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Title: Lil Jay Post by: Paul Bahnstormerz on July 23, 2009, 00:06:38 am Damn this was fine looking car, I have pics of what happened later but they suck
Title: Re: Lil Jay Post by: Paul Bahnstormerz on July 23, 2009, 00:07:50 am on the back wheels
Title: Re: Lil Jay Post by: jamiep_jamiep on July 23, 2009, 08:28:05 am One of the best looking UK race cars EVER.... I have some great pictures of this too.
Was this originally a white street car that later got turned into this? Or was that another car? Title: Re: Lil Jay Post by: roland on July 23, 2009, 08:33:20 am I think it was the same, very cool car.. Really sad ending.
Title: Re: Lil Jay Post by: jamiep_jamiep on July 23, 2009, 09:05:21 am This?
(http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/578788.jpg) Title: Re: Lil Jay Post by: Wünderwolff on July 23, 2009, 12:03:35 pm Now you all got me wondering what ill fate this bug met up with.
Common do tell !! Title: Re: Lil Jay Post by: vwcab on July 23, 2009, 12:10:39 pm Wasn't it distroyed on the first race(rollover)?
Title: Re: Lil Jay Post by: 71CALRIPPER on July 23, 2009, 12:16:36 pm Some of the body parts along with another racer car of the time are in a scrap heap in walton :)
Title: Re: Lil Jay Post by: jamiep_jamiep on July 23, 2009, 12:27:47 pm And another WPS racer that didn't last anywhere near long enough... :'(
Apologies for the poor quality scans and the fact that the lens cover didn't properley open on one picture.... (http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/578802.jpg) (http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/578801.jpg) Title: Re: Lil Jay Post by: Paul Bahnstormerz on July 23, 2009, 12:43:16 pm It flipped and rolled on it's debut weekend totally destroyed at the end of the strip, could post/send some pictures but it really ain't pretty!
Remembering the past, anybody remember KS's Flashback when it got out of shape launching at the pod, I remember thinking NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!! That car when it was repainted gloss black is probably one of my favourite ever cars, does it still exist? I think it ended up in France? Title: Re: Lil Jay Post by: Joe_G on July 23, 2009, 13:00:01 pm That car when it was repainted gloss black is probably one of my favourite ever cars, does it still exist? I think it ended up in France? Yeah, it's in France, still black but now has a green flame job :o Title: Re: Lil Jay Post by: Liou on July 23, 2009, 13:13:54 pm It flipped and rolled on it's debut weekend totally destroyed at the end of the strip, could post/send some pictures but it really ain't pretty! Remembering the past, anybody remember KS's Flashback when it got out of shape launching at the pod, I remember thinking NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!! That car when it was repainted gloss black is probably one of my favourite ever cars, does it still exist? I think it ended up in France? it's steve morel in france bordeaux and this dad jack moral at boss super vw magazine Title: Re: Lil Jay Post by: Paul Bahnstormerz on July 23, 2009, 13:31:56 pm green flames?? It was bad ass plain black!!
anyone have a picture? Title: Re: Lil Jay Post by: Frank LUX on July 23, 2009, 14:10:44 pm green flames?? It was bad ass plain black!! anyone have a picture? Better Not, you wouldn't like what you gonna see..... :'( :'( :'( Frank Title: Re: Lil Jay Post by: speedwell on July 23, 2009, 14:24:25 pm It flipped and rolled on it's debut weekend totally destroyed at the end of the strip, could post/send some pictures but it really ain't pretty! ;)Remembering the past, anybody remember KS's Flashback when it got out of shape launching at the pod, I remember thinking NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!! That car when it was repainted gloss black is probably one of my favourite ever cars, does it still exist? I think it ended up in France? Title: Re: Lil Jay Post by: hector on July 23, 2009, 20:06:30 pm lil jays motor and box ended up in the hembug untill recently and now lives in chris's 49 standard
Title: Re: Lil Jay Post by: hector on July 23, 2009, 20:14:49 pm hems 49 with lil jays motor in the back ;D
Title: Re: Lil Jay Post by: Pas on July 23, 2009, 20:28:50 pm Such a shame,beautiful car,I remember seeing it crash. :(
Anybody know the reason for the accident.Was it another victim of the cross wind at the top end of the track. Title: Re: Lil Jay Post by: Wünderwolff on July 23, 2009, 21:41:07 pm I just received a PB by Joe_G with a link to pictures of Lil' Jays demise. Thanks for those, they add the fear of speed and bad luck to my interest in racing, the flip side so to speak.
