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70Hornet
AMC Addicted Joined: Dec/24/2012 Location: NSW Australia Status: Offline Points: 895 |
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Scott Dillon is still around and would have some cool pics and stories I reckon of his racing days with the Rambler if someone was able to get hold of him for a chat?
Below is cut and pasted from wikepedia;
Scott Brewster Dillon (born 19 August 1928) is an http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia - Australian surfer.In 2004, Scott was inducted into the http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Surfing_Hall_of_Fame&=edit&red=1 - Surfing Hall of Fame as one of the original six legends of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia - Australian http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfing - surfing industry.Scott Dillon owns a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfing - surf and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shark - shark museum near http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffs_Harbour,_New_South_Wales - Coffs Harbor, http://en.wikipedia.org/wikiew_South_Wales - New South Wales, called http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legends_Surf_Museum - Legends Surf Museum.
and from http://www.thejohnharding.com/archives/00001347.htm - http://www.thejohnharding.com/archives/00001347.htm
In addition to his ocean adventures, Scott Dillon became a high ranking speedway driver at the Sydney Showground and Liverpool Speedways. He was team captain for interstate contests in midget speed cars and sedans 1966 to 71.
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70Hornet
AMC Addicted Joined: Dec/24/2012 Location: NSW Australia Status: Offline Points: 895 |
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The speedway Hornet is out there. Below is a paragraph on the net from an Avalon speedway meeting in Victoria. Not sure what date
Anyone know this guy (Dean Weston) or seen the Hornet in action if it is still running?
From http://www.speedway.net.au/archive_release.asp?NewsId=21411 - http://www.speedway.net.au/archive_release.asp?NewsId=21411
Parry in the ‘Ipta Fibreglass/Drew Towing Removals XE Ford’ jumped away early from pole in the first heat of the evening and from out of position 6 Justin Drew he tentatively made his way through the field in his first hit out in the new racecar. It was to be Parry who would win from Drew who took a long time to get by McElroy VL Commodore. Then came Billy Reick, Nathan Drew VL Commodore, Dean Weston ‘Ultra Tune Rambler Hornet’, John Paul, Gary Mckenzie and Scott Mallon driving the Nissan Skyline.
Doesn't mention a date though
Have cut and pasted from website same as Scott Dillon paragraph so hope reads OK as the Scott one added a heap of mumbo jumbo after posting onto forum making it hard to read
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70Hornet
AMC Addicted Joined: Dec/24/2012 Location: NSW Australia Status: Offline Points: 895 |
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Talked to Dean Weston today who used to race a Hornet on the speedway and who is going to email some pics of his Hornet racing on the speedway in Victoria (Avalon, Warnambool etc). Car hasn't raced for awhile but he still has the car. Looking forward to seeing some pics of a Hornet in action on an aussie speedway, painted in the good old red, white and blue AMC colour scheme too . Apparently there have been at least another couple of Hornets running speedway in the past so if anyone has any pics that would be great. Watch this space
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WesternRed
AMC Addicted Joined: Aug/03/2010 Location: Australia Status: Offline Points: 5808 |
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Couple of pictures of the Dean Weston Hornet courtesy of 70Hornet
And a bit of a spiel from the owner himself: Here are pic's of my 2nd speedway Hornet, the 1st one I bought in 98 raced one meeting, rolled it and destroyed it as another car helped me into a 3 turn rollover . I did restart it and drove it on to the trailer but to damaged to race again. The next day I chased up another rough Hornet I'd sold to a bloke years earlier, I started building it myself and took a few years to get racing again after family problems. Always fast but very unreliable and difficult to get to handle but great fun to drive . Until it finally got too bent after an infamous wall climbing race at Mildura speedway. Edited by WesternRed - Jul/13/2017 at 8:25pm |
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70Hornet
AMC Addicted Joined: Dec/24/2012 Location: NSW Australia Status: Offline Points: 895 |
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I am going to shoot an email off to Scott Dillons surf museum in Coffs when I get a chance to see if he would like to share some pics and stories of his speedway racing days in the Rambler Classic. Stay tuned :-)
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74gremx
AMC Addicted Joined: Jan/18/2009 Location: Adelaide, Aust Status: Offline Points: 949 |
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Looking through some old photo albums and came across these. I can't remember who gave them to me but would go back to the mid '80's.
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1970 Javelin 360/727
1974 Levis Gremlin X 304/904 1964 American Convertible 1974 Matador wagon (parts) 2016 Holden Cruze Equipe 2014 Holden Colorado "Don't mistake activity for achievement". |
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70Hornet
AMC Addicted Joined: Dec/24/2012 Location: NSW Australia Status: Offline Points: 895 |
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Wow! That car looks cool as! I reckon there are plenty more pics of racing AMC's in Australia. Keep em coming in |
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WesternRed
AMC Addicted Joined: Aug/03/2010 Location: Australia Status: Offline Points: 5808 |
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Looks like another WA car given the sponsorship, might have run in the North West of the state.
Edited by WesternRed - Jan/25/2013 at 9:20pm |
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WesternRed
AMC Addicted Joined: Aug/03/2010 Location: Australia Status: Offline Points: 5808 |
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Just found this great website with a lot of old speedway photos on it:
Another one of Ben Ludlow's Gremlin: |
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WesternRed
AMC Addicted Joined: Aug/03/2010 Location: Australia Status: Offline Points: 5808 |
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Just fixed up the photos of Ben's Hornet on the first page as I found a better copy of one and realised I had double posted the same photo rather than 2 different ones. Looks like the Gremlin raced in the late 70's.
Here is what looks like an earlier incarnation of the Javelin from 1980, back half looks a bit un-javelin but seems to have the humps of the front fenders: Edited by WesternRed - Jul/13/2017 at 8:33pm |
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