VINTAGE GRASSTRACK

Thursday, 8 November 2012

On some rare occasions in the late 80's / early 90's Grass-track actually made it on to the telly. Here's a clip from one of those occasions, Steve Smith and John Mitten winning a heat at the british masters on their Yamaha TZ750 outfit. Cheers for the heads up Geoff.

Talking of TZ750's. This is great. King Kenny. Some great vintage flat-tracking footage in the middle of the clip.

Thursday, 1 November 2012

They started young back in the 70's!

Liam Carter about to take his uncle Jez's outfit for a spin around the block. I Believe Jez Phillips and Pete Dulake won the Western Winner on this with Bill Carter on mechanical duties and of course Liz Carter taking care of the sandwiches etc for the weekend. Thanks Liz for the photo, and digging out the 8mm footage you have, can't wait to see it and hopefully put it up here soon.

Sunday, 21 October 2012

Gutted!!

Just missed out on an eBay auction in the last second for the programme that would have given me the results to one of my dad's outings representing the southern centre in a 1975 inter-centre meeting as seen below (No. 30 rather than their usual No. 69). Almost threw the laptop across the room!!

The offending auction! top right is the one. On the ridiculously long shot that anyone actually reads this AND has any unwanted old programmes from 1975-77 with the sidecar team Brian Hatch / Lew Wharton competing (Usually No. 69 but can differ in inter-centre meeting as below...No. 30) I'd be very interested in taking them off your hands at an appropriate price. The phrase needle in a haystack comes to mind, but it's happened before http://vintagegrasstrack.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/the-wonders-of-ebay.html

Brian Hatch / Lew Wharton (30) along side their good friends Jez Phillips / Pete Dulake (31) both representing the Southern Centre at an inter-centre meeting in the mid-seventies