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Title: whats going on at YASS FLAT TRACK??
Post by: bananas161 on December 05, 2012, 11:39:14 am

Has someone been working on it?
copy this link into google.

https://maps.google.com.au/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Yass,+New+South+Wales&aq=0&oq=yass&sll=-32.010396,135.119128&sspn=63.897225,125.15625&vpsrc=6&t=h&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Yass+New+South+Wales&ll=-34.878432,148.915086&spn=0.003908,0.007639&z=17

Title: Re: whats going on at YASS FLAT TRACK??
Post by: Shaun G on December 05, 2012, 12:04:20 pm

We cross now to our Yass correspondent Nathan...or Marty?

Title: Re: whats going on at YASS FLAT TRACK??
Post by: Nathan S on December 05, 2012, 12:19:38 pm

Based on the state of my backyard, those pics are at least four years old.
Based on the state of the mother-in-law's garden, they're more like five years old.

So to answer the question: NFI.

Title: Re: whats going on at YASS FLAT TRACK??
Post by: Freakshow on December 05, 2012, 12:24:30 pm

Whats id like to see is that mile track around the outside going ! that woud be the shizzle righ there.

could be someones private rally track

Title: Re: whats going on at YASS FLAT TRACK??
Post by: JAP 454 on December 05, 2012, 12:47:15 pm

There was an attempt, a few years ago , to get the Yass " Marchmont" Dirt Track going again, there were a few club rides on it ,but it ran into horsey people problems, so I believe.
I will be talking to a Canberra club member , who lives in Yass, and see what the go is.

I did ride at Marchmont a few times in the '70s, on  one practice  day , TD and I snuck the JAPs out onto the outside horsey mile, freakin awesome !!
Foss

Title: Re: whats going on at YASS FLAT TRACK??
Post by: Freakshow on December 05, 2012, 01:53:05 pm

thats what i thought, the mile track would be awesome to race on.

going by the scale the inside track actually looks real wide track surface to, like about 20mtr across !!!!

Title: Re: whats going on at YASS FLAT TRACK??
Post by: JAP 454 on December 05, 2012, 04:12:38 pm

Here's a few shots taken at Yass,

(http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/ab106/JAP454/TDatYass-1.jpg)

TD on Nobby Roebucks Bully ?

(http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/ab106/JAP454/Yass1.jpg)

Me on the Elstar 84S

(http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/ab106/JAP454/Yass2_0002.jpg)

On tha bloody Cole !!!

(http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/ab106/JAP454/Yass3.jpg)

TD an bro , Mark, wondering what to do next to the SC 500

As you can see, Freaksta, it is pretty wide,
Foss

Now, back out to tha shed , getting the Hagon ready for Saturday

Title: Re: whats going on at YASS FLAT TRACK??
Post by: firko on December 05, 2012, 04:23:08 pm

I never rode Yass but shit it looks great. It's be great if we had a few more tracks on the vintage dirt track scene.

* How cool to see a hotty EH Premier in that pit shot with the SC500. I had a hotty EH ute in that period myself.

Title: Re: whats going on at YASS FLAT TRACK??
Post by: Nathan S on December 05, 2012, 04:32:33 pm

AFAIK, the last event out there was just after we moved - early 2006.

Title: Re: whats going on at YASS FLAT TRACK??
Post by: JAP 454 on December 05, 2012, 06:04:51 pm

That'd be about right Nathan, Goughy, Hammo, Banksy,Paul Ashlin and others had a few skids around,

Hey Pete, was it you that had a good copy of the Gough Whitlam at Yass photo ? the one with Doug Platts, KP and me in it ??. If you have I would really like to get hold of a copy as mine has suffered badly over the years.
Foss

Title: Re: whats going on at YASS FLAT TRACK??
Post by: Purple Dave on December 05, 2012, 06:14:36 pm

Great stuff again Foss....The SC 500 brings back some memories, even my left shoulder is acting up !! I'd have loved to have had a go at Yass..........Hey Freakshow, did you ring me yesterday ?

Title: Re: whats going on at YASS FLAT TRACK??
Post by: Tony T on December 05, 2012, 06:23:15 pm

Sorry mate, I had to have a fiddle.
The colour annoyed the crap out of me.....  ::)

(http://i467.photobucket.com/albums/rr37/Tony_T12/Yass1-3.jpg)

Title: Re: whats going on at YASS FLAT TRACK??
Post by: Slider29 on December 05, 2012, 06:36:28 pm

 Frames the wrong color Tony! ;D More of a burgandy type if my memory serves me correctly ;D ;D ;D great work though on a great pic. Keep 'em coming.
  regards   Mark

Title: Re: whats going on at YASS FLAT TRACK??
Post by: Curly3 on December 05, 2012, 07:22:51 pm

I'd like to nominate Nathan as president of the newly formed Yass Classic Dirt Track Club.
Can I have a seconder?
If it's still there? we should try to give a kickstart.
Yeah Mark, that's more Godden red.
Are they your prescription goggles Foss?

