Wallerfield Racing Complex....The Glory Days.

djaggs · Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 9:33 pm Post subject:

This is Gilmore in the famous Citizen Escort trying to come to grips with the 6 cylinder BMW, how many of you remember this car, it was very fast, had a Ford BDG engine, same as the Geese. None of the local cars were a match for the 6 cylinder BMW, it had displacement and power, over 350bhp i think.

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IN dis pic, Cheekes is badly outclassed by the more powerful BMW:

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De Pressure cooker;

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De pressure cooker getting cooked;

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Look carefully at this pic, I didnt have my zoom lens with me this day so its kinda small, this is Keith Singh in the Ford RS2000 Escort. I took this pic here because evry lap he would throw the car sideways in this corner, always on opposite lock.

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This is de Professor (Clive Sugden) giving some lessons. Anybody remember the famous race between the professor and Richard Longman from the UK. Longman came here with one of his famous minis from the UK, the hype for the race was that he had won 99 races straight with that car in England and he was coming here to make it 100. That was a now legendary encounter with Sugden in the locally prepared Rustop Datsun 1200 battling against the famous Longman mini and Clive ending up victorious in the end, breaking the Englishman's winning streak. That was one of the best races I ever saw, it was so close from start to finish. This race stamped Sugden as one of Wallerfields best.

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Greypatch · Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 12:33 pm Post subject:

boss post man...i like the history behind them

AutoSport · Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2006 3:26 pm Post subject:

Ok so can we now get the mods to separate the Drag pics and the Circuit pics and have some other pics for Karting and rallying and dex and Moto Cross and have a really good library being built???

SR · Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2006 3:47 pm Post subject:

we workin on it

lots of pics to scan and sort

djaggs · Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2006 11:23 pm Post subject:

This was taken at the treet race in San Fernando, its Frankie's ZAKSPEED Escort which I spoke a little about in the other thread.

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This is Ashmeed in the Federal Datsun at the same race:

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THis is a picture of one of the cars that came from Colombia with the Porsches, if I remember corrrectly, I think it had a V8 engine and puit out around 600 to 700 hp. I think it was a TRANSAM class car. Unfortunately this is the only pic I have from this race, I shot an entire roll of 36 moving all over the track to get different angled action shots only to discover the next day that my film slipped out of the takeup spool and none came out. That was my worse experience at wallerfield. I cuss for two months.

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While other kids were building sand castles, this is what I was building...

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BANzai Rastafarai · Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 12:19 am Post subject:

^^ amaaazing....wow i VAGUELY remember some of those races...used to be on daddies shoulder watching dem..of course bac kthen i was realy into Frankies yellow "sunbeam escort"....

dragaholic · Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 7:14 am Post subject:

That was the Monza from coloumbia. Was a totally diiferent sound for wallers circuit racing when you were accustomed to hearing only 4 cylinders and rotaries.

Dragist · Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 7:00 am Post subject:

Great stuff I am loving this thread Twisted Evil

RA40-GTE · Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2006 11:57 am Post subject:

this is an absolutley wonderful thread..
many many many memories..loving it all.

u have successsfully distracted me from work..thank you Very Happy

dbesson · Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 2:13 pm Post subject:

I am completely distracted also, great job guys, wouldn't it be great to bring back the San Fernando Road Racing i think it will really make a big hit.

MANIAC · Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 2:11 pm Post subject:

Hey Guys .... What happen to the pictures ... Come on and post up some new ones ... dont let this thread die ......

wagonrunner · Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 3:40 pm Post subject:

whey SR and meh muccadum CD?

i coulda been helping all now, but no........................... Evil or Very Mad

wagon r · Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 3:43 pm Post subject:

....the pics there but we considerin to move everything to a new forum. i got some more pics but they are more or less the same ones i posted.

SR has a CD for me with pics from Gordon and i have some pics from dragholic in storage.

i won't allow it to die.

MANIAC · Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 3:44 pm Post subject:

^ Cool .....

djaggs · Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 8:12 pm Post subject:

The white BMW again, my bro took these pics on the same day..

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The thin gawky looking guy on the right is the driver of the red BMW, ever wonder why tuners look so weird???

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sexy lump, wonder if dat would fit in my Swift???

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this is the bad boy again....

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By the way guys, Desmond told me that Gordon and Selbourne Clark has a lot of pictures. He said he also has a scrapbook with lots of newspaper articles, I asked him to scan it for me.

smokey1275 · Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2006 1:42 pm Post subject:

wow bosch mechanical fuel injection trumpets , , man that's the stuff , nice

wagon r · Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 7:17 am Post subject:

....wish i could hear the sucker scream.... Razz

dragaholic · Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 3:05 pm Post subject:

Aye Wagon whats de latest with the pics?

wagon r · Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 3:34 pm Post subject:

.....well i have some stored on my pc here @ work. i started pullin out yours so that could give you back the album. got some others but they weren't anything to punch NO2 about.....

hopefully we could get some more from the older heads from back in the day and create a new section if not a new forum for everything.

AutoSport · Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 11:13 pm Post subject:

Ok one for the older brains here.

PN 5555 what kinda car and who was the driver!