|
| Site Partners: | SpotterGuides | Veloce Books |
| Related Sites: | Classic Cars Monthly | Your Link Here |
|
|
||||||||||
|
|||||||||||
|
|
||||||||||
|
|||||||||||
|
|
7 May 2007, 12:51 (Ref:1908302)
|
#1 | ||
|
Veteran
Join Date: May 2004
Posts: 2,540
 |
BIMF carpark
The carpark at the BIMF had a few classic cars, I've just started a thread in the historic racing section so I thought I'd throw a few pics up here too. HERE is the link for the gallery - mostly photos of the production cars that had a 12hr race on the Sunday, won by a BMW 335i.
This is a 1975 Ford Falcon John Goss Special. Goss had won the Bathurst 500 the year before, so what better way to celebrate (ie flog a few more cars) than with a V8 and lairy 70s paint scheme. Note the rear wheels (7") are lost in the rear arches, which were designed to take 10" rims for racing.  1968 Holden HK Monaro GTS 327 - Holden's first entry into the muscle car market, and was also successful at Bathurst the same year.  This drag racer (1971 Holden HG Monaro) is "somewhat" modified (1000+hp worth of modified!), it certainly did some big, smoky, block-out-the-sun burnouts on the front straight!  And several miles further from the wall, this is a WWII Ford Blitz truck with a Bristol Viper jet engine on the back. This also did some demonstration runs at lunch time, and while the yellow Monaro did not, this had me blocking my ears - the afterburner/reheat came in with a visceral thump and you could feel the heat from 50m away... I realise this is stretching the whole "classic" thing, but both the truck and the jet are classic in their own right, right?  
|
||
|
|
|
10 May 2007, 14:20 (Ref:1910345)
|
#2 | ||
 Race OfficialVeteran
Join Date: Mar 2003
Posts: 13,226
 |
errr ..... right!
|
||
|
|
|
|
14 May 2007, 03:27 (Ref:1912768)
|
#3 | ||
|
Veteran
Join Date: May 2004
Posts: 2,540
|
Looking back, I really should have taken a photo or some video footage of the afterburner - it produced flames nearly twice the length of the vehicle, a really spectacular sight
|
||
|
|
|
|
16 May 2007, 02:40 (Ref:1914358)
|
#4 | ||
|
Veteran
Join Date: Jun 1999
Posts: 5,549
|
I didn't get to see the truck in action, but i certainly heard it! The smoke was visible hundreds of metres away!
|
||
|
|
|
|
17 May 2007, 02:07 (Ref:1915054)
|
#5 | ||
|
Veteran
Join Date: May 2004
Posts: 2,540
|
David, the smoke came from the yellow Monaro drag car.
I had a look through the photos for any other photos of your car, but no luck sorry. There was an XU1 similar to yours on display on the Friday: 
Last edited by johnh875; 17 May 2007 at 02:13. |
||
|
|
|
 |
|
|
Similar Threads
|
||||
| Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
| 2007 BIMF & the Bathurst 12 Hour Race (Merged x3) | louonline | Australasian Touring Cars. | 1057 | 25 Oct 2007 13:24 |
| 2008 BIMF & 12 Hour Race - format | Peddler | Australasian Touring Cars. | 15 | 19 Apr 2007 09:27 |
| The BIMF (Bathurst Motoring Festival) thread | pplater | Australasian Touring Cars. | 304 | 8 Jun 2006 02:35 |
| Morris defects to Ford and BJR at the BIMF | Razor | Australasian Touring Cars. | 21 | 4 May 2006 08:22 |
Linear Mode
