Absolutely fantastic pictures, and of great historic value. Thanks a lot for showing them to us!

World Championship Sports Car Race
B.O.A.C. International 500 Brands Hatch 13 April 1969 organised by the BRSCC
No. 60 Chris Amon and Pedro Rodriguez 2989cc Ferrari 312P. They started from second place on the grid and they led for the first five laps, then they had a puncture and rejoined in seventh place, they got back up to third place when a throttle cable strechted and so they could not get full throttle - they finally finished a gallant fourth overall

Bradbury West

Yes, Jackie Stewart raced both the Buick and the Ford engined Tojeiros - remember the Ford-engined car also started out as a Tojeiro-Buick

Graham, many thanks
RL

Car No. 6 Bob Anderson on his way to 7th place in International Spring Cup Oulton Park 1967

Bob Anderson at the International Spring Cup Race Meeting Oulton Park 1967

Fabulous photographs Norman .

This has to be the most nostalgic thread , some are before my interest in car racing but the years 66's on are doing marvels for my memory.

Lombard RAC Rally November 1983 Car No.105 Kosho Kanao and Tsutomu Okanami
Toyota Celica Turbo Group B First outing by a privateer in one of these machines (they were used by factory drivers Eklund, Waldegaard and Kankkunen. Went OTL (Out of Time Limit) after SS 51 Brechfa East while in 66th place

21 March 1964, really ? I wonder. There are leaves on the trees, it seems. And the Cooper Monaco is still intact incidentally. I will check my EE database as soon as I am back at home in order to find a more plausible date (1963...) for this extraordinary shot.

Great Pics of the Brabham and Bob.

Was the caravan his and do you know the name of the two heads just in view?

Is that the lot on Bob?

Do we know whose is the Thames transporter ?
Roger Lund.

It is the Honda .

I have drifted into the 1970 at the request of Steve Jones the keeper of the Media tabbards at Oulton Park, who would like to see Super Saloons posted on the site.
Super Saloons were the biggest tin tops ever to hit British race tracks, They were monsters mainly packed with V8 engines and were capable of speeds up to 170mph.
No.12 Mick Hill 5000cc V.W. Beetle Chevrolet V8 at Donington Park 28 May 1977. Hill finished the race in 4th place and took the fastest lap of the race in 1m16.4sec 92,23mph

BARC Championship Car Races 27 July 1974 Oulton Park
Car No 221 Gerry Marshall 2.3 turbo Vauxhall Firenza (Old Nail). Gerry Marshall's weapon, the fearsome Dealer Team Vauxhall FE built by Bill Blydenstein's team at Shepreth with input from Frank Costin. The one tonne silver leviathian, with its Australian Repco Holden engine, had already shown its colours with a victory at Silverstioneon its first race, here at Oulton Park he couldn't match that finishing second to Nick Whiting in a Ford escort

Love these Norman.

Special and the later Supersaloons were wonderful.

When I was working in Wolfsburg in the early 80's, I was trying to explain to an elderly German that there was somebody racing a 5 litre V8 "Käfer" in the UK. He didn't believe me until I took in a photo in of the car

Was "Old Nail" a turbo?

I've also noticed for the first time that it looks like it has a heated windscreen.

Have to agree .........a cracking introduction to the 1970s, look forward to the next instalment

Kind regards

Phil

Thanks Norman.

More please.

Steve.

N0.66 Dave Brodie 3.4 Ford Capri V8 Tricentrol Super Saloon Car Races ulton Park 20 September 1975
3Brodies had a temperamental Capri V6 which despite brake problems which seemed to afflict several cars on the tight circuit, was going well for once. But, during the race a wheel fell off at Fosters, probably as a result of some earlier involuntary kerbing at the same place

No.2 Nick Whiting 3,4 Ford Escort V6 First race meeting at Donington Park after the 2nd World war
Entrant Kent Messenger & All Car Equipment.
Whiting slipped past the leader under braking for Park corner on lap two and then asserted a useful lead which he held till the end - finished 1st.

Colin Hawker behind?

Having sold his Capri to Mick Hill he put the DFV in the VW Variant.

Was this badly damaged at Brands?

Wonderful pictures. Are you sure it was the first 'new' Donington meeting Norman? Alistair Lyall was the very first post war winner, at that meeting in his Escort in special saloons. Was there another saloon race that day too, or a seperate supersaloon race that Nick won? Marvellous days.

Proof, if proof were needed, Andrew. There was, indeed, another saloon race at that first post-war Donington meeting. Alistair Lyall won the opening Special Saloon encounter, and Nick Whiting won the Super Saloon race.

14th RAC British Grand Prix Saturday 15 July 1961 Aintree Sponsored by the Daily Mirror
Car No. 8 Joakim Bonnier's 1.5 Porsche 718 in the foreground N0. 10 Dan Gurney's 718 in the background

Car No. 8 Joakim Bonnier's after finishing 5th in his Porsche 718 Flat 4 entered by Porsche System Eng. Ltd, this is the slowing down lap, look at all the people crossing the track whilst the cars are still running, I crossed the track one of the first, having been in the Tatts Stand which can be seen in the background, no one seemed bothered by us crossing the track

Daily Mirror RAC 1973 international Rally of Great Britain. Monday 19 November Special Stage 40 Grizedale Forest. Car No. 16 Amilcare Ballistrieri and Silvio Maiga Lancia Fulvia HF
The lone Lancia went of on Hafren and bent a wishbone. By the time that they had got lifted back on the forest track and managed to change the damaged part, they were almost out of time and checked in at the next stage with 59 minutes of lateness. The rally lost Ballistrieri on Broxa stage when he dropped of the road going down a long straight and since there were no spectators, he had to wait to long to get out and continue. Ballistrieri was quickest on Special Stage 52 Balunton

The picture of the two minis racing at the 1967 race of champions, asked the question who was in front of Gordon Spice , I think (having worked at Alexander Engineering) the front driver is Chris Montague in the light blue and white Alexander car, this was the car formerly driven by Tony Lanfranchi.

