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[eurocardoc]

Just switching some old slides etc to digital and playing with imageshack. Some F3 from Brands, F2 from Imola, Brighton Speed Trials but starting at Mallory. F2..











the last shot was from inside the Arches workshop of P&M Race prep, my first job in racing!

Edited by eurocardoc, 02 April 2011 - 01:28.

[eurocardoc]

Alan Harvey waits in his Brabham BT28 at Brands.
An Allard dragster circa 1968?

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Edited by eurocardoc, 02 April 2011 - 01:34.

[Allen Brown]

fantastic!

[Bjorn Kjer]

Good "bit"s !

[Pullman99]

Just switching some old slides etc to digital and playing with imageshack. Some F3 from Brands, F2 from Imola, Brighton Speed Trials but starting at Mallory. F2..

Great stuff! The fifth pic in your original post (car No. 62) is of Gerry Birrell in the F3 Sports Motors Brabham BT28 at Brands in 1970. British GP support race?

[petestenning]

And photo 1 is that Chris Skeaping's Chevron with the high shovel nose.?

[eurocardoc]

Many from that Brands support race, I was running Russell Wood's Merlyn FF out of the P&M Chiswick arches. I have more of the shop and of Brands.
Also shown was a shot of the works F2 BMW car from the pits in Imola.

[eurocardoc]

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I think the last one was the Chris Lambert car, taken inside P&M's

Edited by eurocardoc, 02 April 2011 - 16:13.

[eurocardoc]

some from a Brands clubbie circa 68?

[eurocardoc]

F3 at Brands, F2 Mallory, FF Imola

[eurocardoc]

More from early Santa Pod and Brighton

[eurocardoc]

Wasn't Brands wonderful back then, access to the cars, dodging the marshals to get through the tunnel as the cars went through.....

[eurocardoc]

After the 60s.......


John Cooper's Hesketh 308C testing at Snetterton


Charlie Warner's Shadow DN9 after a resto in my shop



Phil Gumpert's Shadow DN8 leads the pack at the support for USGP



Surtees TS19, Alan Jones at Brands, me holding the belts (it was safe then, following year with Brambilla you'd get a nipple tweak as he climbed in!)



Mike Andretti, Laguna Seca, 1984



The DN9 at Montreal

Edited by eurocardoc, 02 April 2011 - 16:50.

[R.W. Mackenzie]

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I think the last one was the Chris Lambert car, taken inside P&M's

Great pictures eurocardoc. But I don't think the last one is of Chris Lambert's car if you are referring to the BT23 in which he crashed fatally at Zandvoort. The car in your picture looks like it has been upside down but still seems fixable. The following picture of the wreck of the BT23 at Zandvoort seems to show it was pretty much destroyed:

WARNING! THE FOLLOWING PICTURE SHOWS THE AFTERMATH OF A FATAL ACCIDENT.

http://www.benhuset.dk/lambert.jpg

Bob Mackenzie

[eurocardoc]

I was a very naive 16/17 year old then, on a steep learning (drinking) curve into race cars. I remember some details, others not so well. Always thought highly of the guys at P&M, Paul Vincent especially. He can be sen leaning on the side of Jim Edwards BT28 in a shot above. Also in that shot (without shirt) is 'Fibreglass Tim' I believe. I recall the wrecked car being someone close to paul.

[eurocardoc]

A right old hodge podge......



Chris Meek in the Rondel F2 car, Croft or Rufforth



my friend and employer at the time, Tony Brise, our first win in F3 at Mallory.



Still prepping this, F2 Cooper/Jap, shown at Pittsburgh 2008



Gerhardt chevy Indycar after restoration. Crowd favourite because of the noise!!



Trackday Porsche GT turbo shown at Sears Point.



Phil Gumpert at St Louis FA Swift/BDA



Silverstone 6 hours prior to Le Mans, Salazar/Craft Dome-Cosworth

Edited by eurocardoc, 02 April 2011 - 18:38.

[Pullman99]

Wasn't Brands wonderful back then, access to the cars, dodging the marshals to get through the tunnel as the cars went through.....

Yes indeed. Although, it always helped if you were carrying a broom or something! Race of Champions 1971, if I'm not mistaken. George Eaton in the BRM P153 and JYS in the Tyrrell 001. I was marshalling at Clearways that weekend. Great memories. Not least, the Lotus 56B making its debut and Jody Scheckter making his British debut too. Whatever happened to him?

Happy days.

Edited by Pullman99, 04 April 2011 - 09:13.

[Stephen W]

And photo 1 is that Chris Skeaping's Chevron with the high shovel nose.?

F2 Chevron B18 taken at Mallory Park on March 14th 1971; it's a Jo Siffert - Chevron Cars entry for Xavier Perrot.

[petestenning]

F2 Chevron B18 taken at Mallory Park on March 14th 1971; it's a Jo Siffert - Chevron Cars entry for Xavier Perrot.

Damn i should have got that i was there

[Stephen W]

Damn i should have got that i was there

I was about 100 yards further down the track from where the above photo was taken!

[eurocardoc]

In the early days, I wandered around when not working on a car and took some photos, unfortunately, not enough....

[sterling49]

Love the photos, Brands especially, fantastic, thank you !

[MCS]

Very interesting - thanks for posting. For some reason I can't get the Chris Meek picture to load - anybody else having the same problem?

[eurocardoc]

I'll retry tonight, got a red X for me

[RogerFrench]

I'll retry tonight, got a red X for me

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