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[Doug Nye]

Bored on Boxing Day... studying the nerds' assault upon this place, I wonder if this will this work...?

Press this button - press that one - ignore that 'Facebook' mention - ooh this seems to be working - umm Image Shack, where do I find the Forum code then? Oh - try that box there. Hmmm. Uploaded? I wonder. Oooh.



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Test image strictly copyright: The GP Library/DSJ

Maybe this unattractive, unappealing, unwelcoming new system does work, after all...?

DCN

Edited by Doug Nye, 26 December 2013 - 20:19.

[Doug Nye]

Let's just try this again, in case that last was a fluke...

 

Yes - it was a fluke.  Total failure in attempt to post six more.

 

DCN

[arttidesco]

Doubt this has much to do with Vol 4, so my guess is the Gordinis of Behra no.2 10 5 lapls down, Trintignant no.4 retired transmission on 14 laps  and Schell no.6 retired engine on 4 laps, 1953 French GP at Reims ?

[arttidesco]

Tasty though the left over triffle is this is much more fun give it another whirl Doug, please !

[john winfield]

Hello again Doug.  Well done for persevering - I haven't managed to post a single photo since the changes!

 

Anyway, not being very knowledgeable about 1950s racing, the 'Rootes Group / Stirling Moss' transporter caught my eye. What car would that be anybody, in which category? 

[Gary C]

receiving you loud and clear, Doug!

[ChrisJson]

Hi Doug!

 

On Imageshack right click the photo you would like to show.

 

Choose "share it". 

 

Mark the text in the box named "Forums" under "Full size".

It begins and ends with "[img]"

 

Press Ctrl + C on your keyboard.

 

Press Crtl + V where you want to have it in your post on TNF.

 

Hope this helps.

 

Greetings from Sweden and welcome back!!

 

Christer

Edited by ChrisJson, 26 December 2013 - 23:08.

[Doug Nye]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Edited by Doug Nye, 26 December 2013 - 20:38.

[Vitesse2]

The Cobb picture presumably refers to this memory from David Beard: http://forums.autosp...at-silverstone/

[kayemod]

I liked Doug's last one of Manfred at the wheel.

[Doug Nye]

Yesss - some of them seem to have 'taken'.  Thank you Christer.  Manfred Oechsle is driving something interesting.... and the beach is an LSR attempt site - and the Gordinis were NOT at the French GP, but close...

 

Best - DCN

Edited by Doug Nye, 26 December 2013 - 20:05.

[Vitesse2]

Could that be Ninety Mile Beach in New Zealand? 'Wizard' Smith country?

[Doug Nye]

Spot on - flying northward above Ninety-Mile Beach we throttled back and followed this minibus for a couple of miles. At several points it bucketed and splashed through tide-gouged gulleys draining the beach. 'Wizard' was a brave boy regardless of the outcome...

DCN

[Ray Bell]

Is Jersey perhaps close to France?

[Doug Nye]

It certainly is...but the Gordinis are pictured upon French soil...which Jersey most decidedly is NOT.

 

DCN

[seldo]

Yesss - some of them seem to have 'taken'.  Thank you Christer.  Manfred Oechsle is driving something interesting.... and the beach is an LSR attempt site - and the Gordinis were NOT at the French GP, but close...
 
Best - DCN

Manfred appears to be at the helm of the Mercedes GP team bespoke 300c-based transporter

Edited by seldo, 26 December 2013 - 20:56.

[Macca]

Is the first of the batch of an early Vanwall?

 

Paul M

[Doug Nye]

Not the Reims-Gueux paddock...

 

And not an early Vanwall frame...though close...

 

DCN

[nicanary]

Not the Reims-Gueux paddock...

 

And not an early Vanwall frame...though close...

 

DCN

Because it's Caen on 25.7.54. Well, the numbers fit. In which case the other 250F is Bira's. The Gordinis are #2 Jean Behra, #6 Jacques Pollet. #4 Clemar Bucci.

[Lee Nicolle]

Spot on - flying northward above Ninety-Mile Beach we throttled back and followed this minibus for a couple of miles. At several points it bucketed and splashed through tide-gouged gulleys draining the beach. 'Wizard' was a brave boy regardless of the outcome...

DCN

Beaches are funny things. I once drove to the Murray mouth in my long low Ford Galaxie, smooth wide and firm. Next time it was 4wd and diff locks in the Landcruiser. I have been on Sellicks Beach when about 25k was the max,, yet they raced bikes there on occasion. And it was smooth then as that beach more often is. Tides, seasons, weather dictate the conditions on the sand, and how wide it is too ofcourse

[john winfield]

No.1  La Baule 1952?  

