v8ian
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Last Edit: Aug 3, 2018 8:10:30 GMT by v8ian
Atmo V8 Power . No slicks , No gas + No bits missing . Doing it in style.
Austin A35van, very different------- but still doing it in style, going to be a funmoble
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Properly sad times. Wonder what will become of the swap meet ? Theres no dislike button here  |
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v8ian
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The Swap meet will survive, From my memory it has been at least 3 different venues over the years
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Last Edit: Aug 3, 2018 13:26:51 GMT by v8ian
Atmo V8 Power . No slicks , No gas + No bits missing . Doing it in style.
Austin A35van, very different------- but still doing it in style, going to be a funmoble
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Essex Arena to close.......Mercdan68
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A real shame ...land in essex and Kent is at a premium
Someone’s made a few quid
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Same thing in California. Carlsbad,OCIR,Los Angeles County Raceway (have been there several times)...
Irwindale (my almost "hometrack" when i'm in So-Cal),all have to make way for shopping malls and housing.
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Avon Park, Wimbledon and Arena Essex this year. All locations which,for different reasons were prime development sites.
The sadder part is that there isn't new venues coming up to replace those that are lost. Blyton Park and Bedford being the recent gains(although I raced Blyton when it only had grasstracks and a short oval probably 15 years ago)
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Literally the only memory I have of this place is mid - late 90s Max Power/Fast Car era RS Turbos with young girls hanging out the sunroof with their cans out...
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dazcapri
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Literally the only memory I have of this place is mid - late 90s Max Power/Fast Car era RS Turbos with young girls hanging out the sunroof with their cans out... Mine is of Buster Bloodvessel (bad manners ask your Dad) riding on top of his old Daimler limo at the firecracker with his ar$e out |
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Literally the only memory I have of this place is mid - late 90s Max Power/Fast Car era RS Turbos with young girls hanging out the sunroof with their cans out... Mine is of Buster Bloodvessel (bad manners ask your Dad) riding on top of his old Daimler limo at the firecracker with his ar$e out Mine is of some muppet in a 3 series sliding around the car park with his  out, showering parked cars in stones. Including mine. Shame to loose another one, ive always considered arena to be a main player when it came to circuits, and with the loss of wimbledon as well it really starts to feel like short oval racing is starting to loose its history. Eastbourne is another track in the south that goes back a looong time, ive not heared anything about that shutting, but that would be a major blow if it did. |
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Literally the only memory I have of this place is mid - late 90s Max Power/Fast Car era RS Turbos with young girls hanging out the sunroof with their cans out... Mine is of Buster Bloodvessel (bad manners ask your Dad) riding on top of his old Daimler limo at the firecracker with his ar$e out I would but he’s been dead 13 years.... As an ex skin/scooterboy I’m well aware of Bad Manners Mr Capri  |
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Essex Arena to close.......Mercdan68
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I remember going to arena back in the 80s in one of my mk1 escorts and watching a huge fight in the pits
I can still clearly see the scrumpy jack cans being thrown across the pits....aah the good old days
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Last Edit: Aug 3, 2018 19:00:29 GMT by Mercdan68
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Aldershot was another track , spent some great evenings there Spedeworth hot Rods as a teenager
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retired with too many projects!
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I am a Thurrock local and had heard this was in the pipeline for a while as one of my friends does some of the photography work at arena Essex, next time I see him I will try to find out any more information on this and pass it along.
On an related note about the amount of housing going up in the area, one of the local papers has just reported that the council is planning on trying to get approval to build over 30,000 homes in the area, and one of the places that has been earmarked for building on is the Orsett showground ( so another show area gone )as well as Orsett hospital and a lot of green belt land in the area.
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It's a shame, but when you own the biggest plot of ready cleared land with building permission in the south east, eyes turn to pound symbols.
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Sign of things to come
Unfortunately the increase in housing means land sales pays better than Motorsports
I remember going to the lakeside cruise before it was legal in near by car parks
And ironically they started to host it at the arena to make it safe and organised and mainly to keep the nutters off the road and out of the shop car parks
And yet here we are many years later taking this safe and organised playground away
How often has your younger selfs been stopped by the police and been told there's a time and place and if you want to drive fast then go to a race track but now there slowly disappearing
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I’ve never been, but just from the handful of memories listed here it’s a wonder it wasn’t closed 40 yrs ago.
Tis’ the way I'm afraid, if you owned it & you made what is probably a modest living from it, that then coupled with maybe new health & safety which means say a £1M spend to keep it open, but a developer offers you £10M, what would you do?
You’d sign on the dotted & chill.
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Its sad developers are basically given carte blanche to do what they want . They want 30,000 homes near where i am and its infastructure is completely screwed already . We need homes but i think most likely a quarter of that .
Whats that you say ? Councilors and developers hand in hand making out we need so many homes because its Oxfordshire and the homes fetch a premium ? No never , they would not do such a thing .
Building homes no one local can afford either !
Non relevant rant over
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Hi, I have to say it was only a matter of time. It was a dis-used quarry being used as a landfill site, I can remember going to 4x4 events there and they were finishing up tipping and capping it off with dirt. There were gas monitoring stations around the site and the odd whiff of gas. They were waiting for the ground to settle and stabilise, then they could build on it.
Colin
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Literally the only memory I have of this place is mid - late 90s Max Power/Fast Car era RS Turbos with young girls hanging out the sunroof with their cans out... pics? |
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cactus
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Before it opened Chick Woodruffe was GIVEN the site for free if he did something with it....
Me and a few friends cleared a out 50 tonnes of Breezeblocks for him.
When it opened the tight git never even let us in for free!
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Last Edit: Aug 6, 2018 10:12:49 GMT by cactus
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