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Nov 25, 2019 15:06:37 GMT
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Got sent this pic this morning - this was taken at Swaffham Raceway in June 1991. It looks like we've found the fate of the original car. (And please don't start kicking off about banger racers, having seen a lot more photos of the car while it was owned by the group it was falling to pieces and I doubt would have been restorable after it was finished with, plus there are several very nice replicas on the road.)
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Nov 25, 2019 12:37:08 GMT
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That is probably the car that Bill was referring to then. We do know that that LTD ended up with another group called Jesus Jones - coincidentally, one of them raced a banger on the same night that Jimmy Cauty did. I wonder if he raced the LTD?
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Nov 22, 2019 23:05:21 GMT
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Sorry to bump a very old thread, but me and some friends (one of whom is a huge KLF fan) have been researching the history of this car and trying to find out if it still exists anywhere.
Jimmy Cauty did indeed compete in a celebrity banger race at Wimbledon in 1992, but the car he raced was not the Galaxie - he was in a smaller Yank tank (possibly a Chevy Nova) that was painted in the livery of the "Timelord".
The Galaxie that paran0id mentions above was raced at Swaffham the previous year by Paul Bickers. You are correct that he had a connection to the video for 3AM Eternal - Paul owns Bickers Action, the UK's biggest stunt co-ordinators, and his camera tracking vehicles were used to make the video. At this point in its very hard life I doubt the Galaxie could move under its own steam, so after towing it around with his camera trucks to do the video, it's very likely that Paul took it off the group's hands and bangered it. I am currently trying to find photos or footage from the event to try and see if it was indeed the same car he raced.
However, it doesn't end there. The aforementioned friend who is a KLF fan has met Bill Drummond, and on asking him about the car Bill told him they had two of them! This seems to be supported as we have found some photos of a very rotten-looking Galaxie sat forlornly outside Jimmy Cauty's place in London, which were apparently taken in late 1992 - over a year after the car was supposedly raced at Swaffham.
Any further info or pics are much appreciated - for some reason something is telling me this car, or the remains of it, is still out there somewhere.
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Sept 19, 2019 1:22:34 GMT
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I shouldn't have read this thread - I've been reading up on this thing further, and I am seriously considering contacting ItalDesign, seeing if they still have it and making them an offer for it. It would make a perfect luxury limousine to hire out, just needs the lower passenger compartment updating a bit with perhaps a drinks cabinet putting in. BMW V12 and four wheel drive/steering would mean great performance, would probably be like a big Range Rover to drive. Parking the thing might be the only issue in the UK.
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Sept 6, 2019 22:17:04 GMT
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I knew exactly what was going to be in this thread before I clicked on it.
I remember as a kid I had a book of "concept cars" and this was by far my favourite one in there. I remember wanting to buy one and live in it!
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Aug 17, 2019 20:33:09 GMT
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As a driver, I never have.
As a passenger, just once in a friend's Ford Mustang on the A43 near Silverstone.
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May 28, 2019 23:12:19 GMT
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I think this thing can be summed up by the phrase "so bad it's brilliant".
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I am fairly sure it would have been my dad's blue Mk3 Escort Ghia, complete with rectangular Lucas spotlamps. I have a photo of me sitting in the boot of that car somewhere.
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The blue Audi is very well put together, but this one has to be my favourite... Austin A135 Princess Ambulance, converted to a camper. Absolutely beautiful and I would love to see some pics of the interior too. I'd also happily live in that Bedford TK car-a-truck.
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Le Mans. Nothing else has, or ever will, portray the atmosphere and tension of a motor race so perfectly. Christine. Stunning car and brilliant dark story. Convoy. It shouldn't work as a film, but it does! C'etait une Rendez-vous. It may not be everything we were told it was, but an incredibly brave piece of film-making.
One thing I would love to see made is a film about British motorsport in the 1970s, based around something like Special Saloon racing. Also a gangster-style film about banger racing.
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PLEASE tell me that van was competing!
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Feb 27, 2019 23:50:07 GMT
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Willie Harrison raced under the number 2 and hailed from Rotherham - his son Paul originally started with the race number 22 but then took his dads original race number 2 for his car when Willie retired - Both are former world champions Pauls son Bradley now makes up a third generation Harrison family F1 racedriver under the race number 25 That photo was taken at the 2011 World Final at Northampton (Brafield) which Paul won, and I did the PA commentary on. A night I will never forget. Bradley is actually the fourth generation of Harrisons - Wilf, father of Willie, raced briefly in the 50s. (It does seem to me sometimes that the longer a family has been involved in the F1s, the better they are treated, but maybe that's just me.)
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FINALLY my thread has arrived! I've worked for various short oval promoters since I was 16 and have been a commentator since 2006 at a large number of tracks, including my local venue of Hednesford where I first came into contact with Retro Rides at the Pre-68 Banger meeting.
Loving the pics in this thread and some memories popping up from the early 2000s at the start of my career, especially awesome to see some old pics from Hednesford - I am in touch with the family of Bill Morris who founded the raceway and also created UK hot rod racing so will show them this thread.
I can see myself making a lot of posts in this thread! For the record, the Lotus above was raced at Mildenhall in Suffolk by 581 Simon Fixter, who is a full-time classic car restorer and repairer and races some of the cars which are too far gone to put back on the road - some of which he has resurrected from small piles of rust in order to race them!
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Looking at all the pics in this thread I have a question...why do all modern cars have to have such enormous wheels?
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Jan 17, 2019 11:10:12 GMT
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Haven't they got the only road-going TVR Speed 12 ever made in their collection?
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Thankyou for including the Talbot Sunbeam short oval hot rod - that belongs to a mate of mine and it took him aaaaaaages to build.
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Dec 19, 2018 18:59:49 GMT
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Somebody been reading my Facebook? I posted that same link along with a few pics of the green 306 Johnnycab on there the other day.
I think all those cars are fantastic - they were built for a weird French film called "Mood Indigo" which is based on an even weirder novel.
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OK I know it's not got much pink, but it's one of my all time favourite F1 cars and the 1992 Brabham has already been posted, so I'm posting it anyway
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If that Focus thing wins, someone go and snap it and I'll stick it on Barryboys.
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Dec 11, 2018 20:45:01 GMT
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That confirms that it was indeed 1996 I went (I was 10, went with my dad and one of his friends) - and I remember sitting in that silver Xantia estate that you can see in that photo! No idea where that memory suddenly popped into my head from. Is that the OP's car?
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