[Macca]

If not an early Vanwall, then the other team with a pseudo-scientific approach that weighed things a lot was BRM.

 

There's a Flat-12 Alfa T33 in the middle of the batch, and a rear-engined Birdcage, but also a turbocharged thing that I have no clue about.

 

Paul M

[MCS]

Because it's Caen on 25.7.54. Well, the numbers fit. In which case the other 250F is Bira's. The Gordinis are #2 Jean Behra, #6 Jacques Pollet. #4 Clemar Bucci.

Agree with Caen. Bieres Paillette is a northern beer.

 

Hotel de Strasbourg is a red herring.

 

Struggling - really struggling - with the rest, but happily so  !!

[Alan Cox]

Oh dear. The new technology has taken upon itself not to include a selected "quote" - haven't had it do that to me before.

 

Anyway, I was going to say that the first pic of the main batch is the engineless 250F chassis which Vandervell acquired for assessment purposes (#2513)

 

(I think you have posted the picture before, Doug)

Edited by Alan Cox, 26 December 2013 - 22:32.

[Jean L]

Bières Paillette = Normandie.

[D-Type]

And the Mercedes Benz collection with some of the toys still in their boxes. Do they have one of every Mercedes-powered GP car?

 

What's the story behind the cowboys at Goodwood?  Carroll Shelby, AJ Foyt, ?????

[Doug Nye]

Right on Caen GP - right on 2513 frame - and quite probably right that I have posted that pic before...I really would not remember, but thanks for your forebearance.

DCN

[Doug Nye]

The cowboys and warbirds were part of the meet and greet feature at this year's Goodwood Revival Meeting party, which had a Wild West theme.

DCN

[ChrisJson]

The last photo is (I think) of the Ferrari 1512 driven by

Joe Colasacco in this years Glover Trophy at the Revival.

 

Christer

[ChrisJson]

The two Bonhams sold cars are the Ecurie Ecosse C-Type (£ 2.9 mil)

and the Benetton B194/05 ($ 1.009.281).

 

Christer                      

[Slurp1955]

Ferrari 1512 s/n 0008  JohnP

[Doug Nye]

Anyone brave enough to ID the nutsy-boltsy shots?  One is an Alfa T33/12 as Paul M rightly points out - consider red and white perhaps?????

 

DCN

[Catalina Park]

The turbo powered thing would be a Lancia LC1.
The cockpit above it looks like the Lancia LC2

[Doug Nye]

Goodness me, well done Michael...

 

Funny how easy it still appears to be to add pix this morning.

 

 

 

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...errr, well, maybe not as easy as it used to be...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Edited by Doug Nye, 27 December 2013 - 13:40.

[proviz]

The turbo powered thing would be a Lancia LC1.
The cockpit above it looks like the Lancia LC2

 

And the cockpit further down is a Ford GT.

[byrkus]

That Porsche 917 with no. 29 is pictured at 1969 1000 km race at Österreichring - which was the first race win for that type of car.

 

And the final picture, I believe is from an Alfa Romeo P3.

[RTH]

A very welcome return to a group of fascinating photographs.

[Slurp1955]

As my campaign for vandalism at the MCG may prove a little premature, I've turned my attention to this. I think the 908/02 is Sepp Greger at the Nurburgring 1000km in 1970. JohnP

By the way Doug, have you seen "Rush" yet?, you did after all start the thread, regards John

[MCS]

That Porsche 917 with no. 29 is pictured at 1969 1000 km race at Österreichring - which was the first race win for that type of car.

 

And the final picture, I believe is from an Alfa Romeo P3.

Siffert at the wheel, Ickx behind in the Wyer Mirage.

 

I was going to suggest Gerard Larousse in the 908 at the 'Ring, but maybe that isn't a Martini (Porsche Salzburg) car - not enough stripes! -  as John has identified.

[Slurp1955]

Simon Taylor at Goodwood Revival ?, possibly this year looking at the weather ?

[bradbury west]

I can only see four of them....
Top one with Chrysler engine the Cunningham replica perhaps, or even a real one, the 12 is Mike Bennett's car at last years FoS. Mike is on the lft with Merv Theriault , 57/58 Lotus mechanic, who was party to Jenks' Boxing Day antics, and the chap on the rt is the man who looked after the car for Mike. The split drive is for a tipo B monoposto. As someone said to me years ago, once Rodney Felton had had the drawings made up for his car they were readily available....... Not sure of the workshops, possibly Neil's or Jim Stokes', or C&G
Roger Lund

Edit, sorry did not see byrkus' post

Edited by bradbury west, 27 December 2013 - 16:46.

