If so, I wonder how it was tuned?
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Edited by Ray Bell, 28 July 2015 - 00:02.
Posted 27 July 2015 - 03:13
Edited by Ray Bell, 28 July 2015 - 00:02.
Posted 27 July 2015 - 09:38
I wonder of that original 203 carburettor is in use there?
If so, I wonder how it was tuned?
Posted 27 July 2015 - 11:00
Twin SU fuel pumps feeding twin SUs...who cares?
But what's feeding the Solex on the other side? (And why would you bolt the carby to the rocker cover anyway?)
Posted 27 July 2015 - 11:09
The Solex is there to 'balance out' the Pommy SU carrbs & fuel pumps and Swiss magneto.
Posted 27 July 2015 - 12:02
Edited by Ray Bell, 27 July 2015 - 12:03.
Posted 27 July 2015 - 23:13
But what's feeding the Solex on the other side? (And why would you bolt the carby to the rocker cover anyway?)
Posted 27 July 2015 - 23:32
I'd say nothing...
You could be right there, Mick...just a dummy [the Zenith, that is].
Edit:- Anyone spot the 'deliberate mistake' ?...of course it's a Solex.
Edited by GMACKIE, 28 July 2015 - 00:23.
Posted 28 July 2015 - 00:14
Originally posted by 275 GTB-4
I'd say nothing... probably just blanked off and bolted on to give that period look that would poke out of the "bonnet"
Edited by Ray Bell, 28 July 2015 - 00:15.
Posted 28 July 2015 - 00:36
Kevin Lang still owns the car,maybe someone should contact him and ask him how it worked.
Posted 28 July 2015 - 01:51
Posted 28 July 2015 - 04:39
Lang's wasn't the only car with that carby set-up. I believe Wally Higgs tried it too before deleting the original RH carb and making the head just cross-flow.
I think he filled the LH chamber with fibreglass then drilled ports through it. Some used to weld in aluminium tubes.
Posted 28 July 2015 - 05:28
Posted 28 July 2015 - 07:50
What a great combination a beautiful Austin Healey towing the Byfield Repco Sports.
Edited by ken devine, 28 July 2015 - 07:51.
Posted 28 July 2015 - 11:20
This one is a puzzle. It's a motorcycle sidecar, there's a windsock on the corner, and the uniform cop is wearing a solar topee or similar. Women;'s skirts are mid-calf, which suggests late 40s, but otherwise I am lost. I have added a "detail" from the corner at actual scan size if that might help.
Posted 28 July 2015 - 11:34
Edited by Ray Bell, 28 July 2015 - 11:38.
Posted 28 July 2015 - 12:07
Could be a motorcycles-only meeting, and in WA the bikes used a lot of circuits not used by the cars, as well. Farmland, probably on the outskirts of a town. Which town? I don't know.
There are three other pics in this set, small snapshots, just showing a blurred bike against a vague background, which are no help at all. This is the only one that shows any background features, such as what looks to me like a farmhouse.
Posted 28 July 2015 - 12:25
Edited by Ray Bell, 28 July 2015 - 12:25.
Posted 29 July 2015 - 00:43
Thats a Pith helmet the cop is wearing.I can't pick it either.
Posted 29 July 2015 - 01:03
Not sure about other states, but cops wore those helmets outdoors in NSW. Gnoo Blas [Orange] could be right.
Posted 29 July 2015 - 01:59
I googled windsock corner gnoo blas images, and while I couldn't race a pic taken from the same spot, photos from the 50s and 60s look a lot like it, specially the terrain in the background.
Posted 29 July 2015 - 04:15
Posted 29 July 2015 - 05:29
Posted 30 July 2015 - 05:44
WA switched from front-engined to rear engined in a matter of about 3 years. In 1962, there were still a lot of front engined cars, and one or two rear; by 1965 or 6 the front-engined cars were practically invisible. It really was a revolution.
