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04-09-2005, 12:08 PM | #1 | |||
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Ok I found this on another forum and was wondering if anyone knew where it orginated from, it is a great article.
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04-09-2005, 12:12 PM | #2 | ||
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That was published in Wheels a few years ago along with the "unaltered" photo of the speedo (as opposed to the altered image they used in 1971 to keep the speed they did a secret).
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04-09-2005, 12:15 PM | #3 | ||
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I got this a few weeks ago. Great article
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04-09-2005, 12:21 PM | #4 | ||
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That was a really good read.
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04-09-2005, 12:21 PM | #5 | ||
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any idea on which issue? i have a few issues (dating back to 2001)
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04-09-2005, 12:32 PM | #6 | |||
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04-09-2005, 04:28 PM | #7 | ||
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Was also published in Street Machine a fair few years back, ill have a sift through some of the old old issues and see what i come up with.
Just makes you want to go out for a drive :P
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04-09-2005, 05:06 PM | #8 | |||
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Thanks for the read, awesome stuff. No way someone could get away with doing that these days :(
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04-09-2005, 06:14 PM | #9 | ||
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Well worth the read! Sounds amazing, I wonder how the Phase IV would have fared...
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05-09-2005, 03:30 PM | #10 | ||
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I am pretty sure it was in the May 1993 issue, which was the 50th anniversary of the magazine
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05-09-2005, 04:07 PM | #11 | |||
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05-09-2005, 05:37 PM | #12 | ||
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Damn good reporter. great story, made me think I was there. Would have loved to have been around in them days, experiencing the new power.
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05-09-2005, 06:25 PM | #13 | ||
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i read that a while ago somewhere on the net but cant remember where.
im sure google could find it again. |
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05-09-2005, 06:35 PM | #14 | ||
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Do a search on "HO down the Hume" and the story is on a GT Club's Web Site (Victoria's I think). The original story was written in 1971 and the photo which accompanied the story had to be touched up to replicate the revs / speed for third gear. Don't forget this was around the time of the Supercar scare - that's why they couldn't tell / show the true story.
The story is great - Albury to Broadmeadows in two hours. The original story was also witten in MPH not KPH it actually makes better reading. Paul B XR6WGN
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05-09-2005, 08:03 PM | #15 | |||
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05-09-2005, 10:24 PM | #16 | ||
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I remember doing an OCR scan of that article from a magazine in the mid 90's and I put it on my website here:
http://web.archive.org/web/200105190...net.au/~chris/ http://web.archive.org/web/200010202...chris/hume.htm I even received an email from a relative of the photographer, Uwe Kuessner asking if I knew his contact details. |
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06-09-2005, 10:30 AM | #17 | ||
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Oops you are right Steffo it was the 40th anniversary.
I picked up a street machine poster of the picture, with the speedo needle highlighted in red too |
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06-09-2005, 10:47 AM | #18 | ||
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Every time i read that i still get a chill down my spine!
Cant even dream of doing something like that nowadays!
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