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General Forums => Photo Gallery => Topic started by: nivag on July 28, 2011, 12:16:03 PM
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At the recent Victoria show was able to meet up with a few people that knew my car going back into the 70's/80's. Peter, formerly of Bow Wow put me onto a previous owner Martin Plaster and Martin has been nice enough to send me some pics and some history... I am gonna keep digging and see what turns up... Enjoy a journey to the drag racing days back in the 70's:
going under the knife, these pics expalin some of the body work I found some 25 years later...
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getting fresh coat of bad ass black
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Getting the 'island look'/80's chrome details...
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This pic was at the Seattle Bug-in in the 70's. The split was painted with black and grey primer mixed and was towed down there with Martin's 71 van - totally illegally but what the hell, it was the 70's... The yellow van was Peter Roberts and the Ghia was the Sheffield boys. He couldnt remember the others.
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some SIR racing:
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My new screen saver shot - might see if I can reinact this shot at the upcomming Great Canadian...
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Will add more as the research continues...
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Nice! Always fun to have some history on the car! Congrats Gav.
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choice !!!!
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My new screen saver shot - might see if I can reinact this shot at the upcomming Great Canadian...
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gav...if you get that sweet ass ride of yours wheels up on the 1/4 at the gc this year...i'm buying you a frosty cold one of your choice at bp on saturday night!! i mean it!
great pics and very cool history on that car. i seem to recall mirko speaking fondly of it from it's days in victoria too! so neat that you can collect all this info on your car!! :cool: