Capris at the Hillclimb

On the weekend, the Mattara Hillclimb was held in Newcastle, by the MG Car Club of Newy. As my RS2000 was not ready to race, I went along to spectate and shoot some photos. When I was there, I found these two masterpieces.






The maroon / black Capri is a V6 GT, while the yellow Capri is a V8 Perana. I don't know the owners or the cars, so I am fairly limited on information to what I heard by the announcers, so if the owners frequent these forums, let us know a bit about them!













If you like my photos and are interested in all the other types of cars there, you can check out my gallery of the days event at http://www.eurofordclub.com/gallery/Mattarahillclimb06

Other cars that were there included some awesome Beetles, an Evo 8, WRX, a bunch of Nissan / Datsun Zeds, classic Falcon / Torana / Commodore, new Peugeots, a Volvo 144, Porsche 911, some kit cars and buggies... all sorts!

I've also got a video of the Perana in action that I will upload too.

Regards, Timmeh

What a great setting for a hillclimb, and thanks for the pics mate.

tim
the maroon capri is from bathurst and runs 3 x 40mm idf webers
the yellow one is from newcastle and has competed in many events including targa tassie east coast targa classic Adelaide and speed on tweed there is a photo of under the bonnet on this forum from speed on tweed the yellow car did a 43.02 and the maroon one did a 45.24 my mk 1 (no. 74 )escort was on display on Monday as I ran on Sunday there is a video in the video links section I will post some photos but first I have to make them smaller I did a 44.75
mal roach
club captain mgccn
and chief scrutineer on Monday at kep

Nice car, mate, looking good. Nice spot that the photographer got to stand for the last two photos, pity I couldn't get access to that partof the track for some shots as well!

I hope to have my RS2000 there next year, if not I'll be back to shoot more photos and enjoy the day!

Timmeh

Thanks for the photos,your right two great looking cars getting driven in a great setting. I hope we get more people posting photos of Capris.

Glad people like the photos...

When it comes to photography, I am trying to do big things with little tools unfortunately. My camera is a Fuji S5500, which is about as close to a digital SLR as you can get without being one, but I really need a DSLR to improve my photography. The Fuji offers 10x Optical zoom which is great for a non DLSR, but on days like the hillclimb, the camera spent most of the day at or near maximum zoom and the results are not as high as I am used to.

You can see the quality difference in the images at normal zoom levels (such as the first photo of the GT and the last two of the Perana) versus the shot of the Perana at the starting line. The sun glare also caused a few headaches but the circular polariser did its job well.



Timmeh

danny
I haven't heard who is going to bathurst but I would say gummley will be there and am pretty sure stephen hooker will take the jedi it is a shame it is up the esses and not mountain straight
timmeh
if you get cams accredited you can get in the best places for photos
unfortunately you missed the orange mk2 escort on Sunday it made the top ten with a 39.78 it runs a 4.1 ltr falcon motor