Speed on the Tweed 2006

[blackhonda]

Some pictures from the annual Speed on the Tweed festival held in the northern New South Wales town of Murwillumbah Sep 15-17. The event is basically an Historic and invited cars event, celebrating Australian motoring racing history, but it is inclusive rather than exclusive. Most of the pictures posted are of Australian designed and built cars, as the historic scene is much bigger in Europe and the US it seemed better to show cars people from those places might not have seen. The first cars is the Matich SR4 sports racing car, powered by the Repco engine.

[blackhonda]

The Matich SR3, this car ran very briefly in the Can-Am series in the US. The single-seater is an Elfin MR 8 F5000 car, this car also ran in the Can-Am in the 80s with full body work.

[blackhonda]

Some more Australian cars:
#1 Bolwell Nagari. V8 Ford powered sports car from the early 1970s
#2 XY model Ford Falcon historic racer circa 1969/1970
#3 MG Buchanan coupe, another special from the 50s/60s
#4 ex-Peter Brock L34 Torana, there was a tribute to PB with several of his cars lapping the track as a mark of respect.

[blackhonda]

#1 Austin 7 special
#2 Ford V8 special
#3 Wikner Ford V8 special
#4 Newbounds BSA special

[blackhonda]

Now for the non-Aussie cars. Chevron B24/28 F5000 car, watching the driver driving very gingerly across a sodden paddock area was amusing (for the spectators, not for him I imagine)

[blackhonda]

#1 & 2. A real GT40, pretty rare in Australia
#3. Brabham BT36, driven by Touring Car driver John Bowe.
#4. Chevron B35 Hart

[clutch-monkey]

great pics, BH! i wish i could have gone but i have an animal locomotion exam tomorrow. did you get any pics of the zonda?
edit: you can attach 6 pics to a post if you want

[charged]

great pic there BH, had a fix of motorsport today as well at mallala for the Fujitsu series, Adam Macrow(ex IPRA Racer ) dominated proceedings. Historics were great, sideways through the kink . IPRA boys put on a good show as well.

[Cyco]

Would have loved to make it, but just couldn't fit it in the schedule.

[magracer]

Great pics...

Shame I didn't know about this when I was in the GC?!?!?

[Daz27]

Awesome Pic's. I wish I was there, would have been great to see all the Brock-mobiles belting around.
Dont mean to be picky but that aint an XY Falcon, its an XW... date is right though

[blackhonda]

Awesome Pic's. I wish I was there, would have been great to see all the Brock-mobiles belting around.
Dont mean to be picky but that aint an XY Falcon, its an XW... date is right though

They had an XU1,the Motorola VX(?) Holden Commodore supercar, one of the day-glo Commodore VK Grp C, the M-HDT L34 (which stalled and couldn't be restarted and had the ignominy of being towed around the track behind a Ford F250 ) and also the Brock/Manuel Reuter Holden Commodore VP in Mobil colours. Daz no worries with the corrections, I am not an expert on those cars by any means, constructive criticism is welcome
The track itself is VERY TIGHT..to stop people getting too carried away with themselves, so speeds are not high. The ex-Brock Chevrolet Monza was there too, despite slicks, wings and 600 plus of Chevrolets finest, it was about 17th overall behind a few BDA Escorts etc.
Will have some more pics later in the week, had trouble downloading from the camera, included will be mostly static shots.

[Daz27]

Gotta love the Bda's....

[blackhonda]

Some more photos.
#1-4. R32 Grp A Nissan Skyline GTR. This is the car that killed Grp A racing in Australia. #3 shows the guy who steered the car, Kiwi Jim Richards.
#5. ex-Moffat Ford Falcon
#6. ex-Brock Holden Commodore VL

[blackhonda]

#1. Datsun 240Z Marque sportscar
#2. MG Midget, built for the 1967 Surfers Paradise 12 Hours
#3. Citroen Light 15...for all you lovers of French cars.
#4. E-type
#5. MG Magnette
#6. Lotus Cortina.