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Beetle GTi?
Googling now, nothing like that car showed up.
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Beetle GTi?
Googling now, nothing like that car showed up.
Cale
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Beetle GTi?
Googling now, nothing like that car showed up.
It's on the Golf chassis. The new Beetle that is.
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There must be a vid of thisNot an import but I figured it was cool enough for here.
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Silly driver, tried to make a turn with an american car 
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Silly driver, tried to make a turn with an american car
^ combined with the fact it wasn't turning left
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There must be a vid of this
Silly driver, tried to make a turn with an american car
That was Ryan Tuerck, the CHEVY team drifter. I got to meet him earlier in the week, before the crash. Never heard of him before but he knew some of my friends.
There's one being drifted locally. I might have a pic or two.
Not sure if this is the one but....
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More of this please, stance looks perfect.
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Guess where I've been? 
Sadly, I did not get a good photo of Tajima.
Sadly, I did not get a good photo of Tajima.
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There must be a vid of this
Here's a documentary of the event.
http://av.vimeo.com/09425/963/56655265.mp4?token=1309400864_c6fedfb953252dbe32d78fd0afe56a27
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Whoops, sorry about double post. The first one didn't show up
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Last week someone posted a set of pictures in this thread (to which the link has now expired) which included a photo from the SpeedHunters site of a MK1 Escort in Castrol livery. The Escort looked immediately familiar to me so i searched SpeedHunters for more info on it. The article states that the car's an ex-Broadspeed car built to Touring Car/Super Saloon specifications. Super Saloons were very much an amateur series with cars built up in peoples garages and sheds during the 1970's and had freer regulations than Touring cars. Broadspeed, to my knowledge wouldn't have bothered with such a small series as they were, in Britain at least, the Ford 'Works' team at the time and were busy building and running cars in the British and European touring car series.
Since the 60's, my dad and uncle had been racing various Fords in the various Special and Super Saloon series around the country. In the early/mid 70's they bought a bare Escort shell from Broadspeed, who at the time were winding down their involvement with the Escort programme and were selling off what they had left. The shell was in primer, was seem welded and had a cage, but that was the extent of it. They then bought a complete Alan Mann Escort, took out it's Cosworth FVC engine to put in their own car and then sold the Alan Mann rolling chassis on to someone else. They purchased from Ford a 'Works' suspension set-up and completed the car with larger bubble arches, a front valance/splitter and rear wing designed to their own specifications, in other words, a unique design.
They ran the car up until the late 70's when growing families forced them both to retire. They sold the engine but the rolling chassis lived in our garage at home for another ten years or so until it was sold on. The guy who bought the car sourced a different 4cyl Ford/Cosworth engine and began racing it. I recall going with my dad to Cadwell Park to watch the guy's first race in it. He's had the car re-painted from the Orange and Grey of my dad and uncles sponsor at the time to the famous Castrol livery of Zakspeed's Escorts of the late 60's. The last we heard, the car had been sold on to someone in Ireland.
With the exception of the small triangular intake between the two main intakes below the grill, you can see a remarkable similarity to 'our' car:
As the car is now:
As it was back in the day:
One of the first races my dad did in the car was the support race to the 1975 British Grand Prix. The bottom picture shows it in plain white with an early rear wing that had no end plates and none of the holes in the rear panel between the lights - the article hints that these modifications, along with plenty others, were of Broadspeed design, but this clearly shows it to be untrue.
Since the 60's, my dad and uncle had been racing various Fords in the various Special and Super Saloon series around the country. In the early/mid 70's they bought a bare Escort shell from Broadspeed, who at the time were winding down their involvement with the Escort programme and were selling off what they had left. The shell was in primer, was seem welded and had a cage, but that was the extent of it. They then bought a complete Alan Mann Escort, took out it's Cosworth FVC engine to put in their own car and then sold the Alan Mann rolling chassis on to someone else. They purchased from Ford a 'Works' suspension set-up and completed the car with larger bubble arches, a front valance/splitter and rear wing designed to their own specifications, in other words, a unique design.
They ran the car up until the late 70's when growing families forced them both to retire. They sold the engine but the rolling chassis lived in our garage at home for another ten years or so until it was sold on. The guy who bought the car sourced a different 4cyl Ford/Cosworth engine and began racing it. I recall going with my dad to Cadwell Park to watch the guy's first race in it. He's had the car re-painted from the Orange and Grey of my dad and uncles sponsor at the time to the famous Castrol livery of Zakspeed's Escorts of the late 60's. The last we heard, the car had been sold on to someone in Ireland.
With the exception of the small triangular intake between the two main intakes below the grill, you can see a remarkable similarity to 'our' car:
As the car is now:
As it was back in the day:
One of the first races my dad did in the car was the support race to the 1975 British Grand Prix. The bottom picture shows it in plain white with an early rear wing that had no end plates and none of the holes in the rear panel between the lights - the article hints that these modifications, along with plenty others, were of Broadspeed design, but this clearly shows it to be untrue.
Ibonibo
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There must be a vid of this
I can't watch it on this PC as it's too slow, so can't say if the crash is in but it's the same event.
http://www.autoblog.com/2011/06/29/...ay/?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed
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Is awesome. Great stuff!
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As it was back in the day:
You should contact SH with that story and these photos. 👍
