BRM V16 GP car
#1
Posted 20 January 2011 - 18:04
Sheridan Brinley
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#2
Posted 20 January 2011 - 18:15
#3
Posted 20 January 2011 - 18:20
I have a copy of this book, which was published in 1954 by Motor Racing Publications Ltd. It cost me 7/6d new.
Mine cost me £25 about 10 years ago!
Complete with wrinkles!
I don't think the wrinkles were a device for locating the overlays, just a characteristic of the film used.
Edited by Tony Matthews, 20 January 2011 - 18:24.
#4
Posted 20 January 2011 - 18:27
DCN
#5
Posted 20 January 2011 - 18:31
Jaguar V12, Doug. There may be others...... or was it maybe the Napier Deltic????
DCN
#6
Posted 20 January 2011 - 18:33
Mine cost me £25 about 10 years ago!
Complete with wrinkles!
I don't think the wrinkles were a device for locating the overlays, just a characteristic of the film used.
That is the book! I can't remember what I paid for it, but I bought it in the late '50s at R. Gordon's book store on East 59th Street in New York. You may be right about the wrinkles. I wonder if anyone owns the car or knows its history.
You will note that the book has an advertisement in it for the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company--the predecessor of BP.
#7
Posted 20 January 2011 - 19:33
http://cgi.ebay.co.u...=item33646147d2
Numerous copies on Amazon
http://www.amazon.co...;condition=used
http://www.amazon.co...;condition=used
The dust jacket tends to have fared rather badly on a lot of copies which are offered.
#8
Posted 20 January 2011 - 23:05
Jaguar V12, Doug. There may be others...
Aah YES!!!
DCN
#9
Posted 21 January 2011 - 03:30
There's also the Daily Express soft cover publication, BRM - Ambassador for Britain. This promotes the project and its early supporters. Also has a fantastic illustrated colour BRMA poster of the prototype V16 in the centre. Published late 1949/early 1950 I think.
Stephen
#10
Posted 21 January 2011 - 09:01
Anyone else remember this puzzle.
To remain on subject I too had a copy of the book, but was much to young too care how the engine was made.
Edited by Bauble, 21 January 2011 - 09:01.
#11
Posted 21 January 2011 - 11:52
On a related subject, as an ardent fan of the BRM I recieved one Christmas a jig saw puzzle which featured a V16 on a plain WHITE background, so while the car was easy to complete, trying to finish a large area of plain white pieces took weeks. Not one to be beaten easily I persevered until it was done, and then drew pen lines across the white to give a clue for the next time. Bit I never did it again.
Anyone else remember this puzzle.
Well done for persevering! Later puzzles had a graph-paper style grid, which was not much better than plain white, and the last one, the Jaguar 'D' type, had a graduated colour background, which may have helped.
#12
Posted 22 January 2011 - 19:50
Next question is; Did YOU do any of these puzzles and if so did you persevere?
Thanks,
Bob.
#13
Posted 22 January 2011 - 19:58
#14
Posted 22 January 2011 - 21:00
#15
Posted 22 January 2011 - 21:37
So did I! The wierd thing is, I was completely familiar with the illustration, and, confronted with a detail photo or scrap of illustration I would have no hesitation in recognising the subject. In jigsaw form? No chance, I'd be looking at a piece, no idea what it was or where it went, only to find I'd got it upside down!I did the 250F. Once
#16
Posted 22 January 2011 - 22:05
Completely OT, but Wilco Johnson and Lee Brilleaux! Some avatar!I've got and completed the 250 GTO - some time ago though. Still in the house somewhere
Edited by Tony Matthews, 22 January 2011 - 22:05.