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    Tru-Blu going back into her original warpaint!

    news just in via Facebook, Bowdens have today sent the Tru-Blu Bathurst and twice ATCC-winning XD out for sympathetic cosmetic restoration to her original livery. In this fan's eyes, it's been too long! Dick Johnson is said to be delighted.
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    V8 Legends - the book

    A mate loaned me this book over the Christmas/NY break. I hadn't read much of Paul Gover's stuff in a long time, but enjoyed this immensely. The Ambrose profile is a cracker, but I question the "legendary" status of Will Davison, Frosty, Rick Kelly, and Lee Holdsworth. Good profiles on...
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    Adrian Ryan

    Reports in other places that we have lost Adrian Ryan, after a battle with cancer. Adrian was a rather high-profile media figure, who provided track commentary at Bathurst for many years, and who enjoyed a long association with Ford, working within their PR organisation. An enthusiastic...
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    Quick Quiz... bit of fun...

    I was a touring car driver, who drove for three factory teams in my career, and managed 1 works team post-driving... ... my missus raced for three works teams herself in her career... During one of my works stints, I was teamed with a driver who himself raced for three works teams quite...
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    Back To The Future?

    Found a link to http://sports.espn.go.com/rpm/nascar/cup/columns/story?columnist=hinton_ed&id=3673003 on another site... makes some interesting points, and a lament for a lost, and perhaps a "better' age of motor racing...
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    Hardies Heroes - wind back 30 years

    For the nostalgic Fordies among us: http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=KjML-uMY_nc
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    I never told ya about the new car!

    I forgot to tell youse about the new car... probably because it's not all that exciting, but I thought I'd better drag myself out of the Members Posts thread before Poita cracked it with us for carrying on like weirdos... So my job changed... and thus the perks too. Instead of a fully...
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    LEST WE FORGET

    They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them.
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    VALE - GEOFF POLITES

    News this morning of the passing of Geoff Polites, after a hard-fought war with cancer. Blue Oval devotees have lost their greatest warrior.
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    TOMAS MEZERA - YOU GOOD THING

    http://media.mnews.com.au/Issues/D045.pdf page 6. Tomas' take on Ingall's move on Tander "a bit naughty, but he was faster and going to get past anyway". AT LAST A BLOKE WHO"S GOING TO LET THEM RACE...
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    ANOTHER LEGEND GONE - Lobby Loyde

    John Lyde, better known as Lobby Loyde, erstwhile rhythm guitarist and monolithic figure in the birth and evolution of the Oz Rock sound and tradition, lost his fight with lung cancer on Saturday. Lobby was a boyhood friend of Billy Thorpe, who credited him with having taught Thorpie how to...
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    NEW CARS I HAVE DRIVEN

    Seeing how it's oh so quiet, let's have a topic on new cars we've driven lately... My work ride is a BF Futura, which I've had for 14 months (just tallied 58,000km). It's a nice car to drive, all the controls fall nicely to hand, averages 7.9l/100km according to the trip computer, performance...
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    VALE BILLY THORPE

    Inveterate pub-goers, Oz music lovers, and entertainment names are all united in disbelief and grief at the new of the passing of a true Titan on the Australian music industry. Billy Thorpe died this morning in Sydney, after suffering a heart attack, robbing us of another link with our musical...
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    Best Driver never to win Bathurst?

    Spurred on by the "Seto/HRT" thread elsewhere (and a couple of cleansing ales this arv!) I ask you: who is the best driver to have competed in the Great Race, without ever taking the top step on the podium? Delve through the histories, read the sacred scrolls, hypothesise, debate, argue...
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    SPEEDWAY: the forgotten spectacle

    Just one I've gotta share, given the non-event that the Supertaxis were in 2006... Went to the speedway in Grafton last Saturday night... best night of motorsport I'd seen for two seasons! The juniors went nuts, the Modified feature was epic, and the Limited Sprinters were hilarious - imagine...
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