RaceTime 3 Jul 2001, 09:03 HOLDEN RACING TEAM AND CITY MOTORS TO THE RESCUE!
A trip to Wanneroo Raceway last Sunday week for Mandurah (WA) couple Peter
and Lynne Davies went horribly wrong, when their car caught fire in the
car park of the circuit. Their ageing vehicle was destroyed in the blaze,
leaving the pair devastated and, with no way of towing their caravan back
home to Mandurah.
The Holden Racing Team heard of the retired couple's plight and decided to
help, offering the Davies a sum of money and endeavoring to enlist the
assistance of one of the Team's associated Perth Holden Special Vehicles
dealers.
Tony Carter, Dealer Principal of City Motors For Holden in Perth
immediately joined the rescue plan, loaning Peter and Lynne a Holden
Commodore to enable them to tow their caravan back to Mandurah, and then
set about finding a suitable replacement vehicle for their burnt-out 1986
Ford Falcon.
The Davies' new car is a 1996 Holden Commodore VS Equippe station wagon,
and an excited Peter and Lynne collected the car from City Motors For
Holden showrooms in Newcastle Street Perth today. Tuesday July 3rd.
"We had arrived at the Wanneroo circuit and found a spot to watch the
races from, when we heard a commotion in the crowd and someone say that a
car was on fire." Peter Davies explained. "Lynne and I decided to take a
look - just in case - and we were devastated when we realised it was our
Ford.
"Lynne was in shock and we were wondering what we were going to do, when
the Holden Racing Team approached us with their offer. We were almost
dumbstruck! City Motors and HRT have been fantastic in getting us back on
the road and the VS Commodore we now drive is a beautiful car.
"Lynne and I wish to express or deepest thanks and gratitude to the Holden
Racing Team and City Motors for their tremendous help and we'll be HRT
fans forever!" Peter concluded.
For further information, please contact:
Paul Weissel Tony Carter - Dealer
Principal Richard Cull - G.M.
Holden Racing Team City Motors For Holden
City Motors
Phone: 03 9544 0322 505 Newcastle Street
505 Newcastle St
Fax: 03 9562 9921 Perth
Perth
Mob: 0418 588 801 Phone: 9422 7777
Phone: 9422 7777
Email: paul.weissel@hsv.com.au Fax: 9422 7630
Fax: 9422 7630
nz_tourer 3 Jul 2001, 09:29 not bad, walk in with a XF and drive out in a VS.
now lets not get any ideas from this exercise!!
DAVID PATERSON 3 Jul 2001, 10:37 People have been trying to do this for years at Bathurst. ;)
Crash Test 3 Jul 2001, 13:31 Let that be a lesson not to park your car on camp fire....tsk tsk
But aren't HRT nice boys...ahhhh :)
Ray Bell 3 Jul 2001, 14:19 What set the thing on fire, anyway... shouldn't have been easy for a stationary car to go up in flames?
Of course, if it had happened miles away, towing their caravan home, they would have been really stuck and got nothing....
Very benevolent of the people involved.
Crash Test 3 Jul 2001, 14:39 Apparently they parked on someone's camp fire from the earlier, and it sparked up...
hehe , now that's what I call a bargain , drive in with a Ford and come home with a Holden <g>.
RaceTime 3 Jul 2001, 15:59 Just wondering if HRT are covering the cost of counseling as well for them - I mean it would be rather traumatic, as you say, going to the meeitng in a Ford and then having to step down and drive home in a Holden...:)
HAHA , more like they would need counceling, cause they would be in shock at the vast improvment of the new car :p.
And why is it that HRT got them a new car and not FTR ??, could it be that they were afraid they wouldnt make it home:rolleyes:
RaceTime 3 Jul 2001, 16:45 Why not FTR? Pretty obvious really - FTR need all the parts on the race track - HRT just go and pinch the ones they give away so the owners can claim insurance :)
Hmmm what no claim bonus on the new car I wonder?
hmmm ..nice bit of publicity work by HRT ..now lets see..I am currently driving an XF...and winton is coming up soon ...hmmmm..nahhhh..ill probably take my Commodore to the track instead...allthough a new VX compared to a VN sounds rather nice ...hmmmm..plotting ..plotting ..plotting :)
Grow up guys - grow up
I'd rather push a Ford than be seen driving a Holden.
I have left myself wide open here that's part of the fun isn't it.
Ray Bell 4 Jul 2001, 00:12 Push a Ford? ... yes, I remember that...
Clubman racer John O'Brien was head first in the bowels of his early Falcon tow ute once fixing the starter ...late at night at Oran Park... and Allan Moffat (real one) walked by, asking him, "What's wrong there, lad?"
John, never one to mince words, replied "Another fine Ford product &*$ked out!" .... to which the old Moff replied:
"Yes, I know the feeling well..."
Another time John-O displayed rare compassion... seeing a tortoise on the road, screeching to a stop... but pulling up on top of it... he dropped it into reverse and went to go backwards, but the gearbox split under the strain... dumping oil over the poor reptile!
To a bystander, he offered the tortoise, covered in Castrol's overheated best... "Is he a friend of yours?"
