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[kiaus]

hay sideways me and dad are doing a Jim Richards car to we are doing the sidcrome imp we have an oringel 998 race moter out off the imp he raced and a cupple of imp bodys laying around so we will see you at taga 2 Jim Richards will turn heads


over and out
austin powers

[Go Slideways]

That's so cool that you and your Dad are doing the Jim Richards Imp project together, and with the real race engine.

The purist's will say that my BMW isn't the real McCoy, but if you know your history you'll know that Jim would approve of my little garage and small beginnings.
Next time it'll be a Triumph 2500, Falcon V8 or Mustang...

Go hard Austang Powers!!


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[Go Slideways]

Yeah, like I said you learn a lot buiding a race car and being part of a team. I did a bit of research on the neat old-school "Gulf" badge my mate gave me, and discovered a lot of cool stuff about some New Zealanders who achieved plenty in their relatively short lives, and who had great values and work ethics.

The race overalls Craige kindly donated are too small for me so I am passing them on to Glen who is buiding several special 58 Plymouth Streetstocks for the North Island title in Gisborne this coming season.

Here's some image's I found on the public domain of the world wide web as my tribute to a couple of Kiwi motor racing legends, and Mr Cool himself.

Music is "Hallelujah" sung by k.d. lang;

Bruce MacLaren:
“To do something well is so worthwhile that to die trying to do it better cannot be foolhardy."
“It would be a waste of life to do nothing with one’s ability, for I feel that life is measured in achievement, not in years alone.”

[Go Slideways]

Getting a new camera today, so the quality of my images should improve a bit. 12.5 mega pixels, 25 x zoom, whatever that means.

If anyone has any spare digital video or still camera gear that they want to sell very cheaply or swap for car parts please PM me. Don't bother if it's stolen gear cause I'll be checking the serial numbers with my repo mate who deals with insurance & police.

The Jim Richards Tribute car is ticking along nicely, hope to paint it on the weekend.
It's grown into a Kiwi legend tribute car as well, I'm going to go and see Chris Amon for some advice, and Graeme Crosby too.

I made a little Volvo Truck For Sale advertisment yesterday for the Panthers Captain, which is not appropriate to put on here, but you can check it out on YouTube under my "goslidewaystv" user name.

This is one of the cars Graeme Crosby raced after giving up wheelstanding Kawasaki's around Wanganui, Manfeild, well everywhere really..


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[Go Slideways]

This is speedway related...

I'm putting together a slideshow thing of the 20+ motorcycles I've owned during my youth to send to my son Zac, who lives on the Gold Coast and works as a driller in a gold mine in NSW.

He's into motocross & cars and I look forward to taking him to speedway over here this summer.

One of the bikes in the slideshow is this one - the meanest of them all - 1982 Suzuki Katana 1100 spoke wheel model, I did over 163 miles an hour on this beast. Only 20 of these 1100's were released in NZ as Endurance Specials with 32mm slide carbs, special race cams, wire wheels and brake callipers. Good for 120 hp as standard. Dave and Neville Hiscock won the '82 Castrol 6 Hour Race at Manfeild on one of the 20. They're worth over 60 grand now, paid 6 & a half for mine, sold it to ANZA for 4 & a half.. bugger haha.
Anyway, my mate Simon Burney had a friend Wal at the time who tried to convince me to put the motor in a sidecar. It's been one of those things you sort of look back on late in life on cold dark wintery nights like this and wonder, "what if?"..

I'm going to go and see my mate Simon and take a few photo's of a very special car that is more art than car, which I'm sure ya'll will like.

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The other picture I found isn't of any of my bike's, I was hoping it was of some of my hero's of the time, very early 1980's at Wanganui Cemetery Circuit..
Dave Hiscock, Neville Hiscock, Graeme Crosby, Rodger Freath, Robert Holden, Dallas Rankine
but I just don't know..

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PS: Ah yes, the Sidecar racing "what if?"... I remember now..

