Who is Chooky

Vulpes · Post by **Vulpes** » Mon Feb 15, 2010 4:24 pm

Looking through some of the pics on the forum i noticed a nice racing staz that belonged to chooky ? Who is / was he ? Where is this car now. Didnt share the same fate as cookies I hope ! :o

Post by **TOMSUN** » Mon Feb 15, 2010 6:36 pm

I believe he is based in Tassie.
His last post was... Fri Aug 15, 2008 7:20 pm

What happened to Cookies car?

redzone · Post by **redzone** » Mon Feb 15, 2010 10:06 pm

dean croswell aka chooky no longer has any starions, he was based in tassie but moved to the goldy about 3 years or more ago.

he sold the car to a fellow who lives near me :)

i've been assisting him to turn it into a sierra destroyer

have a look at the historic lakeside pics/vids from last year on this forum to see it running. should be interesting results from that car this year in the historic group A racing.....

ps i have taken loads of pics of that car up on my hoist :D

thrash · Post by **thrash** » Mon Feb 15, 2010 11:13 pm

redzone wrote:ps i have taken loads of pics of that car up on my hoist :D

so... where are these pics?? :P

enthuzed · Post by **enthuzed** » Mon Feb 15, 2010 11:29 pm

thrash wrote:
so... where are these pics?? :P

With all of yours thrash LOL

WANTSOM · Post by **WANTSOM** » Tue Feb 16, 2010 8:47 am

Tomsun wrote:

What happened to Cookies car?

It got dismantled a couple of years back. The shell went to StarionClinic, Hoongirl took the TD06 turbo and manifold I think, I grabbed the 3.9LSD and the front suspension/crossmember. I think the motor and gearbox went to Brisbane and the Motec and i/cooler stuff went to Newcastle, www18U grabbed the coilovers, MRB took the rollcage.

Not sure of the rest, the car just kinda evaporated before our eyes.

www.18u · Post by **www.18u** » Tue Feb 16, 2010 9:15 am

Ahh those were the days

I remember seeing his car and thinking i'm going to make mine just like this rofl about a month later it was being parted out, and i only had enough money at the time for the coilovers :( It really did get parted out quick as Wantsom said.

Post by **TOMSUN** » Tue Feb 16, 2010 10:03 am

So a bit of his car live on in each of ours.
I have the spare Tomei cam wheel that I bought off him just before he was selling the car.

WANTSOM · Post by **WANTSOM** » Tue Feb 16, 2010 10:24 am

There you go, a keepsake for you and another piece of the puzzle solved.

I remember getting that for him when I got mine and he never got around to fitting it. But knowing Cookie's distate for anything shiny or bling, he would have had 'issues' putting it on so it was to be expected that it remained in the box. LOL

Post by **TOMSUN** » Tue Feb 16, 2010 6:35 pm

WANTSOM wrote:There you go, a keepsake for you and another piece of the puzzle solved.

I remember getting that for him when I got mine and he never got around to fitting it. But knowing Cookie's distate for anything shiny or bling, he would have had 'issues' putting it on so it was to be expected that it remained in the box. LOL

Yup, he posted to me in the original box.

Vulpes · Post by **Vulpes** » Tue Feb 16, 2010 8:59 pm

They were good days, I have great memories of Cookie, Hoonie, me and my cousin in his rx7 series2 at wakefield park. Its very sad what Cookie did :(
Glad to see Chookys car lives on and is still going strong.

WANTSOM · Post by **WANTSOM** » Tue Feb 16, 2010 10:37 pm

Chooky's car was bit rough around the edges from what I heard. never actually got to see it up close and personal myself. I'm sure under Redzone's care it will come up a treat though

Vulpe's, there's nothing stopping us having another Wakefield day. Just needs some organising :drool:

thrash · Post by **thrash** » Wed Feb 17, 2010 12:15 am

wait!! I still need some brakes.. and tires.. and...... a lot more :(

redzone · Post by **redzone** » Wed Feb 17, 2010 6:01 pm

WANTSOM wrote:Chooky's car was bit rough around the edges from what I heard. never actually got to see it up close and personal myself. I'm sure under Redzone's care it will come up a treat though

Vulpe's, there's nothing stopping us having another Wakefield day. Just needs some organising :drool:

yeah craig who owns it now is fixing up all the loose ends without destroying the history/patina, he was going to do a full rotisserie resto on it but the group a guys talked him out of it, as people would rather see what they were like at the time!

greenstaz82 · Post by **greenstaz82** » Wed Feb 17, 2010 6:10 pm

redzone wrote:
WANTSOM wrote:Chooky's car was bit rough around the edges from what I heard. never actually got to see it up close and personal myself. I'm sure under Redzone's care it will come up a treat though

Vulpe's, there's nothing stopping us having another Wakefield day. Just needs some organising :drool:
yeah craig who owns it now is fixing up all the loose ends without destroying the history/patina, he was going to do a full rotisserie resto on it but the group a guys talked him out of it, as people would rather see what they were like at the time!

yea the thing looks like a race car and thats the way it should be i reckon , as u said it would destroy the history of the car

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