This photo, also from Dave's album, shows a front row grid formation not to much later:
From far to near: The Bill Richards Motors ("BRM") Morgan, with Merv Dudley as the driver; the TS Spl with Sid Taylor up; and the Cooper Bristol, with Syd Negus up and probably with the Holden engine, but I can't be sure.
Advice from Don Hall;- Peter Nicol in BRM Morgan, Bob McCandlish second from left, worked for Syd Anderson and later for Don, Bill Richards,
['father' of the car and Morgan agent ] extreme right with dark glasses and dark slacks.
Posted 30 July 2015 - 12:22
This one is a puzzle. It's a motorcycle sidecar, there's a windsock on the corner, and the uniform cop is wearing a solar topee or similar. Women;'s skirts are mid-calf, which suggests late 40s, but otherwise I am lost. I have added a "detail" from the corner at actual scan size if that might help.
Posted 30 July 2015 - 20:43
...and the clouds.
Posted 31 July 2015 - 00:35
That machinery must have worked overtime to remove the hill!
Posted 31 July 2015 - 00:59
Could it be hiding behind those radiatas, Rod ? They only take a few years to get to that height.
Posted 31 July 2015 - 01:11
Posted 31 July 2015 - 06:49
Posted 21 October 2015 - 05:46
In Dave's later career he built himself a Peugot engined single seater with VW box and swing axles, and his album contains an assortment of under-construction shots, which I'll put up here soon. When Dave retired from racing, the car was stashed away in the garage, and Dave wouldn't sell it. However, he has at last parted with it, and it is in the hands of Neil McCrudden of the WA Racing Museum, who had added it to a row of restoration projects. The chassis is rusted out, due to the coolant being run through the chassis tubes. Neil tells me he is going to restore it to the final road racing version with the Holden grey motor and IRS. Dave never crashed the single-seater, known as the DSM (Dave Sullivan Motors, what else?), so the aluminium body is intact and original. Another WA special salvaged before it was too late. (WA Racing Car Championship winner.)
Posted 24 October 2015 - 04:26
The DSM under constrction
Complete
Posted 27 March 2016 - 02:53
hello Terry, great photos, question way back in december 2007 you posted a picture in the thread "personal photos from the paddock" of Brian Muir ? standing on a trailer with a crashed green Ferrari 250LM, I think it was David Pipers car ? the photo was credited to Dave Sullivan. that photo is no longer on the original thread, I had saved it at the time, but now I cannot locate it ! too much stuff is there a chance you could re post it, or a link where I might find it.
Michael Scott (group7) in Canada
Posted 27 March 2016 - 12:11
I hope this works: it's been a while since I last put up a picture.
EDIT: It worked!
Edited by Terry Walker, 27 March 2016 - 12:12.
Posted 27 March 2016 - 14:19
Terry, Thank You ! thats the one ! I remember there was quite a discussion at the time, as to where that photo was taken.
it does take away from the thrust of this thread, which is racing down under. I like seeing all the photos from your region, here and on other sites. gives a great idea of what it was like. I particularly all the specials., and the American machines that made it there.
Mike (group7)
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Posted 27 March 2016 - 15:14
I hope this works: it's been a while since I last put up a picture.
EDIT: It worked!
Looks like the person on the trailer is Brian Muir, best known in the UK for his drives in the Wiggins Teape Camaro/Capri
Posted 27 March 2016 - 15:21
Posted 27 March 2016 - 19:31
Poor 'Yogi' - buried any potential future with Gulf-JW by going into the sand early on at Le Mans... With John Wyer second chances were rare indeed.
DCN
Posted 23 May 2022 - 10:39
Posted 23 May 2022 - 10:51
Welcome Craig. And thank goodness you were able to save the slides you did.
Try postimage as a third party host for the photos, there's a sticky thread here on TNF that gives you a rundown. Otherwise there's a few of us who can help you get them on here.
Stephen
Posted 23 May 2022 - 21:28
Please put them up, Craig...
Finding such things on Facebook is a chore, often unrewarded.
Posted 23 May 2022 - 22:53