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Edited by Doug Nye, 19 May 2011 - 13:30.
Posted 19 May 2011 - 13:57
If we had a thread for too silly question, it would be #1....and some more if you're interested...
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1. Riley Red Mongrel perhaps? Looks like Freddie Dixon on the left
2. Gordon Brettel's Austin 7 single seater
3. Radford's ex Pows-Lybbe 1926 GP Talbot
4. Borgward
5. MG K3s but I don't know whose. Could one of them be an early version of JHT Smith's single seater?
6. EMW
7. No real idea but there's Brooklands Outer Circuit and Bentley special come to mind - Richard Marker's?
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9. Heinkel engined Veritas F2
10. Reg Bicknell's Revis F3
11. An Italian FJ - Taraschi?
12. De Tomaso F1
12a. Obviously a 250F - Peter Collins? Leading an 8 cylinder Gordini
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Posted 19 May 2011 - 21:20
No.14 is obviously a Galaxie and it looks like Pau, might be a Tour de France shot from 1964 perhaps, but beyond that I do not know without cheating.
Posted 19 May 2011 - 21:20
Just concentrating on my core areas, this time ......and quicker than Rudi Ratlos this time ...
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8 looks like an Alfetta with a weird tail. Is that Farina at the wheel? Seems to be leaning forward though.
Posted 19 May 2011 - 22:07
Sometimes I think you have core areas everywhere.Just concentrating on my core areas, this time ...
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Posted 20 May 2011 - 04:51
I think it's a Ferrari 275. Looks like Spa. Don't know who's driving.
Posted 20 May 2011 - 05:15
Definitely Pau, it's the left hander before the right onto the start finish straight - confirmed by looking at Google streetview
Posted 20 May 2011 - 07:16
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One of the lesser known 1957 events: Lenzerheide on 25/08/1957. # 136 is clearly Hans Herrmann, # 137 Giulio Cabianca. With # 139 behind we have Willy Peter Daetwyler in his Maserati 200 SI.
Posted 20 May 2011 - 08:51
The style and pullover are similar to Nuvolari. However Nivola didn't race this Ferrari. Its the Double Stage compressor 125 GP. Ascari raced the experimental 275 at Spa.
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Edited by Doug Nye, 20 May 2011 - 10:15.
Posted 20 May 2011 - 10:41
...or the driver of 12 then?
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Posted 20 May 2011 - 10:45
Correction: Roberto Lippi at Monza in 1961Giorgio Scarlatti
Posted 20 May 2011 - 12:36
In which case I have to come clean and admit he was identified for us by Barrie Hobkirk ;)You're all doing very well so far - some have been nailed - particularly impressed by accurate ID of Lucien Barthe - perhaps the most obscure of contemporary 250F drivers?
Posted 20 May 2011 - 13:16
HI all! The car was build by Peter Almack for George Abacassis. ( Sorry about spelling of names)
The car as shown was in its final form used Q type MG backplates etc grafted onto austin rear axle and Ballamy split front axle.
Engine was an Ulsterised* Mag engine with Bronze cylinder head similar in shape to the high capacity austin head.
Hopefully the car will be in once piece again soon!
Edited by austinharris, 20 May 2011 - 13:17.
Posted 20 May 2011 - 13:17
You're all doing very well so far - some have been nailed - particularly impressed by accurate ID of Lucien Barthe - perhaps the most obscure of contemporary 250F drivers? - and of Simoes in the experimental FJ race at Oporto. The Ferrari shot is indeed rounding La Source at Spa, Ascari's sister car wore the practice ID letter 'G'. I believe the driver is in fact Villoresi - but the image resemblance to Nuvolari is indeed quite striking. The accurate AVUS and Tiefencastel IDs also impress. The Galaxie is indeed in the Pau epreuve of the Tour de France Automobile - what a fabulous event that was! No suggestions for 3 or the driver of 12 then?
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Posted 20 May 2011 - 14:11
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Edited by Doug Nye, 20 May 2011 - 14:47.
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In which case I have to come clean and admit he was identified for us by Barrie Hobkirk ;)
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Edited by fbarrett, 20 May 2011 - 18:44.
Posted 20 May 2011 - 18:50
2-litre Formula 2 certainly expired at the end of the 1953 season - being replaced at premier-league level by 2 1/2-litre Formula 1. For the Berlin Grand Prix at AVUS in September that year the Klenk-Meteor was confronted by three of these...the result being as close as motor racing may get to being a foregone conclusion. Fangio here finished second to team-mate Karl Kling, a proud German winning on German soil. At Aintree, Fangio had similarly finished second to Moss, a proud Englishman winning on British soil.
I love this shot by Fred Taylor - that critical moment as the fuel-injected engine has just caught and fired, blasting oil smoke from those cacophonous side exhausts.... As Mr Toad exclaimed: "Oh poop poop!"
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Posted 20 May 2011 - 21:20
Apologies Rudi - I must have missed that somehowIndeed - Rudi got the edge on Dave/Barrie on this one.
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Posted 20 May 2011 - 21:46
I agree with you, Paul, the story of the European Hill Climb Championship is a fascinating one but nobody has ever had the idea (or passion) to write up something about its "Golden Years".Has anybody written a definitive book on these fascinating events, presumably they have in German and/or French, they really do deserve proper coverage both photographically and textually.
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No, this "coupé" is not #10447, it is what I would call the "Glöckner N°1": 1950 in the hands of Walter Glöckler, 1951 raced by Kathrein, 1952 by Brendel, 1953 by both Cappenberg and Höftmann and in 1954 mainly by Cappenberg and Niedermayr.Number 6 fascinates me: two of the six Gloeckler-Porsches in one photo!
The "coupe" seems to be chassis 10447, the third G-P, which still exists (rebodied), but by 1954 that chassis was already a year into its U.S. sojourn (courtesy of Max Hoffman, John von Neumann, Fred Proctor, et al), so it can't be, can it?
Frank
Edited by r.atlos, 20 May 2011 - 22:32.
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Edited by REDARMYSOJA, 21 May 2011 - 00:21.
Posted 20 May 2011 - 23:59
That doesn't look like Ascari or Villoresi to me. I can't find any records of him driving that car, but could it be Giovanni Bracco? Here are a couple of photo's of him, in this first one you can see him wearing the same sort of vest as in the photo in question
http://storage.canal...07/18846690.jpg
and in this one, from the 1951 Targa Florio he seems to be wearing that same type helmet
http://img12.imagesh...51scuderiay.jpg