120kmh down Conrod Straight

Come on Willem,

You will now have the do gooders after you for comments like that. The track at Bathurst is speed restricted for the general public.

At least you take some of Lucky's heat for a while. LOL

Cheers Kev

BTW I did about 170kph down Conrod in a clapped out XD Falcon ute which was lucky to make it to the top of the mountain let alone the main straight :))

Where are the forum prats now with their comments about off topic posts ????

Gday Willem,
Is that all!
My old man did that in a HT kingswood with a caravan behind!
LOL

Cheers

Willem
Your a Lunatic , Yep it's a great event , unique to anything else in the world ,

Kev
Stuff the Do-Gooders, and besides Willem said it was already closed to everything except a rusted out Toyota Landcruiser FJ55


Doug

Hi Willem,
I use to use mountain straight to tune my holdens. Nowdays they would lock you up. Warmed up motor in my hr could do about 74mph over crest. Had a high compression 179 in my hd that would only do about 110mph down conrod but would do 98mph going up the straight. I only live about half a k from the foot of the mount. Have a great day and enjoy the race
Cheers Pete

Gday,
So is everyone having a big Bathurst?
Ive got the projector set up, about to go and pick up the grand stand, got about 50 or so people comming over (give or take 20) and then it will be time for an ale.
Have a good day all and may the best Holden Win!!!!

Cheers
Hairy

My memory of driving the circuit was overtaking a caravan over skyline, I got up to 90.......

Hey Willem

While I was traveling OZ in Jan I stayed at My uncle's place in Bathurst, Yep did the mandatory lap or two.

You can see the top of the mountain from his place.

The wife did 2 laps as well and when she was hanging across the top of the mountain doing about 30ks I told her that they normally do about 200 + across there.

When I was a kid I grew up in the Blue Mountains, I remember going to Bathurst every year and sit on my uncle's shearing shed and watch them come down conrod.

My best is 155 kph in a 100 series with 300000 on the clock down the hill ringing it's neck, with the wife in my ear telling me something about it being illegal or something, I can't remember really as I was having to much fun.

Cheers Steve.

Willem, have pulled a similar stunt there. According to Bathurst Council, around 300,000 people drive around there every year !
We are not alone :))

After reading this thread all I can think of to say is....WOW !!!
All you lawbreaking daredevils that drive so fast, makes me wonder what I've missed out all my life :-)))

Cheers
Pezza

Willem,
This is way off topic, but years ago I got to go in a ride day at Eastern Creek with Wayne Gardner. Wayne had been retired from 500cc racing for the best part of 10 years at the time.

In one 20 minute session he started last by about 2 to 3 minutes and passed everyone on track at least twice in that 20 minute period. To see someone who can really drive or ride from the track side of the fence is a sight to behold!

The rest of us would have been locked up for good if we'd been doing those speeds on the road but Gardner, he was in a class of his own!

Geoff

Willem,
thanks for the tour of the track, have been there a few times but I believe there is a problem with the water as I can't remember to much about it. Come to think of it I bet it was something I ate.

Do it easy

The Ape

Go Ford

My qualiying time (1982) in a Mazda RX7 was 2.23.1..
I notice this years fastest was 2.07.something..
Times have certainly changed!!

90 mph, on a 1966 ex police triumph motorcycle was my best effort, .


Cheers Axle.

Bugger
I got pinched doing 63KPH going up Mountain straight one fine & clear summer's afternoon in a then new Falcon, so I guess I did my bit for the local economy. The young copper then gave me a lecture on the evils of speeding.

I got pi55ed at Mt Panorama before the copper was even a gleam in his dads eye.

Colin.

To All,
I drove around Mt Panorama in 1994 and it was a 60 kph zone then!
I'm NOT about to preach road safety, If those who want admit to travelling at 110kph OVER posted limit, good on you.
PLEASE, don't preach to others about that (insert other road user here) so and so did this to me/us and post a BOO HOO HOO story.
Where are the horror story's with regarards to reckless road use?

Where is Axle, Wizard1, Gramp1, Footloose? All of which have made recent comments on road safety issues!
Shane

shurly if you travel that section in ANY vehicle (even an 80 with a 1hx no extracors) and dont put the foot down - you dont have a pair

I could only manage 220kph down conrod on my SOS (sound of singles) bike XR 600 single, RGV rolling chassis, GSX-R redampened shock (Ian Pero racing)



Baz.

Hi Willem,

The mountain gets all of us who have any interest in cars. I have driven it a few times, once in a LH V8 Torana, that was quick. I also did it in a GQ with a Trak Shak hanging on the back but the most memorabletime was when I drove a bus load of teenagers from Broken Hill to Katoomba in 2005. On the way back we had a bit of time up our sleeves so went for a lap of the Mountain.

I was caught between to thoughts, here I am on Mt Panorama, I should be going fast but I am driving a bus and if I get busted for speeding my licence and my bank account would both look pretty sad.

Anyway I headed up the mountain wound my way across the top and turned onto Conrod. I was keeping a pretty close eye on the speedo but I was still doing about 90km/h when I saw a flash go off in the mirror. Frankly, I died my, bum hit the floor, I was devastated. The other driver who was sitting in the front seat just laughed and laughed, he nearly fell off the seat, he obviously thought the demise of my driving career was amusing.

"What's so funny?" I shouted at him as my foot hit the brake pedal.

"Mate that wasn't a speed camera one of the kids up the back just took a photo." he said.

Oh and for all those interested or wanting to crucify me for driving like a rat with a bus load of kids, the lap took 17min 34.3 sec.

Duncs

Willem,
I did read your post carefully, however, the point I was making was that there has been some heated discussion recently in regards to road safety/behaviour and some members/visitors to this site that were VERY critical about speed issue's .
This was not aimed squarely at you or any-one else who wants to do stupid things, that's your/their choice, and you managed to get a FJ55 to 120, I'm happy for ya!.
Mt Panorama Drive is a semi rural/residential area and an obvious Mecca for idiots who try and emulate what they have seen on TV.
After your post was put up most respondents seemingly tried to out do each others level of stupidity and I'm sure none of it was "made up".
Just like you, what others have claimed to have done is of no concern of mine, what I was trying to point out was the level of hypocrisy displayed.
Where are the sooks who HAVE to drive around at 10/20 kms below the speed limit, and argue that they do this because its safe!, why aren't they typing away with fury at the level of disregard to basic road rules, they seem to come out of the woodwork when asked to travel at speed limit.

Legs are getting sore from standing on soapbox

Shane

Well this sure does make my p i s s poor 100kph on the SA bush highways pale in to insignificance especially seeing how my comments were related to tyres and not speed.

Oooooooooooooo! Willem you have set the Forum 'scrooby-ites' on fire with this one.

They will all have the 'willem doll' out in their 4WD voodoo room plunging a pin in it every time you post a reply whiulst attempting to bring down the wrath of a 'blue & red double bibble' upon you.

And don't you and the others that supported Willem laugh Gramps, because there is no doubt that if you guys don't already have a 'self-doll' in some '4WD voodoo room' with pins hanging out of it, there will be furious activity taking place to produce one.

You dudes have sure caused some 'sleepless nights' with this one and hopefully 1,000's more. (LOL)

Thank you for removing the 'spotlight of doom, gloom and despair' from me.

Al reckons I do 120km leaving our driveway...!