28-11-2020, 02:07 PM
(This post was last modified: 28-11-2020, 02:12 PM by Terry McGrath.)
ACME Racing consisted of Geoff Walker, Dave Tedham and myself We raced VSCC through the 1970/80s on a shoestring, hence the name. Geoff, a wise-cracking, banjo-playing giant from Chester, raced an orange Ulster initially before acquiring the ex-John Ward hot chummy (with which he won the Voiturette Trophy one year). Dave also raced a chummy - the purple peril, which he resurrected from a pile of rusty bits. I initially raced my 65 Nippy, and then the black fabric special I built from the plywood body frame discarded by Mike Tebbett.
We had enormous fun, not much success but plenty of alcohol, laughs and disasters. One vivid memory for me is closely chasing Dave through Knickerbrook at Oulton Park in the 65 one year on "full noise" as Bert Hadley used to say, when Dave's engine disintegrated. All the various bits came bouncing back along the track showering the front of my car!
ACME Racing Water, according to Geoff Walker, was made from distilled lark's spit and drilled for lightness. We all used it...
We had enormous fun, not much success but plenty of alcohol, laughs and disasters. One vivid memory for me is closely chasing Dave through Knickerbrook at Oulton Park in the 65 one year on "full noise" as Bert Hadley used to say, when Dave's engine disintegrated. All the various bits came bouncing back along the track showering the front of my car!
ACME Racing Water, according to Geoff Walker, was made from distilled lark's spit and drilled for lightness. We all used it...