Whatever happened to Gary Walthers weapon, who bought it, does it still race.
Hey Tom how's it going?
Gary's car was bought by Brett Hughes, a former Club Member. He lives at Warwick now and has plans ?? to do sprint events etc with it. Would really love to see that car raced again, just blew all the other Cobras out of the water when he came to the Nationals a few years ago. Raced it in production sports a few years ago and smashed a heap of National records... sadly his health stopped him from continuing and he had to sell it.
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Im pretty sure Gavs playing his cards close to his chest this year with his rebuild Spook.
And Don, Just to rub in in a little, we are flying first class, around the world, so we will feel like total jetsetters Thanks for your wishes.
It's coming together now Tommy, it will be a lazier combo than the taxi motor.
I am fitting taller rear gearing to give it more legs, but it should have plenty of snot off the line I would think
Apparently......... once again ............. the worlds fastest black cobra was a no show at Morgan Park, Warwick, for the B series sprints...... I guess we will never know how fast / slow he really is....
Just for the record I am the fabricator who did all the work on both the bdm cars, my front and rear ends ect ect. AND i was actually driving Garry Hall's black cobra when the alleged "fume chocking" took place... as it was during the passenger laps and it was the 1st time i had driven the car (and might add got nowhere near full throttle as we had already been shut down for exceeding the decibel limit) during the very short roll on drag races i had with the "mongrel" black cobra. yet still at no stage did the "mongrel" pass me under power, only ever after i backed off or he got on the power early! but hey my word doesn't mean much, but the fact that the 2 bdm cars placed 1st & 2nd at the cobra nationals and the shannons 2 days of thunder, last week Geoff Taunton ran a 56.8 on the clubman circuit at qr, last year both cars went 1.03 around wakefeild park, this year we hope to go quicker again with completely new front ends I would think says a lot???
If ANY "black" cobra believes they are faster I am sure both Geoff and Garry would love a grudge match style challenge!
Heard another story about the Bathurst event.. By a friend who was there for the Australian hill climb championships.. Apparently the Mongrel must be pretty hot, as the driver was wearing a 'cool suit' for the 60 second sprint from halfway up mountain strait to McPhillamy Park.
The 18th Leyburn sprints is on this w'end and the worlds fastest black cobra is going head to head with the worlds fastest red cobra and little old lady driver also in a cool race suit