Yep read that piece myself yesterday Steve. Refreshers the old gray cells. Well it helps mine better than these brain training gezmos.
Yep read that piece myself yesterday Steve. Refreshers the old gray cells. Well it helps mine better than these brain training gezmos.
SOLD This a very old ad by the way.
I think I agreed on £1000 with Keith!
Here is the article that was in CJ about 1978ish that Steve mentioned earlier with part one As you know the car which is Roarin' Rat today.
I couldn't have put it better Ken. The memories these threads evoke are brilliant, today I read thename Barry Moore a name I had been trying to put to a car for yonks.Originally Posted by REDMAD
And Ken your sense of humour (ie the Concorde pic) is priceless!
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[quote=SG57;182554], today I read thename Barry Moore a name I had been trying to put to a car for yonks.
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That was a very cool car Roger and driven in a rather 'spirited' fashion.
[quote=plumpcars;182642]That car was one of the many that 'drove' me on. After reading the History Board and bringing back times and cars from the back of my feeble mind the name Barry Moore was a name I could not recall. Now it's like a light switched on, brilliant., today I read thename Barry Moore a name I had been trying to put to a car for yonks.
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That was a very cool car Roger and driven in a rather 'spirited' fashion.
ken you got any more pics like the cinema,grey primer gtx and 57 one
Barry Moore moved to San Bernardino Ca around 1980 (he was actually an American who grew up in England,born in Alaska) I did see him once or twice in California years ago but who knows where he is now.He did continue his love affair with 57 chevys because the last I heard he was driving a red one. In the mid 70s he was a regular at Heston on saturday nights cruising with the 'Spirit of the Fifties' clan.Back then his blue belair 2dr hardtop was the nicest around before they all started coming in from the States.
A group of us regularly drank at a pub in Pinner called the Victory. Barry had a reputation locally for 'driving it hard' and it reached the point where the police were going to catch him whatever. One night Barry left the Victory and unknown to anybody the local police had decided to wait for him in various locations. They duly pulled over a 'blue American car' as requested and quickly had it surrounded and the driver out. Trouble was they had pulled the wrong Car, most police officers did not know the difference between a 57 Chevy and a 66 Chevelle. Ironically they had pulled the one car out of all that regularly went everywhere at 30mph...
Barry lived to race another day but they did get closer. It was probably a good thing that he left these shores not long after.
Great times.
(If you're reading this John Your manner of driving was highlighted purely to show the irony of the night's action...)
At the Gerry's Cherrys 'car lot' at I think the '78 Nationals my boring black immaculate 4 door had something racey written on the windshield (wish I could remember) in shoe whitener by Y's guy (I think). Written on Barrys total street racer was written 'owned by little old lady, only driven to church'.
I knew then that I had to have a Sport Coupe.
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Heres some more shutdown piccys, 1st Tim Cook smokes 'em for the boys, then the gtx & 57 prepare to race, the camera mans leaning on ken Robbins 55 , next to that is the vanilla olay pop, then i cant remember but it was in the middle of october 77 CC with derek chapmans standard 8 (a partial anorak moment!), at the end you can just about see russ wards widearsed brown b, the 3rd pic shows a line up of spectating rods which includes bobs model y at the end, kens 55, vanilla olay & the only other one i know is brian lucases model b, finally we have Tel Powneys california dreamin which has recently been reincarnated in more of a resto rod style, (& was centrespread in cc feb 78 with a nice stocking clad lady with glasses with one leg in the air if i remember rightly!!)
all pics courtesy of bobs box..rip....
enjoy......................by the way what happened to tim?
more southend comin soon...
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Tim !! His throttle stuck and that was the last we saw of him ! I think he is in San Diego now.
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great shutdown pics Mark,anybody else got any that were lucky enough to be there on that day.
This was taken from Hot Rod n Custom-
Does anybody remember a yard of small workshops (about 20) back in the very late 70s,that were down the end of pound lane North Benfleet near the junction of burnt mills road. A guy named Paul owned em all. Me Dad had one of the workshops, plus there was a guy there that done abit of custom work,anybody no who it was? It was great to see some of the cars turn up there. Heres some i remember there-
Thames 400E van in for rover V8, Mk 1 Transit in for V6, 105e Anglia having the back lowered, Vauxhall droop snoop Firenza-had Rover V8-Fibersports Mk1 Capri box archs in grey primer.There was a finished clean looking white Mk 2 Cortina with the trick of putting Mk 4 zodiac rear lights across the back, Kustom brown Consul Classic-lake pipes etc that was pictured in Street Machine Readers cars
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Do you mean the one shared by Wilf Stacey and Steve (Burt)?
"Bursta speed and colour" if I remember rightly.
Col.
no not that one,that was on Smilers farm? just up the road,theres been a few how type of car people down that area.The workshop i mean was down further towards the A127.I see the Firenzy there in 82,but the others were there well in the 70s thinking about it now.The workshops are all gone now,they were all behind Pauls house,the house is still there but a big home has been biult on the workshop land.
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