[Alan Cox]

Pic no.8 of the second batch - A lovely shot of Ron Flockhart in his BRM P25 during practice for the 1957 French GP at Rouen? I assume that it is practice for he only lasted 2 laps of the race and it looks like Peter Collins' Ferrari sitting unattended in the pits

[Eric Dunsdon]

Pic no.8 of the second batch - A lovely shot of Ron Flockhart in his BRM P25 during practice for the 1957 French GP at Rouen? I assume that it is practice for he only lasted 2 laps of the race and it looks like Peter Collins' Ferrari sitting unattended in the pits

Also a nice rear view shot of Frolian Gonzalez 4.9 litre Ferrari at start of the Production(!) Sports Car Race. Silverstone May 1954. He won of course.

[Tuboscocca]

Also a nice rear view shot of Frolian Gonzalez 4.9 litre Ferrari at start of the Production(!) Sports Car Race. Silverstone May 1954. He won of course.

Isn't that car (0384AM) in the (ex-)Swaters collection??

 

Michael

[David McKinney]

I believe the Gonzalez Silverstone car was 0392

[Doug Nye]

First thing this morning I received an email from Howden Ganley - part of which reads as follows: "Posting on TNF is far too technical for me !   However, (re the three Gordinis).  My bet is Caen . I also think that those

are 250Fs beside Stirling's transporter . (Friends) all disagree !

"Re your first ' chassis ' photo - I favour 250F as being the frame.

"I think it is 90 Mile Beach  and  that bloke is driving the Mercedes high-speed transporter."

 

Tut - right on all counts then - smart-arse.  

 

That Chrysler V8 engine is not in the replica but in the genuine Cunningham C4R Roadster at the Collier Collection in Naples, FL - the yumping 908 at Brunnchen is indeed Sepp Greger's - that is Simon T. in full flow during the Freddie March Memorial Trophy race at this year's Goodwood Revival Meeting, and the comm. box's dark windows don't greatly exaggerate the dank, cold and gloomy weather outside - then that is indeed Mike Bennett's beautiful little Lotus 12 with Mike and a mate whose name I fear I cannot recollect plus Merv Therriault over from Canada at the FoS - that is Ron Flockhart in the BRM Type 25 at Rouen '57 - oh and that is Gonzalez setting off in the works 375-Plus at Silverstone in 1954, chassis 0384AM not - as was thought for a long time - 0392, Dave, sorry.  The split-drive back axle is Alfa Romeo Tipo B Monoposto - photographed at its manufacturer's premises, Jim Stokes Workshops in Waterlooville, Hants.  The ventilated-seat red-car cockpit is indeed a Ford GT40 (surprised nobody jumped immediately onto that one) and the Bonhams shots are of the outstanding Dick Skipworth Ecosse Collection C-Type, ex-Bob & Ninian Sanderson, and of the Schumacher Benetton, both of which sold so well.

 

Ah yes - Slurp asked if I have seen 'Rush' yet?  Just like the Senna movie the answer is no.  I saw enough of the real blokes and the real action at the time thanks.  I don't really 'do' movies*.  In fact the last one that Mrs Nye and I actually went to see in a cinema was 'Grease'...only two years after the events depicted in 'Rush'...  

 

Any thoughts more closely identifying the 'Birdcage' chassis, or the Cobra Daytona Coupe, or in particular the shot of that tubular arrangement within some kind of sheet-metal sheathing, above?

 

DCN

 

PS - *But I do have three favourite movies which spring immediately to mind - 'The Shawshank Redemption', 'Dark Star' and 'Ratatouille' - each one, so far as I am concerned, simply sublime.

Edited by Doug Nye, 27 December 2013 - 20:49.

[Tuboscocca]

I believe the Gonzalez Silverstone car was 0392

David

 

http://jacquesswater...384am-timeline/

 

Interesting history --from V8-ted  to stolen...

 

The Cavalleria Book on the 375 Plus (written by a certain DCN) is in this point not correct--or the history was not known at the time of publishing!!

 

Best regards Michael

[Doug Nye]

Apparently both.      

DCN

[ChrisJson]

The ´64 Cobra Daytona is driven by Kenny Bräck at the 2012 FoS.

 

Christer

[ChrisJson]

Leading Froilan at the moment but ended 4th #5 Jimmy Stewart,

3rd #6 Peter Walker and 6th #9 Duncan Hamilton all Jaguar C-types.

 

Christer