Event Coverage Speed On Tweed 2008, Vintage Race Cars.

The Annual Speed on Tweed was held over this past weekend & this may of been the last

Anyway there was $45 million worth of historic race cars in attendance this year.

Friday








Ford Special






Lago








'27 Chev Speedster


'64 EH Holden

 

Sunday


Rajo OHV T


































This thing was nuts & sounded awesone, Rover V8

 

HK Monaro




Lotus Cortina




XB GT (MAD MAX)

 

Can you Tell I love this car

 

Awsome picks. whats the white care that looks like a falcon.

 

This thing was cool, had a indian V twin

 

Fabulous !

As a lifer Jag guy..the two D-Types and that glorious C-Type XKC 001. Are the Ds repros ? or original.
I see a repro C Type..the one wearing XKC 001 would be extremely important...first one built. The Tony Rolt C Type XKC001 was listed as scrapped/deystroyed at factory..so I am guessing this to be a repro..still a wonderful car. Only 54 C Types ever built..
..fantastic to see at one show.
Every car there is beautiful...

Thanks for the pictures

 

This?

'64-'66 Falcon

 

Crager OHV A












Lago






This is the Maybach special it uses a straight 6 out of a WW2 German light tank. It was on the cover of Floyd Clymer's book "Special Racing Cars and Hot Rods of the World"












& then my batteries went dead, but when I was leaving I was able to get one last shot of the paddock and show & shine.

Cheers
Jimmy

 

Thanks Jimmy,are you sure we are not distantly related? Between that early Chevy roadster pickup, that beautiful Ferrari,along with all the rest of those rolling artworks,I'd say we have similar taste in cars. Very good photos,sure will be a shame if you lose that event.

 

Haha....... maybe. I get a lot of inspiration from these cars

 

Thanks for the cool pix Jimmy. Would you believe all these years I thought
speed on the Tweed was about a boat race ?
Cheers Dago.

 

Amazing!!! Looks like a truly wondeful event, thanks for sharing.

 

C types are exact replicas there may of been a real one, I don't know.
The D types are real.

No worries!

Haha, no boats & yeah it is an awesome event.

 

Jimmy
Is that waggot twin cam head on a grey motor. Never seen one before.

Troy

 

I believe it is. The block did look like a Grey.

 

Thanks for posting those pix............Very cool.

Chris Nelson
Kansas

 

Here is a video from Friday, The cars were given a police escort through town
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& a vid from a couple years back, sorry it is a little shitty.
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This isn't my vid, damn cool vid of '35 Ford special
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Sure is a nice bunch of cars,detail shots were great also...Thanks.

 

Wow! Spectacular show.

 

Great coverage Jimmy. I forgot to mention the '22 Wikner Special (and matching T tourer), just too many fantastic cars to mention.
I got talking to Rodger Eland(spelling?) about the Bentley that drove up from Melbourne. He said that they broke a camshaft and repaired it on the road. (He also said that my 2.5 year old Son looked like he'd make a good race driver and that he should know.)
Great event, I sure hope that we don't loose it. I heard something about CAMS possibly taking it on(?).

 

Stunning pictures of some fantastic machinery!Thanks.

 

Amazing stuff - love it all. I like the Studes, of course - but I'm a sucker for C-Type Jags.
They are so graceful in line with simple sweeping curves. Awesome!~

 

Has to be one of the finest colection of machines..

Why would such a great show be ended ?

 

As an aspiring metal head I hope to bend it as beautifully as those kats at jag did back in the 50's n 60's.Thanx for the insiration.

 

Hey thanks, thats the one. as you know they look a little different on this side of the water.

 

Outstanding stuff Jimmy - thanks a bunch.

Pity there were no shots of the Talbot Lago T26C engine - I want one for a hot rod. Trouble is these restorers are so damned insensitive to the greater needs of us hot rodders. I mean why can't they just use a SBC and leave us their old junk engines?