BarrowGrandSlam
Barrow, 8th February, Unlimited Bangers Grand Slam

A slightly lower than expected showing of 36 motors for this years Grand Slam meeting, the Dahm Busters and the rest no shows all earning black marks for not turning up. The material on offer was superb though with top Granadas in the hands of 42 Steve Owen and 6 Paul Musgrove who both had Mk2 limos, the latters a used example whilst the best of the 6 Jags were the returned Daimler 250 for 34 Mark Earnshaw plus the fresh XJ40 for 408 Steve Tyler while 62 Dave Eccles and 270 James Howard both had used examples. Volvos numbered 10 including a 940 for 917 Derek Jones with 350 Dan Peel returning a DS420 limo. Moving up a gear two Yanks came from 818 Craig Phillips with a Oldsmobile Cutlass Salon and running mate 707 Lee Tomlinson had a rated Ford Country Squaire estate. Top car honours though went to 310 John Nicholson with superb 6/110, in my eyes the second best motor Barrow has seen behind only 684 Al Morphets Armstrong Sidderley Whitley.

 With the field split 3 ways only 10 cars appeared for the opener but the action came right at the start as 170 Gavin Howard attacked 325 Mark Dempster but put himself in doing so and paid for it when he had 203 Russ McBain fired into him by 151 Steve Scurr wrecking the 170 motor in good fashion. 303 Scott Dale then trashed Scurr with a stiff shot as 720 Matt Rogerson put himself in after a failed burial of 55 Graham Smith. That was it action wise in the opener with 55 Smiggy showing them the way from the hard chasing 514 Paul Woods, 720 Rog and 77 David Patterson.

 The second was much better and started with an epic incident when 707 the Meastro picked up 501 Ste Kaye and followed him superbly into a post, 30 Dougie Roberts providing much of the pushing power with 501 Basher snapping and jacking impressively. 350 Danno and 217 Derek Moon now went in which resulted in 30 Addict getting jacked and airbourne. 147 Chris Detton walled 74 Ste Waite on the back straight before weighing into Moon only to be done by 34 Ernies Daimler and 14 Willy Walmsley as 810 Alex McBain blasted Ernie. 408 Tosh steamed 14 Sausage Boy as 05 Carlos Perez did 810 Rugrat before t-boning Moon hard next time round. Tosh and Sausage Boy fought their ways through the pile with the result in that order. We learnt that Carlos had broke his wrist in the hit on Moon, hope it heals quickly Carlos.

 Heat 3 was just as good as 62 Dave Eccles followed in 158 Dave Knight at the start with 42 Donkey swift with some TNT revenge on the Bad Newz captain with 59 Marc Blower also t-boning Eccles. 36 Turkey Birkett fired up the back of Donkey before meeting the spun 818 Mr Bumps Oldsmobile in a big head on which left him open to a massive shot from 270 James Howard destroying the Jaks R Us Volvo. Donkey now gave the latter a big package and was steamed inturn by Blower as the yellows came out to clear the track and extract Turkey from his epic wreck. Down to 5 for the restart with the only action seeing Eccles run 917 NSD in which also caught Eno up doing the front wheel on the 6/110. 143 Sam Begley going onto win from NSD and Eccles.

 The consi saw Addict follow in Rugrat from the off before Dale gave 270 Howard a big length of the straight shot, 203 Mad Russ turning it round to hit Howard on oppo as the Meastro got stuck into 265 Ian Wallace Jnr. Dale now collected the empty Rugrat motor as Demo had the Meastro out, the Leveller giving the Yank a big shot next time round and the Meastro recovered only to be taken out again by Demo, Dale again doing the Jerky Boy captain before Demo did the Meastro which was sadly on the centre and well after the reds as Dale had taken the win. Mad Russ and Demo were loaded for their actions.
 The final was qualifiers only and drew only 9 cars as a result, Smiggy punting Patterson into 143 Sam Begley which got the Gong Gang man some air time. Tosh steamed Smiggy hard over the back wheel as Woods piled up the back of Rog on the back straight, Sausage Boy taking the win and the championship from NSD with no other finishers in a quiet race.
 The DD drew the best field of the day with 16 motors on track with Danno weighing into Smiggy from the drop of the greens before Dale put himself in allowing Woods to run him in, 143 Screamer then following in 158 Dave Knight as Eno t-boned Sausage Boy and Woods again did Dale, Eno firing up the back of the Invader captain as Rog piled up the back of the Meastro on the back straight with the latter meeting Dale in a big head on as a result. Demo now did the Meastro flat out on oppo which finally nailed his hat on as the Addict steamed Woods and Smiggy did 434 Andrew Burns over the front wheel. Eno kept the 6/110 going to steam the Addict well in the entrance bend pile up as 434 Burnzy did Sausage Boy over the back wheel, this finishing them both as Eno escaped from the pile to take the win. This wrapped up another quality seassion around Roosecote, some top wrecking and also one of the best Volvo wrecks of all time for 36 Turkey.

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