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Old 23-03-2009, 07:03 PM   #1
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Wtf

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Original-Signe...mZ360139811414


I wasn't aware Nick Edwards was such a superstar. Seen this same ad quite a few times now.
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erm, who is he?
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No idea either.

Whatever next signed photographs of Jon Fuller doing the RB08?
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Old 23-03-2009, 08:05 PM   #4
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He was a cruiser / national production class racer. I thought he did a bit with Alan and Andre.
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Possibly, or John Moore doing erm, err, hmm, what does he do?
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He was a cruiser class racer. I thought he did a bit with Alan and Andre.
Alan and Andre? Webb I presume?
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I wasn't aware Nick Edwards was such a superstar. Seen this same ad quite a few times now.

Has he died?
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Alan and Andre? Webb I presume?
Yeah, Alan Webb & Andre Jones. But I have a vague recollection of a Nick Edwards racing with them too. I asked Nick yesterday (who was repeatedly beaten by Alan ) and he remembers the name too.
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I raced with Webb in '82 down in Fowey, took me a whole lap to throw the empty beer cans out of "Shiral".
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Possibly, or John Moore doing erm, err, hmm, what does he do?

Not race with Mizz Fitz.
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Didn't he race in the Bonito Wonderfire ? with Tony Young ?
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Didn't he race in the Bonito Wonderfire ? with Tony Young ?
Yes. The fires were no good either.
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Old 24-03-2009, 09:02 AM   #13
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Didn't he race in the Bonito Wonderfire ? with Tony Young ?
This? (from the Graham Stevens library)

Maybe, to be honest, I don't remember that boat.
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I remember it, supposed to wipe the board in C/C. Don't think it ever did that well. Seem to think it may have been all black at one time, possibly sponsored by Guinness?
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wonderfire boat

1985/86. did nothing,came nowhere.
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The Guiness one was a later flush deck model [ photo / thread on here somewhere ] wonderfire was kept in the old Poole boat park then ended up at Rockley boat park.
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Being a Bonito Jon you have probably erased it from your memory !
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I remember that boat and that team very well. They raced against us in the Guernsey Worlds in Cruiser B and paced behind us (Flippin 'Eck) for three laps and then shot past us on the final leg of the final lap, they had never gone that fast before so obviously they had "done something" but they got their just deserts because two miles from the finish they blew a drive leg, they never looked up as we passed them!! The next year they came out with the Guinness sponsorship. The boat turned into a real dog and went about ten miles an hour slower and upon investigation we found they had raised their drive legs about 2.5 inches. Needless to say that was first illegal in Cruiser Class and secondly the boat just didn't work with the legs at that height. I never did see them again after that Poole “Needles” race which was the one where Buzzi averaged 100mph in CESA!
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I remember it, supposed to wipe the board in C/C. Don't think it ever did that well. Seem to think it may have been all black at one time, possibly sponsored by Guinness?
I remember it at London Docklands - big display on its trailer....but empty engine cowlings!
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This seems to be permanently on ebay!

mebbe TD should sign a few pics and stick em on there. someone must be buying this stuff.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Original-Signe...mZ360222721940
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