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Post by rodpashley on May 22, 2012 1:10:42 GMT 1
Another? mistery Midget. Check out this Ebay number 221026651018 Attachments:
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Post by tobyhalter on May 22, 2012 8:20:58 GMT 1
I have had a look on ebay and it would seem to me the car was probably used for kart events rather than midget racing. If it was, it must have been in GP midgets and as its said to be 15 years old before 1997. There are a lot of other photos on the abay listing. I wonder if another member - I am a coward - could contact the seller and get him, or take from him, with his permission of course, the photos to run on here. Obviously not place the ebay advert here as that would break their selling rules but we could put a link to it through to the ebay advert as others have done on here in the past. Just a thought.
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Post by rodpashley on May 22, 2012 8:41:30 GMT 1
No way has it ever been a GP Midget, they have never allowed non car derived engines Karts have always been rigid suspension Wasn't Godden a Speedway/Grasstrack person? I thought the advert said it had been in storage for 15 years. Just realized the Godden name probably only applies to the engine. The car does not look substantial enough to be an Autograss racer. Tyres suggest tarmac use. Does'nt look like a Speed hillclimb car.
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Post by administrator on May 22, 2012 11:19:57 GMT 1
No way has it ever been a GP Midget, they have never allowed non car derived engines Karts have always been rigid suspension Wasn't Godden a Speedway/Grasstrack person? I thought the advert said it had been in storage for 15 years. Just realized the Godden name probably only applies to the engine. The car does not look substantial enough to be an Autograss racer. Tyres suggest tarmac use. Does'nt look like a Speed hillclimb car. Yes, it was engines by Don Godden. www.goddenengineering.co.uk/www.acu.org.uk/News/2011/06/GRASS-TRACKS-SAD-LOSS/A quote from the second link: "Not only was Don a world class rider, but he was also a world class engineer who, after tuning his own engines for many years, turned his hand to producing his own range of track racing engines. Such was his skill as an engineer that, only 20 years after winning the European Championship as a rider, every European and World Track Racing Championship was won by riders using Godden engines. "
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