Old Irish Motorsport Pictures (merged) - Page 3

davyboy · 19 Mar 2007, 17:31 (Ref:1871553)

Fantastic pictures Leo. Are they all yours... including all those Atlantic ones ?

davyboy · 19 Mar 2007, 17:49 (Ref:1871565)

Does anyone know who this ?

http://www.conconnolly.com/cutenews/...s_2/Scan20.jpg

http://www.conconnolly.com/cutenews/...s_2/Scan10.jpg

http://www.conconnolly.com/cutenews/...s_2/Scan21.jpg

allenbrown · 19 Mar 2007, 17:49 (Ref:1871567)

Are they all late 1980s? Some look early 1980s.

Allen

davyboy · 19 Mar 2007, 18:05 (Ref:1871584)

A lot of them are early 1980s and some are 1970s Allen. I'm not sure if they're all Leo's ['cause he's not that old

], hence my post above.

Motormouth · 19 Mar 2007, 19:01 (Ref:1871641)

Nope, not all mine. If you hold the mouse over them, they will say "Leo" and a number if they are mine. All the rest are Con's!!
I think that might be David Sleator in the Midget??

davyboy · 19 Mar 2007, 19:14 (Ref:1871658)

Are you sure its him ? Do you know what year its from ? I think that may have been the Midget I raced ! Here it is with my dad [the Zola Budd of motorsport] at the wheel in 1989.

Motormouth · 20 Mar 2007, 11:31 (Ref:1872235)

Nice Helmet!! Is that the time he nicked the car while you were answering the call of nature??

davyboy · 20 Mar 2007, 12:01 (Ref:1872258)

It was Leo, can you believe it !! I came out of the 'plush' Mondello toilets to see that thing barrelling down the straight with the old man behind the wheel 'sans lid' !! At the time, my brother thought that he was simply reversing it off the trailer whereupon he put it into first, drove it round the paddock and took off out the pit lane. Crazy days !

Seriously though, would you be pretty sure that's David Sleator behind the wheel of the number 3 Midget ? Is he the same David Sleator that does photography for the Irish Times among others ?

**John Turner** · 20 Mar 2007, 14:34 (Ref:1872359)

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Originally Posted by davyboy

It was Leo, can you believe it !! I came out of the 'plush' Mondello toilets to see that thing barrelling down the straight with the old man behind the wheel 'sans lid' !! At the time, my brother thought that he was simply reversing it off the trailer whereupon he put it into first, drove it round the paddock and took off out the pit lane. Crazy days !

Probably irresponsible of me to say so, but I just love that story!

Motormouth · 20 Mar 2007, 16:04 (Ref:1872386)

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Originally Posted by davyboy

Seriously though, would you be pretty sure that's David Sleator behind the wheel of the number 3 Midget ? Is he the same David Sleator that does photography for the Irish Times among others ?

Welll Con had all those pics in my house a coupla weeks ago, before he scanned them and I'm nearly sure that's who he sais it was!! Yeah, same guy, good photographer!!
I'll double check for you; you might finally find out where your Midget came from!!

davyboy · 20 Mar 2007, 17:23 (Ref:1872430)

That would be great Leo, thanks so much. I've waited over 20 years to find out where my Midget came from ! Reading that sentence again sounds like I need psychiatric help.

rcarr · 21 Mar 2007, 01:22 (Ref:1872741)

Does anyone know Arthur Kellett? He used to race an Imp/Stiletto, apparently he lives in Ireland. Does anyone know if he raced the car in Ireland?

Motormouth · 21 Mar 2007, 13:24 (Ref:1873084)

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Originally Posted by rcarr

Does anyone know Arthur Kellett? He used to race an Imp/Stiletto, apparently he lives in Ireland. Does anyone know if he raced the car in Ireland?

Haven't heard the name. Arthur Collier raced here quite a bit and did have a Skoda Superloon and various members of a Dublin Kellett family have raced (,and still are racing,) saloons at Mondello but can't shed any light on Arthur Kellett, sorry...........

Podd37 · 21 Mar 2007, 14:22 (Ref:1873121)

I'm not sure if they're all Leo's ['cause he's not that old

]

Wouldn't be so sure of that Dave.......!! Believe it or not , this year will be my 18th season, so that should age us all a bit.
The story of your old man reminds me of the day you fired my dad's F.Vee off during a winter 'Test' on that old factory road in Ballymount. Don't think you can do things like that anymore more's the shame. Racing cars seem so much faster on roads that the general public are allowed on! Just ask all the Fiat racers that used to test up and down the main road of the Phoenix Park...at night...!
They are great pics. I keep seeing that Ritmo and crying cos it had all the bits I want for the 128. I wonder how many of the other cars in those pics were broken/left in fields/chucked in skips?

woodster · 21 Mar 2007, 16:27 (Ref:1873155)

Those photos are brilliant they bring back so many memories of when I used to go the as a kid.Me and my three brothers used to sit in the grand stand and watch all the races while listening to Robin Rhodes!!!

