Classic Banger Racing......

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Tue 30 Mar 2010 16:40
Classic Banger Racing...... - Sofa Spud

I just found this 2007 video of banger racing for pre-1970 cars. At first glance it looks like sacrilege but I suppose most of these cars were not worth restoring beforehand or had been restored once or twice already.

Warning - contains images of a Standard Vanguard being shunted!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9l_SV5ZgZQ

Edited by Sofa Spud on 30/03/2010 at 16:41

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Wed 31 Mar 2010 09:37
Classic Banger Racing...... - b308

Regretably there have been a few tales of some of the more modern (70s and 80s) cars being stolen to race... they hide them for a while and then repaint them and hope no-one will notice...

A few good 'uns have gone that way!

Edited by b308 on 31/03/2010 at 09:37

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Wed 31 Mar 2010 13:19
Classic Banger Racing...... - bathtub tom

I never had much time for banger racing (and when they introduced 'figure of eight' my interest declined further). I went to look at a car that was being offered for sale by a banger racer, my impressions were not improved. I couldn't get near his house due to armed police surrounding the area!

I used to regularly attend BRISCA events and found the 'junior' class very interesting.

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Wed 31 Mar 2010 13:49
Classic Banger Racing...... - Sofa Spud

I don't have much time for banger racing either, despite starting this thread. But I suppose it's a way to give old cars a good send-off if they're destined to be scrapped anyway.

I did watch a few banger races in the 70's. Among the bigger cars I remember Rover P4 'Aunties', Austin Westminsters, Jaguar Mk 2s and Vauhall Crestas.

Edited by Sofa Spud on 31/03/2010 at 13:49

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Wed 31 Mar 2010 16:42
Classic Banger Racing...... - b308

I used to regularly attend BRISCA events and found the 'junior' class very interesting.

Used to race Brisca F2 (as Juniors were known in my day!)...

Surprisingly the Maxi was a good banger car... probably why there are so few left!

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Thu 1 Apr 2010 22:03
Classic Banger Racing...... - DP

My uncle did a lot of banger racing in the 70's and early 80's. The cars came from the local scrappie - anything that could be procured for twenty quid and which would run for long enough to race was fair game. He reckons he destroyed cars which would be worth tens of thousands today. Of course, this was when the cars were plentiful and not yet classics.

He reckons a rotten E-type once turned up at a meet he was racing at, and was smashed and destroyed within 2 laps. Makes you cry just thinking about it.

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