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#1 peteslag

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Posted 10 March 2014 - 09:13 PM

I stumbled across this old photo tonight, It is from my sign fixing days. It would have been about 1994 and I think it was Donington. I was asked to go to Donington to try and repair a sign that had been knocked down. Apparently a skip had been dropped off at the circuit by the chap that owned the company (skipaway rings a bell). Most skip lorries have giant forks that pick the skip up and drop it where ever the client wants it.  He had dropped the skip off and decided to do a couple of victory laps while he was there but forgot to put the forks down before setting off. The inevitable happened and he drove straight into an overhanging sign. I was in the area at the time, the phone call I got from my boss was fairly casual so I expected it to be quite a small sign....I was wrong!

 

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It is a shame that I don't have the before photo, he had decimated a large chunk of it. It is amazing what you can do with a club hammer and a load of white paint.

 

 



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Posted 10 March 2014 - 09:31 PM

That looks like Mallory Park to me!

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Posted 10 March 2014 - 09:37 PM

That looks like Mallory Park to me!

And me! Scrutineers area prior to the pits :)

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Posted 10 March 2014 - 09:49 PM

Ha ha, well it was 20 years a go. I think that equates to about 15000 pints of beer so my memory may be a little clouded!



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Posted 10 March 2014 - 09:52 PM

Yep Mallory Park I have many fond memories of walking from the pits over the bridge to stand at the entrance to Gerard's Cheers Ian




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