went out today to have a squiz got there pretty late so didn't get many photo's and missed out on catching up with the 205 GTI doing the targa tour!!! apparently had ff stickers and everything. was some sweet cars running around and showing off.
One evo managed to power slide the entire last sweeper... was epic.
and an E36 bimmer sliding out of the hairpin with the fuel flap flying open under the sweet g forces.
and a Holden Blowing up (only got a picture of the Porsche following with my dyslexic photography skillz 8) )
and some GC's spending like 15 mins checking out my car ;D
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last pic is crack up.
That joker looks like he's going to let your tyres down
Who's this joker?
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Quote from: D8Pete on October 25, 2010, 07:48:31 PM
Who's this joker?
Quote from: D8Pete on October 25, 2010, 07:45:50 PM
That joker looks like he's going to let your tyres down
your a joker.
and dnt know once again didn't get any time to have a chat as they all buggered off before i got a chance to get around
that actually looks like jiffs old car, the 106 i mean.
The guy standing by the pole looking at 2052NV looks like you.
Quote from: 2052NV on October 25, 2010, 07:40:49 PM
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That guy right there is why I won't buy an Evo
^call of he day right there.
I thought that was you
Quote from: 2052NV on October 25, 2010, 07:40:49 PM
missed out on catching up with the 205 GTI doing the targa tour!!! apparently had ff stickers and everything.
Tis mine!! ;) Sadly, I am not piloting it this time round, I did the targa tour with my old man 5 years ago, this time apparantly its my brothers turn - funny thing is tho hes too pussy to drive the GTi :D
Pics/more info
Yeh will update with pics once my old man gives me some...
He came round before the prologue and was real worried everyone would hassle him cos of the faded paint and overall condition :D
I've been meaning to actually have a car going, or be organised to do targa tour or simiolar for about the last 463 years.
is it sweet or just a wanky way of spectating? keen if it's fairly hoon spec. don't want to be trapped behind a fleet of mgbs doing 40mph on the straights and shit
AFAIK - its a wanky/expensive way of watching - without really watching at all cos you go through after the actual Targa race so don't see anything..
I believe you have to obey all road rules including speed etc - only advantage is you get a closed road - but in reality you could be in a MGB laden convoy with people sipping cups of tea and gingernuts whilst steering with the spare hand..
Thats the way I understand it to be but could be completely wrong..
QuoteTarga Tour
The Targa Tour is for people with a special interest car who want to experience driving on spectacular winding closed roads, in an exciting non-competitive atmosphere, without the full safety equipment in their car such as required for the competition vehicles.
The Targa Tour is not a race, but an experience. The tour leader governs top speed and the vehicles travel in convoy through the closed road special stages using the racing lines on both sides of the road.
The Targa Tour travels through the Targa special closed road stages prior to the Targa competition vehicles.
The Targa Tour is for Historic, Classic and Sports Cars, including GT and special interest cars.
Entrants will use the same route books as the Targa competitors, with the instructions being Tulips and Cautions indicating areas of particular concern. It is recomended to fit a Brantz meter to accurately record distances between instructions.
OK so it is BEFORE the actual Targa and there doesn't seem to be anything about following legal speed limits but you can guarantee the lead car will be someone that drives an MGB that has a slipping clutch and annoying flappy roof...
Non competitive.. meh - furk that..
On the Targa Rotorua (where I was in one of the start line timing crews) the targa tour lead car was a hot race kitted 205gti with roll cage and slicks etc and apparently he doesn't hang about (had a quick chat to him, he's fitted 309 beam etc, was an old geezer). They do speeds up to about 150ish from what I've heard but of course they err on the side of caution.
I personally would find it hard to justify the cost (and you have to get up bloody early cos you're onstage before everyone else except the start line crew :D) cos it ain't cheap but there is usually an interesting selection of machinery on display (AC Cobra, Audi RS, Triumphs etc last time).
Yeh its non competitive but kk youve read into that all wrong bro!!
You get closed roads, you get limited to 200kph from memory (try going 200kph on the roads they choose), and all the dudes are GC's so after the first day or two you figure out where everyone should be in terms of going fast and no one being held up, and from there you just go hard!!
