Brooklands Museum
I recently had the opportunity to spend a morning at the Brooklands Museum in Weybridge, England. Brooklands is steeped in motorsport history, being the world’s first purpose-built motor racing circuit. The museum itself is filled with a great collection of historic racing cars, aircraft, and memorabilia from the history of Brooklands. The well-maintained buildings themselves are fascinating, including very early examples of...
RACV Mornington Classic Showcase 2015
Jack and I dropped in on the RACV Classic Showcase, this year moved from Flemington to Mornington. This show displays a really nice selection of interesting marques, and incorporates a concours competition for both the Mercedes and MG car clubs. A highlight was seeing the 4C up close and personal for the first time. First impressions – it’s tiny, but also very wide. Much prettier in real life than in the...
New Zealand Festival of Motorsport 2015
The Bottcher family managed to make it out to New Zealand in January for a short holiday break in the North Island. This was organised in the latter half of 2014 without much thought to motorsport, I guess because not much happens in Australia in January because it’s so bloody hot. Not so much in New Zealand it seems, we’d coincidentally lined up our break perfectly with the New Zealand Festival of Motorsport. Such...
Sandown Historics 2014
A top day out at Historic Sandown again this year with a tidy display of Formula 5000, Group A/C Touring cars, Group N Historics amongst other categories. There was a good selection of Alfas in Group S this year which put on a nice display for the marque. The club held a display on the apron next to the pits with a really nice selection of cars, some photos...
AROCA EMR to Hanging Rock Sept 2014
The club organised a run through the Macedon Ranges, stopping for coffee in Trentham and ending at the Hanging Rock reserve for a picnic/BBQ lunch. Beautiful spring day and some lovely back roads to enjoy. Jack and I took the Giulietta s**t-box and it was fun, if a little treacherous in the handling department. Some lovely Alfas out in the...
A new heart with 16 valves
The old 1.5 8v engine was quite sick after our sprint day in March, so we decided it was time to build the 16v engine. We’d been collecting parts for the engine for years, but just needed a hurry up! 1.7 block with a 1.5 cranks (makes 1.6, to keep me in class) Cat cams 288deg/12.1mm lift + valve springs, retainers, buckets Everything lightened and balanced. 10.2:1 compression Standard valve sizes etc. Dellorto 45 carbs. ...
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I made a handful of t-shirt designs which you can buy from RedBubble online. Click on the image to look at the selection.
