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Why I like what I like. Mercdan68
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My own farina memories are off my dads Two tone brown Cambridge estate Lovely full red interior And I have big memories of crayford stadium I was about 10 years old when we used to go by bus And watch the great Friday night bangers The rollover competitions were great many farina met there end on those nights Crayford is now a greyhound track
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Fraud owners club member 1999 Jaguar s type 1993 ford escort
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The photos of your dad driving off that ramp,reminded me of Evel Knievel!!
Wonderful story. Love it.
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Jul 31, 2018 19:00:00 GMT
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Farina dreamin' the whole banger scene ignited my enthusiasm for older cars, and Farinas are synonymous with a point in time. By the time I started Ford were dominant, with Mk2 Granada and Mk4/5 'Tina cheap & plentiful. Loving the history....Feud with 93? "Blondie" Melbourne wasn't it?
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2014 - Audi A6 Avant 3.0Tdi Quattro 1958 - Chevrolet Apache Panel Truck 1959 - Plymouth Custom Suburban 1952 - Chevrolet 2dr Hardtop 1985 - Ford Econoline E350 Quadravan 2009 - Ovlov V70 2.5T 1970 - Cortina Mk2 Estate 2007 - Fiat Ducato LWB 120Multijet 2014 - Honda Civic 2.2 CTDi ES
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Jul 31, 2018 19:54:12 GMT
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Farina dreamin' the whole banger scene ignited my enthusiasm for older cars, and Farinas are synonymous with a point in time. By the time I started Ford were dominant, with Mk2 Granada and Mk4/5 'Tina cheap & plentiful. Loving the history....Fued with 93? "Blondie" Melbourne wasn't it? Yes it was blondie, to be honest it was probably with his whole team lol. I think it was blondie that put dad in the fence soon after, a move that eventualy made him switch to smallfield when it was quiet. If it hadnt been for banger racing dad would probably have stayed with his motorbikes, and certainly wouldnt have had the enthusiasm for farinas later on. Thanks again for all those who have commented. Its probably obvious how much this story means to me, so I'm glad it means something to others. I did have reservations about posting so many banger racing photos on here but its as much a part of what inspires my interest in classics as whats to come. I'm glad its been well received.
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Jul 31, 2018 21:07:15 GMT
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I bangered around London in the early 70s, White City, Wimbledon and others, almost exclusively in Farinas, they were dirt cheap, (A fiver a car wasn't unusual) and took a lot of punishment cos there was a lot of metal at both ends before you damaged anything vital! I remember running against the Red Baron who appears in one of your pics! In those days you could drive a car to the track, knock the glass out and race it! And if you had an RAC competition licence, you HAD to race under a pseudonym cos if the RAC found out, they'd cancel your licence! I won a lot of money one night at White City with a Riley 4/72, but not a lot of success otherwise. But for me, it was mainly for fun! I never had a Farina as a road car, but my first road car was a 56 ZA Magnette, a car that gave me a taste for wooden dashes, leather seats and push button starting that has stayed with me my whole life. It must have been great growing up in your family, My old man did a runner when I was 8, and my entire family was car-less till I got the ZA, 9 years later, but despite this, i've always been nuts about cars, had hundreds of Dinky, Corgi and Scalextrix models, built my own slotcars, migrated to motorbikes at 15 ending with a Cafe Racered BSA A10R which I wrote off and almost killed myself on, a week before my 17th birthday and became a mechanic, a trade i'm still in now! I shall have to dig out and scan some of my old pics from the 70s, here's one I did earlier, a V6 Consul project of mine circa 1974 Looking forward to the next episode of YOUR Story!
Steve
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Last Edit: Aug 2, 2018 14:43:59 GMT by carledo
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Great story Cookie and mega photos. As you well know I have a love for bangers growing up around them. I first went to Wimbledon in about 78/79 as a kid. It was the cars I liked more than the racing and have had a fondness for A60's ever since. I've always had them on the road and raced a few as well. Your dads biggest influence on me long before I met him was the article about his moded 16/60 in Pratical classics I built my own versions years later that car is sadly no more but I still have a few Magnettes all with a bit off the Morry touch to them and I've still got a copy of the Pratical classics. (Cookie maybe you could add the photos I sent you still carnt do it)
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Why I like what I like. mexicansteve
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I settled down with coffee and biscuits for that read. Well worth it. Looking forward to the rest.
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BeQuietandDrive
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Great story Cookie and mega photos. As you well know I have a love for bangers growing up around them. I first went to Wimbledon in about 78/79 as a kid. It was the cars I liked more than the racing and have had a fondness for A60's ever since. I've always had them on the road and raced a few as well. Your dads biggest influence on me long before I met him was the article about his moded 16/60 in Pratical classics I built my own versions years later that car is sadly no more but I still have a few Magnettes all with a bit off the Morry touch to them and I've still got a copy of the Pratical classics. (Cookie maybe you could add the photos I sent you still carnt do it) Not gonna lie, that made e full-on well up in the mniddle of the office at work earlier when i read that. Thank you Pid.
