We can't have been standing too far apart, Mr Jones...


The driver of car 21 is Steve Brassington (rather than foreversideways/foreverlurching/foreverleering, aka Ray Robinson) and I think #4 is one-make talisman Brian Farminer.

Watching Renault 5s at Oulton you quickly came to appreciate the natural beauty of the Cheshire countryside ;)

And talking of Steve Jones and Renault 5s........



...how spooky is that?



Kind regards

Phil

Yes but i abandoned Renault 5 for FF1600

Hahahah no it's Steve Brassington. There is another one of him crashing there a bit futher back in the thread but your sequence is fantastic.

He was making a habit of it, here he is destroying her at Copse, Silverstone a few weeks earlier. In particular i like the flying glass.

Blimey that takes you back...the railway sleepers, the catch fences, the way debrs fencing stops after the corner, the old scaffolding photographers stand....no doubt good old P S-R on the commentary....
Definitely happier times in rural Northamptonshire!

Never mind the rather battered Armco!

Thundersaloons Oulton Park

1,5,1989


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVqigo15lII

Cheers
Steve

There would appear to be a VK Holden Commodore No3 in the front of the midfield of this race. Was that John Cleland? In the ex Peter Brock GpC Tourer. If so the car is now back in Oz and has been restored to its original bathurst trim.

This is the car Brockie ran at Goodwood Festival of speed the first time he came over. I remember him giving a long interview over the PA about it - always a man who could put his enthusiasm for the sport into words .

Upon meeting him I was quite struck by his obvious surprise that we Brits all knew who he was! I had a Bathurst programme from the early 80's for him to sign and his eyes lit up "Where'd you get this? Are you an Australian?" then looking at the artwork on the cover of him some 25 or so years before grinned and said " Havn't aged a bit have I?"

Legend is a word that is used far too often but I met a real one that day.

Just join this forum from France and be impressive by your "British club racing" photos and description

If someone can help me (and undestand my "old french school english"!) I am looking for information about a British? driver, named Lingard Goulding.

He raced in 1970 AND 71 on a F5000 BEATTIES and on a Alpine single seater F3 during 1972 season.

On 30 july 1972 he raced at Truxton with this Alpine F3 N° 75.

He raced also in France and Germany, but i don't find any classification and photo of this pilot

Hope pics for my Chrismas, please Pére Noêl ;)

Photo of the Beattie here

http://www.motorracingretro.i12.com/retro7...1invitation.htm

Salut Chris - bienvenue a TFN!

As Alan mentions, there is a photo of the Beattie and, if you search on the forum, various mentions of Lingard Goulding. If you haven't searched before, try 'Search BB' from the top right hand corner, 'Lingard' should be enough and, in this case, select 'Show posts' not threads. I'll have a look in my old Motoring News!
John

Sometimes it's all you can do!

Yes, it's the ex-HDT Commodore (raced as a Vauxhall Senator over here), but Vauxhall and Cleland had moved on from it a couple of years before, and were running the Carlton- (also seen on the video, car #1 with Mobil 1 sponsorship which was purpose-built for Thundersaloons with a 6-litre Chevy)

The Commodore/Senator was sold on and continued to race in the series- I'm trying to remember who the later owner was: Pete Stevens or a similar name?

That video brings back some memories- I always enjoyed Thundersaloons. Most of the old favourites seem to be there- 'Stars & Stripes' Manta, the Carlton, Senator, the Mann's Racing RX7, Rod Birley's Sierra-Porsche, the Ecurie Ecosse Manta 400....

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Phil Rainford
[B]Ladies and Gentlemen can I introduce to you the phenomenon of the mid 1980s that was the Shell Oils Thundersaloon Series

This was a series for…

“a wide variety of special machinery loosely based around the sort of thing you might be driving home down the M56 this evening”

… or so the programme notes claim. They were penned by some bloke called Simon Arron. Wonder what happened to him




While here Woodman shares the driving with John Cleland in the stunning Vauxhall Carlton.





Here is the Carlton...a picture I posted a few months ago.

I will look to see if I have a picture of the Commodore anywhere

Kind regards

Phil

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Phil Rainford
[B]

Henrik

Laptop and scanner back working ( For now )

I was sure I had a picture of Tim Jones from the Festival .....but alas I have searched in vain

I knew I wasn't going mad!!

Although it is from Oulton Park



Kind regards

Phil

Chris361,

After looking in my old Autosport magazines (1970) I found these information about the Beattie F 5000 / Lingard Goulding.


Lingard Goulding - Beattie F5000


Advert Autosport 12 november 1970 - page 38


Autosport 6 august 1970 - page 3





Regards,

Henk A. Hazelaar

Three more photos here from back in the day. These are from 1974.


Steve Brassington just after the hairpin at Mallory in Elden



A very motley crew in the Mallory paddock




A bleak 70's Silverstone paddock. And Bernie thinks it's bad now !!!

Nice period photos sideways, although you kindly named the year, the hair and the flares were a bit of a clue

I thought Mr Brassington's none flame proof driving boots were rather good as well.

At least before the days of the ubiquitous Nike Airs! There is some serious hair in those shots!