Before I played rugby for the Championship winning Feilding Old Boys Rugby Football Club I played for the Championshipship winning Bunnythorpe Rugby Club. It was there that I met my good mate Brat.
Brat raced a sidecar during the summer and I'd never really seen them go before so one night I went along especially to see his Goddin V Twin in action and to see if that was the sort of thing I'd be into.
I was just totally blown away by gladiator warriors Baz, Brat, Willie, Vandemberg and others, and I was so terrified when Brat said that I could hop on the following week that I never went back for about 15 years. True.
I did see my mate again last summer and he's still into big horsepower. He's invited me to take some pictures of his drag car to share with you all, which I am honoured to do.

Sweet memories on a cold rainy night.

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Peter McCarthy called in to my place for a coffee and a chat this morning. Peter used to crew for Jim Richards and Graeme Crosby and is a wealth of knowledge.
He like's my little BMW tribute project and is coming back around with some of his own personal photo's for me to share with you all very soon.
I also want to document as much oral history as I can before it is lost forever, little gems like, did you know it's not actually Steve McQueen riding the triumph over the barb wire in "The Great Escape", but acutally Kiwi motocross star of the time Tim Gibbs?

[kiaus]

hay sideways when Peter McCarthy call in next time see if you can get some photos and info on the sidcrome imp
thanks austin powers

[ginga912]

Have you seen the movie On Any Sunday go slideways? About all types of motorbike racing in the 70s, has abit about mcqueen in there to, its like 6 parts long but a great watch

Heres abit of it

[Go Slideways]

Thanks so much for posting that link to "On Any Sunday" Ginga912, I've only watched up to part 4 but it's already revived so many fond memories of growing up as a young motorcycle-mad teenager in Feilding during the 1970's.

I can just about smell the sweet aroma of Penzoil fumes from the annual motocross that used to held on the town boundary on Halcombe Hill.
It was a mean track too.

The fashion of the time was a bit of a dag, big ape hanger handle bars, stars & stripes open faced helmets - but never on a push bike, and Triumph's, BSA'S and Harley's were King.

I'd always dreamed of having a go at that Harley AMA long-track racing, and I think they even had a race at Riccarton race course once.
Here's a pic of me practicing around the house on a factory built rigid tank-in-frame 1919 De Villiers motor bike (not a motorised bicycle) that I modified somewhat in 1977 with the addition of apehangers and a megphone exhaust, even though it was a 2 stroke.. ha ha.
Ended swapping it for a very ugly Jawa 350.


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Yeah thanks again Ginga, love a few quote's I've heard so far in the movie, in Part 2: "these mile racing Harley's put out over 80 horse power and only weigh 300 pounds, that's like having 2,000 horsepower in your family car."

..and from The Burrito: "..yeah man, I've just gotta get at least 3rd no matter what, if that don't happen - come visit me at the hospital, I really dig Carnations man."

[brendanlucas]

That looks to be part of a full length feature named ‘On Any Sunday’ (funny enough) which showed at the Embassy picture theatre in Wanganui about mid 1973 I think, I saw that about 3 times & probably was one of my favourite movies of that era – My neighbour was the usher & he’d let us kids in for free. Very ahead of its time, at the time.
Where did you find that footage, very cool indeed.
BL

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We can all thank Feilding boy Ginga912 for ushering us back toward's some real classic footage.

Break out the popcorn BL, and chuck the TV guide out the window, here's the entire movie for you.

Phillyated 4 eva!!!

;D ;D ;D

[glow=red,2,300]ON ANY SUNDAY[/glow]

Intro


Part 1


Part 2


Part 2 continued


Part 3


Part 4 (a)


Part 4 (b)


Part 5


Part 6


Part 7


Part 8


Part 9


[glow=red,2,300]And finally... if you build it - he will come..[/glow]


Thanks Ginga912

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Watching that cool movie has inspired me to get my A into G and tidy up a few little projects of my own.

