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[Ugmo]

Im looking for pics of Big Bad Charlies cars through out time but mainly of his burgandy chassis and black body. The one that has been seen at the NZs and Teams in recent years.

Would like pics of all angles as Im working on something with them all.

Cheers
Ugmo

[pallmall]

I have photos of the car as it is now from all sorts of angles.
Call them modellers photos.
Send me a PM and let me know what you want and I will email them to you.

Sorry everybody, got enough stuff to upload to put on here at the moment including another lot of Ray Wright photos.

[wal86]

[img src="hti34.tinypic.com/wc0gvk.jpg"]

[pallmall]

Sir Charles at the Superstock champs, Wanganui 2008.



And my favourite photograph of Brew22 taken by Heather Hills at Forest Lake. 1972/73.

[woodart]

great photo from forest lake pall mall, you can see charlies grin ;D. I (and many others) would love to see more pictures of the great charlie bernstein(?)

[mrmadtaylor]

[Sharns With Sparky]

love the pic from pallmall charlie looks like hes happyer than a chil in a lollie shop

[brendanlucas]

Hi Mr Ugmo, if you pm me you're address or better still if you know someone here in Palmerston North that might be happy to do some scanning, I would be happy to get some shots of this car to you. I have a bunch of photos taken from 1979 - 1983, & some of the same car taken with one of the newer owners (myself).
A little trivia, Graham Mitchell warned Charles if he won the NZ's (Wanganui, 1982) he would give Charles a 'love bite'. I'm certain it wasn't the lure of that promise that helped Charles take the title, but Graham did live up to that promise (a scary sight). I must admit as a 15 year old bloke at the time I thought that a little odd, but i understand the Aucklanders do things a little different.
P.S. Top marks to Mark Cromarty for the resto job.

[spy]

Nz champs 1983 with silverware

[Brett85p]

Oct 14, 2008 9:41:28 GMT 12 spy said:

Nz champs 1983 with silverware

Left to Right: ?,?, John Hughes, Charlie, Roy Eaton.

[brendanlucas]

Nice pic there Mr Spy. I think those 'Westy looking dudes' to the left of the Westy looking John hughs might be of Nelson origin going by the tow vehicle - I think Ron Frost or Dave Hewitt towed there car with something like that.
Another bit of useless information - Charles sought a lot of his race components, that he didn't have in his back yard, from the Wanganui car dump. I couldn't believe my eyes when we went into Central City motors (Mr Sloman) to purchase an HQ holden brake caliper. I recall it cost $20 (Pete wouldn't give discount!). At the time it was very extravigant, although for the nationals in Wanganui he did bolt on a brand new set of Reidrubber 404's. I think his sponsor may have helped out there though.
Hey Brett, how's it all going in Missouri? Has the recession eaten into the racing at all?
BL

[Brett85p]

Oct 14, 2008 17:26:30 GMT 12 brendanlucas said:

Nice pic there Mr Spy. I think those 'Westy looking dudes' to the left of the Westy looking John hughs might be of Nelson origin going by the tow vehicle - I think Ron Frost or Dave Hewitt towed there car with something like that.
Another bit of useless information - Charles sought a lot of his race components, that he didn't have in his back yard, from the Wanganui car dump. I couldn't believe my eyes when we went into Central City motors (Mr Sloman) to purchase an HQ holden brake caliper. I recall it cost $20 (Pete wouldn't give discount!). At the time it was very extravigant, although for the nationals in Wanganui he did bolt on a brand new set of Reidrubber 404's. I think his sponsor may have helped out there though.
Hey Brett, how's it all going in Missouri? Has the recession eaten into the racing at all?
BL

I don't think it has made an impact yet locally, but then the season is pretty much done, I am guessing there will be a lot of gear for sale in the off season, some good bargins to be had but then the NZ dollar has dropped so that is offset a bit. It will be interesting to see how the winter goes, gas is down to around $3 a gallon so that's one positive.

[brendanlucas]

I know i'm off topic here but cheers for that Brett - good to hear. Hopefully it stays that way (not the recesion that is).

[MadMarty13B]

Wonder if there are any pics of him in the seventies when he came to chch and took on grubby briff, beachy,the Hurst brothers etc he used to have an axe or a spanner or something else on his roof depending on what he was going to do.

[bayboy]

Didn't Charlie or Dennis Welch have a paintbrush on top at some stage? I might look through some earlier threads to see if I can find some photo's.

[bayboy]

Didn't Charlie or Dennis Welch have a paintbrush on top at some stage? I might look through some earlier threads to see if I can find some photo's.

[bayboy]

Here's one with a hammer from an earlier thread posted by the GREAT PALL MALL.

[MadMarty13B]

Forgot the hammer and thats bruce anan beside him

[Autopete55]

Oct 17, 2008 15:22:24 GMT 12 MadMarty13B said:

Forgot the hammer and thats bruce anan beside him

Uncle Bruce and his mighty 45c Ford V8/Denco Dragster motored flatty!!
That was the car he used in Rotorua to try and chop the starter in the tower in half with LOL!!!!

Now back to the thread.................................................

[Ugmo]

The car had a Paint brush on it and one point or another.

I still have some work to do on this but heres a progress pic.



Once we have a flat chassis modeled and in game it will be transferred on to that. And then one day down the track if we ever get around to it a legends of the 70/80s the whole car will be made to replicate it.