Judi and I just had a great weekend at the Longford Revival Festival with our No 53 Historic FC Race car. Brilliant cars entered in the flying mile demonstration section and a fantastic array of cars on static display, great local food and wine and entertainment with bands and rock and roll dancers.
We saw the most amazing race cars from all eras, original drivers, original cars and bikes that raced at Longford through to priceless Porche LeMans Sauber C9 and Moby Dick whale tale.
Part of the event was fast runs down a section of the original "flying Mile" from a standing start over about 750 meters and vehicles doing in excess of 250 ks and a Suzuki Hayabusa at 295 ks and only 500 meters to pull up.
I was happy with my first pass on Friday of 143Ks, last pass on Saturday of 151ks and matched that yesterday with my last pass. Pretty good when there is a side wind and they handle like a brick at that speed.
Photos up when I get some time to down load them, and possibly a bit of footage if it works.
There seems to a bit of footage on youtube at the moment and a bit of our car in this one towards the end
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6sYj2a_XLo
Hope the link works
Regards
Weddo & Judi
Hey Weddo
Link works fine.
Looks like your having lots of fun.
Regards
Alex
Here's a piece on Longford from the Tasmanian edition (http://www.abc.net.au/news/video/2011/04/01/3180429.htm) of 7.30 on ABC
A couple of pics sent to me (haven't down loaded mine yet)
Heading to the dummy grid
(http://s1.postimage.org/7h6lchms/P1020372.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/7h6lchms/)
151ks/hr on a section of the old "flying mile"
(http://s1.postimage.org/7hev183o/P1020350.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/7hev183o/)
regards
Weddo
Weddo,
Would have been great to hear the old girl in full war cry at 151k's, I bet it felt great driving it at that speed
Keith
Weddo,
The No.53 sounds awesome, hope you had a good time. Looking forward to some more footage 8).
Dean.
Came across this on another forum.
(http://img573.imageshack.us/img573/4503/dsc00123vo.jpg)
Regards
Alex
Hello Weddo
that's a great looking car you have & it sounds awesome , I was watching it on Gasolene last night , They were showing the Lonford Revival Festival , your car appeared a few times , If no one watch it , its repeated on Saturday 5 pm & next Thursday there will be more of the festival ,
way66,
Unfortunately we don't get gasoline show in Tassie, if any one can copy for me I would be very appreciative
regards
Weddo
Hey Weddo
Check it out online here:
http://www.c31.org.au/schedule/view/episode/20435 (http://www.c31.org.au/schedule/view/episode/20435)
Regards
Alex
Thanks Alex,
followed the link but could not get anything to work, no footage
regards
Weddo
G,day Weddo
The first part is an ad just let it play and the footage will follow
Cheers
Gary
Still no footage, just the front page. Might have to update the adobe flash player
Regards
Weddo