Use of Plywood

[fastman614]

Sid!.... we in Canada are also "fellow loyal subject of the queen!...." and well.... as such we mostly understand the vagaries of our brothers, sisters, cousins etc throughout he "realm".... and if you come to my house.... it'll be - what took you so long to find your way "home"?

my 2 pence worth are.... it wood work!.... 

[grumm441]

G, you wana go mate??
 Sid.

Woodeneye.  

My understanding is that's the way Kiwis and Aussies get along!!!
Pete

Now one of us should insert a sheep joke

There's a camaraderie between Ozzy's N Kiwi's that's taken years to evolve. It's kinda like the brother you love but once in a while you need to get into a good scrap to sort out who's turn it is to buy the beer.
  Sid.

I make beer so it's always free

HEY watch it Canada! I resemble being called a nationality!

At least you don't have the line in your national anthem "our land is girt by sea"  really, WTF

If we built all our crap out of wood, a crash could be cleaned up with a weed burner.
  Sid.

Sid
You make a really good point

Now what was this thread about again?
G

[Kiwi Paul]

Dunno, G....Just trying to stay quiet in case Sid remembers that it`s my turn to get in the tinnies.......Our current Geography might make it difficult to make it back to your place in before the latest batch of  Home Brew disappears.....

[Peter Jack]

Having been involved in various forms of racing for a long time I can assure one and all that it doesn't matter the country you come from, it's the people in all the forms of racing that make any and all of those sports great!

Now back to plywood.

Pete

[kiwi belly tank]

Yeah, I did it again. I hijacked another one, Gotta stop doing that. Thanks for the fun yall!
  Sid.

ps, I hold no loyalty to any queens, it's kinda like "you can choose your friends not your family".

[Steve Walters]

I saw a Honda on E-bay once that had the spoiler, ground effects, rear window slats, and hood scoop all made out of plywood.  It was actually quite well done, it must of had a million hours of labor put into it and still nobody bid on it.

That was a lead in to the Queen subject, I got escorted to the border in 1970 by the Royal Canadian Mounties for saying something derogatory about the Queen.

Steve 

[kiwi belly tank]

Mate! 

[kiwi belly tank]

Ok, let me tell you a little story to maybe reserect the plywood theme.
 Way back in my early racing days in NZ, I circuit raced a VW Beetle. The thing would normally spin 5300 in 4th. Mid race one time, the tach starts reading nearly 6 so I figure I'm loosing a clutch, but it's still pulling pretty good so I stay in it. When I get back to the pits I find the hood is open, the back one. So not being the dumbest kid on the block, I built a plywood deck out the back with electrical conduit supports to the body. This thing was half a sheet & shaped to fit the body. I figured start big & cut it down until the car slowed down. We went out & did some road testing & found we needed a taller gear or I was going to blow the eng away.
Two weeks later after some fresh gears & some skill saw tuning , we turn up at the track with a fresh coat of house paint on the deck. We really took some crap on this one, most people wanted to know if it was strong enough to hold a 9gal keg. (beer). Eventually it got dubbed " the barbecue plate". After the first race they stopped laughing. We didn't have a speedo in the track maggot, that had been tossed out with all the other useless junk but now we were blowing away all the Mini's & Alfa's & stuff.
 Our plywood barbecue plate was a few years before Porsche came out with the whale tail 911's.
 My dad wood have been proud of me, he was a carpenter.
  Sid.

[maguromic]

The Lola 530 Can-Am cars had plywood sides from the back of the front wheel back.  It was always interesting to see Keke and Danny Suullivan banging it up.   Tony

[fastman614]

kiwi sid..... the reference to "loyal subjects of the queen.... the realm etc"..... is a take-off from something a kiwi LSR legend named Bert Munro said to us as a group of Canadians the first time we met him in 1970.... and repeated variations of it for several years afterward  - until we saw him no more....

[kiwi belly tank]

I'm pretty sure Burt took that quote with him.
  Sid.

[fastman614]

Sid,
there were seven of us- kids from our extended family-ranging in age from 12yo to 18yo.... we had all talked our parents into bringing us to Bonneville for our summer vacation .... and as awe stricken and wide eyed as we were.... we noticed the legend himself.... Bert, that is.... and we got into the circle of people whom he seemed to attract .... and then one of us.... as if we were standing in the presence of God himself.... uttered in a hushed tone.... "Are you Mr Munro?"... he made a snappy comeback along the line that there are probably some who would call him that but he usually is called Bert.... and he asked,"Who might you boys be?"... well we answered him and, as he shook hands with each of us in turn, one of us, in answer to his question as to where we were from, we told him that we lived in Canada.... to which he answered, "Canada, you say.... well, its always nice to meet another group of fellow loyal subjects of the queen.".... for many years, we never really grasped the significance of the statement, as it was not until the later 1980s that I was told that people from Australia and New Zealand aren't exactly loyal subjects of anyone- let alone the queen.... I had the term POME explained to me as well... etc...

And I figure to this day..... it is an expression that I honestly believe Bert, from the great salt flats in the cosmos, will smile every time I use it as a tongue in cheek expression as he did....

[fastman614]

that summer vacation was in 1970.... and two of us have been coming back annually or more often, ever since....

[Tman]

Great story fastman!