed it and the car went under the lap record within laps. Sorry if i offended you .
You might understand why I'm struggling to stay involved with this site. I post a nice photo of an interesting car and it turns into fodder for a smartarse post. Between that and all the back-stabbing, plus clueless mods who ban people for no good reason, but don't ban someone who dumps vicious posts on other people, what is the point?
Ian , I don't know what the answer is on here there is a lot great posts but it goes the other way to. I only go on one other forum Autosport nostalgia ,which has little or no humour ,but many greats threads /photos of the great motorsport times . I'm on FB but also just for certain pages like car,boating and dogs . I didn't come on here for around 6 years ,what i did notice was so many names had gone .
And if you're referring to me you can get fuched ! I've had enough of your innuendo and BS KIAFA attitude on this site ever since I've known you. You pretend to own all these cars you flash up but some people know you're just buying these cars for another guy and sometimes with Gerry. When my mate wanted to buy 037 you came back with a BS story that you were keeping it because you reckoned you could get a better price , and that was WITHOUT even quoting what "you" wanted for it, says who REALLY owns it ! Then there is the personal backstabbing you did to me about my separation from my wife telling people about how she "threw me out" , no such thing happened but didn't stop you spreading that lie, what did it do, make you feel like a big man ??!! You make assertions about certain cars but mostly they're wrong and the one thing I liked about Rob coming back on this site was that he would call you out on the BS claims you make about cars because he ACTUALLY knows what he's talking about. The poor bastards that believe everything you say are poorer for the experience, Sweden is a mess but that was your solution to the world, even they are going into lockdown. Then there is the GG, great roads, great people , great time .... well two out of three's not bad Then you put in the private conversation that YOU didn't want to censor youself so they should start a new "catch up" conversation to exclude me because "someone" had sent your post blaming Simon, Rob and the mod for losing Peter and "half the fun" of fchat. You say you have the PMs to prove stuff, produce them or fuch off, if they're about me you can't. You're a backstabber, always have been, I trusted you when I first met you, you were one of the first people I came to see when I was in Sydney, you were friendly and gracious, seems a front to me now. I love how you're talking to Rob after you made that post backing Peter up when Rob came back , belittling Rob , I can't be arsed to find it but you know and anyone with a good memory will remember it, did someone say two-faced ?? I generally look at the bigger picture and let things slide but I'm at that age I don't give a fuch anymore and some things need to be addressed when someone like you is behaving like a bully with a smear campaign. Here are my "faults" before you get in : 1. The mods ask me why they need to delete the grandfather thread as requested by Rob 2. I tell them the background (as a past mod I knew they were lost and they asked for help) 3. They still don't delete it 4. Peter gets banned, I didn't say to the mods he should get banned, and certainly not permabanned 5. I wrote, as did several others, to the mods pleading Peter's case 6. I had no idea you had written to them 7. It was indicated that "numerous" people had complained to the mods about Peter 8. then YLSHIH PM'd me asking about you and Simon 9. I wrongly assumed you were one of the complainants and called Peter to let him know what the mods had written 10. I was still on the "catch up " thread in conversations , hadn't read it for ages as I am not in Sydney any more for the runs but I was left on the list 11. you made THAT post which I had never read until AFTER the run you guys had and then I saw reference to the post in the conversation days later and you saying the list needs to be made "smaller" due to "someone" sending THAT post to others Backstabbing ?? Mirror ?? Yep I can admit my short-comings which must be an Italian trait because I've seen other Italian heritaged people I work with freely admit if they've made a mistake as it clears the air but according to you Italians are liars and cheats, you've said it in an open forum so it must be true I use to have a lot of fun on this site but because of people like you I think I've had enough, my true friends I can keep in touch with, I don't need fchat for fun, I've got a good life and I intend to enjoy what is left of it so you can go on telling your stories to the gullible. I'll bet you're angry by now, good, now maybe you'll know how angry I was when you spread those lies about me and my ex-wife, that is the lowest act a "man" can do when someone is at a low point in their life If anyone should be banned it's you , I come on here to have fun and help where I can, you just try to be a BTC making outrageous claims about cars, nationalities, and politics Goodbye aussie fchat, I mostly enjoyed it for the 20 years I was on