Cheapest from of motorsport?

ahh memories...there are plenty of stories :)

Hmmmmm........
The shower block with the noisy pipes at Devonport bluff. The playground at Devonport. (at 2am!) The nightclubs that reckoned I was too drunk to go in? at Devonport of course!
Heaps of fun for a few years Ben.
And the targa guys that wouldn't give us the time of day until we were beating them!!!!!
Hey! What about the minutes silence at the dinner? We had a minutes silence for a fellow competitor that died 1.7 kms into the first stage one year. During the minutes silence with about 200 people in this civic centre someone collapsed dragging the tablecloth , with everything on it down on top of him! poor bloke!:) :)

if i remember correctly, you weren't allowed to go into the club because i drunkenly tried to put you in a taxi as a joke telling the taxi driver you were too old to be out. problem was it wasn't a taxi, i was pushing you into a commodore that someone had pulled up in. the bouncers were watching.

the stove as a heater in the caravan

Can't remember too much of that night apart from being extremely sober! I do remember telling the bouncers that the next time I was there that would be the last night club that I would go to!
The drives up and down Lake Barrington road doing pace noting in the mk2 4door CL was a memory that I want to forget. The Mallee Grill house wine the night before must have been off Ben? Kate was ill too and she was in the back filming between vomitting!!
Loved doing the motorsport thing with you mate. You are good at telling me where to go, unfortunately you weren't telling me where not to go!:)
Is there anyway we can put the incar video of Hellyer Gorge on the computer via Youtube. That was awesome video! I think the members would be impressed! :)

Yes lets see the video

asked someone at work about converting video to digital then shrinking it to a size suitable for youtube etc. it may be more hassle than its worth. Get everyone together for an end of year dinner in hobart for a video night adn some beers maybe..might mend a few bridges too. everyone could bring something. a personal video of there own projcets 5 min long etc. just an idea

sound like a good idea Ben. Bridges to mend? I think the forum members here are all friendly guys. Great idea and a laugh. Got that Golf Majic video too :)

And britchies favourite remark to other competitors?


:D "Hey! You were going so well when we passed you!":D

Andrew, I hate to imagine how quick you must have been going to get that sort of result:) No wonder the other competitors had to take you seriously.
Who would think that a little Golf would be that quick... Gunter must be quite a car. Good to see that it doesn't get an easy life. As someone else said, GTIs were made to be driven hard!
Great action shots too. Someone was quick to get those.
Lucky to get out of it with relatively little damage.

Some of those roads on the West Coast are pretty challenging, even at relatively sane speed. At race speed, well I think Ben's comment sums that up:)

That video sounds worth having a look at. If you can't get it on the web, I'll have to chase it up when I'm down you way next...

BTW, my only off-road excursion (on public roads) was on the road east of Bridport. There used to a sharp kink in an otherwise fairly straight road (I think they've straightened it out now). Came off it side-ways at about 60mph (in a Mini though) and took out a 6 inch corner strainer in the middle of the car:( Did a little more damage than Gunter took...

That result was with a stock 1.8 TC. I made my own headers, lightened the flywheel and altered the cam timing. Thats it! Not bored, resleeved and was a budget car. Once you got it wound up you had to keep the momentum up. Because of the golf being in a bed nose/tail on the Tasman Bridge before I got it, it would crab along the road. Not noticable when driving but people would always be running up to tell me. I zero'd the odometer when I built him in 1998 and it now shows 22,000 kms! Thats a lot of hard kms! There are some good roads out Bridport way. That is about the only place in Tas that we never ran. Always wanted to do Targa, the Sideling would've suited his set up. In fact, all of the thursday morning stages would suit him! And the west coast roads? Awesome driving experience! We are lucky in Tas for the roads, now if we could get rid of a few police??? (and roadkill, its everywhere down here these days):)