A few years ago we were camping at ashby (on road) one fella was called vernon jones he was a nutter. Because of the rain during the week we were asked to move our cars to the harder ground 50 m away. We all happily did it but vernon pretended not to hear the announcement, when the race director came over to ask him to move his car he pretended again to be deaf, eventually he acknowledged the race director and told him he was deaf (he put the voice on and pulled a face and pointed to his ears for effect) when the director had asked him slowly and clearly vernon got into his car held the revs at about 6000rpm and lifted the clutch, covering the race director, tents, caravans, everything with mud.

We were pissing ourselves but he had to keep the act up all week end, untill he handed in the transponder after his final on the sunday and just said

"cheers mate"

I think if the director had not been behind the desk he would of smacked him:D

I never got to see this but James Instone (Welshy something on here now) famously in Wales got chucked in a lake. I think they said for making an A final, but secretly just wanted to chuck him in the lake :)

Another superglue induced tale of woe here!

One season near the start of the TC boom in the late 90's we were running TC's outside with foams, on of the guys in the club decided he wanted to fit some new tyres as they didnt come premounted in those days he had to glue them on. The only glue he had was the super thin cyno, he run the glue around the rim and attached the tyre, unknown to him the glue ran down the tyre and glued all 4 wheels solid to the desk. he went to lift the car up to go race and the table came up with him, in the end he cut the tyres off the desk and had to revert back to the older foams as the new ones had monsterous flatspots :D

Reminds me of Chris Hardistys car at the Hereford 1/12th nationals. Took him long enough to find it.

Ahhhh i remember that!! Think my Dad was annoyed as he'd somehow been convinced to part with £800 for that weird marquee / Tent thing which was supposed to only take 5 mins to put up and down :D I guess he wasn't too happy at the thought of someone tampering with his new toy ;)

I think my sister was going out with RichM at the time which might have made it an even more appealing target to you :D

dad hit the nail on the head here.....

jonny, remeber when we were at Bury st edmonds when it was called off....

you dad was packing you stuff into Bone's mums new car.......

cleaning everything, keeping it nice inside and that 4x4 went out and spun the wheels, cakin the inside of your tent, yourself and bones mums new car completing in mud!!

classic!!!

Yer, that was Russell Woodhouse who was driving the other car!!!
My dad went mad, you could see the mud heading towards the car.

It was good when he had to explain that to bones parents!!

the break between the 4WD and 2WD event at florida worlds, Me, Cree, Tricky and Rennick went to the beach and got some Jet Ski's

we were all hooning around jumping the wakes of boats and the US coast gaurd hard a word with us 'not to go near the other boats'...

Tricky didn't listen...

we were also racing towards a buey, 4 in a line, gradually getting closer and closer to each other, I backed out early, I think Rennick did too, who would have guessed Cree and Trick still full bore, head down, arse up going for the win :rolleyes:

jet Ski;s are ace! :D

I remember a few years ago at a national at tibshelf Craig D and a few others went out on the lash, colin brennan went along so we let down his tent, it turns out he never came back and had tried to stay in dreschers hotel room, the answer was no and craig made him sleep in his car:D

Another time we pulled out all the tent pegs while a fellow racer was out on the pull the lad did well and came back with some bird, we all thought nothing more until the wind picked up and we realised that the lazy sod hadn`t fitted the bedroom compartment to the inside of his tent, the tent flipped over leaving this lads arse going like a bee`s wing on full display to the rest of the campers, he just laughed but the girl was far from impressed :D :D

hahahahahahahaha

I remember following this car around that I thought was my car, but actually my car had drove off the track, with the marshal was running after it. Because I thought this other car was mine I was still controlling my car without realising the car I was following wasn’t mine! Hope this makes sense :D

haha I think we've all done that.

At my local club a few years ago one of the members sold his usual body to another person so he could revert back to his previous colour sceme. First race after the body swap he tried to drive the wrong car :D

jeese i wouldnt want to race at your club :D :D :D

To everyone who missed Neils Jump i can provide some Fotos.
The first shows Craig Drescher shooting the car up the roof the second is the remains of the car. The pic of the jump itself is too bad to be posted,

Cruise

If you look carefully you can see it's broken :D :D

Kevin getting super glue in his eye. lol i laughed so much when he told me.

