Brisan
Post #72
I have photos of the ZF Fairlane when it was on the back of a truck being taken home to Vic. It had a canary for the bonnet hump. I have recently spoken- on FB to the original owner. He has the car in his shed-modified to be legal, which are the pics with the lower bonnet with a vent in it. |
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Shuffs
Post #78
Just a little note: From what I was told, the Fairlaine only made it to Castlemaine and was towed the rest of the way I have photos of the ZF Fairlane when it was on the back of a truck being taken home to Vic. It had a canary for the bonnet hump. I have recently spoken- on FB to the original owner. He has the car in his shed-modified to be legal, which are the pics with the lower bonnet with a vent in it. Once I work out how to post pics, I will. Pics show rear of car as well. So as a matter of interest,where were your photos taken,because as you can see OP seemed to think it only did 100k's then was towed the rest of the way,which I wouldn't have thought was feasible?I take it the guy who is driving it in the video,is the current owner,because it no longer has that huge bulge on the bonnet and the spiel on the video says he was getting it roadworthy for a permit,to get further work done. |
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Brisan
Post #79
Hi Shuffs, photos taken in Wudinna, SA on the Eyre Peninsula. As you can see from the photos, there is a canary on the window. I don't think you get these while being towed. Can't believe you would tow a car from Vic to Perth....I will see what i can find out. From what I know, Original owner has the car back, modified to be legal. |
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chris.stork.129
Post #80
Ok, so this thread is just over a year old now, but a link to here was sent to me from a friend so hopefully I can solve quite a few questions on here. |
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chris.stork.129
Post #81
Oh yeah, those 2 videos were also posted by me, when I first took posession of it. |
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Shuffs
Post #82
Wow!Thanks for that Chris,eighteen months since the thread started,and twelve months since the last post,and all of a sudden you have made it a small world |
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grimlock_drift164
Post #83
Hey guys i was wondering ,my dad raced in the first cannonball run and was wondering if u guys had any more general information on the race and who was the person driving the trans am,because my dad was enquiring ,he drove the red vh brock commodore?thanks in advance? |
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grimlock_drift164
Post #84
Hey guys i was wondering ,my dad raced in the first cannonball run and was wondering if u guys had any more general information on the race and who was the person driving the trans am,because my dad was enquiring ,he drove the red vh brock commodore?thanks in advance? |
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len_walsh101
Post #85
.... .... for those who buy Australian Muscle Car magazine, theres been quite a bit published on the cannonball run over the last 4 years or so. the race was late 84, and was completed in under 30 hours. And to make it even more interesting, the WA police were waiting at the border for the entrants, sp speeding in WA was almost impossible.Think about that, no freeways, and no speeding in WA and still made it in under 30 hours, thats some serious speed on back roads. Hello Chris, I'm afraid I can't tell you much about your car but I can fill in some details about the race. I was Charlie's co-driver you see. Your car was mobile for the first section of the trip only. We passed it on the way to Mildura, perhaps about half way, motoring along nicely under its own steam. They had a support crew accompanying them, although struggling to keep up. There were two checkpoints en-route; the first in Berri SA, and the second in Albany WA. By the time we left Berri the supercharged monster was already being towed by their support trailer. They did complete the run to finish in that configuration. They were the only car with such a team supporting them, numbering about 4 or 5 crew. The route via the Calder highway was very quick, averaging well over 200 km/hr to Mildura. The Victoria police air wing monitored entrants but we monitored their movements precisely, thus avoiding them. At the time I was an Air Traffic Controller at Tullamarine an our scanners proved indispensable. After Berri we traveled on back roads, including sections of gravel or graded dirt, also at high speed, up to about 180 km/hr. Everyone refueled at Ceduna before the lengthy Nullabor crossing. Ceduna was our only fuel stop, pulling up midway between the rows of pumps, simultaneously adding about 1000 lts from either side of our tray mounted fuel cell. Nobody passed us during the whole race, and we maintained 230-240 Km/hr all the way to the WA border, where a police road block detained all the entrants, arresting the crews of about six cars. Police in aircraft tried to time each vehicle, which formed the basis for the arrests. Police technicians examined every car there at the border. Eventually the police decided to shadow us by blocking us between highway patrol cars. That ruined our planned 23 hr race as they escorted us from Albany to Freemantle. There were 64 starters and about half of those finished. I'm happy to furnish further details if anyone's interested. |
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len_walsh101
Post #86
Hi. I am new to this site .I saw in an old post that some one was enquiring about the first Cannonball run. This run started at Sunbury and finished at Freemantle Perth. The supposed winner was driving a Holden 2 tonner . However the official winner was a Holden Commodore VK Interceptor driven by John Crowle , Ian Bray and a third unknown driver. I know this for a fact because I was there,... John Crowle What a spineless wanker Crowle is. Offering no evidence he claims to have won the race Charlie and I won. Lying prick! “That which can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.” (Christopher Hitchens). |
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johnaau
Post #87
After corresponding with Len Walsh about the race, I've realised that the drivers stories and information about the event needs to be recorded somewhere, before this race is forgotten. |
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johnaau
Post #89
I have been collecting more information, newspaper articles and photos over at www.cannonball.info. One of the teams has sent me their original route maps and plans which will be up on the site soon... |
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johnaau
Post #91
I spoke today to Andre who was the owner of the supercharged Fairlane. He has cleared up what happened to the car during the race. It started the race on a trailer because it wouldn't have made it past police. Once away from the police they got it off the trailer. The car did break down but it was a jammed thermostat which they removed. The car continued on but was defected by police when crossing the desert for the bonnet hump, but they could continue on in the race. At Port Augusta they called on a friend to tow the car through a road block, and then drove on to the finish. There's a bit more to the story on the website and I'm going to speak to him again to get more info and photos and videos. |
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Flash635
Post #92
What a spineless wanker Crowle is. Offering no evidence he claims to have won the race Charlie and I won. Lying prick! “That which can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.” (Christopher Hitchens). Hang on a second, I won the race in a homologated Datsun 120Y. |
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johnaau
Post #93
Video of various parts of the race now up on the website: www.cannonball.info/video |
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