This is the same guy who made the snowchains out of fencing wire and his best socket set (now rusty) when he and his pregnant wife were caught in the mountains...
I think I might trade the Camry in for a new VT at Lakeside this weekend :rolleyes:
Crash Test 4 Jul 2001, 02:18 Ray- Classic stuff :)
DNQ- Hmmm, let me think. The only car dealers racing this weekend are Garry Rogers (so you'd probably get a Nissan) and Eddie Abelnica (aka Melbourne's Cheapest Cars- so no doubt that you would get an old dunger from him ;)).
Hmm, I'll take the Nissan.
Ray Bell 4 Jul 2001, 06:05 I think I know Garry better than that... better have a backup plan!
Yes, there are many stories, Crash... if I could spend more time at your party I would surely be able to come out with more... some of the best are about getting to and from race meetings, of course. And you do need a real character somewhere to get the best out of life...
Eldred Norman, of course, comes to mind, and the madness of Lou Molina, driving to a fifties Bathurst from Melbourne with his mate and several flagons of rough red... and making roadside pit stops to a predetermined pattern, change a wheel and off again!
Crash Test 4 Jul 2001, 08:18 My memory fails me a bit at the moment Ray, but one of the better 'getting to the track' stories I recall happened a while ago. Let's call him Mr X (I'm sure many local QLDers would know who I'm talking about...).
Anyways, Mr X worked night and day for a considerable amount of time to get his new race car ready to race. He finished it late on Saturday night, and set out early Sunday morning for a meeting in Warwick. Traveling from Brisbane, with the whole family on board, the weather around the range was really quite average.
Being a typical racing driver he was giving it heaps, when he got to the top of Cunningham's gap, he lost control, spun the 4wd with race car in tow , through about 180 degrees onto the wrong side of the road. No worries, turned it around and kept going.
He stopped a few miles down the road, got out and puffed off a packet of smokes :)
Another one I remember in a similar area is that a car/trailer had a brake failure coming down the western side of the range. He wound up stopping at the first petrol station at the bottom....after nearly taking out the bowsers by a few inches ;)
WHO WANTS A BLOODY HOLDEN ANYWAY........
Anyone with half a brain and good taste :D
RaceTime 4 Jul 2001, 10:15 Originally posted by MadMick
Anyone with half a brain and good taste :D
Hmmm - well you laid claim to the half brain - as for the good taste - well that remains to be seen :laugh:
hehe , pay that one , should have said anyone with at least half a brain, and I think the race results and sales prove the good taste part
RaceTime 4 Jul 2001, 10:44 Well Mick, it is a real pity that I am sworn to secrecy about what Tim and I saw out at the Holden Proving Ground at Lang Lang today....
Grrrr , I was waiting to see where you would bring that in ??, did ya say G'day for me ?? :D
RaceTime 4 Jul 2001, 10:54 Hehe - not allowed to say - I've been gagged :eek:
Talk later tonight - gotta go and write a press release :p
HAHAHA , RaceTime gagged !!!:rolleyes: , this I gotta see and hear :p
Ray Bell 4 Jul 2001, 11:43 Just talking over the rabble here...
There was a story of a race car on a trailer behind a car leaving Hume Weir on the dirt road below the dam once. Something went wrong, dust was flying, cars spinning and all sorts of mess... the tow car and the trailer finished up on their wheels off the road...
But on close inspection it was found that the safety chain on the trailer was wrapped around once!
I think that was the same meeting that some tough guys held up the rear end of an MGA as the owner revved it and did all the things that should work, and it wasn't going anywhere....
Then tough guys dropped the car... with a fair heap of revs on and wheels spinning madly... and were run over because the car was in reverse!
DOH !!!!!!!!
i have a sad one.
heading out to a local speedway near corowa for a day meet ..we came across a man standing in the middle of the road..just staring off into a paddock...we stopped got out to find he was sobbing uncontrolably...we looked to see what he was crying about ...what a mess ..there he was..he had spent 3 or 4 weeks building his race car (allbeit only an old LJ Torana) but he had put everything into it and was off for its race debut ..when minding his own business travelling at about 80 or 90 kph he was confronted by a sigma coming backwards out of a dirt road (P plater hooning along a dirt road and of course didnt see the intersection until too late and jumped on the brakes and lost it into the main road) he swerved to miss the sigma but plowed into a tree beside the road...the torana came away from the trailer and basically wrapped itself around a tree completely destroying it ..if that wasnt enough his fairlane tow vehicle was hit very hard several times by the jacknifing trailer and was basically a write off...fortunately no one was seriously hurt ..but well over $10,000 worth of damge was done to race car , tow car and trailer I would say..and all he could do was cry..
it was sad to see something that someone had put so much effort into destryed by a stupid fool who should have never been there..i dont know what happened but i hope that he payed every penny for all the damage he caused.
DAVID PATERSON 5 Jul 2001, 05:20 Coming home from ameeting at QR last year, come over a crest on the Cunningham Highway near Ipswich and there's a brand new car Hilux 4x4 dual cab ute, on it's roof. I could tell it was brand new because underneath was all clean and shiny. It was still connected to a car trailer which was sitting on its wheels. On the trailer was a very tidy HZ Street drag car, which appeared ton be undamaged!
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