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Chat Area => General Car Chat => Topic started by: TheBoy on 16 June 2013, 20:42:02
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Not quite cars, but almost car related ;D
I managed to find a spare couple of hours to go down a cheer the competitors on - I do try to get to all the local town events.
(http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a319/IamTheBoy/null_zpsc9820f64.jpg) (http://s14.photobucket.com/user/IamTheBoy/media/null_zpsc9820f64.jpg.html)
(http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a319/IamTheBoy/null_zps88a2ddc0.jpg) (http://s14.photobucket.com/user/IamTheBoy/media/null_zps88a2ddc0.jpg.html)
(http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a319/IamTheBoy/null_zps0b6dcb9e.jpg) (http://s14.photobucket.com/user/IamTheBoy/media/null_zps0b6dcb9e.jpg.html)
(http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a319/IamTheBoy/null_zps12126a8a.jpg) (http://s14.photobucket.com/user/IamTheBoy/media/null_zps12126a8a.jpg.html)
(http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a319/IamTheBoy/null_zps8395bd1c.jpg) (http://s14.photobucket.com/user/IamTheBoy/media/null_zps8395bd1c.jpg.html)
(http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a319/IamTheBoy/null_zps71fbdf35.jpg) (http://s14.photobucket.com/user/IamTheBoy/media/null_zps71fbdf35.jpg.html)
Many didn't stop in time, ploughing into the boxes ;D
(http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a319/IamTheBoy/null_zps8c8cedb0.jpg) (http://s14.photobucket.com/user/IamTheBoy/media/null_zps8c8cedb0.jpg.html)
And those with extreme tracking issues needed a helping hand
(http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a319/IamTheBoy/null_zps27cc1217.jpg) (http://s14.photobucket.com/user/IamTheBoy/media/null_zps27cc1217.jpg.html)
And another just about to have a relationship with the cardboard
(http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a319/IamTheBoy/null_zps089e78be.jpg) (http://s14.photobucket.com/user/IamTheBoy/media/null_zps089e78be.jpg.html)
And another
(http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a319/IamTheBoy/null_zps4d8b9835.jpg) (http://s14.photobucket.com/user/IamTheBoy/media/null_zps4d8b9835.jpg.html)
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Thats symes in the hot rod :D ;D
(http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a319/IamTheBoy/null_zps71fbdf35.jpg)
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Just the weather for it ;D
Always looks like fun though :y
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Thats symes in the hot rod :D ;D
(http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a319/IamTheBoy/null_zps71fbdf35.jpg)
Looks like something The Pikey Pensioner should be driving. ;D ;D
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That happens at Hotrod Hayride-but it gets better at night-with added help from a guy called Jim Beam ;)
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Never get to hear when these are run , would like to see one :)
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Looks like they had some fun :) :)
I love to see kids enjoying themselves :y
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Great fun that, used to have a go years ago when in the Scouts....... :y :y
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Great fun that, used to have a go years ago when in the Scouts....... :y :y
probably not allowed now due to health and safety :(
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Saw the signs for it when I was back other week, never seen it though ;D
Looks good :)
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Great fun that, used to have a go years ago when in the Scouts....... :y :y
probably not allowed now due to health and safety :(
You may well be right, remember as kids, 4 pram wheels and a couple of bits of wood, a bottle crate (wood) a bit of rope and some nuts and bolts / screws / nails, hours of fun and we lived...... :y :y
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yep-sort of rights of passage-wasnt it-to make a kart :y :y grazes were like medals of honour-now kids just sit playin games/phone all day :(
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We don't have anything that civilised here unfortunately :(
A lot of effort gone into that too from everyone involved by the looks of it :y
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Looks like they had some fun :) :)
I love to see kids enjoying themselves :y
Yeah, good to see the under 15s category had a good turnout, and girls as well as boys. And, more important, I suspect many helped make their karts, which has to be a better life skill than Xbox and arsebook :y
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That happens at Hotrod Hayride-but it gets better at night-with added help from a guy called Jim Beam ;)
One of our own racing celebs - Barrie Williams - was on hand to rag a proper Mini - and a Cooper at that I think - up and down the High Street, with plenty of handbrake control ;D.
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Great fun that, used to have a go years ago when in the Scouts....... :y :y
probably not allowed now due to health and safety :(
There were a couple of mishaps, and cuts and grazes, but nothing to bother the paramedics. 3 wheel karts are desperately unstable, and rickety old bits of wood cause frequent steering failure as they bounce off the ramp ;D
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Dunno 'bout "soap boxes" ... called 'em "gambos" 'round these parts 8)
Looks like a brilliant little event, and great to see kiddies having fun! :y
One observation:
(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/43954633/null_zps0b6dcb9e.jpg)
The OOF entry? ... the err ... Silver Bullet ... per chance? :o
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We use to call them chassis , i rolled the one me dad made and hit a Rover P4 :-X
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They are great examples of what we used to call go-carts in Tunbridge Wells in the 1950s. Boys used to build them using especially old, big, pram wheels that were available then. Old Silver Cross prams had large rear wheels, with slightly smaller in front. Fastened to a simple wooden frame and "soap box" with rope steering they used to go like a rocket down virtually car less roads! :y :y :y
So those images take me back, and what fun those kids are having! Not an electronic gizmo in sight so of course they are having pure basic enjoyment like kids have always done in the past.
Great sight and the organisers should be congratulated (especially for ignoring the modern fixation on Health & Safety)!! :D :D :D :D :) :) :)
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Good for the organizers for putting it on,and good for so many kids to put the effort in to take part with loads of fun as a reward!Where I grew up and made these-and yes Lizzie some of our wheels were "liberated" from Silver Cross prams-we called them trolleys.
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we used to call them bogies looks like a great time was had by all :y :y
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I remember my Dad's delight when I made one as a lad... Using a nice bit of mahogany I found in his garage for the front axle. ::)
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I built one for our local even just the other week.
youtube linky forthcoming - look for "the V8 gate"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jaeb-5GHr4&sns=em (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jaeb-5GHr4&sns=em)