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<\/a><\/p>\nIt had its debut on the IWMAC Purga dirt grounds on 12th August, 1979, but the brake pedal mounts broke off.\u00a0 Completely new pedals were manufactured for it, and new wheel bearings fitted before towing it to the Australian Motorkhana Championships in Adelaide on the 26th August.\u00a0 It then competed in the motorkhana part of the Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers in the main street, in the rain.\u00a0 Construction of a special purpose trailer for the car was started in October, 1979 and first used for towing it to Surfers Paradise for the Speed Week Motorkhana on Thursday night 1st November.\u00a0 The car had its first outing at the Echo Valley Dirt Hillclimb in Toowoomba on 11th November.\u00a0 The car was weighed in this trim and came in at 430 kilograms, with 17% of that on the front wheels. An innovative air operated turning brake mechanism was built in February, 1980.\u00a0 The sizing of the cylinders was wrong, so larger cylinders were obtained and fitted.\u00a0 The whole car was taken to Denis Hall of Spartan Paints in March 1980, and painted in Spartan Ultrathane in brilliant yellow.\u00a0 The trailer was painted in equipment enamel.\u00a0 Signwriting was done by the owner to thank those firms that had helped with equipment used on the car.\u00a0 A new “Scat” over the top exhaust system with megaphone trumpet tailpipe was fitted for the first run at Mt Cotton Hillclimb on 16th March, 1980, and it sounded wonderful.\u00a0 However the air operated turning brakes still did not work well enough, so they were replaced with normal hand operated cable brakes.\u00a0 The car was towed one thousand miles north to Townsville for the second round of the Queensland Championships where it won outright.\u00a0 The next weekend it was at Rockhampton to run in the Round 3 on the grass, where it placed second.\u00a0 Around this time a SAAB 900 was taken to Surfers Paradise to try to beat the 24 hour record, and lots of Pirelli P6 tyres were supplied for the attempt.\u00a0 However the Saab chewed these tyres to shreds on the abrasive surface, and they were thrown on the tyre scrapheap.\u00a0 Alan found the 4 best of these, and fitted them to some 6″ wide rims to use on the bitumen, and made an enormous difference to the handling.\u00a0 In July 1980, the car ran at a club day at Sutfers Paradise, where the high speed handling was tested to the limit.\u00a0 Then it was taken to the first IWMAC Autocross held at Coominya, on a tight sandy circuit.\u00a0 Lots of high powered desert racers turned up to be trounced by Radenkerbtier because it was better suited to the track.\u00a0 however, a month later when the next Autocross was held, the steering box came loose on the front of the car with a high speed excursion at the finish line resulting.\u00a0 Keeper plates were welded on to stop that happening again.\u00a0 A hot dog muffler was fitted to the flange joint in the exhaust to quieten the noise for events where there were restrictions.<\/p>\n It was towed to Melbourne for the Australian Motorkhana Championships in August 1980, where it scored second in class, but the trailer succumbed to problems on the way home.\u00a0 The wider wheels and extra components had now increased the weight to 470 kilograms when weighed in October, 1980.\u00a0 The high speed handling was again tested when it was taken to Lakeside Circuit in November, 1980.<\/p>\n In February 1981, the air cooled VW motor was taken off and a Mazda Rotary motor installed, with an RX2 radiator mounted at the front to try to counteract the motor weight.\u00a0 However when it was tried out at Lakeside, the front wheels would instantly launch into the air on application of power, and the steering did not work with the front wheels off the ground.\u00a0 Rotary motors may be small, but they are very heavy.\u00a0 A bearing in the motor siezed, so the VW motor was replaced.<\/p>\n It was towed to Townsville in April where it again won outright.\u00a0 The following Saturday it ran on the bitumen at Rockhampton, and then on the dirt on Sunday to record third outright.\u00a0 The next weekend was a demonstration event at the Boonah Show, and a cow cockie looked at the radiator mounted (still) on the front, and the VW motor on the back, and believed the story that this was one of the new water cooled VW motors.<\/p>\n Around this time Tony Poulos ran his Alfa Romeo at the Surfers 12 Hour Sports Car Race, and the Dunlop slicks he used were still in good nick after the event.