#VINTAGE STOCK CAR RACES DRIVER#
#VINTAGE STOCK CAR RACES PLUS#

The songВ made it to #2 in Belgium before it rose to #1 in Britain in 1972. Played by 'Lieutenant Pigeon', a band led by Rob Woodward with his mum Hilda on keyboards. TheВ Anthem for bangers, Mouldy Old Dough: Soundtracked RinkyDink with his collection of stock car photos on YouTube: Theme over the Tannoy? Thanks to Malc Brown who has brilliantly There's nothing like a serious trainingД¬ourse to shake you up when you think you're pretty good. Had a ball, thoughВ I am frankly a rather obstinate student - and received a couple ofД«lack-flag warnings for going a bit over my actual skill level. I took a two-day racing course at a tight road circuit Here's the track blessing, watched by Prince Andrew, GP world championВ Damon Hill, Mark Webber, David Coulthard. So what? It was my late father who made thatД¬rozier about 30 years ago. Of Brixworth, by tapping the tarmac with his bishop's crozier or 'pastoral staff' (that's a shepherd's crook to you and me). New Grand Prix circuit layout was opened in April 2010, and theВ track was actually blessed by the Bishop And I burned my hand on that carbon-fibre exhaust shroud. Shot out of a cannon onto a toboggan run.

#VINTAGE STOCK CAR RACES DRIVER#

SilverstoneВ circuit in 2007 My driver was Charlie Hollings, an F3 competitor, and his terse instructions were 'hang on and don't touch anything.' JustД«eing a passenger exhausted me this was a full-race and that's meВ after some passenger 'hot laps' on the Just the bloke we need - stand up on this, will you,Д®yes because of the sparks.' You've guessed it -ДЇred took aВ piece of scrap and tack-welded the man's Was welding some steel plate onto the car, and he said 'Ah,

Mitchell and Pete were working on the #38 car in Fred's workshop,ДЄnd they called for some help from a chap who had dropped in,ДЄ farm worker who was wearingВ steel-toed boots. Of winking 'thank you' to Pete and his generation: Fred Loved this little tale, which I will pass on here as a way Joking that was everywhere in stock-car racing in those days. Of the old school, but with that characteristic sense of practical Schafer, master mechanic (Pete Tucker called himДЄ 'wizard'), friend to everyone, and loyal to Fred MitchellДЄnd his family for many years, passed away at his home in Washington Schafer, who generously entrusted it to me, in memory of ThisД«eautiful memento passed to Fred's long-time race mechanic Pete This was presented to superstar Fred Mitchell, #38, when he entered theДЎ963 world final as defending (1962) world champion. If you were good enough to qualify into the stockД¬ar World Final, you received this shield. Three decades, and some photos can't be dated accurately. To keep drivers' info bunched together, but often a race photo contains I have abandoned my earlier practice of pastinge labels You can always use theД®dit-find function on a page to look for a favourite driver or track. There are someД®xcellent 'quick-referenceВ index' websites on the Net, but this isДЄ place for browsing leisurely at random and stumbling on stories andДrivers and cars you weren't expecting. Like it, and many people tell me the same thing. It's a jumble - that's the way it has grown, and that's the way I Have donated their photos elsewhere as well. Making it a kind of community collection. Site has been sent to me personally by a stock car or drag racing fan, I don't gather photos from the Internet everything on this Warning: I don't know computers, and over the years theД«ackground html codes have become very tangled, so you must put up with

#VINTAGE STOCK CAR RACES PLUS#

Stories and technical facts, plus my opinions, and most photos are a On the page headings at the top and bottom of the pages, and you'll find a ton of NeedВ hours to go through this pictorial history. It has been wonderful to hear from you good folks over Racers some are the sons and daughters and even grandchildren of racers featured Young, lap-scorer Ken Mason, and Brafield 'deejay' Russ Thomas - along with many many others - have been especially helpful with picturesДЄs a result, my website has now become a collective and communalД¬elebration on the part of fans who, like me, admired the early era I started with a collection of old snapshots I'd kept in a shoeД«ox but over theВ years, many kind people have sent me their ThisВ site is dedicatedВ to the racers who entertained Racing and drag racing thrive today in a more sophisticated way, but Were tooВ often ignored or looked down on. Is a nostalgia page aboutВ rough-'n'-ready forms of motor sport that Racing' as the phrase has applied in Britain since 1954, and the early days of drag racing in Britain. I set it up to share a specialized topic for relatively few people world-wide: BriSCA 'Stock-car

Vintage stock car races