Brian Damaged
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Jul 29, 2014 10:30:50 GMT
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Have shared this so many times, it's one of my favourite pics. June 1967, Trecco Bay near Porthcawl. That's me aged 2 1/2 sat on the bonnet of 22 year-old Daddy Damaged's '58 Zephyr 6. He's celebrating his 70th Birthday this coming weekend and I'll be hitting the Big Five-Zero in three months' time. Both of us still dicking about with cars in some form, him with his MGs/Bedfords, me with rallying.
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Brian Damaged
West Midlands
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Jul 28, 2014 19:52:40 GMT
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Pass on my best wishes to them for a speedy recovery. Competitors going WD on stages is treated very seriously by the MSA. I remember an incident a few years back on an event up here when two friends of mine rounded a bend to find a 205 coming at them at full-chat. Scariest experience they ever had.
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Brian Damaged
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Jul 28, 2014 19:14:56 GMT
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Gutted. Glad that everyone's alive to tell the tale, but gutted nontheless.
What event was it???
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Brian Damaged
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Jul 28, 2014 18:42:11 GMT
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Not merely the best thread of this year, but the best thread I've ever read in the eight years I've been a member of this here community.
My cap is well and truly doffed!!!!!
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Brian Damaged
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Jul 28, 2014 17:48:32 GMT
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Brilliant! This made me giggle. Hope he doesn't cough.
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Brian Damaged
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Jul 28, 2014 17:29:36 GMT
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Pics from yesterday's Stephens & George Harry Flatters Rally, organised by Brecon Motor Club and held on the Epynt Military Ranges near Llandovery. I spent the morning at the top of 'The Steps' before moving down to Copse, at the other end of the same road to catch some big air. Enjoy. We did!! Rallying legend Jimmy McRae proving there's life in the old dog yet by hustling round this GLORIOUS-sounding SBC-powered Vauxhall Firenza Can-Am. More from him later. Want Escorts? Got Escorts. Flying Cortina flew still higher in the afternoon. Eight-port Mini was plenty quick. V4 Saab. Ugly but effective. Lovely little Stilletto didn't finish, unfortunately. More Escorts. Quick little Nova. I wasn't lying when I said that Cortina would jump higher. Speaking of jumping: Of course, you've got to come down again at some point. Full compression... And again, sometimes things just go plain wrong. AWESOME Nissan 350-powered Darrian spun like a top before ending up straddling the ditch. Both crew members unharmed... For the late stages I found a decent vantage point under a tree at Copse Corner, as I needed a fix of sideways after all that jumping. Panel damage!!! Understeer!!! Oversteer!!! More Oversteer!!! More Jimmy McRae!!! Still more Oversteer!!! And...a Toyota Celica trying to kill me. .....and a Fiat 500. Ummm... Finally....event winner Damian Cole.
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Brian Damaged
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Jul 23, 2014 18:41:55 GMT
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Almost certainly not a works motor. OHA registration number was issued by Warley in the West Mids, works GM barges were Bedfordshire registered (*VS, *XD, *NM etc) as were the GM Dealer Sport works rally cars. Interesting find though, the Holden 3.3 six-pot was fitted to CF vans in Australia/NZ, I'd imagine that's where it came from.
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Brian Damaged
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Fairly common for the time amongst higher end stuff. The Riley Pathfinder (or Ditchfinder as it was more commonly known, due to its awkward handling) and various Bentleys also had a right-hand floor shifter.
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Brian Damaged
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Jun 24, 2014 20:56:00 GMT
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Name : Brian (the Damaged part comes from a 1984 episode of 'The Young Ones', therefore I've been Brian Damaged for some 30 years now) Location : Bromsgrove, just SW of Birmingham (I can see the M5 from where I'm presently sitting) Retro/Interesting Cars Owned : Absolutely nothing of interest now, though at almost 50 years old......well, you name it, I've probably owned it. Everything from 2CV's to Range-Rovers. Currently tooling round in a Pug 306DT, can't see that changing anytime soon. Shows Regularly Attended : RRG, RallyDay, various 'classic' shows if we're not rallying. Instagram, Twitter, Facebook pages : The Gung-Ho Rally Team Supporter's Club on FacebookWhat are you hoping to do here: Share the love. Share pics/anecdotes/experience. Anything else we should know?: Heavily involved in Rallying on both the organisation and competitive sides since I've had a full driver's licence. I was a road rally navigator back in the late 1980's and am returning to the left-hand seat just as soon as the car (a 1981 Mk3 Escort with a 155bhp 2-litre ZVH in it) is finished. Also spanner for a stage rally outfit which has been competing since 2004 and has grown organically to become the current loosely-based social collective known as the Gung-Ho Rally Team, which now draws from a geographical area spreading from the Midlands across into Wales and down into the Thames Valley. We compete with and against one another, help each other out and enjoy an active social life revolving around alcohol and falling over. Just like a traditional motor club only without all the hierarchy and bulls**t. Many of us are well into middle-age now, so quite a few of us have offspring that are also competing. Not me though, I have the blood test results to prove it I'm also a keen amateur photographer (as some of you may have seen) and am now back playing bass in a rock covers band with some of my workmates.
