Posts relating to early (Pre 1985) Hotrodding History in Australia, including Hotrod and Custom Shows plus early Drag Racing, Speedway, Hillclimbs etc.
Started out working in the shed till the thermometer said 46 . so went inside and cleaned out my photo collection to put on disc. here's some pics from A.I.R. Adelaide in the 70's . if you have any nostalgic pics add them.
GREAT PICS
Hope you have more that you can post
note Jim Walton going into stage with no gloves [ lol]
Moon shot was the old Shaker body and Dave Gales Baroness , was the old shaker chassis
Splatt doesnt look any Different at all,just older
all victorian car,apart from corvett wich was a QLD car and cant remember his name, Jim reeds mustang. I all so attended that meeting way back then
ohhhhhh those were the days "so many Altereds"
ALTERED wrote:GREAT PICS
Hope you have more that you can post
note Jim Walton going into stage with no gloves [ lol]
Moon shot was the old Shaker body and Dave Gales Baroness , was the old shaker chassis
Splatt doesnt look any Different at all,just older
all victorian car,apart from corvett wich was a QLD car and cant remember his name, Jim reeds mustang. I all so attended that meeting way back then
ohhhhhh those were the days "so many Altereds"
Gary
i have more pics i will add tonight . the vette was john white . he sold it to joe polite ??? who crashed it in qld think he was killed going by memory here . dale gales bucket was baron 2 the baroness was his green cabriolet a model by memory
54_coupe_ute wrote:Tommo ya freak'n me out man . i have the same cars in my collection . The pic of Alki Burner . yellow line blue t shirt 99.99% thats me thats my spot.
Small world hey
Those pics I posted, are from an electrican I used to work with.
they are copied from his original slides.
I would've been only 6 or 7yrs old back in '72 when they were taken.
I have a album full of photos from the 1973 drag nationalsin Adelaide .
We drove over in a ht hg holden panel van draged all weekend and then drove back home to Bendigo vic .
Oh we got into a/s final as well .
I think it was the weekend Paul Rogers push his Anglia off the trailer , and started to do a tune up and found iron filings in his rocker covers .
And the party on the friday and saturday night at the motel full of mexicans , so now we know why we took home so meny finals .
zacs56 wrote:I have a album full of photos from the 1973 drag nationalsin Adelaide .
We drove over in a ht hg holden panel van draged all weekend and then drove back home to Bendigo vic .
Oh we got into a/s final as well .
I think it was the weekend Paul Rogers push his Anglia off the trailer , and started to do a tune up and found iron filings in his rocker covers .
And the party on the friday and saturday night at the motel full of mexicans , so now we know why we took home so meny finals .
was that a lime green anglia
Last edited by 54_coupe_ute on Sun Jan 10, 2010 9:54 pm, edited 2 times in total.
"YES" But as we went over about 6 times in 73 / 74 and some times in a hg monaro , so i could have some events mixed up with different times .
Because in a photo of the 73 Nats i have got a photo of paul running the car , But i think he had done time trials on the friday .