Aussi Speed Week & Road Trip in 32 Coupe

Jim Higgins came over from the USA with his bike and did a best time of 192.154 which was a record for its class.

 

Alan Fountain 1970 Studebaker best time of 144.075 mph.

 

Time to go to bed will post more tomorrow, thanks to all who have commented it means a lot to me as this is my first real thread.
Cully

 

Great stuff here!
Thanks for sharing..
still hoping to get back down to OZ and possibly Lake Gairdner.

 

Your 5w coupe deserves a better licence plate than "RAT 32" so I think there's some karma happening here LOL

Keep up the posts and pics as I'm enjoying the story. I haven't been to Gairdner since 1996 and there was only 17 cars and 4 bikes running that year. Beenlots of changes since then.

 

Did Al have his Belly tank there ?

 

Al who ??? give me some more details and I will check there were lots of racers there.

 

looks like agreat road trip. am i the only one seeing red X'S ?.
Al.

 

Hi Al not sure what you mean by red X'S ???

 

This is Graham Scott with his streamliner Graham is the one stood up leaning over, he built this car himself and took the car to the salt on his own, normally his son would have there to help but was away overseas. Not sure how old Graham is but looked to be in his 70s ( sorry Graham if I have got it wrong ) I hope if I ever get to his age that I am still as passonate about hot rods and salt racing as he is.
Graham ran 105 mph his personal best is 127.514 mph which is a record for its class.

 

Yeah, Shame, I'm getting the red x's too. Damn good story though.

 

Can someone plese explain what red x's are ???

 

only some pic's showing up.. have you moved or deleted the rest..?

sounds like a fun trip though

 

No have not moved or deleted pics, when I look at the thread all the pic that I have added are all still there.

 

This is Trevor Slaughter streamliner fantastic looking unit fresh out for first time running a turbo charged Toyota engine in the under 3 litre class fasted time was 253.700 mph which is an Australian record for its class, I'm sure there will be better things to come for this streamliner including a world record.

 

Steve Williams 34 Plymouth coupe over from NZ run 201.084 mph record for its class.

 

I can see one photo per page,,all rest show nothing but red X's and last 2 pages have message from photo bucket saying "This person moved or deleted this message"..
Wish I could see the photos...sounds like a helluva adventure...especially with a bad transmission!

 

I just logged on using a mates log on even with his user name I am seeing all the pics, can anyone else confirm if they are getting all the pics or is everyone getting red xxxs

 

cully- i am getting red x and photos have been moved -photo bucket and just a few full size beautiful pics, it looks like if you put them on as full size ,they appear ?

 

Only a couple of pics showing for me

 

Ok bear with me I am going to re-load all the pics to photobucket and try again don't know whats going on all the pics show on my log on.

 

Thanks for photo fix cully33.

Amazing yarn/ adventure, thanks cully33. I've been to Tarcoola, would like to get this far south, into that country.

 

I am only seeing red X's also.

 

And I thought I could not see pics as I was using a silly iPad. Or is it me that's silly as I see a lot of blue ? Boxes . But it's tantalizing not to see all the pics.

 

No pics in posts 14 to 26, plus some others later on. Not sure which posts had pics either.

 

There coming back I'm re-loading could be a while.

 

Yes, I can now see the pic's. No more red x's, yay.

 

Still all red x's for me after post # 26. But thanks for posting, great trip, and I'll check back later.

Chris

 

cool story

 

Hey Cully, great pics and stories. Got to be one of the best threads yet......