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Brian Damaged
West Midlands
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Jun 22, 2014 14:24:46 GMT
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Appliance Wire Baskets, would have originally looked thus: Wire 'baskets' bolted onto a centre cap, AFAIK. Quite common over here in the early 1980's. Seth of this parish has/has had a set the same, sans baskets, on his Minx Estate.
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Brian Damaged
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Jun 22, 2014 11:59:04 GMT
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Car 1 is Damion Cole in his new all singing/dancing mk2,who is driving the white mk2 in the last pic? Thanks for sharing mate. Colin Chiles/Mark Woodcock, who finished 6th overall. Damian came home 2nd overall after a spirited drive, just 46 seconds behind Alex Laffey in the Fiesta.
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Brian Damaged
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Jun 21, 2014 20:05:37 GMT
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C'est Magnifique!! Especially that gorgeous 404 Cabriolet. Much, much want-ness.
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Brian Damaged
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Jun 21, 2014 19:49:52 GMT
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Brian Damaged
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Renault 8 [pics]Brian Damaged
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There's nothing on that car that it doesn't need. Lovely.
My uncle ran R8s and R10s on his driving school fleet in the early 70s, I can clearly remember the absurdly comfortable sets and being fascinated by the He-Man Dual Controls in the passenger footwell. I rether suspect they were cooking 1108cc versions rather than Gordinis, mind......
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Brian Damaged
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The one's that do my nut are those condescending pricks, that have things like 'small person on board', 'bump on board' or 'mums taxi', tossers I hate those too. Like a modern-day virility symbol. You may well as just have this:
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Brian Damaged
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Back in the early 90's there was a guy doing the rounds of the car shows flogging 'ON A MISSION' 'SAFE AS FU*K' and other such niceties. In fact he produced some natty brochures with his wares inside, the photography for which was done at Shakey in late 1993. I know, because I appeared in it.In fact my 'dead Elvis' avatar was originally one of his creations! So if you've got an old graphics brochure with a picture of three long haired greboes sat on the back bumper of a T-plated VW Bay van, you've got a picture of Damaged aged 29.
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Brian Damaged
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Peugeot partner mods Brian Damaged
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May 26, 2014 15:02:05 GMT
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Surprised at lack of PAS. Daddy Damaged's Partner is a VERY early one (96P with 1769cc non-turbo XUD....incredibly low-geared so quite nippy around town but useless on motorways) but it does have assisted wheel-twirling.
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Brian Damaged
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May 21, 2014 12:09:06 GMT
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306TD.
1900, Pre-HDi.
Mines done 143000, pulls like a train, will seat four in comfort and averages 55mpg. You have to drive like a complete bellend to get it below 50, the best I've had so far is 61. Plus it handles like its on rails if you fancy a thrash.
A no-brainer.
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Brian Damaged
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Stoneleigh and VOSABrian Damaged
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You mean easy to get illegally registered, possibly dangerously built or even stolen/ ringed cars off the road? Clearly they haven't got round to the "tax-exempt 1972 K-reg" Land Rover 90 that was spreading mud all over the road (and the front of my car) earlier... Series Two Land Rover club have been actively reporting fraudsters like these to VOSA for years now, and rightly so IMHO.
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Brian Damaged
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Thanks chaps - glad you like it. Any guesses as to the mystery cars in Mantasport's workshop? That prize Pot-Noodle is still waiting! First one's an Alfa-Romeo 90. Made between 1984-87 and came in four-pot and V6 flavours. They were RWD too, despite having a very close resemblance to the Fiat Regata they were built on the Alfetta floorpan I believe. My ex-neighbour (who was Italian) had a gorgeous gold E-plated 90 V6 which he only ever used to take him and his family back to Turin for a month every summer, other than that it was garaged all year and very occasionally taken out on dry, sunny days. When he moved back to Italy in 2002 he took it with him. GORGEOUS-sounding car.
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