Saturday, Sep 03, 2016 at 12:17
I've never forgotten the 1st
Lancelin Dune Buggy races, held about 1966 or '67, I think, in the mighty sand dunes of
Lancelin.
It was real free-for-all - bring what ya liked, and put it up against all comers! LOL
There were blokes with smart-looking VW conversion buggies - blokes with hunking great homebuilts with rear-mounted V8's that threw sand spectacularly for 50M - and blokes with carefully-engineered, mid-mount engine jobs.
Then there was the bloke who turned up with a bog-standard SWB petrol S2 Landrover, fitted with wide sand tyres!
Guess who ran rings around the whole field, V8's and all - and won the race, hands down!
Yep, it was that unimpressive-looking, little old Landrover fitted with sand tyres!! LOL
Cheers, Ron.
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