The Lighter Side!

[Tim Falce]

Originally Posted by Al Weyman

When he stopped ranting I just asked him "Did you ever hear of Kenneth Nore? Don't think just cause I got grey hair you can give it large now just get back in you car and don't make me angry you pillock". To which he duly obliged, it pays to look a bit of an animal sometimes. :-)

That wouldn't mean a thing to me, who's Kenneth Nore?

[Peter Mallett]

I suspect you know Al means Kenneth Noye , however the guy may have been worried that Al would bore him to death. Kenneth Norrie

[Al Weyman]

My point was and yes Peter is right, in that case you get a fired up young guy with his bird leap out of a car and and start remonstrating with an old grey hair guy because he believes he has been cut up or what ever and the point is you dont know who your dealing with. Noye tried to get the guy to back off he wouldnt as he knew a bit of mashal arts and probably thought I'll show him so Noye pulled a knife and stabbed him. I know blokes that are my age that still do bare fised fighting this fellow wants to thank his luck stars it was not one of them because they would have taken him apart. Anyhow as it is he is lucky he got back in the car when he did the pillock, all so bloody uncalled for.

[GORDON STREETER]

Blimey Al, I'll stick to the south side of the Thames !

[delta]

Hey Al its Christmas,Dont let a **** like that get too you.We need some "wild hog stile leather jackets" only have 10/10thers on them.Then you can say mess with me then you will have to mess with Terrance, Turner ,Rushton and all the boys..I can remember the time me and a mate went for a cruse up the A4 back in the 70's please dont laugh i was driving his MGB.Anyway we got cut up by a couple of heavies and just as they were going to duff me up the police turned up and had seen everything and nicked them.

[delta]

Originally Posted by zefarelly

one of my first driving jobs, not exactly racy, but I had period thatch, 1974 I think

Joe what did you do with the steering wheel nut????

[terence]

What,the one holding the wheel?
Interesting use of tongue & groove.

[Lancsbreaker]

Originally Posted by compte deGraves

That is possibly the worst 1969 hair-do I have ever seen.....ever

Imagine what it would have looked like if he hadn't just taken his crash-hat off......

Mind you riding an Lambretta could make your hair stand on end, I seem to remember......though mine was an older LD150

[delta]

Yea i had a LD150 as well before i was old enough to take to the road. Drove my parents mad driving round and round the garden. Lets have a picture of yours Lancsbreaker if you have one.

[Al Weyman]

Don't get any easier as you get older does it? Putting bloody V8 engines and gearboxes in 3rd Gen Camaros that is ruddy tight fit not like the old 2nd Gen. I'm knackered!

[GORDON STREETER]

Originally Posted by Al Weyman

Don't get any easier as you get older does it? Putting bloody V8 engines and gearboxes in 3rd Gen Camaros that is ruddy tight fit not like the old 2nd Gen. I'm knackered!

Al, all that old yank stuff is a piece of p*ss in comparison to something like an Audi A4 V6 diesel. Stop complaining you old fart !!

[Al Weyman]

Not so easy on the third gen as with the big sump I cannot pull the engine out unless I remove the gearbox first and thats not so easy as it has a big old torque arm bolted to the gearbox crossmember and the back axle that has to be disconected and jacked out the way, also as its a smaller body the headers are seriously tight and have to be persueded in whist wrigling in the engine. The other old girl is a piece of cake I admit and like working on a big old Tonka toy.

[zefarelly]

Al, I think you should make things easier for yorself and get something reliable and small/easy to maintain. an Anglia perhaps

Terence, that bus was cosmic man, My step Dad and his best mate toured SOuthern Europe and North Africa in it early mid 70's, there was half of Norway up the back, 2 bedrroms, all the tanks and shower cubicle where made from Duttons finest GRP, C90 on the back, apart from the drive/weight/brakes it'd be a superb race truck

[terence]

Sounds just like it used to be Zef.Driving circuit to circuit living off of the start money.Life as it should be!!

[Al Weyman]

Originally Posted by zefarelly

Al, I think you should make things easier for yorself and get something reliable and small/easy to maintain. an Anglia perhaps

Terence, that bus was cosmic man, My step Dad and his best mate toured SOuthern Europe and North Africa in it early mid 70's, there was half of Norway up the back, 2 bedrroms, all the tanks and shower cubicle where made from Duttons finest GRP, C90 on the back, apart from the drive/weight/brakes it'd be a superb race truck

It wouldnt pull my bulk! :-)

[delta]

Originally Posted by terence bower

Sounds just like it used to be Zef.Driving circuit to circuit living off of the start money.Life as it should be!!

Start money those were the days.I remember being in the daldrums back in 81 i think, had no engine then a phone call from an engine builder who said he would supply the engine for half the start money. Sounds good . 1st race and im leading by a country mile when ran out of fuel. Still finnished 3rd with fastest lap. 2nd race 3rd again looking good for championship. Then we had DNF's with engine blow ups there after and me and the engine bulider parted company.Cost me more money in oil and anti freeze than what we had in start money. Still "happy days"

[Al Weyman]

I was just discussing on the Falken Tyres thread about start money. Some of the guys were also doing the Vauxhall scheme so as well as the generous prize fund from Falken also had good wonga from Vauxhall and could do a meeting on a profit, where do it all go pear shaped.

[zefarelly]

greed I guess Al . . . . same as everything else!

[morninggents]

Originally Posted by Al Weyman

I was just discussing on the Falken Tyres thread about start money. Some of the guys were also doing the Vauxhall scheme so as well as the generous prize fund from Falken also had good wonga from Vauxhall and could do a meeting on a profit, where do it all go pear shaped.

When the middlemen 'series' came to the fore and wanted to make a profit.

[Al Weyman]

You may be right, our ModProd championship was run via our club The Racing Saloon Club of which I was chairman and the races put on for us by the BARC. Membership for the RSCC was a meagre £25 which registered you for the championship and all I took out of it was expenses, printing etc. ALL the rest after the aforementioned cut to BARC and MSA went into the pot back to the drivers either as a prize fund/grid money or towards equipment like the Eazy-up, our own awards or the end of season party and awards do.

[Lancsbreaker]

Originally Posted by delta

Yea i had a LD150 as well before i was old enough to take to the road. Drove my parents mad driving round and round the garden. Lets have a picture of yours Lancsbreaker if you have one.

Don't know if I have any pics.....only had it for about a year - until shortly after I passed my driving test (OMG - almost exactly 42 years ago) and found that 4 wheels had much more attraction.......

Should have kept it though, its registration number was MEN 50.....would have been worth more than the scooter, that's for sure. IIRC I sold the LD for £15.......

[terence]

Very odd number for a girly type of transport.

[delta]

Right then outside.!!!!

[terence]

[compte deGraves]

....and then he put aside foolish things (such as Lambrettas), cut his hair and went on to be an internationally acclaimed racing driver. Seen in this picture at the time he had completely lost his car.