I'll try and post the ENZED Superstock Teams Champs clip for Saturday night viewing.
Not many action shots, more sort of behind-the-scenes, but entertaining all the same.


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[ginga912]

Its a great movie, im only 30 but its from my old man days and he got the boxed dvd set so i watched the first part and had to watch the rest!!!!! Its hard to believe the helmet cams they had, as you can imagine in the 70s they werent small, and guys where wearing them for this, hard out!!! They were hard men back then werent they!!!!

[ginga912]

Dont think that is the full movie is it, its been afew years since ive seen it and bits are missing i think, not sure tho!! haha

[Go Slideways]

Dont think that is the full movie is it, its been afew years since ive seen it and bits are missing i think, not sure tho!! haha

Yeah mate you're right, I'll try and find the missing pieces and add them to the list above in the right order so we end up we the whole movie.

Thanks again for your post to a fantastic time in the world and for proving what a wonderful, positive tool the internet can be.

I hope that since this is the 40th anniversary of "On Any Sunday", maybe in 40 years time, someone might look back at MacGors and at these very pages and think.. "jeez, those were the days"..

Good on ya mate. ;D

This clip could also explain why there seems to be a few bits missing from the first set, but I'll do my best to get all of everything, in the right order.

Imagine if someone with a digital camera and an imagination made a wee movie in New Zealand about speedway called "On Any Saturday Night".. now, that could be cool.

Since I opened Part 1 of the "On Any Sunday" movie with a pic of me on one of my bike's in the 70's, here's another one to open Part II.
(If you can't have a laugh a yourself, who can you laugh at? haha)
The pic is of me practicing being Croz and my other hero Robert Holden late in 1978, while wagging school.
The safety gear has stepped up a notch to include jandles, and the bike is a more "modern" 1973 Suzuki GT185 Twin.
Growing up in Feilding as a kid I just about lived at Manfeild with my mates, there was always something on back in those days, Formula 5000's practising, heaps of bike racing, and we got to know Robert Holden quite well, he was only 6 years older than us.
Sometimes we'd be the only spectators there in the middle of winter in the rain at Victoria Unniversity Motorcucle Club days and he'd stop at where we would stand at the end of the front straight and give us a report after every win, which was usually every race. Then wheelstand away, it was cool.
I had a poster on my bedroom wall of him wheelstanding a GSX 1100 Suzuki for years and years.
For those of you who don't know, Kiwi Robert Holden is the most successful Ducati Supermono racer of all time.
Robert lost his life aboard his Ducati 916 while practising for the 1996 Isle of Man TT.


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[ginga912]

I remerber watching robert holden at wangas all those years as a kid, he was great around that track and man those ducatis sounded mean to!!! My old man knew him, i dont think they raced together but but they knew each other, can alway remember asking dad if we could go see robert again in the pits!!! Great memories aye!

[ginga912]

Another kiwi who is a legend the late John Britten!!! Love his bikes



And love it how they start them to, all you hear is a start screaming it nuts off till boom the britten fires it!!!



They must have huge compression this roller had a hard time turning it over!!

[Go Slideways]

I look forward to meeting you this season in the pits somewhere mate, did you ever hear of a guy called Jason McEwan ? he went out with a neat lady called Jo who is still a good friend of my ex-wife. I'm sure Jo will have some picture's of John's bike that nobody has seen before.
I'll give her a call and see what happens - I'm pretty sure she'll pleased to hear from me.

[ginga912]

Jul 15, 2011 18:05:08 GMT 12 Go Slideways said:

I look forward to meeting you this season in the pits somewhere mate, did you ever hear of a guy called Jason McEwan ? he went out with a neat lady called Jo who is still a good friend of my ex-wife. I'm sure Jo will have some picture's of John's bike that nobody has seen before.
I'll give her a call and see what happens - I'm pretty sure she'll pleased to hear from me.

Yip i know of jason, he knew how to ride to, i remember him riding in afew tt as me afew years back, hes as fast on dirt as he is on the road!!!! Yip will find you somewhere at plamy this season mate!