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rosstheboss
Retrobike Rider
I have a love/hate relationship with truck racing - love the spectacle and speed - I went with my mum and dad to some truck racing at Thruxton a few years back courtesy of Cat (my dad's been in the plant hire game for years) and were told about the specs of the trucks - I remember it clearly as the 0-60 and 0-100mph times were exactly the same as the 5 litre TVR Chimaera my mate's dad had just bought!!! Seriously quick, close racing....
...Hate because I also like watching motorbike racing and the trucks f*ck the track up royally in the braking areas - they're so heavy they ripple the tarmac not nice on a superbike!
...Hate because I also like watching motorbike racing and the trucks f*ck the track up royally in the braking areas - they're so heavy they ripple the tarmac not nice on a superbike!
This is a much better video... ;-)
And don't pay much attention to the beemer that nearly got taken out twice by a bus, it's the second part that's truly funny... and kinda relevant to this place ;-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9kSeXsHeXw&feature=fvw
And don't pay much attention to the beemer that nearly got taken out twice by a bus, it's the second part that's truly funny... and kinda relevant to this place ;-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9kSeXsHeXw&feature=fvw
rosstheboss
Retrobike Rider
GT-Steve":1i954uws said:
I can do some wicked burnouts in our forklift at work :twisted:
:twisted: :roll:Most Trucks have air actuated diff locks. When I left school I worked for my dad. Me and another guy used to drift brand new Scanias around the yard. We had a very large gravel area around a demolished power sub station that we used for sand blasting 40ft trailors and we would have competitions to see who go do the best dustcloud doughnuts. Our lunchtime fun and games came to an end when I wrote off one of his best customers wife's Renault 17 against a concrete block 
Truck racing in the early days was indeed fun. Trucks were completely stock apart from the cage and safety gear and the fuel pumps were just wound up. As Lewis mentioned, we prepped a MAN for Hepworth Iron Company to use at the first race at Donnington in about 1985. On the Monday after the race it was back in dads workshop, cage out, seats back in and off to work pulling clay pipes around the country the next day. The fuel pump was left as-is and the driver loved the extra performance. I always remember the orange sticky headlining in that truck- he must have smoked 80 a day in there. We did a similar conversion on a DAF the following spring only this was a brand new 2800 supplied by the importer. The driver was some bloke with lots of metal in his legs called Barry. Word has it he used to he quite handy on motorbikes and was a world champion. Dead now. Still kinda miss him, he was a nice bloke and used to get pissed at dads BBQs and tell me and my kid brother rude jokes- which is ace when you are 11 and 13
An old man remembers and all that...
Si
Si
Truck racing in the early days was indeed fun. Trucks were completely stock apart from the cage and safety gear and the fuel pumps were just wound up. As Lewis mentioned, we prepped a MAN for Hepworth Iron Company to use at the first race at Donnington in about 1985. On the Monday after the race it was back in dads workshop, cage out, seats back in and off to work pulling clay pipes around the country the next day. The fuel pump was left as-is and the driver loved the extra performance. I always remember the orange sticky headlining in that truck- he must have smoked 80 a day in there. We did a similar conversion on a DAF the following spring only this was a brand new 2800 supplied by the importer. The driver was some bloke with lots of metal in his legs called Barry. Word has it he used to he quite handy on motorbikes and was a world champion. Dead now. Still kinda miss him, he was a nice bloke and used to get pissed at dads BBQs and tell me and my kid brother rude jokes- which is ace when you are 11 and 13
An old man remembers and all that...
Si
Si
rosstheboss":hg0tsput said:GT-Steve":hg0tsput said:
I can do some wicked burnouts in our forklift at work :twisted:
Me too!!!!
7t Hyster truck with the directions on one pedal and slicks - Burnout time :twisted:
La piece de resistance though at the moment is a 12t Diesel Behemoth, fan-bloody-tastic bit of kit!!!
Steve
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