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crisis
11-17-2004, 05:20 PM
What is Crisis doing in Classic cars?
Just thought Id post this for my Classic mates.

"Murray Walker, the voice of international motor sport was given a heroes welcome when he arrived at the BEA Classic Car Show in Adelaide's Victoria Square on Sunday (November 14)

Walker was driven to the official opening in the 190SL Mercedes Benz that he is to co-drive in Classic Adelaide with South Australian competitor John Beasley."

"Classic Adelaide

Since it was first run in 1997, Classic Adelaide has become one of the world's great rallies.
The 'Classic Adelaide' is actually four events in one.

- The Competition
for vehicles up to 1990
- The Thoroughbred Sport
for vehicles up to 1981
- The Thoroughbred Touring
for vehicles up to 1981
- The Classic Tour
for vehicles of any age

The Competition Section
The Classic Adelaide Rally is an international standard 'special stage' rally spanning four days, preceded by a field-seeding Prologue, with the classic rally cars and drivers racing the clock on almost 35 special stages on closed roads, with timing to the second.

The Competition is open to cars built prior to 1982 and incorporates three separate contests, each sharing equal status. The contests are:
· Historic, for vehicles up to 1947
· Classic, for vehicles built between 1948 and 1971
· Late Classic, for vehicles built between 1972 and 1990

crisis
11-17-2004, 05:20 PM
One more

Matra et Alpine
11-17-2004, 05:23 PM
Great pics, Crisi, but is that it ??

:(

The pic of the Healey in the pass.
Where is that ? it looks like the alps, I dind't realise you had roads like that over there.

Hmm, anyone know what it costs to ship a car from the UK ( and back ) .
1982 - could do it in the Bagheera :)

crisis
11-17-2004, 05:28 PM
Great pics, Crisi, but is that it ??

:(

The pic of the Healey in the pass.
Where is that ? it looks like the alps, I dind't realise you had roads like that over there.

Hmm, anyone know what it costs to ship a car from the UK ( and back ) .
1982 - could do it in the Bagheera :)
I liberated them from the web site. Your right, they may have aquired the Healey from elsewhere, I havent seen that place. The Commy wold love a flogging up that road.
The Adelaide hills (not hills in a European sense) has some twisty bits and the country side close to Adelaide is probably a bit "English" I suppose.
Come across, we got your crappy Scotch cast offs but great red (and white) wine and the track normally goes through the Barossa district.

Blue Supra
11-17-2004, 05:46 PM
Yeh the wine from around Adelaide is particularly good, some of the best in the country (dads a wine taster for a living:eek: what a job!:D)

Id love the go DOWNHILL on that track... err... i mean road;) You should see the Clyde and Brown Mountain (the great dividing range) 10kays (give or take) of savage downhill twisty hairpin roads, all very well looked after as theyre used a lot. great downhill drive, not so much uphill if you have no real power:(

charged
11-18-2004, 03:06 AM
Blue you should bring the Stanza over to the Collinsgrove Hill climb its in the Barossa,very good little hillclimb track,Nephew just got his engine dynoed at Allan Engineering 350hp at 18psi boost,putting it back in the car this weekend,see if it holds together at the track :confused:

henk4
11-18-2004, 03:36 AM
I liberated them from the web site. Your right, they may have aquired the Healey from elsewhere, I havent seen that place. The Commy wold love a flogging up that road.
The Adelaide hills (not hills in a European sense) has some twisty bits and the country side close to Adelaide is probably a bit "English" I suppose.
Come across, we got your crappy Scotch cast offs but great red (and white) wine and the track normally goes through the Barossa district.

This, once more is the famous Stelvio Pass in Italy, going up to 2700 metres. (Been there,done that).

anyway, crisis I hope you did get the taste of it, and we are looking forward to more fascinating reports.

crisis
11-18-2004, 04:40 PM
Couldnt find any pics this a.m. but lasts nights news showed a Ford GT40 going throught the paces.

henk4
11-18-2004, 08:27 PM
Couldnt find any pics this a.m. but lasts nights news showed a Ford GT40 going throught the paces.

Watching the news is not enough, the real classic car lover ventures out by himself.

