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[eaglefan]

I have two colour paddock photos that appear to show this car in blue and white livery, so why is the Spark model of the car in purple and white ?

 

Was it re-painted sometime during the weekend ? 

 

I can't find a photo to confirm this, so if anyone can shed some light, or better still, provide a photo, I'd be very grateful. 

 

 

[275 GTB-4]

I have two colour paddock photos that appear to show this car in blue and white livery, so why is the Spark model of the car in purple and white ?
 
Was it re-painted sometime during the weekend ? 
 
I can't find a photo to confirm this, so if anyone can shed some light, or better still, provide a photo, I'd be very grateful.

Colour (color) shift in your prints?

[D-Type]

Were some of Al Pease's other cars, eg sports cars, purple?  If so then his Eagle may have also been purple.  The car would certainly have been blue and white when AAR sold it to him.

[RA Historian]

I was at the '67 Canadian GP and have one shot of the Pease Eagle. It was taken during the early downpour and as such is not the sharpest. But I will say that it appears to be dark blue and white. Does not appear purple to me. But I may be wrong.

Tom

[bill p]

Were some of Al Pease's other cars, eg sports cars, purple?  If so then his Eagle may have also been purple.  The car would certainly have been blue and white when AAR sold it to him.

 

The Eagle-Climax also had a short (?) spell with Scuderia Filipinetti when it was red with a white stripe - there is a photo in the Filipinetti book with the car competing in a hillclimb

[D-Type]

Well, to state the bleeding obvious, Al Pease and his team wouldn't have repainted the car twice.  So they either painted the car blue or purple, but not blue then purple or purple then blue.

 

I've found these pictures of Al's Lotus 23 on Racing Sports Cars.  Now, is that car purple or dark blue?

Edited by D-Type, 14 December 2013 - 17:26.

[Tim Murray]

There's a definite purplish tinge in this photo:

 

http://f1rejects.com/drivers/pease/large/67-f1-mosport-2.jpg

 

(found here on the F1 Rejects site)

[scheivlak]

Some moving images of the car in this nice report http://www.youtube.c...h?v=u9fngNwbUIo e.g. at around 9:18 and 10:12. Colour quality isn't too great but it looks purplish to my - colourblind  - eyes....

[Rob G]

There's a definite purplish tinge in this photo:
 
http://f1rejects.com/drivers/pease/large/67-f1-mosport-2.jpg
 
(found here on the F1 Rejects site)

But there's also a purplish tinge in the asphalt, so I wouldn't trust that photo. This one from that same site seems more plausible: http://f1rejects.com...rge/pease-2.jpg

[David McKinney]

Well, to state the bleeding obvious, Al Pease and his team wouldn't have repainted the car twice.  So they either painted the car blue or purple, but not blue then purple or purple then blue.

I don't follow this. Pease buys a blue Eagle from AAR and paints it purple - did he he repaint it blue?

Having said that, the cockpit photo on the F1 rejects site referenced by Tim definitely looks blue to my eyes

[D-Type]

I don't follow this. Pease buys a blue Eagle from AAR and paints it purple - did he he repaint it blue?

Having said that, the cockpit photo on the F1 rejects site referenced by Tim definitely looks blue to my eyes

 

I was responding to:

The Eagle-Climax also had a short (?) spell with Scuderia Filipinetti when it was red with a white stripe - there is a photo in the Filipinetti book with the car competing in a hillclimb

I assumed that bill p meant that the car belonged to Filipinetti between AAR and Al Pease.  If Pease bought a red and white car from Filipinetti then my post makes sense. I agree that what I wrote is complete nonsense if Filipinetti bought it from Pease at some time after the 1969 Canadian GP.

[eaglefan]

I was responding to:

I assumed that bill p meant that the car belonged to Filipinetti between AAR and Al Pease.  If Pease bought a red and white car from Filipinetti then my post makes sense. I agree that what I wrote is complete nonsense if Filipinetti bought it from Pease at some time after the 1969 Canadian GP.

 

This car was never owned by Filipinetti, they bought chassis 102 which won the 1967 Race of Champions. It was sold to them in March 1968 without an engine. They subsequently fitted the Climax, as Gurney could not supply a Weslake V12.

 

The Al Pease car (101) was bought direct from AAR by Castrol (one of Gurney's sponsors at the time), for Pease to drive in the 1st Canadian GP in 1967.

 

In 1968 the car changed colour again, appearing in yellow, green, red and white.

 

I still haven't seen anything conclusive to convince me the car was purple and white in 1967.

[blackcat21]

I can shed some light here. I was on the crew for the GP at Mosport. The car was dark blue, and I have I photos I took of both Al and Dan on the front straight. I'm in the picture of the team that is on Google images. I have a good 8x10 of that. I'll take a look for it and scan it if anyone wants it posted

As for the Lotus 23--chassis #23(really), it was black, as was Al's MGB. Al used 69 as his racing number any time I knew him. The Lotus was driven by Jim Clark in the Players' race in June and by Al in the GP in the fall It carried sponsorship--a VERY new idea then--from Honest Ed's bargain store on Bloor St in Toronto. Al's shop was only a block or two away--a glorious 1920/30's Craftsman style brick garage.

The MGB was unreal. Al was more than a quick and aggressive--but safe--driver. He was a creative engineer with the ability to bring good people to-gether to develop his cars. The team assembled at Mosport was mostly a group of engineers from Chrysler in Detroit--a bus-man's holiday for them. The 3 young guys are me--MGA with a bunch of Al's last-year's-goodies, Bill Boveneizer who went on to a Lotus 51, and Barry??? who later worked as a fabricator at AAR and I heard now has a shop back in Toronto.

OR the short answer:

Blue--and I guarantee that--If the models are purple or mauve or???--frankly they are wrong.

Gerry

[eaglefan]

Gerry,

 

Thanks for giving the definitive answer to my query.