Speedmans race archives (new pics 26th February)

[Speedman]

I'm starting to scan all my old race photos, theres a lot of albums to get through so it'll take some time, i'll keep adding updates as I get them sorted ;D

As time goes by teams adapt and modify their race cars to improve their performance. Been scanning a few more photos as part of my mammoth winter/2010 project to get all the old photos online and came across this evolution, it lasted a few more years at Combe before being retired.

Castle Combe Special GTs 1998 70s Camaro - stock(ish)


Castle Combe Special GTs 1999 70s Camaro - less than stock!

[charlie]

Have you got a stash of old race car images from UK club racing going back that far?

Fancy posting some more? I think there's probably loads of cars that are alive now and have been through a number of guises.

Mine's on its way out:

retrorides.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=71278

Charlie

[Speedman]

I go back as far as 1998, majority are from Castle Combe, Kim was at Bath Uni so I was down there at least once a year.

1998




A pair of "Maple" sponsored Protons from the one make series, 10yrs apart





;D

[Speedman]

1999


This was Andy Rouses aborted attempt to use a Corolla in the BTCC, reported to have cost £200K to develop and only raced in the GTs at Combe




;D

[kee]

love the idea of this thread, keep em coming..

[Speedman]

Theres between 3-4000 race meet pics to work through and a similar number of car show pictures, nearly finished the first race album, just got a couple of meets to go

[kee]

must have cost you a fortune to print all those ;D

[Speedman]

I use to drop into the 1hr place on the way home and get them printed before I got home, it was costing me £30+ a race meet by the end of my film life, £700 on digital kit was a small price to pay as my Canon has racked up just over30000 photos in 2.5yrs

[kee]

lol
all worth it when you have the chance to look back through them.

[Speedman]

Nov 28, 2009 20:22:31 GMT kee said:

love the idea of this thread, keep em coming..

Changed the thread title now, as I scan a new set in I'll pop a few up here with a link to the rest

[mudbitz]

any early lydden photos

[Speedman]

Sadly not, I was a Thruxton/Combe man for years, BTCC in May, as many Combe meets as I could make, Lydden is on my list one day ;D

[Speedman]

My first ever race meet, Thruxton 1995, we won tickets on local radio to the BTCC meet, I was hooked

Cheapy camera a no idea what I was doing meant tiny cars and vast expanses of empty track!

[Speedman]

With a taste for racing we came back for more in 1996







And this time we made it to the pits, across the track and back via the P&O footbridge (pre access tunnel days)





;D

[Speedman]

Last set for the night. 1999 again, we were on holiday in Yorkshire and just down the road from where we stayed was a huge weekend car show, they had a rally course set up with Peugeot 106's to blast round in, quickest time of the day won VIP tickets to the BTCC round at Croft, everyone else won tickets to the AMOC race meet the following weekend......we won a ticket to the AMOC meet As we got to the gate a chap in an Aston pulled alongside us and gave us a race team pass to get in as he had too many, so it was a cheap day all round ;D



Would you ever race something so finely painted?




Richard Chamberlain was there in his awesome 935








The Ferrari race was an exciting one, as well as a few 355s and 308s there was an F40 and an F50, first corner mayhem saw the F50 ride up the grass and spin into the pack, didn't get a picture of it, but this is the damage it inflicted on an innocent 308


At the restart the F40 was last away with a 10 second penalty, it made up 11 places by the end of the main straight

[Seth]

Great stuff Speedman Remind me of some of my early drag race shots Looking forward to more.

[rysz]

Thanks for these Speedman - Can't wait for more - thanks for the effort!

Rysz.

[Speedman]

Another set, First meet of the year at Castle Combe 2000 ;D





The new Stealth B6 road car was unveiled

along with matching race car


One of the first race Ka's, this one had a massive silencer up the rear right corner to the roof as it failed the noise test


The day was rounded off by the Historic touring/sports car race






Thats the first album done, on to the second

[Speedman]

Started on the next album as I had nothing else on this afternoon, Thruxton 2000, can't remember why we went, but we did some celebrity spotting in the paddock, Boyzones Shane Lynch was there racing in the Ginettas and came with a huge crowd of groupies and Vicki Butler Henderson who signed my program but took the pi$$ out of me for asking, stuck up cow

Rich racer


BMWs were out in force




Guest Ginetta, driven by VBH




Sleek clubmans car


;D

[Speedman]

Another batch from Combe, Old 90s BTCC cars, Radicals and the wacky Sports 2000s





If Penelope Pitstop went racing?


A 205 and an EX Dunlop Rover Tomcat Race Series 220 want the same piece of track


Start of the Radical enduro, bike engined fun


with pitstops




The rest are here ;D