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[piquet]

that picture was takean at Sandown
the cars were the pioneer sponsored L34/A9X
and the sponsorship was a big ear on the side of the cars. as in pionear!!!

The two cars were in the same team
peter

[rodomo]

I thought it was Sandown, the 3DB billboard said Vic. and the width of the track suggested Sandown. But the trees threw me.

[piquet]

the picture is of the old pit straight between turn 1 and turn 2. The old pit straight used to go straight up to turn3/peters corner without the little flip flop corners that are there now. The corner was quite dangerous. I know of at ;least on driver killed at that corner and of another that ended up in the dam behind the fence.
I think that the drivers may have been Garth Wigston and Warren Cullen.
cheers
peter

[LC69GTR]

Hi rodomo & piquet
It was Sandown�s Hang Ten 400 and the race team was Wigston�s Roadways
On Repco corner its was O� Brien and Wigston the crash happened as they were trying to avoid the 2 Mazda�s.
Wigstons car is the one in the air and was forced to stop at Torana corner and O�Briens brought his car to a stop 30 yards past the pits.
The roadways team had just had there 5th and 6th placed cars stuffed

Edited by LC69GTR, 09 May 2008 - 07:07 PM.

[LC69GTR]

I would love to see some footage of these races

[rodomo]

I can remember watching telecasts from Calder.

[frash da bucket]

My uncle,use to take to catalina track,in the early 70's,it was a great place to be,cheers.

[LC69GTR]

Good find gstar

[GTR469]

There is also an old race circuit in Goulburn. When do you plan on having a forum cruise to Catalina Park Race track.

Edited by GTR469, 28 July 2008 - 08:10 PM.

[Davis]

Thought this most the most appropriate place to add an old torana rally pic. This is Keith (bloke who is doing the paint and repairs on my torana) back in the 70s at one of the numerous south Australia rally events...love these old photos!

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[Potta]

This seemed like the right place to add these pictures.


I am looking for any other pictures that anyone may have of these cars.
What I have so far are here
http://gallery.oldho...The Beast mk 1/
and here
http://gallery.oldho...The Beast mk 2/
Thanks Paul.

 

There's this one on eBay - http://www.ebay.com....984.m1423.l2649

 

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[SP5000]

 100_0644.jpg   262.55K   4 downloads  100_0645.jpg   288.08K   4 downloadsSome old pics I took at Oran Park in 2008

[SP5000]

A couple more, will have to  100_0643.jpg   280.16K   4 downloads work out how to use Photobucket, I can only put 2 pictures up at a time doing it this way

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[N/A-PWR]

I use Irfanview Steve,

 

click here to download - https://www.google.c....67720277,d.dGI

 

To Resize after install with that, you click IMAGE ( at top of page ), scroll down to RESIZE IMAGE and put in 500 in the WIDTH pixels box ( this is the only one needed to do at this stage ), then click FILE ( at Top of page ), and scroll down to SAVE ( original folder ) and click All of the Ok's, job done.

makes a 600kB picture only 50kB's in size without taking away the picture quality, so making up to 20 pictures per post fit. Dave I

 

Nice Shots of the Race Cars

Edited by TORYPOWER, 24 May 2014 - 04:07 PM.

[SP5000]

A couple more, will have to100_0643.jpg work out how to use Photobucket, I can only put 2 pictures up at a time doing it this way

One more100_0646.jpg

Forgot to ask if anyone can tell me if these cars were all genuine ex race cars? I am pretty sure the #2 HDT L34 was

I use Irfanview Steve,

 

click here to download - https://www.google.c....67720277,d.dGI

 

To Resize after install with that, you click IMAGE ( at top of page ), scroll down to RESIZE IMAGE and put in 500 in the WIDTH pixels box ( this is the only one needed to do at this stage ), then click FILE ( at Top of page ), and scroll down to SAVE ( original folder ) and click All of the Ok's, job done.

makes a 600kB picture only 50kB's in size without taking away the picture quality, so making up to 20 pictures per post fit. Dave I

 

Nice Shots of the Race Cars

 

Thanks for the tip Dave

[SP5000]

A few more I found

 

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[SP5000]

Brock 1975 L34 Bathurst Winner Replica

 

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[N/A-PWR]

Look at that Brock L34 Manifold, Fantastic. Dave I