Hi, just wanted to say hello to everyone here at MMA

Les Szabo · Post by **Les Szabo** » Tue May 17, 11 1:25 pm

Mick wrote:He's still racing in super pro i think, Ashley Bell, i remember the car had soldered copper pipe with fittings on the bulk head.
Mick

thats him, I guess they must've sorted it by now, competitions tuff !, car was a bit of a lash up then, but had plenty of potential and sat nice.

Adam · Post by **Adam** » Tue May 17, 11 4:39 pm

Les, Tim Fennell asked me to post these pics for him. Should bring back some memories!

Adam · Post by **Adam** » Tue May 17, 11 4:40 pm

Couple more...

R.RUNNER · Post by **R.RUNNER** » Tue May 17, 11 5:04 pm

RobTwin wrote:Saw him run that car a few times at the Pod, including the time he rolled it

Now that quote rings a bell

Eh Pete.

Les Szabo · Post by **Les Szabo** » Tue May 17, 11 5:18 pm

Adam wrote:Les, Tim Fennell asked me to post these pics for him. Should bring back some memories!

Just got off the phone with Tim right this minute and he warned me this was coming

....no seriously, thats the only shot of the charger I've ever seen, my god did I look like that.........

Tim said that shot of the Mustang was from not long after I bought it, bit of a sorry state but cleaned up well, got rid of the sidepipes, virtually no rot though, I did get it resprayed in a similar colour with 2 white stripes, a la Shelby.....thanks for posting them up..Les

Picture 3, I got rid of that black jacket

The brown pistol grip car was the best yank I had really, wonder what it would worth today....£17k?

Derek · Post by **Derek** » Tue May 17, 11 5:54 pm

NPA 71, That's my old Charger, I sold it to Gary Mills.
Last 2 pics courtesy or RR

Les Szabo · Post by **Les Szabo** » Tue May 17, 11 7:07 pm

Derek wrote:NPA 71, That's my old Charger, I sold it to Gary Mills.
Last 2 pics courtesy or RR

Good old car that, I had the auto trans rebuilt in that as it went on an outing with the smoke city boys....they towed me all the way home.
Just not the car for me after a while with the 318.........thats nasty what happened there.

Adam · Post by **Adam** » Tue May 17, 11 7:30 pm

Les, did you sell the Mustang to a guy called Dave Willoughby? I remember he had a red 65 K code fastback with a 4-speed and white stripes at the same time (c. 1982) that I had my red 66 A code 4 speed coupe. He subsequently bought a blue 67 Shelby GT350, which he still has.

Cannonball · Post by **Cannonball** » Tue May 17, 11 7:38 pm

Les Szabo wrote:
Adam wrote:Les, Tim Fennell asked me to post these pics for him. Should bring back some memories!
Just got off the phone with Tim right this minute and he warned me this was coming ....no seriously, thats the only shot of the charger I've ever seen, my god did I look like that.........

Tim said that shot of the Mustang was from not long after I bought it, bit of a sorry state but cleaned up well, got rid of the sidepipes, virtually no rot though, I did get it resprayed in a similar colour with 2 white stripes, a la Shelby.....thanks for posting them up..Les

Picture 3, I got rid of that black jacket

The brown pistol grip car was the best yank I had really, wonder what it would worth today....£17k?

the brown cuda i owned for a while 340 4 speed 2 fender tags leather etc drove crap but was not a bad old car i had to plate the front legs as they had rotted bad above the rear frame bolts i painted it white black sixpak hood and sold it on it became a speaker for some guy outa london that did music events with it he got me to convert it to auto as he could not live with the 4 speed, then budgie dropped on it and sold it with 2 weeks at over double what he paid, 20k into europe another one gone

Les Szabo · Post by **Les Szabo** » Tue May 17, 11 7:43 pm

Adam wrote:Les, did you sell the Mustang to a guy called Dave Willoughby? I remember he had a red 65 K code fastback with a 4-speed and white stripes at the same time (c. 1982) that I had my red 66 A code 4 speed coupe. He subsequently bought a blue 67 Shelby GT350, which he still has.

couldn't tell you Adam, it was a one time thing, I didn't know him at the time, just bought the car and never heard again...apart from he called me back about 2/3 weeks later to say the clutch had gone and would I help him out with the cost, which I did, perfect when I sold it, but what with the abuse I gave it sometimes, and I guess thats the first thing he did, it gave up.

Les Szabo · Post by **Les Szabo** » Tue May 17, 11 7:50 pm

Cannonball wrote:
Les Szabo wrote:
Adam wrote:Les, Tim Fennell asked me to post these pics for him. Should bring back some memories!
Just got off the phone with Tim right this minute and he warned me this was coming ....no seriously, thats the only shot of the charger I've ever seen, my god did I look like that.........

Tim said that shot of the Mustang was from not long after I bought it, bit of a sorry state but cleaned up well, got rid of the sidepipes, virtually no rot though, I did get it resprayed in a similar colour with 2 white stripes, a la Shelby.....thanks for posting them up..Les

Picture 3, I got rid of that black jacket

The brown pistol grip car was the best yank I had really, wonder what it would worth today....£17k?
the brown cuda i owned for a while 340 4 speed 2 fender tags leather etc drove crap but was not a bad old car i had to plate the front legs as they had rotted bad above the rear frame bolts i painted it white black sixpak hood and sold it on it became a speaker for some guy outa london that did music events with it he got me to convert it to auto as he could not live with the 4 speed, then budgie dropped on it and sold it with 2 weeks at over double what he paid, 20k into europe another one gone

Yeah I did hear that it was changed to an auto etc., I'm wasn't really a part no./ original spec kinda person, but it should've been left with as a stick shift I think, not many around, I got on ok with it apart from once the when the linkage just seized at a set of lights, a quick tug underneath and it was ok.

Adam · Post by **Adam** » Tue May 17, 11 8:22 pm

Only found a couple of photos of so far - I'm sure I have more. Sorry for poor quality.

Les Szabo · Post by **Les Szabo** » Tue May 17, 11 8:42 pm

Adam wrote:Only found a couple of photos of so far - I'm sure I have more. Sorry for poor quality.

Pucker Adam, bottom photo is a rare shot of it more or less as I bought it me thinks, was running 13.4's then, impressed me, took a while to persuade him to sell it if I remember. A few mods, not many, and 12.4's

I remember one time driving home from a meet down the M1 and I saw a lump of wood on the inside lane but was too slow to avoid it, only made it another 200ft and had to stop the car. Centre line had a big crack in it and a flat tyre, thought I was bu**ered, but hey, out came the Good year 10x28 and on it went, so, 1 4" on the right side, and 1 10" on the left, couldn't really feel much difference you know, made it home ok

RobTwin · Post by **RobTwin** » Wed May 18, 11 2:17 am

RobTwin wrote:I did post some pics of Dinger's Barracuda from the late 80's, in the Archive - Past Events section, but the pics have disappeared

I'll post em here later this evening if I remember...

Saw him run that car a few times at the Pod, including the time he rolled it

That barracuda

Guy · Post by **Guy** » Wed May 18, 11 7:11 am

That what you call a set of headers

unless you have to drop the valve covers