.......(says he with a severe widows peek, in absolute envy)

Any ideas about the air ducting through the radiator. Entry underneath, understood, but rad position and place of air exit requested. Reminscent of F1 Emeryson?
Roger Lund.

It's hanging out in the breeze on the right-hand side, isn't it Roger?

So, no other cooling?
RL

Some interesting photos on this thread - I've just joined the forum so apologies for butting in at this late stage!! I've got some of my old Ingliston club racing photos on the web at www.ingliston-circuit.co.uk just in case any of you lot want a peek...

Well I've had a peek

Some really good images there that supports other pictures that have appeared here, and on other threads. Great stuff.

And for Mallory Dan - A 5th yellow Hawke (following a conversation at the Northern England & Wales TNF do last week )

http://www.ingliston-circuit.co.uk/photos/...ton1980_22.html

Wow! I had an Elden like that with a crap Metso gearbox that they on which they hadn't bothered to harden the gear ratios.

Agreed. I look forward to the earlier years. Great to see Campbell McLaren's Zagato among the Scots club regulars. The shot of Eddie Labinjoh is the first I have seen of the Fisher BDA Spyder. What was it originally?
Roger Lund

A great collection of photos, Ian. There is plenty there to keep Mallory Dan dribbling with excitement.

Thank you for sharing them.

Excellent stuff. Great to see photos of Robin Smith's TS19 - never seen any before.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Phil Rainford
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Phil Rainford
[B]Ladies and Gentlemen can I introduce to you the phenomenon of the mid 1980s that was the Shell Oils Thundersaloon Series

This was a series for…

“a wide variety of special machinery loosely based around the sort of thing you might be driving home down the M56 this evening”

… or so the programme notes claim. They were penned by some bloke called Simon Arron. Wonder what happened to him




While here Woodman shares the driving with John Cleland in the stunning Vauxhall Carlton.
In Oz we call them Sports Sedans. Similar concept I feel.
I used to race [for about 20 years] a Torana XU1 with a 6 litre Chev. Our Toranas were basically a HC Viva with a decent strong chassis and a longer front. Was an interesting thing, 580 hp and it weighed 920kg





Here is the Carlton...a picture I posted a few months ago.

I will look to see if I have a picture of the Commodore anywhere

Kind regards

Phil [/QUOTE]

My reply kind of got lost in the previous text. See above

In Oz we call them Sports Sedans which seem to be a similar concept. I used to race a Torana XU1 with a 6 litre Chev. Our Toranas were basically a HC Viva with stronger underpinnings and a longer front.
Was an interesting equasion with 580hp and weiged 920 kg

Quite a few GpC Tourers ended up in the Sports Sedan ranks here too.

Hmmm, what's this about yellow Hawkes? I had a blue and white one that I painted yellow, and then I later bough an ex-works yellow one (yellow used to be the works Hawkes colours, but I guess you knew that...). Glad you enjoyed the pix, I'll try and get some more up once Christmas is out of the way!

Regarding the Fisher Special, I think there were one-or-two of these over the years! Fishers of course used to be the Edinburgh Alfa Romeo agent many years ago. One of the Fisher Specials was powered by a BMC Mini engine mounted transversely (naturally) immediately behind the driver. I remember an incident at Ingliston (later confirmed by a conversation with Eddie Labinjoh himself – he’s still selling cars in Edinburgh) when the flywheel sheared off and cut its way through one of the chassis tubes, and I think I’m right in saying that Eddie felt it hit the firewall at his back!!

I’m sure there are others on this forum (in fact, this thread) who know more about these Fisher specials than me....

The question came up in conversation, who drove the works yellow Hawkes in the mid 70's. Daly, Warwick, Devaney and one more that I can't remember

Rick Morris

Correct

This is one of the surviving Fisher Specials which is now clothed in a Gropa body:

Taken at the Bo'ness Revival Meeting in august this year.

Just thought we forgot Philip Bullman...although he only half counts as his Hawke was red ;)

Kind regards

Phil

And another Hawke. This is for coupekarter...

Is that Dave Scott behind you, Dave?

The Swift logo on the RP26's cockpit surround suggests as much...

Is the Hawke a DL19? Strange how from being so good in 76 with the DL15, the subsequent cars, 17,19, 20 slipped down the FF fields. Was the DL15 flattered by its, with hindsight, brilliant drivers (Daly,Warwick, Devaney, Morris, Bullman etc), or did the oppostion, Royale, Crossle, VDs, become better developed??

What about Clubmans B stars who went onto S2000, Steve??...

Steve Farthing...

Wasn't he sponsored by a Holiday Camp

Kind regards

Phil

I thought it was a Camp Holiday!!!!!

What about them?

He and brother Don were sponsored by Littlesea Holiday Camp, family business I assume. And they owned the only FSV RT1 in Britain. Did they do S2000 tho'? Dud Moseley did, Nick Adams too, Alex Ferrada maybe, Phil Martin-Dye???

Thanks Dan.....

Looks like it is still going strong

www.caravancampingsites.co.uk/dorset/littlesea.htm

Kind regards

Phil