Lithgow 2011
Vintage Lithgow 2011 14th & 15th May
A fabulous meeting of VHKA members at Lithgow Raceway. As well as NSW, drivers arrived from Victoria, Queensland and even West Australia.
A vast range of karts from the late 50's up to the mid 80's.This included one of Australia's oldest karts - Stephen Lawrence's beautifully restored Alvin Kart from 1959
An welcome appearance was John Pizzarro who drove two of Graham Powles' karts - a DAP/DAP and a Lancer/ Twin Macs. John has lost none of his enthusiam for driving and was pushing it all the time.
A pusher vehicle made life easy for everyone and a massive thanks go to Tom Hearn, backed up by Graham Barwick, for driving it all weekend and making life easy for us all. Grown men were almost in tears when it appeared that it had broken down at one point. Fortunately it was a false alarm.
Dinner was in the clubhouse with master of ceremonies Phil “Parko” Parkinson and his glamorous assistant John Horsburg.
Brian Hunter was regaled us with his stories of overseas racing in the USA and elsewhere especially his story of flying to the Hong Kong Grand Prix with a bottle nitro methane passed off as lemonade.
Best Original Kart.... Tom Hearn 1964 Rupp Grand Prix / Parilla.
Tom's kart looks like it just came off the track in 1964 and “Captain Chaos” drives it with “enthusiasm”
Best Restored Kart....Richard and Malcolm Littler 1969 HKS / Parilla BA13.
The first time out for this wonderfully restored kart. Every detail is there. Richard even dressed the part with a new open helmet, goggles and Goldstein style scarf. He claims it is the most fun drive he has ever had and certainly he did not hold back.
Peoples Choice Award... Ross Chipperfield 1961 Carlson Aussie Kart ,Victa
One of the busiest karts of the weekend as Ross offerred drives to many, many people.
The Vintage 'Spirit' Award .....Graham Powles
Graham drove down from Queensland with four karts spanning the whole range of vintage karting. Two of these, a DAP/DAP and a Lancer/ twin Mac, were for use of John Pizzaro who
Long Distance Award …. Don Tomich - all the way from Perth.
Winner of the Much sought after and highly valued
'Captain Slow Trophy '.....Tom Manley
