Vintage Speedway.

[Silk]

I went to a vintage speedway meeting yesterday, as an old friend
(double meaning these days) rides his flattracker there. a range of stuff, they even had gocarts with slicks out there.

An Offy or two.

V8 60.

The Aussies know this as a Grey Holden engine, we usually called them a Sideplate.

Real old.

Model A?

A bit more modern.

VW.

Even more modern.

Nice Weslake.

Owl's TT500. He raced this in the '80's, and held our No1 Plate with it. A change of wheels and he road raced it. Sold it, years later got it back, rebuilt it and road raced it again. Now it's back in dirttrack trim, and he tries to get back a bit of the old thrill with it. New speedway rear tyres all round today.

I have been going to speedway since I was a kid, and probably seen most of these on the track in their day.

 

[tc1446]

Silk, great pictures that bring back a lot of memories for some of us old timers. Thanks for posting.

 

[Shannow]

Really really nice

 

[hpb]

Fantastic pics mate, thanks. Some impressive induction set ups there!

 

[Silk]

They used to run the vintage midgets at the local bike speedway track in Auckland...and they used to use them as wheel packers on a wet day or after the water truck. They weren't happy as they used lime on a bike track for traction, and it was a big job to get the cars clean after. They went looking for their own track, and this is the 3rd, hopefully last track for them. On the site of the Meremere dragstrip...there were off roaders racing at a track next door, a track on the other side was closed, and there is an another old speedway track converted to a jetboat track. Further up the road is a road racing circuit, currently being extended and hopefully some international racing happening there.

 

[Oldmoparguy1]

Memories...

Great pictures! Thanks Silk.