\u00a0 A deal was struck to “borrow” them for Radenkerbtier for bitumen events in return for giving Tony a co-drive in the car.\u00a0 However the car did not give him the thrill he expected, but the slicks were kept for motorkhanas on bitumen.\u00a0 It was towed to Canberra for the Australian Motorkhana Championships in August where it scored fastest time in the Lazy Eight test, but a motor stalling problem saw it end up in 4th in class.\u00a0 Driver errors at the Surfers Paradise Speedweek Motorkhana caused a poor performance, but at Toowoomba the next month it was fastest outright.<\/p>\n 1982 started well with another first outright at Ipswich, and then it was taken to the porsche Motorkhana School at Kooralbyn in March.\u00a0 A poorly timed front-end throw at Townsville in April resulted in second outright, and the following weekend in Rockhampton it was third outright. In November 2013, Geoff Johnson took over ownership of the car after his similar car was stolen from his home garage.\u00a0 He is in the middle of a complete rebuild of the car, and hopes to be competing in it in 2014.<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RADENKERBTIER MOTORKHANA SPECIAL. Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Radenkerbtier was the fourth motorkhana special built by Alan Wheeley.\u00a0 The name came from two German words because it was made mainly from Volkswagen parts.\u00a0 “Rad” is wheel in German; and “Kerbtier” is buggy … Continue reading <\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>In May 1981 it was towed back to Rockhampton for the Motorkhana School, where it won outright, then down to Coffs Harbour in NSW for thr State Of Origin motorkhana where it again triumphed.\u00a0 A month later it did it again at Ipswich, but then the bubble burst at the QMROA round of the Championships where it was a victim of some bastardry between the Clerk of Course and the Scrutineers and declared illegal.\u00a0 All of the major chassis tubes had been built from 25 x 3 square tube, and these sections were used in the bracing between the front and rear roll hoops, and the cross bracing to the rear of the chassis.\u00a0 The CAMS regulations had been changed to outlaw non circular sections in any roll bars.\u00a0 It was argued that if the bars between the front hoop and the rear hoop were cut off, then the car would then become legal, but very dangerous, but the scrutineers held firm.\u00a0 Rules are rules, regardless of whether they are stupid.\u00a0 The car then had the square section braces cut out, and replaced with circular section of less strength, but it was back being legal.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>The Australian Motorkhana Championships were held in Brisbane in 1982, and the car won its class in that event.\u00a0 But the seeds of a radical new design were sown on that weekend, and the car was sold to Malcolm Ryan in December 1982.\u00a0 Malcolm towed it with him when he shifted to Melbourne on 1st January, 1983.\u00a0 He ran it at the AMC in Melbourne in September, and started on overhaul after the event.\u00a0 He towed it back to Brisbane in 1984, but suffered a major road accident when towing it to Nambour to get the motor rebuilt.\u00a0 It was not until April 1985 that the car ran again, and it had only two outings in that year.\u00a0 It was taken to Coffs Harbour in 1986 for the State of Origin Motorkhana where Alan Wheeley (the previous owner) won outright.\u00a0 The car was then left on the trailer in Malcolm’s yard while he had some family troubles until September 1990 when Alan Wheeley organised to take over the car, and start to fix 4 years of erosion.\u00a0 In April 1991 the car was taken to Steve Sheehan for him to work on in a deal where both he and Alan would drive it in events.\u00a0 Alan’s radical new car had been banned, and he had nothing to drive.\u00a0 Steve did a freshen up of the motor in June 1991, and repainted the car in August of that year.\u00a0 Both drove it in 1992 and 1993 before Alan started work on his new car designed to the new regulations.\u00a0 Steve built a “Killer” VW engine for the car in 1994, but it detonated.\u00a0 He built another in 1995 with the same result.\u00a0 Both drove the car in occasional events in the following years.\u00a0 Ownership of the car was given to Steve Sheehan on 8th December, 2001 and it ran occasionally in 2003 and following years.\u00a0 Unfortunately it has not been driven since 2008, and is stored in Steve’s shed.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"