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DLRA 25th Anniversary

Posted: Wed May 21, 2014 11:56 pm
by DLRA
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2015 marks the 25th Anniversary for the Dry Lakes Racers Australia. Wow! Where did the time go!
We know that there are many previous entrants from Australia and overseas already making plans to compete.
Next years Speed Week will be a celebration for all those amazing, wonderful cars and bikes that have roared down the salt of Lake Gairdner.
We would love to know what ever happened to some of those vehicles, where are they now? Are they still around?
Let's use this post the reminisce and see if we can blow the dust off some of these cars and bikes.

Re: DLRA 25th Anniversary

Posted: Fri May 23, 2014 3:05 pm
by OLDtimer
I ran my HD holden at the first ever DLRA meet in 1990, it is sitting in the corner of my garage waiting to be restored.
I still have one of the original t shirts with a plain black logo, it seems to have shrunk over the years though.
Pete Noy
DLRA #6
SATA #3

Re: DLRA 25th Anniversary

Posted: Fri May 23, 2014 7:48 pm
by michael240
you just need to find your original body Pete :mrgreen:

Re: DLRA 25th Anniversary

Posted: Tue May 27, 2014 6:47 pm
by rgn
To quote G from last year, "this is the best one yet"

I hope that this is the shirt for 2015?

Sometimes the less complex, more to the point of the exercise are the best. Regards,
Ralph.

Re: DLRA 25th Anniversary

Posted: Sat May 31, 2014 10:28 pm
by Rob
But... 1990 to 2015 inclusive is 26 years... who did the math?

Re: DLRA 25th Anniversary

Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2014 12:49 pm
by DLRA
OK. So what do we do with all the rainouts?
Then we could be celebrating our 21st again....

Re: DLRA 25th Anniversary

Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2014 2:43 pm
by Rob
Rain outs affected the number of Speed Weeks not the number of years of the DLRA's existence. I'm not being narky Greg, it was a mathematical observation.

Re: DLRA 25th Anniversary

Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2014 9:49 pm
by grumm441
rgn wrote:To quote G from last year, "this is the best one yet"

I hope that this is the shirt for 2015?

Sometimes the less complex, more to the point of the exercise are the best. Regards,
Ralph.
Geez. you didn't have to bring that up.
G

Re: DLRA 25th Anniversary

Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2014 8:15 am
by Lynchy
Isn't it the 25th anniversary of the first one? The first anniversary being 1991?

Re: DLRA 25th Anniversary

Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2014 3:52 pm
by Trilby
nothing else is gonna have as nice a ring to it as 25th, 1990 - 2015.... there might be a lot of ringing in the ears from the nit pickers though no matter what you have it as :p

Re: DLRA 25th Anniversary

Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2014 4:20 pm
by rgn
Lynchy wrote:Isn't it the 25th anniversary of the first one? The first anniversary being 1991?
If the inaugural event was 1990, then 1991 is the first anniversary. 1991 is then inclusive to the reckoning, being the first anniversary, so 2015 would be the 25th one?

Re: DLRA 25th Anniversary

Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2014 4:36 pm
by Lynchy
I'm confused - need to have a lie down... sounds like all the hoohaa around celebrating NYE at the end of 99. Too hard to work out.

There's gonna be a party! There's gonna be some kind of celebration! There's gonna be more racing and afterwards drinks. Let's get the word out and try to get some of the racers of the last 25 years along. We're working towards making it a smooth running event.

Re: DLRA 25th Anniversary

Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2014 6:29 pm
by momec3
But we can build race engines with tolerances' within a few ten thousands of an inch. Sounds like us

Re: DLRA 25th Anniversary

Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2014 10:55 pm
by DLRA
I'm up for celebrating 25 years of Dry Lakes Racing in Australia.
When ever that was....

Re: DLRA 25th Anniversary

Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2014 2:23 pm
by momec3
Me too 8)