I'd appreciate hearing from you guys to identify this sports-racer photographed at Blackbushe airport in 1968. Is it a Lotus or a Cooper, or ----?
http://www.oldstox.c...../sports q.jpg
Cheers!
Please identify this sports-racer?
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Dkipling1
, Apr 26 2011 20:05
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Posted 26 April 2011 - 20:23
Looks like a Lotus 15 with a modified tail to me.
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Tim Murray
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Posted 26 April 2011 - 20:54
The registration indicates that it's Lister Costin BHL130 owned at one time by Gerry Marshall. Gregor Marshall has mentioned the car several times in various threads here.
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Posted 26 April 2011 - 20:56
I'd appreciate hearing from you guys to identify this sports-racer photographed at Blackbushe airport in 1968. Is it a Lotus or a Cooper, or ----?
http://www.oldstox.c...../sports q.jpg
Cheers!
Why are you shouting?
It's is a Costin Lister #BHL130 as driven in the Guards Trophy Race 6th August 1962 - Driver Mike Pendleton (GB) placed 17th (8 laps behind the winner)qualified 25th
Edited by Bloggsworth, 26 April 2011 - 21:04.
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Paul Parker
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Posted 26 April 2011 - 21:03
Looks like a Lotus 15 with a modified tail to me.
This is a 1959 Costin bodied Lister (BHL 130) bought by Mike Anthony that started off with Chevy power and registered TUF 1. He sold it on to Mike Pendleton later that year but now fitted with a 3.4 Jaguar motor and registered YCD 422 who in turn sold it to Dick Tindell. Not sure who this is in the picture but the car was sold to Gerry Marshall in 1978 who raced it very successfully for Marsh Plant Hire circa 1980-2 or thereabouts. After this it passed to Don Shead and reacquired Chevy power and after several more owners was bought by Julian Bronson who won the 2004 Sussex Trophy at the Goodwood Revival in it.
Some fine detail courtesy of DCN, general blah courtesy of my memory and seeing it in period.
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Posted 26 April 2011 - 22:45
A big thank-you for those expert and fast responses --- and my not-the-first-time apology for shouting in bold, again ;-(That's its real career - not when it became "Historic"
