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Reminds me of a chap who raced a white and blue Escort at the Wellington street race many years ago, similar style, spent most of the lap on three wheels, cant for the life of me remember his name...
Re: Bit of BDA goodness for the old timers....
Posted: Tue Dec 03, 2013 7:52 pm
by Jafa
remembered it... Roger Townsend
Re: Bit of BDA goodness for the old timers....
Posted: Tue Dec 03, 2013 8:38 pm
by lilpigzuk
seen the escort WRX?
Re: Bit of BDA goodness for the old timers....
Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2013 6:32 pm
by hamboy
That man is not human!!!
Re: Bit of BDA goodness for the old timers....
Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2013 6:47 pm
by Trundle
I use to race a super ford mexico about 10 years ago , not very fast but bloody fun cars !
Re: Bit of BDA goodness for the old timers....
Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2013 7:09 pm
by Taz
Epic car control. Would love to be able to blat to the dairy like that
Trundle wrote:I use to race a super ford mexico about 10 years ago , not very fast but bloody fun cars !
Vids or it never happened! =D
Re: Bit of BDA goodness for the old timers....
Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2013 8:29 pm
by SMOKEY
Thanks Jafa great vids, I had trouble getting out of my seat after watching those . And Roger is still peddling he has a car yard here in CHCH a very talented driver who has never received the recognition he deserves.
SHOULD I WATCH THE BDA'S again------- ,
FITZY.
Re: Bit of BDA goodness for the old timers....
Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2013 9:08 pm
by shortylux
Damn it! Do I have to be an old timer to appreciate that? Guess I'm old then cause that is awesome!
Wrxico build is pretty awesome to. Though I'm not sure how I feel about a 4wd Escourt.
Re: Bit of BDA goodness for the old timers....
Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2013 9:18 pm
by catalystracing
Trundle wrote:I use to race a super ford mexico about 10 years ago , not very fast but bloody fun cars !
I was offered a MK1 Mexico when I was younger for 5k, thought I it was a rip off so turned it down.....
Re: Bit of BDA goodness for the old timers....
Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2013 7:33 am
by Trundle
We paid 7k for the superford one !! i heard it got sold for about 4 or 5 times that recently ,,
Re: Bit of BDA goodness for the old timers....
Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2013 3:39 pm
by Jafa
shortylux wrote:Wrxico build is pretty awesome to. Though I'm not sure how I feel about a 4wd Escourt.
I hear what you're saying, whilst hes done a great job, and its an awesome vehicle, there's something just not kosher about a Subaru powered and 4wd'd Escort....
Re: Bit of BDA goodness for the old timers....
Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2013 6:47 pm
by hamboy
I grew up working on this
They are awesome fun to drive and always get the looks
That's awesome! For some reason, that's an acceptable project lol fantastic fabbing
Re: Bit of BDA goodness for the old timers....
Posted: Sat Dec 07, 2013 1:22 pm
by Big
haha that's truly how car should be driven.. grew up with those type of cars and man you HAD to drive them or you just fell off the road doing skids etc.. not like the youngens nowadays.. with 500hp cars and can't drive to save themselves.. Reckon they all should be taught to drive like that then the deaths on our roads would be less.. It's saved my bacon a few times
Re: Bit of BDA goodness for the old timers....
Posted: Sat Dec 07, 2013 1:23 pm
by Taz
There's an awesomely modified/built Model A rocking about with a BDA in it too. Should be a few clips on jewtube if you haven't seen it already.
They hide the racing harnesses behind a throw cushion in the back seat
Re: Bit of BDA goodness for the old timers....
Posted: Wed Jan 08, 2014 7:16 am
by Jafa
Check this out! Jari-Matti Latvala, WRC driver, winning Lahti Historic rally in a BDA..... this boy can drive, so much oversteer He was agressive in a WRC car, in an Escort... fantastic!
Re: Bit of BDA goodness for the old timers....
Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2014 8:40 am
by lilpigzuk
Rotazuk wrote:Bit off topic but ....
Guess you would not appreciate this series of vid's then
Paddons crash was a pace note error, he was read crest - 7 right, should have been crest - 4 right! cummin in hot!
Re: Bit of BDA goodness for the old timers....
Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2014 1:39 pm
by lilpigzuk
Just saw this one linked on facebook. Was a minta
Re: Bit of BDA goodness for the old timers....
Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2014 2:33 pm
by juz
Well that escalated quickly!
Re: Bit of BDA goodness for the old timers....
Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2014 7:53 pm
by cruiser80
20 years or so ago there was a guy in Ashburton who raced a rotary powered escort. He was fast and from memory a bit mad when behind the wheel
Re: Bit of BDA goodness for the old timers....
Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2014 8:34 pm
by Mr Revhead
cruiser80 wrote:20 years or so ago there was a guy in Ashburton who raced a rotary powered escort. He was fast and from memory a bit mad when behind the wheel
Grasshopper! No idea on what his real name was..... Was a regular at Levels. he rallied, rolled, bowled, arseholed, raced and probably shagged that thing!
Re: Bit of BDA goodness for the old timers....
Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2014 8:35 pm
by Mr Revhead
I suspect that first vid is one of the modern "BDA"s by these guys: http://www.millingtonengines.co.uk/ Is also rather a few running sequential boxes as well!
Re: Bit of BDA goodness for the old timers....
Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2014 11:20 pm
by Jafa
Simon McKinley has owned the Escort since he was 13 lol, spent 20 years or so building it up with his dad on a shoestring budget, that said, it has a 2.4l Connaught Competition Engines Warrior in it, 316bhp fuel injected, 0-100k in the low 3 secs
. And Roger is still peddling he has a car yard here in CHCH a very talented driver who has never received the recognition he deserves.
Reckon they all should be taught to drive like that then the deaths on our roads would be less.. 
