Flat Attack.

Went to the Uraidla Hot Rod and Classic picnic on Sunday.  Lots of things to see, but the highlight for me, without doubt, was to see and hear Mike's salt racer, all finished and ready to rumble.

Here he is about to fire it up.

All the details.

It really is a masterpiece, even standing quietly.
Len did a drawing of the OHC for the flatty so Mike gets it tattooed on his chest.

What a fanatic!
Bring on Lake Gairdner 2015.

Officials required on the weekend.

Dear Officials,

Ultimate Motorsports Events are assisting Benson Motorsport with Port Adelaide Carrera.  We invite you to be part of this event on Sunday 14^th December.

Flag points, service park, Scrutineers all  Officials needed.

We are planning to offer  an early Documentation and Scrutineering on Saturday 13^th at 2pm. If you would like to be part of the official teams please register advise if available on Sat or Sunday or Both on Ultimate Motorsport Events website.

www.ultimatemotorsport.com.au

Looking forward to another great motorsport event.

More information will be provide to officials that have registered shortly.

Regards

Daniel Claridge

Officials Co-ordinator

Port Adelaide Carrera.

It's happening.

The Cromer Parade kitchen, that is.

The toaster's already in action.
The rest of the 1996 appliances will be coming out of their boxes real soon.

GT swansong.

Well, they've rattled off their 500 GTs and supposedly there's a couple more years to run.

The orders were in before production.

Surely another batch should be done!

And what about this cop car that Dick Johnson has been developing?
 More HP than a V8 Supercar.

I have this vision of some cop circulating Bathurst and then catching Mostert and pulling him over to give him a warning for dangerous driving.

Eat your heart out Winnebago.

Things Poms do.

I've never seen one of these in Australia but apparently Land Rover make them.

Don't mind this though.

Sussex Hotel

This new venue is a beauty.

Let's hope we keep coming back.

Cortina utes.

Million Mile Miata.

They go forever don't they.

This is it. Young Toni Avery, from California, has had a drive. This has given her an appreciation of just how great the old Na model was, although I think she's hanging out for one of these.

Or more to the point, one of the Global MX5 Cup cars.

"Mystery local sporty" revisited.

Referring back to a blog post from Sunday, November 4th, 2012 where Peter Blyth from Williamstown had built up an interesting sports car and was wondering about its origin. Well, we're still wondering. He picked up some remnants some time ago from an MGCC member in Elizabeth which comprised a few fibreglass panels including a crude roof designed to fit an FJ windscreen and some fabricated chassis rails.

At the time Steve Rowley was working on a Milano roadster that happened to be on an Austin A40 chassis. Peter picked up a similar chassis and began to build his car.

It turned out pretty well and here are a few shots of it at Collingrove.

He was told by someone that it was a Buchanan and later that it was a Bolwell. As you can see, it turned out to be neither and there was no link to Ron Tonkin of Triden fame, as confirmed by his son, Wayne. It became known as the Blue Flame Special, due to the Wolseley engine he fitted (of the BMC variety, not Chev).
Now, Larry K spotted this body sitting on a trailer at the last Gawler swap meet.

Always around when a bargain is to be had, Larry bought it along with the rest of the car which was home in the shed. I would have thought this $5000 Torana would have been more up his alley but I think he's made a wise choice.

Personally, what I found most attractive were these 2 horse drawn vehicles in good nick for $1000 each.

The man in the red shirt bought them both.
Anyway, here's the car on its way to its new home.

And safely in the carport.

In the shed he thought he'd get the polish out.

Still, we don't know the car's history. There has been some suggestion that it might be a British Buckler DD2?

That could be feasible as there was a bloke in New Zealand that was making Buckler kits.

Well, that proves it.

Some Tasmanians do have two heads.

It just gets tougher and tougher looking every year.

and continues to get FTDs against all comers.

Aussie one-off.

On Pickles SA salvage online auction with a bit over 3 days to run is this little beauty.

Keen observers in the UK have asked me about its history. Well I don't know much at all but have told them what I do, namely that it came to South Australia in the 60s from Victoria where it was built, presumably by someone by the name of Sheppard. During the ownership of keen Jaguar enthusiast, Grant Murdoch, it was raced a couple of times and it still has its CAMS log book with it. The back half is aluminium, the front is fibreglass and the roof is steel (from a Hudson Wasp). Does anybody out there know any more history, particularly from its time in Victoria? Might be time to flick through the old SCWs.