PerfAdv
11-18-2004, 09:06 PM
This, once more is the famous Stelvio Pass in Italy, going up to 2700 metres. (Been there,done that).
In what type of car?

henk4
11-18-2004, 09:09 PM
In what type of car?

a 50 BHP Citroen Visa Super E, it took a while :)

crisis
11-18-2004, 11:06 PM
Watching the news is not enough, the real classic car lover ventures out by himself.
Theres the rub I suppose. Not that I wouldnt like to be able to sit up in the hills somewhere sipping (hmmm lets look outside, ok) a juicy Cabernet and munching on some blue castello, idly watching cars race by. Rather busy time of year for me but a day next year with my octane sniffing mate dont sound that bad. Of course if I got him that far I might find myself navigating his 500hp 350 Torana. Not peaceful at all really.

henk4
11-18-2004, 11:09 PM
Theres the rub I suppose. Not that I wouldnt like to be able to sit up in the hills somewhere sipping (hmmm lets look outside, ok) a juicy Cabernet and munching on some blue castello, idly watching cars race by. Rather busy time of year for me but a day next year with my octane sniffing mate dont sound that bad. Of course if I got him that far I might find myself navigating his 500hp 350 Torana. Not peaceful at all really.


what's this about "idly watching" , you shoild be actively taking pictures and give UCP members their fair share of the deal. I would go for a Syrrah though.

PerfAdv
11-18-2004, 11:11 PM
a 50 BHP Citroen Visa Super E, it took a while :)
That was the way to go. A newer or I should say more powerful car takes away from really feeling the challenge that mountains present. I remember on a road trip in West Texas. My brother needed to drop his 70s Corolla at his uni so we drove it to El Paso. There were inclines some of them were very long, a slight grade for many miles. In the Corolla we had to hit the climb doing atleast 80 MPH and keep it floored. Slowly it would loose speed, one such climb it slowed to about 45 and I shifted to 4th to keep it going at least that fast. It was kind of scary, as that freeway has very little traffic. Thinking back, it was an adventure!!:) More powerful cars just manage without any fuss, set the cruise control and they couldn't care less about grades.

crisis
11-18-2004, 11:25 PM
what's this about "idly watching" , you shoild be actively taking pictures and give UCP members their fair share of the deal. I would go for a Syrrah though.
Thats what I meant. Would that mean I would have to put down my wine glass?

henk4
11-18-2004, 11:27 PM
Thats what I meant. Would that mean I would have to put down my wine glass?

I trust you to be able to run around carrying both a camera and a glass of wine, and carrying the cheese on a plate on your head.

crisis
11-18-2004, 11:30 PM
I trust you to be able to run around carrying both a camera and a glass of wine, and carrying the cheese on a plate on your head.
Thanks for giving me a lol.

henk4
11-18-2004, 11:33 PM
Thanks for giving me a lol.

enjoy the weekend :)

Ferrari Tifosi
11-19-2004, 12:26 AM
Is that Alfa a Montreal?

Thanks for the pictures and the information on the event Crisis.

henk4
11-19-2004, 12:51 AM
Is that Alfa a Montreal?


it is,

crisis
11-21-2004, 03:43 PM
Well as it turns out my mechanic brother in law who is now teaching at trade school had two days scruitineering duty (as part of his job) the cars in the rally. The GT40 was an original, apparently owned by someone in Adelaide, and has its original panels removed for the race and replaced by copies. Another guy pulled up in a semi with a MErcedes Gullwing, some single seat Porsche race car, a new S/C Merc of some type and some other thing. He and his business partner race the Porsche and Gullwing and he flys in fro around tha world his two best customers to race the other two. (note to self, I'm in the wrong business).

henk4
11-21-2004, 08:26 PM
Well as it turns out my mechanic brother in law who is now teaching at trade school had two days scruitineering duty (as part of his job) the cars in the rally. The GT40 was an original, apparently owned by someone in Adelaide, and has its original panels removed for the race and replaced by copies. Another guy pulled up in a semi with a MErcedes Gullwing, some single seat Porsche race car, a new S/C Merc of some type and some other thing. He and his business partner race the Porsche and Gullwing and he flys in fro around tha world his two best customers to race the other two. (note to self, I'm in the wrong business).

give your bro in law a camera for X-mas.

crisis
11-21-2004, 09:43 PM
give your bro in law a camera for X-mas.
The clown has a lovely Canon Digital 3.5mp. I beleive he did take some photos. I will see what I can do.

crisis
11-23-2004, 09:12 PM
As promised

crisis
11-23-2004, 09:12 PM
more!

crisis
11-23-2004, 09:14 PM
more again

crisis
11-23-2004, 09:15 PM
still coming

crisis
11-23-2004, 09:16 PM
Last one

henk4
11-23-2004, 09:26 PM
Thanks, great, does it wet your appetite?
What about a slight size increase? I needed my reading glasses :)

crisis
11-23-2004, 09:52 PM
Thanks, great, does it wet your appetite?
What about a slight size increase? I needed my reading glasses :)
He just sent them to me so I went straight to press. Knowing how impatient some people can be :)

henk4
11-23-2004, 09:54 PM
He just sent them to me so I went straight to press. Knowing how impatient some people can be :)

extremely laudable :)