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colwyn500



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PostPosted: Thu Nov 15, 2012 12:05 am    Post subject: Belle Vue Reply with quote

I was just replying to another topic and Belle Vue came to mind. Does anyone have any memories of the Car Shows that were held there in the early 1980's?
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 15, 2012 12:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

All I ever remember about Belle View was a speedway track. Dont remember ever reading in any of the magazines about car shows. Thats not to say there werent any.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 15, 2012 12:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I meant Belle Vue. Embarassed Embarassed
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 15, 2012 12:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

marina estate wrote:
All I ever remember about Belle View was a speedway track. Dont remember ever reading in any of the magazines about car shows. Thats not to say there werent any.


Mr. Chieftan, you had me doubting myself. I used to go "somewhere" with some friends who all had Fifties Fords and the haircuts to match. I had, guess what, a Fiat 500 and an Austin 10 ( not the exact same ones I own today)

http://www.nsra.org.uk/newforum/showthread.php?t=18299&page=5

I think they might have been custom car shows but that's not how i remember them.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 15, 2012 12:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi
Now would we be talking about:
Bradford
Carlisle
Manchester
Doncaster
Shrewsbury
Rhyll
Wakefield
Wrexham
one of the other locations on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belle_Vue

or somewhere else altogether?

Edit

Saw your other post after I did this one, but I wonder if any of the others had similar exhibition halls as well.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 15, 2012 12:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's definitely Manchester. I think it was also at the site of the speedway track. But it was definitely a car show of some sort that the younger me found interesting. Failing that I have just diagnosed myself with Alzheimers. That's no joking matter!
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 15, 2012 2:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Belle Vue was a great show. AIRC it was a collection of old sheds chock full of stands selling everything. I was looking for 38 Buick parts and asked a stallholder if he had any. He said "See that bloke there walking away, talk to him". So I chased after the guy and he said he only had some bits for a '37 but gave me a phone nimber for an old guy who owned a place called the Crazy Cow Motel. I went there and got a load of stuff from him. It was somewhere in deepest Lancashire. Anyone know or heard of it?

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PostPosted: Thu Nov 15, 2012 12:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I remember going to a car show there, probably would have been around that time. I don't remember much about it.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 15, 2012 2:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I went as a youth to at least one speedway meeting at Belle Vue, plus a classic bike show and maybe one or two car shows, only ever as a spectator though.

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PostPosted: Thu Nov 15, 2012 4:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I remember going, as a kid, to a Stock Car race at Belle Vue, probably about 1954 ish.

Went a couple of times to the Fun Fair, again in the 50's, had some new dark purple shoes and because it was Manchester, it rained all day. When I got home I had purple feet.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 15, 2012 4:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

peterwpg wrote:
I remember going, as a kid, to a Stock Car race at Belle Vue, probably about 1954 ish.

Went a couple of times to the Fun Fair, again in the 50's, had some new dark purple shoes and because it was Manchester, it rained all day. When I got home I had purple feet.


There's a scan of a programme cover for a 1950s stock car race on this page of the site.
http://www.oldclassiccar.co.uk/racing-programmes.htm

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PostPosted: Thu Nov 15, 2012 10:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I remember going to see the stock car racing at Belle Vue in the early sixties. I also went to a couple of custom shows there must have been late sixties early seventies.

I believe they still have stock racing there
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 15, 2012 10:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have just been looking at the old stock car pictures. The engine with Rocket on the the rocker covers would be an Oldsmobile. Ford V8 front axles were popular as were B.M.C. LD rear axles. At that time the rules said the body had to come from a production car, but I don't think there was a limit to the mods.
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 16, 2012 6:57 pm    Post subject: Belle Vue Reply with quote

I used to go to Belle Vue track a lot in the 60's. I helped out with maintenance and repairs, on car 55. That had a Oldsmobile Rocket88 engine when i first joined, then for a bit more power, we fitted a Mercury Marauder. I can't recall now what the chassis and axles came from, but the body was a Standard 8. A chap who lived up the road from where 55 was based, had a Aubern body. The Fiat Topolino was a popular body to use. Never had time to go to any car shows there.
Just had a look at the programme scanned in by Rick. The car type listed was usually just the engine. Many started to be scratch built on a spaceframe chassis, and any available body was cut and shut to fit. The c-type Jag engines were popular with London area based racers for some reason. They usually had full length exhausts and sounded awesome at full revs, which were reached 2/3 down the straights. Some did have a cut down Jag body.
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 17, 2012 11:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi, I also used to go to Belle Vue(Manchester) with my cousin in the mid fiftys
He raced stockcars



Rode Speedway under the name of Roy Swift



Rode the Wall of Death & the Globe of Death





& raced at Oulton Park with various cars inc. this Cooper



A bit of a nutter but hero worshipped by a young lad,cheers,JD.
Sorry about the quality of the pix - photobucket didn't like old black & whites
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