For Home Renovators: Watch Bill construct a new house by himself and pick up heaps of tips and building skills. For Petrol Heads: In a number of series, Bill shows his Honda & offroad buggy race car builds & how to make fiberglass car parts so you can copy his many Australian successes in basic club level racing.
In usa, even at my composites store, they carry only 3/4oz matt and 1.5oz matt. Anyway you could give a rough estimate on how to make similar strength parts? you say 225gsm is light but seems when I do the research 225gsm is way heavier than our heavy 1.5oz
@@BillsBuildandRace Yes going by matt. Our heavier matt is 1.5oz , which is still way lighter than you 225, which I cannot grasp my head around it because the 225 you use looks super light to be 8oz. Looks a bit more like our 3/4oz.
@@lumimobb You may well be right. The weights and designations by which fiberglass cloth is sold around the world varies. 225 you can easily pull apart with your hands, and it readily tears. You can do the same with 450, but it takes a determined effort.
That's great I have encouraged you to have a go, & why I film & upload these vids. There are about 3 films in my "Fiberglass Tutorials" playlists, which I'd advise you to watch too. Keep me posted & I am happy to walk through this with you There are facebook links to me on this channel's home page (topp right).
Just a bit off friendly advise Bill please get yourself a Gas Welder , its painful watching you weld with gasless welder. The quality of gas welders is far more superior.
I grew up just around the corner from the Airfield, or as we called it the Airodrome, in the sixties, so I missed all this action………The Cemetery was just down the road, so you didn’t have far to go if you came to grief. !!
Catalina Park was just the race track not the area, which was Frank Walford Memorial Park. I'm not clear on details but i read on a sign that Frank Walford donated the land. In the 70's & 80's it was commonly known as the gully by residents of the surrounding streets but around town was Catalina or Cato. The video tells why the road circuit fell into disuse, the rallycross was killed off by propert developers arguing noise pollution.
Bill. I think I was there. I remember as a 16 year old catching the train from Sydney and staying by myself at a hotel near the track. The Neptune Racing Team was there…Norm in the Mustang, Peter Manson in the Mini, and Jim McCewen (?) in a Lotus Cortina. We see only a snippet of Jim in this footage. The most impressive memory of my early motor sport spectator feature, was the Neptune Racing Team, a suitable painted rigid truck with the Mustang on board, and the Mini and Cortina on a trailer…all really well presented….parked up ate a nearby Neptune Service Station. This would have been a product of Norm Beechey’s truck business no doubt. The beginning of top level presentation of the complete racing team. The Neptune Team was rebranded to the yellow Shell Racing Team a season or two later. This transport presentation package stepped another progress up when the Allan Grice Torana Craven Mild Team had built the first fully enclosed purpose built race car transporter, a semi trailer with inbuilt ramps, change room , racking for spares and tyres. The precursor to today’s magnificent race car transporters. As an aside, I managed to get in to the pits post race, and happened to be near a reporter interviewing big Norm. Bob Jane that day had driven an Elfin Mono, a beautiful Garry Cooper built open wheeler, every bit as good as the Lotus of that era. Norm was asked how he thought Bob had gone. Not missing an opportunity to stir the pot…II think they were business rivals as well driving rivals….Norm says “ I think he was shitting himself” I think this would not have found its way in to print, but I was in awe of the man ….PK 751. EH Holden Mustangs, Chevy Nova and finally the Yellow Holden Monaro. From memory, he also drove a Falcon GTHO in the later Improved Production days…..but then he disappeared. I think he poured too much into the sport, and his truck sales business folded. This happened a lot in those heady non commercial motor sport days. Invest too much in motor sport…reduced attention to business…enjoying the celebrity…..and business goes bankrupt. Imagine a motor sport personality of Norms profile today. No one comes close.
I was a Beecheymaniac from 15 years of age - so you are speaking to the converted. I have color pics of the truck & trailer of Norm's included in my chapter on him in my upcoming book "Pioneers & Icons of Australian Motorsport" (due out later this year). You will discover many facts about Stormin' Norman of which you were unaware. Yes, Bob & Norm were both mates from their teens and both started with car yards. Norm left the sport because (he said in an interview I found), he couldn't put in the time the upcoming fulltime drivers were doing, and also run his business.
Great footage. Sadly for me not enough of the footage shows the surrounding area. Used to go rabbit shooting with my dad there in the early 60s. I remember the track remnants and wondered why they there. Cherry Lake was an ephemeral body of water which was sometimes completely dry and it was a dustbowl where teenagers sometimes drove their paddock bombs around. The edges were two feet deep mud which we thought was quicksand. Great work. With it being late 50s footage you could have put in rock and roll music.