Also at kiddy regional afterwards i was running my 4wd around and sleigh had a go and i had the steering in reverse so when he turned left it went right and vise versa the worst bit was when he shouted it out infront of everyone. I almost died.

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I've done that, i'll admit it. Had a sponsor years ago who decided that we should all have exactly the same bodyshell colours. Unfortunately, at one meeting, 4 of us were in the same heat, and it was a mass start, as opposed to a staggered one. After the first corner, i was racing what i thought was my car for 2 laps and thinking 'christ, i'm flying today, and the car's going like a dream'. Then, whoever it actually was crashed, at which point i tried to see where my dad was (to see if he was grumbling to himself about my crash), only to notice him running across the field at full pelt chasing after my car....


...to this day, he still thinks it was interference!!;)

unless it was his middle eye, then that's pretty harsh dude :o

cruise....any more pics???

long time ago now!!!

Excellent, have you got any more pics? That was really funny, i remember the first time it struggled to even make it up and Craig luckily caught it!

think craggy has a small vid of it some were

Okay here are two more -the jump and another closeup of the car.
The rest are pics of the car on the rooftop and Neil posing in front of the Hangar .Sorry for the quality of the jump but the camera was anything but modern.

Man I got a bunch!

1st off... Stoke mid west regional 2002 I think it was... I was marshalling and was in the middle of the track where it was necessary to have a seat. Well I was provided with a chest of drawers to sit on! an old rickety set of wooden draws... it was pourin down with rain, a car crashed so I went to get it... came back, plonked back down on this wooden chest of drawers and felt it rock back... there was the sound of a few snaps as the shelves broke and then the whole structure became a flat pack with me sat in the centre! JP was on the rostrum p*ssin himself, Mossy was in tears, doddy nearly passed out... I'm just gutted no-one filmed it I would love to see it back!

Talking of JP remember the rostrum steps at Stoke indoors dude? I know you hurt yourself and whatever but that wasn't the funniest part. I'll jackanory it for you all...

We're at a winter meetin indoors and usin this metal rostrum with narrow steps... me, mossy, doddy and bog are all stood at the bottom watching, and JP busts his car... moss picks it up and holds it up to him (now let this be a lesson to you for not wondering off the rostrum before race is over!) JP is lookin down at his stricken xx4 instead of looking at the steps... he proceeds to miss the top 1, fly into the air, do a perfect triple salco and land flat on his back right on the middle steps spralled out like jesus! Well we all do our very best to keep a straight face as we can see he's in some pain, when JP stands up and says "those stairs are f**kin dangerous!" well at this point we are all trying not to crease and we would have succeeded if it weren't for the sound of a screeching high pitched "ahhhhhhh haaa haaa haaaa!!! get over!!!" comin from Butch who is stood in the middle of the pits! well that was it... we all just let loose after that... sorry JP ;)

Another time, again i was at the foot of the rostrum steps at an indoor meeting at dudley, and a young kid up at the top crashed and broke his car, turned round and headbutted the wall! that was genius.

also away from the track, I was at a little chef with scott whyman at holbeche 1 year, and whyman tried to steal a coke glass, he put it in the front pocket of his fleece, but coupled with his belly, he got wedged under the table as he was trying to get out from the corral... like a turtle on his back he was stuck... i wanted to help, but couldn't for my tears of laughter!

Yardy

lets have the one of a young neil thn cruise

Funnies, mate there is so many thing we have done or been apart of dude its hard to remember the stuff that you don’t know about.

Years ago, at Hampshire me Jody Denner, Peter Bullen and Lee Taylor got waited on vodka and Fosters, cant remember who but some one came up with the idea to follow the kiddie’s railway line , so off the 3 of us went staggering about until we came to a small 4ft fence, now if you don’t know who Lee Taylor is you will need to know that “sticks” as we call him has mutable sucrose’s and has to walk with the aid of crutches . so as “Sticks” cant climb over the fence we decide to throw him over, as we do so the leg of his jeans gets caught and “Sticks” is there hanging up side down the other side of this fence call for help, to witch we shout ok mate… and throw over his crutches.