Title: Re: whats going on at YASS FLAT TRACK??
Post by: Rosco86 on December 05, 2012, 07:34:01 pm

Great work with the photo Tony, how did you do it, might help others with older photos?

Title: Re: whats going on at YASS FLAT TRACK??
Post by: Graeme M on December 05, 2012, 07:38:08 pm

Be good to have that track up and running again. I never even knew it existed.

Hagon? Saturday? You coming to the ACTMCC Chrissy party/ride day Foss?

Title: Re: whats going on at YASS FLAT TRACK??
Post by: Tony T on December 05, 2012, 07:42:12 pm

Quote from: Slider29 on December 05, 2012, 06:36:28 pm

Frames the wrong color Tony! ;D

Picky bastards............  :P   :D :D

I wouldn't know a Godden if I fell over one, so it was a bit (lot) of a guess.  ;)



It just a quick run through Photoshop, Rosco.
I do some photo restoration as part of my work. That's not my finest effort, but just wanted to see if I could improve it.

Title: Re: whats going on at YASS FLAT TRACK??
Post by: Curly3 on December 05, 2012, 07:47:52 pm

Keep an eye out and get some photo's of the " Flying Fossil ".
Surely someone will have a Sidecar there so EA can enjoy the experience? :o
What did you have to promise to get that leave pass Foss?

Title: Re: whats going on at YASS FLAT TRACK??
Post by: bananas161 on December 05, 2012, 07:58:49 pm

No water trucks in those days hey foss??? Ill dig thosephotos out.jeez foss i didnt know you were in it..gough whitlam ? i thought it was mal fraser but then again im not as old you blokes .Imagine having the prime minister at a dirt track in yass aust. titles i think which club run that meet foss?? maybe we could have an annaversary meet there i can get hold of a grader...water truck and a slasher no worries and we can invite her royal highness jules over to do the presentations be a hoot ........p.s im serious about  the grader

Title: Re: whats going on at YASS FLAT TRACK??
Post by: jimg1au on December 05, 2012, 08:06:08 pm

hay are those my old leathers mum brought back from england along time ago
jim

Title: Re: whats going on at YASS FLAT TRACK??
Post by: JAP 454 on December 05, 2012, 08:46:21 pm

Yeah , thanks for the efforts with the pic , Tony , as well as being old photos , all my albums were partly burnt in a house fire in 1979, I recovered a lot of photos, by soaking them apart but I lost heaps too,
and Slides, I've never worn goggles, just me Buddy Holly specs in those days.
Foss

Title: Re: whats going on at YASS FLAT TRACK??
Post by: JAP 454 on December 05, 2012, 08:49:49 pm

Quote from: Graeme M on December 05, 2012, 07:38:08 pm

Be good to have that track up and running again. I never even knew it existed.

Hagon? Saturday? You coming to the ACTMCC Chrissy party/ride day Foss?

Shit, Yeah I'm coming for a ride, Graeme. She Who Must be Obeyed has even given her approval !! Yee Haaa.
Foss

Title: Re: whats going on at YASS FLAT TRACK??
Post by: JAP 454 on December 05, 2012, 09:26:58 pm

Yup, they are your old leathers, Jim, that you grew out of or something. The pants survived the fire but the jacket didn't.

Pete , the Club that promoted at Marchmont was the ACT Motorcycle Sportmens Club, I think they ran at Mt.Ginn as well there used to be two motorcycle clubs in Canberra, the other is the present ACTMCC.

Dunno what the meeting at Yass was but it was a big one, a few guns were there, I was riding the Elstar with my Speedway JAP motor fitted, I'd ridden Tralee on the Saturday on me Rotrax copy and swapped the  motor into the DT frame that night, it had a steel rod, knife edge flywheels, Don Godden  longtrack cam and a small dose of nitro and it was one  gear better than KP's KSS JAP, he was flat knacker in top down the straight, I shifted into top as I went by, he accused me of running a biggun so I offered him the spanners to pull it down and have a look.

Anyhoo, Gough and Missus turned up and watched a few races and had a yack to the placegetters, KP , Doug Platts and myself in one race, he sat on Doug's JAP and we offered to push start him so he could have a skid around , his reply was " you buggers are mad !!" I did post a fuzzy shot, from Revs, on the forum in CDT Images. of him on the bike

Be great to get it happening again, I really liked the place. The Yass Speedway car club ran there for years, too
Foss

Title: Re: whats going on at YASS FLAT TRACK??
Post by: JAP 454 on December 06, 2012, 08:36:37 am

Here's the photo I've been rabbiting on about

(http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/ab106/JAP454/GoughatYass.jpg)

L to R. Doug Platts, KP, Gough on Dougs bike, me

Foss

Title: Re: whats going on at YASS FLAT TRACK??
Post by: Graeme M on December 06, 2012, 10:15:40 am

That IS pretty cool. But he didn't take it for a squirt?  ;D