Did it 5 years ago, it was the most awesome thing ive ever done behind the wheel of a car, we did 50% of the tracks first, then half way through one stage we parked up and watched the cars finish the stage, was a mean corner and included a police safety car going over the bank and into a ditch :D
So yeah, its non competitive, and not the real thing, but $2ishk over like $5-10k is quite alot of pennys bro, in fact, with the difference I could buy my GTi 5 times over!!!
Quote from: KK-Kolonel on October 26, 2010, 03:54:34 PM
OK so it is BEFORE the actual Targa and there doesn't seem to be anything about following legal speed limits but you can guarantee the lead car will be someone that drives an MGB that has a slipping clutch and annoying flappy roof...
Non competitive.. meh - furk that..
I guess we will find out when Apex inevitably bitches and moans about it on ES.
Quote from: Reviled on October 26, 2010, 04:13:19 PM
$2ishk over like $5-10k is quite alot of pennys bro
Is that how much it costs to enter Targa!!!!!!!!! 5-10k? Holy fuck!
Quote from: Reviled on October 26, 2010, 04:13:19 PM
Yeh its non competitive but kk youve read into that all wrong bro!!
You get closed roads, you get limited to 200kph from memory (try going 200kph on the roads they choose), and all the dudes are GC's so after the first day or two you figure out where everyone should be in terms of going fast and no one being held up, and from there you just go hard!!
Did it 5 years ago, it was the most awesome thing ive ever done behind the wheel of a car, we did 50% of the tracks first, then half way through one stage we parked up and watched the cars finish the stage, was a mean corner and included a police safety car going over the bank and into a ditch :D
So yeah, its non competitive, and not the real thing, but $2ishk over like $5-10k is quite alot of pennys bro, in fact, with the difference I could buy my GTi 5 times over!!!
I consider myself corrected ;D - now to go back and edit all the posts so I don't look like a fool.. haha
they dropped alot of the entry prices a year or two ago. was like 10k for 'classic' entry fee for full targa a wee while back. think it's mroe like 203k which isn't too bad. not sure on tour price.
apex will have a whinge. can't wait
keen to do it though.
should take the d. haha
Quote from: CaM on October 26, 2010, 04:42:36 PMshould take the d. haha
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yeh theres always sweet ferraris and shit in targa tour going pretty quick. You dont have to have roll cages and other fancy race car shit aswel aye?
Correct, no cage, no helmet, which in the instance of me and my dad doing it in a soft top triumph spitfire now that I think about it is actually pretty dodgy :D
But yeah, most of the boys who enter the proper targa every year reckon you cant do it on less than $20k after paying a team and parts, petrol, tyres, accomodation etc - So the tour is def a cheapo way to get a taste for the real thing!!
I worked with a geezer (aircraft engineer who races an Alfa) who did the targa tour one year and yes they did go for it on occasion. If you got the coin and the right car, do it.
Quote from: Lord Page on October 27, 2010, 09:16:26 PM
I worked with a geezer (aircraft engineer who races an Alfa) who did the targa tour one year and yes they did go for it on occasion. If you got the coin and the right car, do it.
I think I know of the guy you mean - he's still got it if it's the guy I'm thinking of.
Some joker out my way's been taking his Alfa Montreal out heaps lately and it's the bomb.
QuoteYeah i TXT'd Graham last night to check how they were going
He did say its the most fun he has had in a car , and that they are going at a good pace (Not far off race pace)
Apparently Apex isn't whinging ???
Wait until something falls off his Renault... ;D
Fark, spoke to my bro and apparantly the old man has been running at second to last the whole time, and even losing the people in the front :-\
Spoke to dad and told him to take the Fast Frogs sticker off :D
What is your old man racing reviled?
^ who cares bout where he's coming along. so long as they have epic fun it's alllllll g.
needs more fastfrogs ladies at rest stops tbh.
Quote from: Reviled on October 28, 2010, 04:13:05 PM
Fark, spoke to my bro and apparantly the old man has been running at second to last the whole time, and even losing the people in the front :-\
Spoke to dad and told him to take the Fast Frogs sticker off :D
maaate letting the team down. give him a red bull or two...
Quote from: 205GTi on October 28, 2010, 04:40:28 PM
What is your old man racing reviled?
Its a black 205 GTi with faded paint and 14" pepperpots :D Hes not actually racing but in the tour
Allthough yesterday aparantly they got up to 170kph and almost slid to their deaths ;D Made me happy to hear that, cos it means they are having fun :D
this is all very fastfrogs! :D