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More pics then Once he got the bug for shows, the 16/60 took us all over the place. Car shows, country fairs, steam fairs, holidays (usualy perfectly time for a car show somewhere) autojumbles in all sorts of places. Id imagine my childhood owed more to the 60's than the 80's, i certainly consider cars from the 60's and earlier being something id see nearly every weekend, but its not just the cars its everything else you tend to see. Theres lots i remember from this time, like the local RC clubs racing. Usualy it was the buggy type, but one year at Stoneleigh County show I could hear nitro engines buzzing away. Turned out to be 1/8 stockcars. I lost hours of my life watching them race There was also the sound of small petrol engines buzzing around. These turned out to be a bit bigger. Just big enough. It was just a go cart under the plastic body, but that plastic body made all the difference. I can remember making a right fuss when I had to stop. Then there were these metal frames with engines strapped to them. Noisy, loads of black smoke, mud everywhere, amazing. When we were on holiday we'd see the sights And see the local ruins (I tried to improve a badly blurred photo, and then got lost in photo editing land) More shows Crich Tramway Museum Dad owned this Cortina. Didnt have it for long, I seem to remember it being very shiney and very very rusty. A slightly older show pic of the 6/110 at a show. A very blurred pic that I tried to improve but once again got lost in photo editing land As Pid mentioned a magazine feature. Practical Classics 1986 so when I see things like this at the Goodwood Weekender, I love it. One day he got given a Maxi. Soon later the Wolseley was sold. He liked the Maxi. Practical 5dr hatchback with the same doors and suspension system as all those 1800's and 2200's he'd smashed up.
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Ok you can stop this now otherwise I shall have no other option but go out and purchase an A60 of some description
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Last Edit: Aug 7, 2018 15:43:36 GMT by Deleted
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Why I like what I like. Mercdan68
@forddan68
Club Retro Rides Member 68
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Thread of the year ....nice history great pics And makes me smile ....lots
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Fraud owners club member 1999 Jaguar s type 1993 ford escort
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Thanks for sharing the photos, we went to Wimbledon through the '70's to watch a family friend race (number 157, name of Dale, always had a bloody great stuffed lion on the roof) so your photos jogged the old brain cells and I recall a lot of the characters shown. Thanks very much, carry on you have me hooked.
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Thanks so much for the comments guys. I thought I'd take a break from car show stuff and do a bit of something else I find difficult to forget. BTCC. I can clearly remember the first time I watched the clip below, me and dad jumping around in the living room like we were actualy there, him swearing at the TV. Once he'd calmed down, he said ''how do you fancy going to see the BTCC next year?'' ''erm...... Yeah?'' Maxis wernt difficult to spot in Silverstone carpark in 1993.. 'Somebody abandoned a BMW. How close can I get to it..... oh...... oh my, I think I'm going to touch it' Dad had a habit of 'going for a wander'. We'd quite often go for the pit walkabout and get the programme signed or photographs signed. While I was queing up, he was somewhere else. Oh look, a recently damaged Alfa bumper oh look, Simoni possibly talking about the recently detached bumper He'd go around the back of the pit garages open the rear door, and..... And in no particular order A very bent Mazda I loved it and I still do now. Watching the races again reminds me how electric the atmosphere was when we were there. I still watch the BTCC now and then but not enough to actualy follow it, it just doesnt grab me like it did then. I feel really lucky to have experienced a time when the formula was at the top of its game. I did have more photos but I'm not sure what happened to them, if I find more ill put them up. As well as going to quite afew meetings from 1994 to about 2000, we were still cramming plenty of classic car shows in, and Autojumbles during the winter. Honestly I don't think a fortnight went by without there being something to go to.
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Great photos, I loved the touring car back then too, but I've not watched it in more than a decade now. It doesn't seem as exciting to me now as it used to be, almost feels like more of a procession. Infact, pretty much all motorsport feels like that to me these days.
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That's a really lovely read
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What a great thread. Thanks.
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Aug 11, 2018 10:44:19 GMT
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The TOP thread of "general board". 👍👍👌👌
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Aug 11, 2018 11:37:48 GMT
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Great photos, I loved the touring car back then too, but I've not watched it in more than a decade now. It doesn't seem as exciting to me now as it used to be, almost feels like more of a procession. Infact, pretty much all motorsport feels like that to me these days. Thats just it, the door handle bashing is what made it entertaining, I can remember when Charlie Cox had his big off at Thruxton. Once the car had stopped spinning and rolling it landed on the other side of the outer fence. I was standing on the other side of the second chicane and when the car went off me and my mate ran around the back of the grandstand to see the car. We saw the car breifly, then they bought up the blue screen, it was really bad. And that very bent white Mazda in the pictures above. This was the crash There has been plenty of other big offs, like Mansells at Donnington, but it was the way they would push past each other without trying to take anyone out, the only motorsport that comes close to it now is rallycross. Thanks again for the comments It certainly beats having all these photos sitting in a box doing nothing.
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Last Edit: Aug 11, 2018 11:54:15 GMT by bmcnut
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