I used to go th Mondello with my father when he was working with the Griffins and then later I used to work on two Formuls Fords with Martin Mc Mahon & Donal Healy.

I wonder will there be a part three of golden oldies.

David

davyboy · 21 Mar 2007, 16:46 (Ref:1873164)

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Originally Posted by Podd37

Wouldn't be so sure of that Dave.......!! Believe it or not , this year will be my 18th season, so that should age us all a bit.

... and my 24th... in karting ! Not great for the old back and tooth fillings

Quote:

Originally Posted by Podd37

The story of your old man reminds me of the day you fired my dad's F.Vee off during a winter 'Test' on that old factory road in Ballymount. Don't think you can do things like that anymore more's the shame. Racing cars seem so much faster on roads that the general public are allowed on! Just ask all the Fiat racers that used to test up and down the main road of the Phoenix Park...at night...!

That was a great morning alright. In fact, none of us gave a thought to taking it out up there. At least we did it in a relatively quiet industrial estate unlike a guy who used to come out of an evening on Ballyroan Road [a busy suburban arterial for those not familiar] with a Reynard SF84 FF2000... at night... with no lights... never found out who it was. Still I used to use Ballyroan Road myself for 'shakedowns' and took the Midget out a few times as well as a full bodied 250cc Superkart. God knows what I was thinking of at the time, probably not getting caught by the police I guess. Don't try this at home kids

Motormouth · 21 Mar 2007, 20:41 (Ref:1873363)

Seeing as we're all coming out with the odd dodgy story, what about the guy who won the Ritmo race in the Phoenix Park a few years ago, celebrated a little(

) and then couldn't find his trailer and decided he had better drive her home.... Wait a mo, that could have been me

I vaguely remember arriving back at my girlfriends house, heel and toeing for all I was worth and finding her standing in the garden with her mother (having heard the open exhaust miles away) with a face like thunder...........

Ah well, both her and the Ritmo are long gone!!!!

Motormouth · 21 Mar 2007, 20:42 (Ref:1873365)

More pics added to the same page by the way!!

And Davyboy, that was David Sleator, he raced that car for a year or two, should have a number for him shortly, I'll give him a shout and see if he can shed any light on the Midget's history........

davyboy · 21 Mar 2007, 21:24 (Ref:1873403)

Leo you're a star and a half for that. Ya e-mail me the number or his mail address, that would be brilliant.

Those last pictures are fabulous, God do they bring back memories, particularly that shot of the Mondello paddock with what I think is Tony Trimmer's T332 less bodywork.

Remember that pile up too at Shell as well when Mike Armstrong shortened his Kadette ? Didn't he have it out again a week later or something.

Look at the karting pictures... wasn't it amazing how popular the 'tash was in Ireland in the 1980s... sorry Paul, you're gonna kill me from bringing that in

Fantastic pictures though Leo... you and Con have unearthed a treasure trove with these.

Podd37 · 22 Mar 2007, 08:59 (Ref:1873624)

[quote=davyboy] wasn't it amazing how popular the 'tash was in Ireland in the 1980s... sorry Paul, you're gonna kill me from bringing that in

]

Oh yeah....pick on me....!

woodster · 22 Mar 2007, 12:37 (Ref:1873728)

Does anybody remember they revered the track in Mondello for one season,

Does anybody have any pictures of that?

David

davyboy · 22 Mar 2007, 13:57 (Ref:1873768)

Yep. Here's Padraig Mooney negotiating BOAC [not sure what its called now] in an Atlantic.

http://www.dendra.net/sweetFA/

Motormouth · 22 Mar 2007, 14:59 (Ref:1873796)

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Originally Posted by davyboy

Yep. Here's Padraig Mooney negotiating BOAC [not sure what its called now] in an Atlantic.

http://www.dendra.net/sweetFA/

I think that pic was taken at a sprint actually, circa '88?. In '97, Mondello raced a few meetings "left had in" or anti-clockwise, I'm sure Con has a few pics of these. It was stopped for insurance reasons as far as I remember, lack of exit kerbs etc being one of the issues. Great to drive though!!

davyboy · 22 Mar 2007, 15:26 (Ref:1873809)

Ah OK. Duckhams [or whatever its called now] must have been pretty nice as it opened out... a bit like Coppice in Donnington.

woodster · 22 Mar 2007, 17:19 (Ref:1873874)

Cool Padraig Mooney is my boss I must show him that picture!!!

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