Gary's Picnic '86???

RobTwin · Post by **RobTwin** » Fri Dec 23, 05 12:15 am

Next batch.....

Brings back some fun memories of very hot weekend

RobTwin · Post by **RobTwin** » Fri Dec 23, 05 12:31 am

OOPS!! This topic was meant to be called Gary's Picnic '86??? not '87

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Oh well, next 5 pics, whatever the year was....

RobTwin · Post by **RobTwin** » Fri Dec 23, 05 12:43 am

last lot

Kev · Post by **Kev** » Fri Dec 23, 05 1:23 am

These are FANTASTIC pics, keep 'em up, Mr Twin! Muldooney's Coronet was the first Mopar I went out in. A mate and me went over to his to buy a Honda SL125 (I was Muldooney's apprentice at the time, just before being Johnny Mental, of Top Fuel slingshot fame's, apprentice.) I took Gerkin over there on the back of me Honda XL250. Muldooney took us out in the primrose yellow Cornet and we were blown away! Imagine! Young blokes on 250- bikes (well fast mate!) being blasted up Leytonstone High St in a 13 second street car back in '83ish. Madness! 8) 8) 8)

RobTwin · Post by **RobTwin** » Fri Dec 23, 05 1:43 am

Thanks Kev! More to come. Nearly into the 90's!

Never got to go in Muldooney's Coronet but did have a blast round Freezewater (nr Enfield) in Blue's Duster when it was Big, Green & very Loud. Also got a ride back to Waltham Abbey from North Weald in Mark Richard's Dart, all the way on slicks!
Them were the days..... aahhh

Kev · Post by **Kev** » Fri Dec 23, 05 1:46 am

Sweet! 8)

Ivor · Post by **Ivor** » Fri Dec 23, 05 9:44 am

Fantastic stuff, these are bringing back some great memories...I think I took the old Humber to Gary's Picnic, so that was a Mopar of sorts, but it may have been the Buick...I used the old Humber when I was hanging around with the Middlesex Cruisers and if I remember rightly we used to get up to a pub in Rob Twin's old stomping ground, Mill Hill was the place called the Three Hammers?

Could be wrong, my memory is fading a bit, but I remember Jamie Maserati was a regular with a blown V6 Anglia, that looked a lot like Blues first car and like Blue I had built another virtually unstreetable car in the shape of the Ch*vy powered, beam axled Vauxhall PC Cresta...with the money I spent on that I could have bought one of Jim Wilson's Mopars at the time!

Great pix Rob, I love 'em!

RobTwin · Post by **RobTwin** » Fri Dec 23, 05 10:10 am

Prob was the Three Hammers Ivor, up a hill, on a corner? Posh end of town that so I wasnt allowed up there very often

Ivor · Post by **Ivor** » Fri Dec 23, 05 10:23 am

Posh? It's a wonder they let us lot in then!

Ashley · Post by **Ashley** » Fri Dec 23, 05 4:14 pm

Rob do you know who was the owner of the GTX and what time's it was running ?????

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Fri Dec 23, 05 11:19 pm

Bananarama! was Another of George Chiles' cars it was later silver, with center lines then sold on to steve niemantis, the pic with the GTX olly's runner and part of a cuda, i think the cuda is my dads old car 73 4 speed 340 car

Ashley · Post by **Ashley** » Sat Dec 24, 05 7:36 am

Cheers fella

RobTwin · Post by **RobTwin** » Sat Dec 24, 05 8:48 am

Thanks Mark, must admit I dunno too much about some of the cars in these pics

, just that I liked em enough to take the pics!
I presume that red cuda is the one shown in an earlier pic, DRN786S?

Last I heard it was sitting in a barn/garage somewhere down near the south coast lookin a bit sorry for itself

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Sat Dec 24, 05 6:07 pm

yeah thats the one rob, that was my dad's first mopar, can i use the pic of the cuda for our site please rob?
The car was very quick, it ran low 14's on slicks and was completly standard engine wise

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Sat Dec 24, 05 6:26 pm

also just noticed, in the pic of George's GTX in the fire up lane, the guy in the red cap is my dad can i use that pic aswell please