Bonneville - in the UK?

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Bonneville - in the UK?

Postby Fury1630 » Sun Dec 09, 2018 8:23 pm

How many of us have thought of going to Bonneville for speed week, but realised it's never going to happen? If only there was something like it in the UK - PAH! - that'll never happen in the age of health & safety!

Well it does happen - & sort of on salt too - ish.
http://www.vhra.co.uk/VHRA/Pendine_Sands.html

Do a google image search on "Pendine Sands hot rod" & feast your eyes. The Vintage Hot Rod Association (VHRA) runs the event & it's basically flathead V8 hot rods drag racing on the beach. The fastest cars reach 100mph - on wet sand.

It's the 15th & 16th of June, paddock tickets are all sold, but it's free to stand & watch, £4 to park on the beach. I think this is the 8th year, so people are starting to build cars for this event - streamliners & the like, in a few years it'll be all professional with big budgets, but right now it's still very much amateur & for the fun of it.

I want to go, anyone else interested?

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Re: Bonneville - in the UK?

Postby greenwoo » Sun Dec 09, 2018 11:10 pm

bugger, why are there so many other car related things Le Mans Weekend? Would love to see that Tony, maybe the dates will fall right in 2020.....

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Re: Bonneville - in the UK?

Postby Fury1630 » Mon Dec 10, 2018 9:07 am

The date moves about a lot as the tides have to be right so the beach is big enough.

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Re: Bonneville - in the UK?

Postby b33fy » Mon Dec 10, 2018 9:25 am

greenwoo wrote:bugger, why are there so many other car related things Le Mans Weekend? Would love to see that Tony, maybe the dates will fall right in 2020.....



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