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Post by bobjeffreson on Mar 1, 2014 3:57:24 GMT 10
New Forum member and recent recruit to the old WCM sprint car owners club, Qlder Robbie Gunn, was telling me he first got interested in 1/4 scale sprinters way back in 1989. He and his son were attending the World Off Road RC Title at St Ives Showground. A 1/4 scale sprinter was on display during the course of the event. Robbie took some pics and the other day dragged them out and sent them to me.
This is a CD Engineering sprinter. They were built by Chris Dalby with assistance from Geoff Doman, in Shepparton Victoria around the late 1980s and early 1990s. This puts these car right at the start of the 1/4 scale sprint car evolution. Brian Linigen has one of the cars in his vast speedway collection.
 
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Post by jeff on Mar 1, 2014 6:44:04 GMT 10
Chris dalby and Geoff domain had a track on a property at strawflower Victoria and I could be corrected to say it was there they had the first aust champs.i know that John cooper and Keith noble along with Geoff miles attended.the cars had webra bully motors with no clutch.
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Post by jeff on Mar 1, 2014 6:45:59 GMT 10
An added note.the jigs that were used
To make this car were later sold to terry Bennett who made and is still making the bullet cars
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Post by jeff on Mar 1, 2014 6:47:46 GMT 10
Don't know where strawflower is but it should read Stawell
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Post by bobjeffreson on Mar 1, 2014 7:36:37 GMT 10
Jeff,
Mate... Thanks for clearing that up. I've just spent the last 1/2 hr trying to find Strawflower Vic.......LOL
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Post by bobjeffreson on Mar 1, 2014 7:51:22 GMT 10
Jeff,
This possibly is that track. Nobby, bless his soul, sent me these shots a couple of years ago and I cannot recall the exact details.   Update....Just went back through my old posts and found this...
Thanks to Keith Noble from Adelaide, for these photos of what is probably the 1st 1/4 scale dirt track in Australia.
It was on Geoff Doman's property in Stawell Victoria.
BTW... Just got another email from Keith and he suggests these photos are from 1990.
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Post by bobjeffreson on Mar 1, 2014 8:53:20 GMT 10
As I mentioned previously, Brian Linigen has a CD Engineering sprinter in his speedway collection. Here is the car, 2nd from the right, when owned and raced by Malcolm Church.
Here is the same car at Linigen's Open day, a couple of years back.
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Post by bobjeffreson on Mar 3, 2014 6:54:18 GMT 10
Too many photos to go through...I knew I had this....
Here is how the car looks today, after a clean-up and respray by Brian Linigen.
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