Willowbank Drag Combat 2002

Organised by the Auto Salon people, [cabin], it was rained out on the Saturday and postponed until the next day, Sunday 26th May 2002. The only cars allowed to enter were those made after 1986 and those that were fuel injected, which meant there was a sad lack lack of dattos and other older rigs but I guess that was the rule. Another 'rule' was that you weren't allowed to take video cameras into the place so I thought I'd better play it safe and leave it in the car, so sorry folks, no vids this time!

There were heaps of Skylines, Silvias and 180's, and also Lancer GSR's and some front wheel drive cars. The main feature of the day was HKS's GTR drag car from Japan, which has the record for the fastest 4 wheel drive car in the world! I think they were hoping to break some more records on the day but just missed out this time running a best time of 7.8 secs at almost 300 km/hr, their best ever time being 7.6 ( I think). There were also some other very quick Aussie cars there too like the Rotormaster series VI RX7, running very low 8's, and a yellow GSR that ran a flat 10 with room for improvement.

Since we were suffering from datto withdrawl symptoms we had a walk around the car park and spotted a few nice examples, like the gold 1600 wagon below. I now have a new respect for wagons, they can look very sweet once done up!

Overall it was a pretty good day, though I think if it hadn't been rained out the day before there may have been a more cars competing. Seeing the HKS car run was something I will never forget though. Enjoy the pics, sorry there aren't more but until I get a digital camera I have to curb my film consumption! :)

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Willowbank Drag Combat 2002

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