Also , one year at Southport RRCI my brother and I had no choice but to kip in the tent with H, H was going full bore with his snoring after and hour we could take any more it was late and we both need sleep, so I got up picked up a full 2ltr bottle of coke and smacked H on the stomach- no zero effect apart from him rolling onto his side and grunting

yardy takes the new lead with tht...

Here you go- remember year of 99

Need i say any more vermin and jonesy

http://www.northernracer.com/burynational/rodeo/7.htm

http://www.oople.com/rc/photos/buryn.../OOP_8423.html

and

http://www.northernracer.com/burynational/rodeo/11.htm

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hahahahah tht last pics ace

:o I'm getting well shafted there! :eh?:

You loved it:D

he did....

Yeh, I did :D :D :D :D

G

He really did - really.

Euro's 97 in Barcelona, there was a fire on one of the hills, and it came so close that everybody started packing and put their stuff on the racetrack!

LOL Tom, surprised you didn't tell the one about me at the F2's when I fell off the wall, I still maintain those steps were dangerous at stoke! :mad: :)

but the draws was funny :)


What about the Euros in France and C for cookie, poor Jonesy eating that cookie after it had been up numerous arses, or the times we were filling our own glasses in the hotel, beer prices were scandalous so we had to improvise!
Come to think of it the Euros was one long laugh :)


We may need a confessions thread with these pulling and moving tents lol,

I remember moving some ones car at a himley show with the Dudley boys, I think it was one of the Derby/Ilkeston lads, we picked up this metro and hid it behind a tree, it was a fair old carry, one of the lads Mark Norris I think, managed to bend the rear arch, I was in a load of trouble with Butch's mom and dad as I used to travel with them oops! :rolleyes:

There is one with Roundy when he was racing rallycross, the old TC ones, I remember butch telling me when all 4 of his tyres came off and just passed the car lol

Worcester 2001 - F3/4/5's.

Milz will remember, Mr Whittle & me trying to teach you a Burnley accent, playing Fat Harry White full blast at 1am, and vomitting very loudly - some of the local residents called the fuzz.

Kyron came over to see us the next morning and told us he would speak to 'The BRCA' about sending us home like naughty school kids, we were fairly worried for a but untill we realised that Kyron did not know our names so would only be able to dob-us-in as 'them-up-there'.
We took the tent down like it was on fire, packed boxes and went to pit with Kev Kitchen in the oppsite end of the field - we just kept our heads down all day, it worked a treat.

Batley 2002/3? - Tony Bishop was so pissed he went unconcious in the middle of the football pitch, had to be dragged to bed & threw up in his sleeping bag?

Stu getting lost at Batley pissed? ;)

Mr Wittle tells it best. :cool:

G

This is a story about proficiency in car maintenance...

A guy, a very enthusist one, was just cleaning and servicing his car between heats, rebulding most of the car. When he had finished just put a fresh batery and go running again.

Well, his car had very poor performance, no acceleration, no top speed... that was little extrange. After a few minutes he entered the boxes to verify everything.

Well, he wasn't able to find was wrong, bearings were superb, as ball diffs, motor, connections... everything, so he just figured out that batery didn't charge properly. He taked a new one and hit the track again.

This time, performance was even worse, nobody could understand why.

Desesperated this guy taked his car and started to put everything apart, he taked it to pieces completelly. Finally he found the reason for his poor performance. Are you seated?

He just forgot an allen wrench in the chassis first time he rebuild the car, this wrench produced a short-circuit when the battery was placed in the car. The wrench got so hot that it melted the molded chassis, so you can see the wrench semi-covered by melted plastic

Yep, there for both events!!:D

The glue thing was at the 1998 world champ ITCC at south shields.
What a way to debut at the worlds?!:wtf: