Hi All
Yes i was there racing in a mini cooper s in the british saloon car championship,and i remember that incident when the two of them collided coming out of the last corner,and james hunt got out of what was left of there cars and laid into the other driver.
Peter Lague

Peter,

Have you seen the films of Crystal Palace that roydpg has put on YouTube?

Here's a taster http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKbi_o086wc

(I took the pic of the F3 grid with Hunt, Walker, Birrell etc)

Cheers,

Alan

Hi Alan
Funny you saying about chrystal palace,i was there at the week end doing the 50th year of the mini London to brighton run in my daughters mini,the place has totally change i loved racing at the palace,i showed her the old circuit,very moving to be there again after all these years,i dont no if you know (but the italian job film,where they were training them to jump the minis was filmed on the main straight at chrystal palace,and when they blew the van up was on the infield on the grass,it was all done there.
Best Regards Peter

I went for a nostalgic visit a few months ago as well

See post 39 here: http://forums.autosport.com/index.php?show...105743&st=0

There's talk of a sprint meeting being run at the old place next year.

Gerry at a late season Oulton meeting trying out a Baby Bertha type nose on the Old Nail.

23rd June 1985 and while Canadian rocker Bryan Adams was taking everyone to " Heaven " in the pop charts, the 750 MC was providing their own unique brand of entertainment at Mallory Park.......




Andrew Wareing was trying to improve on his third place in the 750MC Sports car Modified Series in his Lotus Elan




While describing Richard Urwin's Brabam BT28 as "immaculate" hardly does it justice



John Packham gets the power down in his Royale RP26



While Blackburn's Bill Brown is hard on the brakes of his Elan for Shaws hairpin

The same circuit a year later.

I should know who this is but I just can't remember....

Is it John Penfold or David Hobbs's son?

PAR

Yes and no, Baby Bertha was 2/3 years away by then, so a bit teneous really!!
Great picture of Old Nail with the front Air dam though - she had a few over the years and was/is the most developed Vauxhall of all time and it's a great honour for Donington to now have her as one of their main displays.

PAR

I'm sorry Gregor, for some reason I did not put a caption with the photo; it was taken in October 74. iirc the dam was too deep and scraped on the ground under braking, hence the kink in the middle.

I've got some shots from March of that year and the nose on the Nail was standard droop-snoot.

Lovely pic - looks much better now with Dad's trophies behind and Mr Kitson's painting next to.

No need to apologise - unfortunately Old Nail is the ugly sister so to speak and even more important with the current Vauxhall news (she was the first racing Firenza of Viva HC Coupe if you want to be technical); she was the most important, successfull and original DTV and Gerry Marshall car and does she get invited anywhere? I think you know the unfortunate answer.

Any pics you have would be greaatly appreciated; I think for a car that did less than 100 events and won 63 with Dad driving is pretty good going!!

Gregor

Is this the same car racing in the mid 1980s?




PAR

Is that Tony Davies in the Firenza?

Yep...Oulton Park Saturday 11th August 1984


PAR

Anyone know what happened to this one? Photographed at the 75 Aintree F3 meeting.

Didn't it do a barrel-roll down The Avenue at Oulton? Or was that a different version?

That car (and of course the driver ) was the "Marshall's Favourite, no pun intended, on the slowing down lap after each appearance at Oulton I've never seen so much fuss from the flag and extinguisher brigade.

I'll post some more shots but first I have to scan them in and then post on my website (why can't we just paste 'em in here, like on other sites?) which is all a bit of a palaver but I'm not going up the Flikr/Bucket route; I'm currently in the middle of a big job for the LMC '10 and off on the road this week, so it may take a while. It's taken 35 years already, so a few more days probably will not matter.

Is it a Lola T644? Looks like a Silverstone (0327)- number on the car.

Dave Millington car - rolled heavily at Oulton as Alan Cox thought - reshelled and continued racing in UK - then sold to Mervyn Dornford from Puerto Rico who now lives Miami - I believe car being rebuilt - thought to be one of the original 4 such cars built by Bill Blydenstein

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bosTNtfjai0

Dreadful quality but incident can be found on " You Tube "

PAR

Nope, different car.



Yeah, that's Tony Davies in the "Transpeed" Firenza - he's had it for 25+ years, still races it and it's very original. Tony did share it with Dad a few times in thundersaloons in the '80s



Good call.



Yep, as Malcolm has pointed out (that took me 6 months research Malcolm!!) - the one missing bit is that it was built out of one of the original DTV Viva GTs that were written off at Lydden Hill, all the running gear was trasferred in to a Viva HC for Stan Burge, who raced it, as did Dad (DTV hired it a couple of times) and after a race Dad did at Thruxton she was sold to Dave Millington, our Aintree favourite.



Mallory '72 with Dad driving and Richard Longman in the Mini (sorry, picture copyright unknown)



Same car - re-built by DTV.



Mmh, GBRM77, I wonder who that is??

Mmh, GBRM77, I wonder who that is??
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Indeed ....... I wonder

PAR

You some sort of wonder-boy?

of 32 ish

Here is Tony's car at Snett two years ago, looking pretty much the same as it always did.

Not sure if I like the wonder or the boy bit but yep, it was I!!

I've tried posting bits of Dad I have on Youtube but the files are too big.

Gregor, it was Rainford who I was suggesting was the 'wonder boy'.

People do often look at me and wonder where it all went wrong

PAR

No doubt SA will tell us

Precisely!

Cor, this takes me back. Castle Coombe 1967, Frazer Nash race for post-war cars, organised by the Frazer Nash car club that led to the Griffiths Formula and eventually to the HSCC.
I was driving LXH3, the Targa Florio that raced twice at LeMans with Peacock/Ruddock, first as a LeMans Replica, then when cycle wings were banned, was rebodied as a Targa Florio but also with wire wheels and big brakes. In fact I bet it was a new car but keeping the old chassis number and registration to avoid purchase tax.
I bought it in 1966 for £750 and couldn't really afford to run it, so sold it to Robert Mansfield for £1000, thinking I was really clever. I think Robert still has it, 40 years later.
Chris

Sorry Ted, I've just realised this photo is one of yours, which I should have acknowledged as copywright Ferret Photographics. I got it off the American Frazer Nash website. Apologies.
Chris

Apart from the fact that they are all Reynards can anyone spot the connection?








PAR

Yes!

All three photos are taken at the same corner

All at Oulton? All green? All have numbers in the 30s?
All run by Robert Synge by any chance?

Actually David I had managed to walk from Old Hall to Lodge for the second shot ( Must have needed to go for a wee )

PAR

All correct Andy but not what I am looking for......the connection is within the drivers

PAR

Do and Peter Hardman?

Or even Don and Peter Hardman?

All now quick in Historics, Phil?

That's them!

Yep Peter Hardman but this is Don Hardman's helmet....





PAR

Something is telling me that we might have Richard Dean, Peter Hardman and Tim Sugden here.
If so, the link is probably Sports Cars in general, or Le Mans in particular.

Extremely warm Mr Smith

PAR

Gold Cups?

Getting colder.....

PAR

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