Thank goodness for your video. Few people these days have any knowledge of this circuit. I can't recall the number of races I attended there but I do remember the last. When a driver flipped his car on the first corner into Millers Rd., fortunately without serious injury. [I think ?! I was only 17 yo. then !! ] I am somewhere in that crowd you can see on the entrance to said corner. lol
Apart from V8 flathead 30’s Fords at the Sydney Show-ground, 55 Fords were being raced by Norm Beechy and Len Lukey down in Victoria or Tasmania. Later Norm copied Dan Gurney’s 61 Chevy attack to the Jags in England with his own 62 Impala over here. Soon after Len Lukey brought a 63 Ford Galaxie (unfortunately not the 427 fastback as our rules required four doors) to compete. This all before the Mustangs at Catalina. Now as the Ford / Chev V8 rivalry has continued eversince as our premier motor sport category it would be great if you could go back in to the archives and cover it Bill. Max Stahl’s Racing Car News always had great Lance…Reuting ? Photo’s and stories covering the events.
@@billpearson2845 My first road circuit experience was watching Norm in the Chev Impala and Bob Jane in the Jag at Catalina Park with all the top Holden guys chasing behind. Pity if no film footage of those cars. Certainly appreciate what you’ve been able to show us anyhow.
Another great video Bill 👍. Something I've learned from my years of industrial mechanical work, is to always (or as much as can be allowed) have bolts go from top to bottom... nuts on the lower side of attachment. This way, should something rattle loose, you still have the bolt held in with gravity.... until you jump the car haha! Cheers from the colonies 🍻
I was there as a 17yo. at that point in time. If memory serves me right the last race I attended there involved Stirling Moss and Jean Behra, both driving Maserati 300S sports cars. Thanks for the memories. By the way it's Talbot - Lago. [ not Largo ]
I have a picture of my father and myself ( about4yr. Old) when the circuit was being constructed. Had many a great time over there. Once I tried to ride my push bike up “the wall” the wall won😊
You need to show less of your welding....it's actually atrocious watching it and cringe at the fact there's stuff like this being towed and on the road..sorry for my negative comment but seriously it is garbage...
Fantastic video. I was attempting to work out where each corner was in the video, but then I remembered that the 50's races where held in the opposite direction to the current circuit layout.
Awesome video Bill, but sorry, the first Australian GP was held at Goulbourn. It was named and advertised as such at the time and occured not long after the first Australian Motorcycle GP, also held at Goulbourn. Had the PI event been called a GP at the time you might have a point to press, but that simply wasn't the case.
No my friend - YOU are incorrect. As I said at the start of this video that event at Goulburn 1) was on the grass horse racing track 2) Was not one major race but a series of short sprints 3) Is not recognized by Motorsports Australia as a GP, whereas the Phillip Island race HAS been officially declared Australia's first Gp retrospectively by MA.
I'm sad that it took me 5 years to come across your page and ALL of the wisdom you've shared here. I absolutely love your energy and they way you take time to explain the how AND the why, and the mistakes you've made along the way. You're the best kind of mate, and wish you all the best. Cheers from Texas (the Straya of the USA) 😎😎
Glad you've found me at last! Ever since I started my channel a decade ago I have had no success in being able to crack the American viewing market. I suspect that is due to RU-vid's promotional & marketing approach, along with the algorithms that generate that. I get so frustrated seeing similar DIY car videos with egocentric loud mouths with hats on backwards getting more views in a day than I get in a year, when their content is based on their ignorance, and teaches people how to duplicate their mistaken ways of doing things. Aawwggghhhh! So please share my channel with your buddies, so they too can learn the RIGHT and easy ways of building project cars. cheers.
Oh sometimes it gets really noisy with the calls of our Pheasant Coocall, the warbling of Magpies & Butcher Birds, and all the incredible sounds our resident Barking Owl makes!
Bin the front sway bar completely. With the entire corolla body removed it's going to be way too stiff for a motorkhana special and simply cause understeer.
This special is only intended for fun, rather than really serious competition, as at 75 years I can no longer turn my head around to see well in reverse. However looking at current state of the art fwd m/k specials you are right, because I cannot see a front sway bar on any of them. But I have plenty of cockpit length within the minimum wheelbase to allow the firewall behind the front sway bar (as shown), so I will remove it as you suggest, but keep it as an option if I ever want to try the car with it. Thanks for your advice.
@@BillsBuildandRace Age is just a number <3 Phil East and John Taylor are still going hard at events and regularly in the top5. Though i run in class E for the state championships, i'm looking forward to competing against you when this beast is finished. 👍 Hope to see you out at awaba too.
@@megamonkey56 Phil East & I started running in motorkhanas together in the Mini Car Club of NSW back in the seventies! I will sort the car at Ringwood, then test myself at my old WAC hunting grounds. I actually won the outright Newcastle Area District Motorsports m/k championship once. I could not count how many times I ate the dust there!
I love watching all of those simple and uncomplicated cars going around. Had to chuckle when I saw the A 30 "cocking a leg", that's how my brother in law always drove his back in the day.
Dont know how that little Austin A 30 at Riverside didnt roll . The driver really knew the limits of his car. And FXs running at Hepburnwith their hubcaps on. Amazing.
