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#101 Ray Bell

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Posted 27 July 2015 - 03:13

I wonder if that original 203 carburettor is in use there?

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If so, I wonder how it was tuned?



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#102 275 GTB-4

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Posted 27 July 2015 - 09:36

I was there that day. Jack came in by helicopter if I remember rightly.
 
This is the under-bonnet of the Lang HRG:
 
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I hope it wasn't a Robinson...we could have lost Jack earlier than expected :rolleyes:



#103 275 GTB-4

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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?


Twin SU fuel pumps feeding twin SUs...who cares?

#104 Catalina Park

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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?)



#105 GMACKIE

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Posted 27 July 2015 - 11:09

The Solex is there to 'balance out' the Pommy SU carrbs & fuel pumps and Swiss magneto.  ;)



#106 Ray Bell

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Posted 27 July 2015 - 12:02

And the Solex is on the inlet manifold...

Of which there are two on this engine.

The 203 manifold wasn't related to the rocker cover at all.



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#107 275 GTB-4

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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?)


I'd say nothing...probably just blanked off and bolted on to give that period look that would poke out of the "bonnet"

#108 GMACKIE

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Posted 27 July 2015 - 23:32

I'd say nothing...

 

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

 

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. :blush:


Edited by GMACKIE, 28 July 2015 - 00:23.


#109 Ray Bell

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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"


A typically pointless and misleading post from you, Mick...

It's quite clear when you look closely that the top of the Solex is below even the tube or cable or whatever it is that's below the top of the bonnet line, it's within the right hand side of the bonnet too. But the SUs clearly do stick out the side.

And lots of racing cars have bits on them that aren't being used, don't they? If not needed a blanking plate would have been very easy to make.

As for 'period' comment, the photo was taken in that period, it wasn't trying to emulate anything.

Edited by Ray Bell, 28 July 2015 - 00:15.


#110 ken devine

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Posted 28 July 2015 - 00:36

Kevin Lang still owns the car,maybe someone should contact him and ask him how it worked.



#111 Ray Bell

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Posted 28 July 2015 - 01:51

And how often the brazing cracks on the rough-and-ready alterations to the log manifold cover where the SUs mount...

Do we have contact details?

#112 Repco22

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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.



#113 Repco22

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Posted 28 July 2015 - 04:59

BTW, big Ray Barfield towed the DB3S with his big Ford wagon in the second pic.

Another couple of pics:

 

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Ray Barfield in the Aston Martin DB3S

 

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And Repco22 will know who this is: both pics at the same meeting.

Lionel Beattie used his Healey!

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#114 DanTra2858

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Posted 28 July 2015 - 05:28

It appears to me that with all the Crap that has been going on about the Carby set up on the Pug motor that not one of you have noticed the tuning trick of flattening the bell mouth of the Ram tube.

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Posted 28 July 2015 - 07:50

What a great combination a beautiful Austin Healey towing the Byfield Repco Sports.


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#116 Terry Walker

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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.

 

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#117 Ray Bell

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Posted 28 July 2015 - 11:34

The police uniform might be a tip...

If it's WA, were there many meetings where bikes and cars were mixed?

On the other hand, if the windsock is a clue, it doesn't look like Windsock Corner at Gnoo Blas and the uniform isn't NSW to my recollection.





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#118 Terry Walker

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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.



#119 Ray Bell

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Posted 28 July 2015 - 12:25

You might need to do another book, Terry?

The same applies to other states, of course. There were bike circuits at Ballarat, Goulburn and Vale (Bathurst) that used public roads without thinking too hard.




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#120 john medley

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Posted 28 July 2015 - 22:09

Gnoo Blas, in my opinion

#121 ken devine

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Posted 29 July 2015 - 00:43

Thats a Pith helmet the cop is wearing.I can't pick it either.



#122 GMACKIE

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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.



#123 Terry Walker

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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.



#124 Terry Walker

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Posted 29 July 2015 - 02:13

This is the best of the other shots of the small batch. the background looks a good match to the b+w 50s pics of windsock corner you get when you google "windsock corner gnoo blas"

 

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#125 Ray Bell

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Posted 29 July 2015 - 04:15

The reason I said it didn't 'look like' Gnoo Blas was the hill in the background...

But my memory may well be failing me. I thought it was quite flat south of Forrest Road. It certainly is further along where Val and Stan had their shop in the eighties.

The corner itself certainly does look like I'd have expected in the early fifties at Windsock.

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Posted 29 July 2015 - 05:29

The rider is coming from the South but we are looking West and there is a rise/hill in the background at that angle. There are current roadworks and realignment underway at the corner at the moment.

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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:

 

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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.



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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.
 
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Gnoo Blas...Cnr of Huntley and Forrest today certainly looks like windsock with that line of trees on the horizon...

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Posted 30 July 2015 - 20:43

...and the clouds.



#130 Repco22

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Posted 31 July 2015 - 00:35

That machinery must have worked overtime to remove the hill!



#131 GMACKIE

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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.



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Posted 31 July 2015 - 01:11

No, the pine trees are on the hill. The new road they are building definitely goes uphill. The further south you go this hill flattens out. You know what cameras can do to elevation in photos

#133 Terry Walker

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Posted 31 July 2015 - 06:13

After the era of the Grey Ghost, Dave Sr hunted down a Studebaker Lark to continue touring car racing, and this is the Brave Dave Racing Team. Dave Sr is second from right, Dave Jr second from left. Probably 1965 or 1966.

 

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#134 Ray Bell

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Posted 31 July 2015 - 06:49

As usual, Mick's intervention after it's all been settled gets it stirred up again...

Here's the motorcycle picture levelled out so the road in the foreground is nearer to level and the post for the windsock is more vertical:

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Trees are a phurphy, they grow and get chopped down, they aren't there where Mick's pic shows them at all because they've grown in the past fifty years.

#135 Terry Walker

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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.)



#136 Terry Walker

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Posted 24 October 2015 - 04:26

The DSM under constrction

 

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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   :rolleyes:  is there a chance you could re post it, or a link where I might find it.

 

Michael Scott (group7) in Canada



#138 Terry Walker

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Posted 27 March 2016 - 12:11

I hope this works: it's been a while since I last put up a picture.

 

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EDIT: It worked!


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Posted 27 March 2016 - 14:19

Terry, Thank You ! thats the one ! :clap:   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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#140 Peter Darley

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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.

 

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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



#141 Ray Bell

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Posted 27 March 2016 - 15:21

Yes, that's right...

Best known for driving the S4 Holden.

#142 Doug Nye

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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.     :rolleyes:

 

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Posted 23 May 2022 - 10:39

Sorry to open up an old thread but Dave Sullivan was my grandfather. He passed away a bit over a year ago at 103 years old. Through the power of google I stumbled across this thread and joined the forum. I rescued a heap of his slides that were thrown in the bin and have them on my computer. I met a man who said he was one of the first on the scene when the Car was totalled. I’m sure he said his name was Trevor French. Does anyone know him? He was a Motorsport photographer. Anyhoo, the photos have been put on the Old Motor Racing page on Facebook. I have his typed account of his time in the redex trial and an article about rolling the “fx” in practice at 100mph in Adelaide. If I can work out how to post them I will. If anyone has more pics or stories about Dave or his cars I’d love to hear them.

#144 cooper997

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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



#145 Ray Bell

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Posted 23 May 2022 - 21:28

Please put them up, Craig...

 

Finding such things on Facebook is a chore, often unrewarded.



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Posted 23 May 2022 - 22:53

I’m away at work until tomorrow. I’ll get onto it on break.