Thunder Saloons - Page 41

**BertMk2** · 22 Dec 2009, 09:23 (Ref:2603579)

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Originally Posted by R59

I still have the Pontiac to play with too...

Yeah - but we all want to see Harry

carrera · 22 Dec 2009, 20:10 (Ref:2603845)

Setting up an area on my web site for the new year to celebrate 25th anniversary of 1st Thundersaloon race. I'll post when something is up.

Rod Birley · 22 Dec 2009, 22:23 (Ref:2603906)

25 years ago!!!! March 1985 Brands Hatch, I remember it well.

Bunman · 23 Dec 2009, 00:38 (Ref:2603957)

Iv'e just been watching some Thunder saloon action from Aug 1993 at Mallory park, awesome stuff.
I am definitely going to try and come over for the Brands race, I'm pretty sure I have somewhere to store the car and may even coax a friend out with an XB Cosworth V8 powered Peugeot 407. He fancies having a go.

Cant wait.

R59 · 23 Dec 2009, 07:49 (Ref:2604038)

I wondered where the "XRV8" went.

Got the oil pump belt for Harry at the end of last week, and subject to getting some space in the workshop, I hope to get that on and checked out, together with sealing up the rear main. Ready for some testing in March I reckon.

vjay48 · 18 Jan 2010, 22:16 (Ref:2615386)

10 mins of film of the 1989 thundersaloon race at Zandvoort has appeared on you tube,perhaps a more aware poster can put a link on here?

Al Weyman · 18 Jan 2010, 22:25 (Ref:2615394)

Vjay get the youtube file running then click on the navigation box at the top of the browser highlighting it. Then while still highlighted hold down Ctrl and C at the same time this will copy the address to your puter clipboard. Then come back here and make your post and press Ctrl and V simultanuously and the address will be pasted in your post where we can click on it to get taken to the clip. Simple as that!

GORDON STREETER · 19 Jan 2010, 00:19 (Ref:2615450)

Is this what you want ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJLF2ipFLrg
Al that sounds a rather complicated way of doing it ! Just copy and paste.

Sarnie · 19 Jan 2010, 08:08 (Ref:2615546)

One of my videos, think thats the last of the Thundersaloon races I had on vhs.
Was a great meeting although I seem to remember the local mayor trying to stop it as the people in the new housing estate built right next to the track took exception to the noise of the Thundersaloons !!!!

Al Weyman · 19 Jan 2010, 08:14 (Ref:2615548)

Quote:

Originally Posted by GORDON STREETER

Is this what you want ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJLF2ipFLrg
Al that sounds a rather complicated way of doing it ! Just copy and paste.

Thats exactly what I was doing Gordon but using short cut keys.

You have to allow for the fact that a lot of people are simply not yet computer savvy and if I said just cut and paste would wonder what the hell we were banging on about!

vjay48 · 19 Jan 2010, 17:38 (Ref:2615796)

We where warned by brscc that could be noise problems, cars where tested most of us made temp. solutions,we put an extra silencer on the end of the exhaust,stuck out about a foot from the side of the car!!!,think wire wool,coke cans and all sorts of dross was jammed up pipes. I think this was the last meeting on the full circuit,which was of course an iconic grand prix venue

Al Weyman · 19 Jan 2010, 18:42 (Ref:2615831)

Yeah the one and only F1 meeting I have ever seen was there, Alan Jones won as I recollect.

vjay48 · 20 Jan 2010, 22:09 (Ref:2616595)

Al that would have been 1979,also the year of the 3 wheeled j. villeneuve.

Al Weyman · 20 Jan 2010, 22:15 (Ref:2616597)

Yes it would have been around then, I went with some guys I was hot rod racing aginst at the time. I remember about two solid hours were wasted by Renault lining up hundreds of the new Feugo nose to tail around the track, I immediately hated the cars ever since.

ascona i2000 · 13 Feb 2010, 21:35 (Ref:2632847)

Have found an old clip from Combe. Cant link it but type in thundersaloons race at castle combe and you will trip over it.

andy robinson · 13 Feb 2010, 23:01 (Ref:2632883)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBi74...eature=related

ascona i2000 · 14 Feb 2010, 09:18 (Ref:2633142)

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Originally Posted by andy robinson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBi74...eature=related

Cheers Andy!

BChild · 10 Jan 2011, 01:21 (Ref:2813489)

If you go into flickr there are some cracking pics if you search for tag "thundersaloons"

http://www.flickr.com/search/?mt=all...rsaloon&m=text

Only problem is most are not allowed to be hot linked (shame - why put pics on the internet if you don't want to share them)

Anyway just a few that I could hot link

Vauxhall Calton by Hicky-Toe-Mott, on Flickr

Vauxhall Calton- Opel Manta 400 by Hicky-Toe-Mott, on Flickr

Have a look the best images are not accessible for sharing

MiniMadness · 13 Jan 2011, 13:48 (Ref:2815252)

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Originally Posted by big andy

http://www.simonlewis.com/images/Sta...-BH-090887.JPG
brands 1987

i was told when i bought the car it was raced in thunder saloons and have finally found a photo to prove it

cadwell 2009

http://www.srh-motorsport-photograph...9+370.jpg.html

Andy are you saying the orange Starlet is the ex Robert Bridger car ? He must have had so many Starlets. This used to run a Cosworth.

big andy · 13 Jan 2011, 18:32 (Ref:2815341)

yes it was in total he had three i think mine was the first wish i never sold it

MiniMadness · 13 Jan 2011, 18:57 (Ref:2815358)

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Originally Posted by big andy

yes it was in total he had three i think mine was the first wish i never sold it

Damn you sold it. Never .....

That sounds right. I knew he raced the blue/white one (your old one) then there was the red/white/yellow one with F1 sponsor, then finally the blue/yellow (but not a Thundersaloon) one at Lydden with the Vauxhall red top. He sold the car to Nathan Mills then it disappeared.

TCS · 16 Jan 2011, 17:53 (Ref:2816439)

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Originally Posted by MiniMadness

Andy are you saying the orange Starlet is the ex Robert Bridger car ? He must have had so many Starlets. This used to run a Cosworth.

I think the top one might be the ex Julian Swayland carbuilt by Milton motors , Robert Bridger had this after him and then it went to John Muir at MV turbos in Scotland .I bought this car five years ago with a jag axle and a blown YB turbo in it and sold the shell to Lennie coad in Maidstone ,hes fitted a monster YB and a Sequential gearbox to it although ive not seen it race .

cliov6 · 16 Jan 2011, 20:32 (Ref:2816494)

Re: ex Swayland car. 90% sure this car turned up at SEMSEC Brands Hatch meeting in September. Car failed scrutineering on something minor. Car looked brand new and great. Driver took it home but returned to race a Fiesta xR2. Maybe wrong as only saw car briefly, but it had the big YB engine.

TCS · 18 Jan 2011, 19:01 (Ref:2817442)

Orange with tiger stripes ??

teamwillpower · 24 Jan 2011, 13:44 (Ref:2819879)

Would anyone out there know how much slower brands hatch indy is since Graham Hill bend was tightened up? wasnt sure if there was anything else major done to the circuit? We recently got hold of an old Thundersaloon and having looked at the results, I'm interested to know what the times then equate to now (roughly of course)?? From what I can find the front runners were doing 47/48secs.
Thanks

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