I don't want to offend any one, it sure is a bad thing and I hope Jay will race again or at least enjoys watching it. But don't you think this is the next best ending for a racecar (first being to never retire, only to be raced and raced and raced). Wouldn't you want to go out with a bang? When I read it was scrapped I understood it just went out of fashion and was then parted out and left to rot on a scrapyard. Which would have been a much worse fate for such a nice racecar. Title: Re: Lil Jay Post by: Neil Davies on July 24, 2009, 08:54:45 am When I read it was scrapped I understood it just went out of fashion and was then parted out and left to rot on a scrapyard. Which would have been a much worse fate for such a nice racecar. That's what happened to mine... :'( I remember the day of Jay's crash - I was the previous car in that lane, but by the time I'd got out of my car after my run everything had gone quiet. Peter Englezos was in the other lane against Jay and he said at the time that the car was picked up by the wind as if it was a leaf, and it just went over in the air and slid on it's roof into the guardrail, hitting the left hand rail with the right hand front wheel. Fortunately Jay walked away and although he doesn't race anymore, he still comes to watch the racing on occasion. Title: Re: Lil Jay Post by: flatfire on July 26, 2009, 01:26:52 am When I read it was scrapped I understood it just went out of fashion and was then parted out and left to rot on a scrapyard. Which would have been a much worse fate for such a nice racecar. That's what happened to mine... :'( How do you know your car has been scrapped ? It must have been possible to save it. It looked solid Title: Re: Lil Jay Post by: nicolas on July 26, 2009, 11:16:25 am it was a very nice car, i saw it only as a (cover?) shot of Volksworld and it blew me away, then i read what happened... very sad to hear it got crashed so soon (but maybe cars shouldn't crash at all... but it's what happens at some point, sometimes unfortunately
Title: Re: Lil Jay Post by: Lids on July 26, 2009, 11:45:55 am i remember a similar thing happened to rudys car.
Got to Santa pod the day after the crash, was it also the same weekend that another race car wiped out? Saw them collecting money for scrap upon arriving into Bugjam. Title: Re: Lil Jay Post by: Neil Davies on July 30, 2009, 08:37:34 am When I read it was scrapped I understood it just went out of fashion and was then parted out and left to rot on a scrapyard. Which would have been a much worse fate for such a nice racecar. That's what happened to mine... :'( How do you know your car has been scrapped ? It must have been possible to save it. It looked solid Peter, pm'd you! Title: Re: Lil Jay Post by: JSL on July 30, 2009, 14:47:05 pm Yes it was an awesome car!
These are the only pics we have of it evolution when it was still white. Title: Re: Lil Jay Post by: JSL on July 30, 2009, 14:50:57 pm Then the stripped out version ;)
Such a shame! One of my favorite cars too! One side of the crashed car hangs in Angus's work shop! Have some pics if it hanging in the work shop somewhere if you want me to dig them out? Cheers, J Title: Re: Lil Jay Post by: JSL on July 30, 2009, 14:59:32 pm Some of Lee's car too
AWESOME!! I wont post the pics of how it ended up. Title: Re: Lil Jay Post by: jamiep_jamiep on July 30, 2009, 16:23:06 pm Speaking personally....
I have no problems with seeing cars that have been beaten up by the strip. Like the pictures of the DDS car, the old underdog and the famous pictire of IP too on the trailer.... Post em up. Title: Re: Lil Jay Post by: Paul Bahnstormerz on July 30, 2009, 17:36:33 pm OK Kaferboy, here was the aftermath :-\
Title: Re: Lil Jay Post by: lee-maynard on July 30, 2009, 17:55:40 pm :(
Title: Re: Lil Jay Post by: JSL on July 31, 2009, 10:34:47 am Ok,
As Lee's already put a pic up, I will continue. J Title: Re: Lil Jay Post by: Georg/DFL on July 31, 2009, 11:31:57 am it was a very nice car, i saw it only as a (cover?) shot of Volksworld and it blew me away, then i read what happened... very sad to hear it got crashed so soon (but maybe cars shouldn't crash at all... but it's what happens at some point, sometimes unfortunately Same with me, Nicolas. I got that issue of Volksworld with the cover shot of Lil Jay, fell directly in love with the car, expected a full feature indside and had to read the sad ending of Lil Jay. Still love the look of the car! Title: Re: Lil Jay Post by: jamiep_jamiep on July 31, 2009, 11:44:07 am :'(
Title: Re: Lil Jay Post by: Fasterbrit on August 02, 2009, 10:01:59 am Two great cars sadly lost to fate >:(
I have fond memories of both cars 8) Title: Re: Lil Jay Post by: Rob E on August 02, 2009, 21:35:44 pm my mate still owns his old tow car!
(http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/1200/vwdayjanuary01200011tx6.jpg) Title: Re: Lil Jay Post by: Peter Shattock on August 03, 2009, 08:22:01 am Keeno and his old turbo oval in the background of that picture!
Title: Re: Lil Jay Post by: Fasterbrit on August 04, 2009, 08:38:13 am Keeno and his old turbo oval in the background of that picture! Ah... fond memories of the fantastic atmosphere and racing. I can still smell the burning rubber from Clarkey's monster burnouts 8) Keeno |