american speedfest - brands hatch - 9 june

V8 Sam · Post by **V8 Sam** » Sun Jun 16, 13 2:03 am

Anyone able to record it?

Don · Post by **Don** » Sun Jun 16, 13 7:56 pm

V8 Sam wrote:Anyone able to record it?

Hey Sam, how are ya mucker? Just asked Brigitte about recording it but she says we got that tevo thing so no can do, soz mate. The Virgin channel is 545

Derek · Post by **Derek** » Sun Jun 16, 13 9:33 pm

V8 Sam wrote:Anyone able to record it?

If I remember it's on I'll record it on to a disc for you.

andyrob · Post by **andyrob** » Sun Jun 16, 13 10:53 pm

think you will be dissapointed, will probably only have the french boys on

V8 Sam · Post by **V8 Sam** » Sun Jun 16, 13 11:29 pm

alls good my end Don! just life is currently being run by Work!

and the little lady is starting to get very very angry about it!

not a problem if you cant recording it ill see if i can pick it up with the virgin channel.

how ever if i cant and Derek can! that would be grand! thanks buddy!

unless its 90% adverts and that usual stuff.

Don · Post by **Don** » Mon Jun 17, 13 7:57 am

be careful of that Italian temperament buddy

V8 Sam · Post by **V8 Sam** » Mon Jun 17, 13 5:19 pm

Haha!

If only you knew the half of it!!

JohnR · Post by **JohnR** » Mon Jun 17, 13 5:39 pm

Just looked at your pics Andy , the diamond T belongs to a mate of mine Derek Drinkwater he has a couple of others too, I shortened his 1948 Peterbilt for him to make a replica of the " Duel " truck as in the film Derek then built a catering unit to put behind it , it was at Goodwood last year ,

V8 Sam · Post by **V8 Sam** » Mon Jun 17, 13 6:49 pm

JohnR wrote:Just looked at your pics Andy , the diamond T belongs to a mate of mine Derek Drinkwater he has a couple of others too, I shortened his 1948 Peterbilt for him to make a replica of the " Duel " truck as in the film Derek then built a catering unit to put behind it , it was at Goodwood last year ,

i saw That at wheels day.

FANTASTIC.

andyrob · Post by **andyrob** » Mon Jun 17, 13 9:28 pm

V8 Sam wrote:
JohnR wrote:Just looked at your pics Andy , the diamond T belongs to a mate of mine Derek Drinkwater he has a couple of others too, I shortened his 1948 Peterbilt for him to make a replica of the " Duel " truck as in the film Derek then built a catering unit to put behind it , it was at Goodwood last year ,

i saw That at wheels day.

FANTASTIC.

I agree, looked like a modern ram 3500 underneath ?

RW71 · Post by **RW71** » Mon Jun 17, 13 9:54 pm

Dave wrote:Nicked this from the Corvette forum;

Just in case some of us are unaware this event is provisionally on for weekend of 7/8 June 2014. Just got off the phone from talking with Bernie Chodosh who organises Bernies HRVS (historic racing v8 series) and it seems as though the Brands Hatch organisers of the Speedfest were pleasantly surprised by the response, numbers of american cars attending and the general enthusiasm of everyone that went - so who knows, perhaps we can look forward to similar events in future. Bernie is trying to persuade the organisers to have a 'noisy' race day with unsilenced V8's. His plans next year for the HRVS will be to have perhaps three race meetings over the year - the idea being that these will be bigger and more 'full on' events (I guess also giving the car owners a bit more time between race meetings to repair and fettle their cars) Hopefully we will also see free entry for American car owners who attend with one or more paying passengers.

Really hope he is successful in that quest, having the cars running unsilenced would certainly make the racing come alive!

JohnR · Post by **JohnR** » Mon Jun 17, 13 9:55 pm

Yes the others have small block 360's and he has one 1947 one with the original 6 pot I did the brakes on that one last year,twin back wheels ,he took the duel fuel unit ( the whole thing ) down the track at Shakey this year sometime think it ran a 22sec quarter its on you tube someplace !!! I took the splitter box out so all he has is just 4 gears but they are on the high side good job the unit is only about 3 tons as it only has brakes on the back wheels !!!!!! they did not fit front ones until the 50's !!!!!!!!

Adam · Post by **Adam** » Wed Jun 19, 13 1:16 pm

Well, that TV coverage of the Euro-Racecars on Motors was hilarious. They employed Mr Cholmondley-Warner to do the commentary, and he clearly didn't have a clue.

Very little footage of cars on display, none at all of Bernie's V8s, and Don's Bird was on screen for about 0.3 of a second. Ah well, shouldn't have been surprised.