Jon Ison
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| posted on 14/1/06 at 08:16 PM |
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Scutter, thast middle pic of yours is class, pure class........
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Deckman001
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| posted on 15/1/06 at 10:45 AM |
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Notice you can't see where Dan's hands are ???  Glad it was in focus matey 
Dunlop rule for me though
Jason
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bob
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| posted on 15/1/06 at 10:54 AM |
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I must be getting fussy,in previous years the girls have been spot on 
I cant believe them rough old munters get work,although maybe all the proper girls were at the boat show
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Deckman001
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| posted on 15/1/06 at 05:18 PM |
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Anyone get any pics of the Dunlop stand I forgot to take any
Jason
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macspeedy
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| posted on 15/1/06 at 07:37 PM |
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me and my girls !!
once again a very good show!
 
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omega 24 v6
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| posted on 15/1/06 at 09:04 PM |
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Well I'm Home again. After a round trip of 975 miles we left at 11.40pm on friday night and drove down through the night with one fuel stop and
one stop detour to pick up a set of sierra doors for a guy. Arrived at Nec at 7.15am had a coffee in the van and went into the show. Spent all day at
the show and live arena at night and back to hotel for 8.15 and first decent grub in 24hrs. A good few beers and a couple of whiskys and off to bed.
Rose at 6.45 and brekky at 7.30 and on the road by 8.00. Drive all the way to Scotland and refuel. Cut across country to Edinburgh and pick up the
hotrod engine and back home by 4.15pm.
Was it worth it YOU BET IT WAS
Highlights were
Met and spoke with Jimmy and Alistair Macrae and got autographs. They spoke to us like we were abunch of lads meeting up for a chat in the
workshop it was brilliant.
Met the legend that is Barry Lee (he was at our hotel and comentating in the live arena at night) and got a group photo.
Talented female models especially on the dunlop/falken/ stand and got a few photo's of them ( 38 photo's taken and only 5 of the
cars )
The live arena was unbelievable and for six guys that have never seen a grasstracker in action we were gobsmacked UNBELUCKINFEAVABLE and we all want
one each.
To much to mention but didn't see or meet anyone from here unfortunately
and I did look for the fleeces and teeshirts
that you've been plugging/wearing but unless you looked like the models you probably wouldn't have been noticed anywayD
So thats a years worth of perving done in 1 day roll on next year is all I can say.
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NS Dev
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| posted on 15/1/06 at 09:45 PM |
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Heh Heh Good to see a few of you impressed by the grassers..........................................!!
Had an idea you might be, now you see why I went and built my class 9!!!
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omega 24 v6
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| posted on 15/1/06 at 09:51 PM |
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When they took off from the line I looked at my mate and we both thought the same thing. There is so much suspension movement that the front whhels
almost ( if not ) leave the ground. We both immediately thought that the car had broken its back but it just took of like sh*t off a shovel. I
believe the car in question had an XE in it and livery of "TS2" or "TV2" something like that and an Orange type colour.
Anyways i reckon they were the fastest around the live arena all night.
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minordelay
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| posted on 15/1/06 at 09:56 PM |
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Loved the grassers, I want one, I'll deffo be watchin a bit this year. I know it must have cost a fortune but the mid engined wildcat mini was
cool.
Boy was it busy today though, I was really lucky to be there on Thursday too.
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MikeR
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| posted on 15/1/06 at 11:40 PM |
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Think me and NS Dev got the best / worst display for the grassers ......... they where wiping the floor with the competition so ......
the only honorable options for the competition was to blow the engine before the end of the race! Quite a few flames......
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OX
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| posted on 16/1/06 at 12:24 AM |
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watching them at the nec made me see them in a different light ,if only i had some land to play with one on,me and my brother looked at each other and
also said ,,i need one.
i went to watch the grassers at peplow last year and it looked good fun but was realy wet and boggy,,some of the lesser powered cars spent more time
being towed off the track becouse they were stuck 
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NS Dev
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| posted on 16/1/06 at 01:01 AM |
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Ah Peplow!!!
I went to college at harper adams so I know it round there quite well!!!
Funnily enough I noticed a few folks at the show in "Cyril Wilcox" shirts, iirc he's based at Peplow and was just a shed full of
spares when I was last there!!! Must have come up in the world!!
I MUCH prefer grassing when it's dry and grippy. A loose track is good fun but skating about in mud is not!!!
The pink ARC car (Phil Cooper's one) actually uses a Lexus engine, the one fitted to Jap market IS200's. They have an all singing all
dancing 4 cyl 2.0 instead of the 6 that the euro spec cars have. As std it's all steel with titanium valves etc. His engine is built by B&J
engines in Manchester and is just superb, really solid and reliable 270 ish hp.
You would have laughed if they'd stuck some really QUICK grassers in there, like a couple of class 10's!!!
(not to say Phil Cooper isn't quick, he'd kick my ass round the track with consumate ease, and has done on several occasions, but at least
I can say I have raced against someone you have all seen in action now......and he's never lapped me!!!!!)
Retro RWD is the way forward...........automotive fabrication, car restoration, sheetmetal work, engine conversion
retro car restoration and tuning
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mk blade
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| posted on 16/1/06 at 07:34 PM |
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Ok for anyone how is interested have finally posted rest of pics from autosport show on my site.
Tony.
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andyps
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| posted on 16/1/06 at 10:05 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by indykid
did you get down on friday?
Unfortunately not - the guy Chris wanted to see wasn't going to be there so he wasn't going, and I had loads to do (including making a
chassis) so decided to give it a miss.
Andy
An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less
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richijenkin
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| posted on 17/1/06 at 05:32 PM |
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what???!?! there were cars there!!!!???
 
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richijenkin
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| posted on 17/1/06 at 05:35 PM |
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meeeelllloooowwww
 
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richijenkin
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| posted on 17/1/06 at 05:36 PM |
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the best looker there
 
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OX
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| posted on 17/1/06 at 08:27 PM |
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the kumho tyres girl only looked at you becouse i was waving a burger above your head
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richijenkin
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| posted on 23/1/06 at 10:34 AM |
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nah.. she was thinkin....
"mmmm brothers, shame the fat one with the burger is ugly"
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