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Powar!!!

That GT40 :drool:
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Looks like Spa.
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Bloody wall riders.
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Geebus... :yikes:
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KNAPPO wrote:Bloody wall riders.
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So maybe not too cool as I took this on my phone, but Godzilla terrorised Winton today. The Sierra was invited to give it some competition but it got smashed! This was the cool down lap. Only time they met besides the start. A lot of track records fell today

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if jamo got a tattoo

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I'd never get a tattoo but that is.... Something.
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It's a darn sight better than the terrible ones KMag has got :)
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Damn it, no one was meant to see my new tattoo ... :rolleyes:
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I can't believe he was only 6 when he died, he achieved so much.
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lol, that explains some of his behavior.
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I was at Historic Sandown on the weekend, went solely to see some F5000's and took a shit-load of photos of a heap of old and valuable race cars.

Hidden the photos so you guys don't know why this page is taking so long to load until you remember that I filled it up with Sandown photos.
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In the middle of an open Formula race was Jack Brabham's Cooper Bobtail, a car that is so significant to Australian motorsport history that it was pretty amazing to see it was out there racing like it was 1956 all over again.

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Murray Carter's 1960 Corvette Special, it had some engine trouble on the Sunday but it was farkin' quick and it sounded like Satan incarnate.

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Took this one for the ARSE guys. Good old Bowe.

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And here, tucked away in a car display are the first Monaro to race at Bathurst and the first HDT Monaro, which infamously crashed at Sandown the better part of 40 years ago.

The F5000's had a massive event with around 12 cars racing and about eight cars going hell for leather, seeing a pack of four F5000's fighting for position is an amazing sight.
Also, the V8's had run there two months prior and were cutting 1:08's, a lone Elfin was out front and was pulling 1:03's, can't wait to see what the new FT5000's will do!

So I moved around the pits after that when everyone was packing up.
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The McLaren was being towed around by a golf cart and was one of the cars from New Zealand, there were four shipping containers that were full of F5000's, part of their sponsorship deal is with an international shipping company who ships 10 of their cars anywhere in the world for free.

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Another one for the ARSE guys, FnF Celebrity challenge is popular in real life too.

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Another shot of the Cooper Bobtail.

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A few of the many Falcon replicas that were in the regularity run.

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Ralton Terraplane, a car that got a podium in the 1934 South African Grand Prix, also a regular on the historic hill climb circuit.

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Max Stewart's old Lola.
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Another F5000, not sure who drove it, but it was quick.
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Driven by the Elfin Heritage Centre owner, took it very easy on the day, but then it is the main attraction for his museum.

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Some old Lotus.

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A multi-million dollar Bugatti 35, racing around because he could.

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A genuine BTCC car that blew up during the MG inviational.

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And lastly, the pedal box of a Lola. Kevin Bartlett was there on the weekend and he has a limp that was given to him by one of these cars.

And these were just the cars I photographed, the BT19 (which won the 1966 world championship) was there which I didn't even know about until I got home, a genuine GT40, Alan Jones's Theodore racing Lola and a BT11A (Jack's 1965 Tasman series car)
Being involved with CAMS and the whole CAMS wants to sell Sandown thing going on, I highly recommend getting there for next year's event (if it happens) as it's an amazing day where you will go deaf from the sheer amount of noise that every single car makes.
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nice shots, mate, thanks!

by the way I think the photos load in the background anyway, since they're part of the HTML structure. But it's nice to un-clutter the page! ;)
Yep, checked it with the network watcher thingo - they load with the page. Still.
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ysu wrote:nice shots, mate, thanks!

by the way I think the photos load in the background anyway, since they're part of the HTML structure. But it's nice to un-clutter the page! ;)
Yep, checked it with the network watcher thingo - they load with the page. Still.
Changed the text in the original post to reflect this now.
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Just to give you a hint how to actually make things load quicker: thumbnails.
Eg load the whole thing onto imgur, dropbox, you name it, and just link via thumbnails here.

(no don't do it, just saying - for me it loads in a split second anyway)
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ysu wrote:Just to give you a hint how to actually make things load quicker: thumbnails.
Eg load the whole thing onto imgur, dropbox, you name it, and just link via thumbnails here.

(no don't do it, just saying - for me it loads in a split second anyway)
I link them through photobucket, but that still might be a bit more load intensive than imgur, never really checked.
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