MC 58 was definitely the car raced by Mick Clare, (after a paricularly bad accident, other drivers drove this car on his behalf.) I can remember David Buckett he was a very, how can I put it, a rather large character.

Ah! the great days of 1 hour's permitted lateness - when total amateurs had some hope of fixing major problems without massed ranks of professional works mechanics setting records for changing gearboxes etc.

Those raving about the "Roger Albert Clark Rally" in 3 weeks time re-capturing the great days of the RAC should ponder on the near professional back up needed to run in a long event with 20 mins maximum service at any one time. Even back in the day, the specialist press etc. were always promoting the flawed idea that less service time helps amateur competitors. Like hell it did...

Mick's son Terry still uses his father's original MC58 registration number on his road car. Mick decided on this number when the first Mini was introduced in 1959. Mick died about 15 years ago and Terry ran the garage business until retirement.

Mick drove a Mini for Alexander Engineering, who claimed that they could make Minis go faster so he formed part of a team of other owners. He then realised he could do better tuning the car at his own garage and decided to race on his own.

I can remember Mick Clare very well having worked as an apprentice at Alexanders, he was a very funny and extremely nice man.

Mick was well known for his magnificent tash, did his son Terry continue the trend?

No i believe Terry had curly light coloured hair the last time i saw him and no flyer type moustache.


Pete

I,m sure you must have seen an excellent picture of Mick on the MK1 Performance sie

Phil De Banks lived near Aylesbury in Bucks, he raced an Anglia for quite a while.

I believe he once worked at Alexander engineering.

Has anybody got any photos of Alexander engineering mini driver, Elizabeth Jones

Sorry Steve not your subject
British Motor Cycle racing Club BEMSEE International Prosuction Machine Race. Oulton Park Saturday May 18 1963 10.00 a.m. start
BEMSEE 1000 Kilometre Race This was a departure from BEMSEE tradition when instead of a conmventional race meeting, the club put on its forst long distance race for production machines.
The first two meetings were held on the Silverstone Circuit as National Meetings and proved immensely popular among riders. This year 1963 the 1000 km. race changed its venue to Oulton park where machines and riders could be tested to their utmost. Two rider were allowed to change over when ever necessary.
Bike No. 14 two riders were J.A Oliver and george Barnacle riding a 497cc Norton and No. 31 B.A. Bennett and M.Cork 650cc Triumph rcaing past the pit area.

Another wonderfully evocative shot Norman.

Norman...I think the Norton is a 650cc vertical twin "Mercury"...some called them Atlas.

A fabulous machine that I have been on...only fault, was a tall first gear.

650SS surely?
The Atlas was a 750

Great picture, not seen before. Apologies to be pedantic though but this is Old Nail and she was never turbo-charged and I'm fairly sure Frank C had no input either; he did help build Big Bertha and was a consultant for Baby Bertha. Agreed with the 2nd though, it had been decided Old Nail would be quicker around Oulton (and the following day around Mallory where she won) so Big Bertha was left at home and her next race on the 4th August at Silverstone was to be her last!!

Hi Norman,

As an ex Alexander engineering employee, I was wondering do you have any pics of their cars, notable with drivers Mick Clare, Elizabeth Jones and Tony Lanfranchi

Also do you have anything on the various 6 hour saloon car races held at Brands Hatch during the 1960's

hardy; Discover the delights of the BB Search facility on the top of the front page, and/or scroll through all the photo threads. Stuff is there if you look, but it depends what you are looking for.
Roger Lund

Some people I said, probably because they made more 750s...could be an SS...too hard to see twin carbs in that shot though.

If it was a 650SS, it surely would have had the same colour numberplates as the 650 Triumph? The Atlas was certainly a 750. Therefore I think the Norton was either a 500 or a 750.

Hi ya all, the 750 Atas wasnt available in '63. The origininal vertical twin was a 500 and they were still available at that time. The number background could be the yellow used for 500's.

Which presumably means the Triumph was wearing a red or black plate for unlimited cc (i.e. over 500).
On the other hand the Norton could be wearing a white plate which also would indicate it was more than 500cc

Just for the record.

Well done Russell...so, for the record, number 14 - J.A. Oliver and G. Barnacle were 497cc Norton mounted

and the 650cc Trumpy rider is a tad more relaxed as he breezes past

13 April 1969 BOAC International 500 Sportscar Race Brands Hatch
Car No. 10 Mike Hailwood and David Hobbs brought their 5.0 Ford GT40 to the finish in 5th place overall

Lovely photo Norman, a great car, and a superb series of races from 1967 onwards....anymore? Please

No7. Mike Hailwood 250cc Honda
1967 International Diamond Jubilee Tourist Trophy Races Isle of Man Monday 12 June 1967
Lightweight (250) International TT 6 laps 226.4 miles
In rocketing his screeching six cylinderHonda round the sun-baked Isle of Man to a flawless 250cc victory, Mike Hailwood brought his personal score of TT wins to ten.
Right from the start, Hailwood proved his Honda had the legs of the challenging Yamaha two - stroke fours. His race speed, 103.07mph was a record for the class. His second lap at 104.5 mph was also a record