Gary's Picnic 9-6-85, Santa Pod

Blue · Post by **Blue** » Wed Dec 14, 05 7:06 pm

Actually that's not a bad idea, go on then someone start the thread "This was me in 1985"!

Kev · Post by **Kev** » Wed Dec 14, 05 7:17 pm

Ya! Top Gun! 8) 8)
Let's start a "me in '85" pic thread

Cool idea, Blue! 8)

Adam · Post by **Adam** » Wed Dec 14, 05 8:36 pm

Damn - I should have quit while I was ahead. Never saw Top Gun.

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Thu Dec 15, 05 5:37 pm

The blue duster was george chiles' at the time then later owned by Andy Cockroft who painted george's runner and our belv, the yellow 68 runner is Olly's car the black tubbed one from the nats a few years ago, (it had front end damage) now painted blue (again by andy)

ps I'd like to post a pic of me in 85 but i was born a month after the picnic LOL

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Thu Dec 15, 05 11:00 pm

great pics dude ! i was only 11/12 yr old when this was all going on, blissfully unaware that one day i'd own pinkie !!

RobTwin · Post by **RobTwin** » Fri Dec 16, 05 12:49 am

I find it strange too Adam (no, not the haircut), sure I got some of your car somewhere. Still more to sort thru.
Anyway whaddaya mean 'check the Barnet' ? It's the same today, innit?

Mark (JerryA) - Ta for the info on the yellow 68 RR, shouldve recognised the reg no, always loved seeing Olly's car in black, such a great piant job. Was that the one that had 'Sure route to destruction' painted on the decklid? Think I saw the damaged front but didnt know it's now in blue.

Havent got many pics of me at the Pod in '85 as I was behind me camera most of time. Could find 1 of Stu, that'll do I suppose

RobTwin · Post by **RobTwin** » Thu Dec 22, 05 11:29 pm

MattH wrote:Rob , that yellow 73 Chally Rallye is John Challis' one, that is now silver,
great to actually see a 73 with all its correct stripes on, any more pics of the grey 73 in the background with the vinyl roof, a reg number would be good??

Matt, and anyone else lookin in,
See the following which is copied from an email i received a couple of days ago...... may answer some questions!

Hi Rob
My name is Simon from York,Waiting to join MMA so hope you don't mind emailing you.
Just been looking at the Gary's picnic photos on the forum and spotted my old Challenger and others,here are the details I think:

85 picnic rr-chall jpeg is of Mark 'Olly' Holroyd's Road Runner which has a 383 auto last I heard and is now Black.He is from Halifax.The Challenger was mine, 340 4brl auto all original until I had a 383 put in it and painted it all Black,I was only 18 when I owned it!

Jason Monkey j peg, I used to know Jason many years ago,he used to knock about with a guy called John who was a postie and was building a race Duster, are they still in the scene? love to hear from them.(used to come down to North London most weekends) The trade mark was the three ducks in the back window,which they kindly let me put in my 70 Road Runner which I understand Duncan Cannonball Watts now has!

Steve Rawlings j-peg, tried to buy Steve's 70 RR but wouldn't sell in the end,so bought one from St Albans which I swapped with Jerry Smiths (Jerryatric UK)70 Cuda 4spd from Halifax and cash one way, cant remember.

73-70 Chall jpeg, this is my old Challenger on the left, and the Mustang is 'Spirit of America' which was owned by a guy called Doug from Bradford, the murals and paint work was amazing for the time!

Duster- RR j peg , is of George Childs Duster from Halifax (now has Maroon Road Runner) it had a 440 six pack in it ,racing Mark 'Olly' Holroyd from Halifax in his RR

Ha, just read page two of the thread telling you who owned the Blue Duster and Yellow RR,didn't know it was blue now.

I have just brought in a 66 Coronet with a tunnel ram'd 440 auto which will hopefully be for street and strip after some work.As soon as my MMA form is returned I hope to be on the forum!

Hope this is of some use

Regards

Simon

Thanks for letting me copy it here Simon, sounds like you know half of us on here already!
He should be collecting his Coronet tomorrow and has promised (remember that Simon, if you're reading this!) to send some pics, so I'll post them too.

Look forward to having you on here in person, mate!!

Post by **MattH** » Thu Mar 22, 07 11:57 pm

The grey Challenger , YBT673V lives again ! I just got this pic today from Mark Inwood In Notts, he has nearly finished it now, looking real good.

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Fri Mar 23, 07 12:07 am

steveo · Post by **steveo** » Fri Mar 23, 07 12:16 am

good to see it is still hear . looks real good

RobTwin · Post by **RobTwin** » Fri Mar 23, 07 12:39 am

Wow! It looked good back in 85, looks even better now

Brian J · Post by **Brian J** » Sat Mar 24, 07 12:36 am

Met mark on Sunday and the cars a credit to him ,just as clean on the underside as well

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Sun Mar 25, 07 8:02 pm

Thank you all for the comments. Car still as a 383 in it.Still got loads of fiddling to do, but taking it for an M.O.T. first & take it from there. Its been a big project for me & i`m expecting some hiccups once i`m mobile, i`ve got my AA card ready, just in case!