Great photos Ray,wow,i would love to go to those places some time,keep them coming.As for Terry S,needs to stop taking the grumpy pills.!!
Great photos Ray,wow,i would love to go to those places some time,keep them coming.As for Terry S,needs to stop taking the grumpy pills.!!
Great pics. Use them to test the brain. 2 x Fluoxitine tabs in the morning would certainly help......................!!!!!
Ray, your pics are always of interest....keep them coming
Why is it "grumpy" to ask for the names of the cars? Surely that would only enhance the thread. Look at posts 1053 to 1057 as example. I' d love to know what some of those cars are.Originally Posted by Ross Hollings
ERC's comment that you can run the mouse over the photo is of little use, as I and I expect a large number of viewers are using iPads!
as far as I know, this is a historical site, so if you use a modern device you lose so of the smaller (but useful) bits
Thanks Guys for the positive comments. Not being an i-Pad user, I wouldn't have a clue but I would have thought there was some means of identifying an image's name.
This might help you Terry...
Today, the Nikon's shutter died... (I didn't know they had a finite life) so I left HD early to see if it could be sorted. Not easily, and it means sending it away - so I had to invest in a new camera. I suppose that is next month's pension spent already.
Now I find on Google, there may be a temporary fix that I'll have to try, but the camera shop were quite adamant that the shutters may not be good for more than a certain number of shutter operations.
Last edited by ERC; 10-29-2016 at 05:43 AM.
A few from today. I missed much of the day (see above) but still managed to take some with the Nikon, but most of the statics are with the compact camera.
Although not in the programme, as the deal wasn't made until Thursday, Angus did a deal to drive this 'Aussie Race car' (which was red on Friday - he had it vinyl wrapped overnight...) and first time out was about 6th on the grid, basically where he finished in race 1 Saturday.
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More from Hampton Downs 101
Warwick and Andre Mortimer are keen supporters of local motorsport in more than one category.
Good to see former speedway sprint car champ Kerry Jones out on track.
Keep em coming Ray. I enjoy looking at all your photos. I noticed yesterday that the "double bastard" corner is quite bumpy in the second part and was catching a few drivers out.
Those little Aussie Race Cars look like fun
Last edited by nigel watts; 10-29-2016 at 11:28 PM.
Bugger - didn't see that Pagani yesterday.
Probably because it was behind the Amon block apartments! I have two or three other pics of it.
Yup, the new extension is bumpy there. Interesting that on TV they are calling it 'DB' corner. I wonder if the brewery will front up with any advertising revenue? The Ten Tenths site automatically renamed it Double *******!
I was quite impressed with the little Aussie race cars too. They sound pretty good - but weren't they originally named 'Star cars'?
Bit of a beggar having that corner named 'Porsche Dipper'...
Last edited by ERC; 10-31-2016 at 01:13 AM.
yep,star cars, or in the US, and GB, legends. Most popular race cars in the world. last numbers I saw was 6000 sold. bit like a nascar or aussie racing taxi, identical underneath, different shell on top
Last edited by 928; 10-30-2016 at 01:14 AM.
AKA- Little Aussie Battlers.
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Last edited by John McKechnie; 10-30-2016 at 03:30 AM.
Although I did take a fair few pics, last batch to be published for now from the HD101. I know others will publish pics if relevant, meanwhile, I'm still uploading and filing from mid September! 101 certainly looked good on TV.
What a great noise this car makes. Very unlucky not to win. For anyone who really thinks Formula E is the future, think again.
Tony Quinn must love liquorice as he owns Darryl Lea in Australia and also RJ's in NZ. Gives a good run for the money as they used to say...
Last edited by ERC; 10-31-2016 at 12:02 AM.
Ray it's hereditary, runs in the jeans.
Coventry. Oldfart will be swotting up on all of these like mad...
Note that the display boards are situated in such a way that they don't block the view through the lens. Other museums, please take note.
Some very imaginative displays and as Coventry was heavily bombed during WW2, part of the history of the City is included in the Transport Museum's displays. Note the white edges on the wings. As lights were not allowed during the blackouts, cars and bicycles had to have these painted. My dear old dad, probably one of the most law-abiding men who ever lived, must somehow have overlooked painting the rear 9" of the mudguard on his pushbike - or borrowed someone else's, as he was summonsed and fined 5/- by the court, the only ticket he ever got! Putting that into perspective, as a proportion of the wages at the time, it makes today's NZ attitudes to law breaking and fines, a total joke - or the UK penalties very harsh.
I'd better name this one, or Terry will be somewhat frustrated, as it not as easy to identify as most of the others. Its a Ferguson 4WD prototype...
Last edited by ERC; 10-31-2016 at 02:39 AM.
Its a Calcott Terry... The rest you should be OK with.
A bit of nostalgia here! Right up until the day I left home at 21, we only ever had 1 family car. This 1934 Singer 9 Coupe. Apparently, it developed an appetite for half shafts and dad could no longer afford to run it. It was buried in the garage from about 1953 up until a student paid 5 quid for it in 1966 and having divested if of its mechanical bits, scrapped it.
I can't ever remember it having a radio and have only just noticed that it had an aerial! As Dad was ex-Royal Signals and a radio/TV technician in the evenings, both as a hobby and later as a part timer with local repairer, nothing would surprise me.
The second pic shows it after it was dragged out of the garage and just before he came along with a truck to take it away. In the background is my first motorised transport, the trusty LE Velocette and the firm's Minivan - which I was allowed to bring home, but wasn't allowed to use privately.
To this day, I have only ever seen two other Coupes and apparently, there are only about a dozen left - one in Fremantle.
According to a card at the museum, they have acquired a coupe, (maybe Rhys will trip over it?) but on display is this one.
Also on display is this Singer van, similar to the one used by the local dairy owner, who lived just 3 doors away. When I say dairy, I mean just that. He'd get churns of milk from the farm just up the road, bottle and deliver it.
Last edited by ERC; 11-01-2016 at 02:25 AM.
Awesome story and photos Ray. That Singer 9 coupe is a really pretty little car.
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