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#3851 10kDA

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Posted 10 March 2024 - 01:32

Some from Riverside this time

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1964 Times Grand Prix winner Parnelli Jones, Cooper Monaco T61/Shelby King Cobra

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Ludwig Heimrath

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Allen Grant drove Alan Green's Cheetah in the '64 Times GP. I wonder how many times those names tripped up the track announcer.

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#3852 D28

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Posted 10 March 2024 - 04:15

Ludwig's ride  could be from the 1966 Riverside Can-Am, McLaren-Elva Ford.

 

Great photos, all of them!



#3853 68targa

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Posted 10 March 2024 - 09:47

Hi,

 

I was at the 1000km at Silverstone in 1983, sadly before  digital camras and  camera phones. I was impressed with the Joest transpeter, a bus with the Marlboro, and New Man cars at the level of the windows, with ' Silverstone' as destination, it made an obviously lasting imression, there must be some pic?

 

Thx  G

 

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Posted 10 March 2024 - 14:14

Just wanted to add - the #124 Elite looks particularly badass with the rear wheel arch radiused for the larger tires.

This could be the Elite of Peter Lumsden, (reg WUU2 - ch1003) around 1961. He purchased the car in 1959 and gradually modified it. Not many Elites ran with the wobbly-web wheels but he used them for a class win at the Nurburgring 1000kms.



#3855 Ray Bell

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Posted 10 March 2024 - 19:41

The tyres look outsize for the 1200-1500cc cars of the time...

 

The name 'Peter Lumsden' stood out for me as a recollection of a pretty serious privateer Jaguar E-type owner, Googling I found that he bought an E-type in 1961 and then followed up by getting a Lightweight E-type in 1963, but also that his win in the Nurburgring 1000kms was in 1959. A photo I found online showed that car didn't have the big wheels, nor would I have expected it to have such sized tyres in 1959.

 

I'll put the question to Michael Oliver, he's sure to know.



#3856 bradbury west

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Posted 10 March 2024 - 21:09

I believe it is the David Buxton Elite.

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#3857 jpgp79

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Posted 11 March 2024 - 07:20

For those who are interested, the photo of the green & yellow Team Lotus transporter (Bedford SB based) has been taken in June 1964 for the Belgium GP in Stavelot, Avenue Ferdinand Nicolay, a well known street in the historic center of the city facing the Abbey and Circuit Museum. The Tower in the background is called "Toren Abdijkerk" something like "Abbey Tower".

 

The place has changed a bit nowadays !

 

 


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#3858 Roryswood

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Posted 11 March 2024 - 07:30

Yes there are photos of it , try gpoogle joest Mercedes bus transporter 1983 1984

#3859 Ray Bell

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Posted 11 March 2024 - 07:38

Thank you, Roger...

 

Googling that I found a pic of the car from Zandvoort in 1963, which was after the 2-litre engine was removed. But it was certainly into the era when wheels grew wider by that time.

 

Lotus 18 suspension was mentioned on a TNF thread.



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#3860 DUFFY

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Posted 11 March 2024 - 08:12

Late 1960s/early 1970s in the UK.

 

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#3861 MCS

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Posted 11 March 2024 - 16:59

 

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Fabulous.  With Monsieur Arnold himself sat at far left wearing the sunglasses.



#3862 10kDA

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Posted 12 March 2024 - 01:15

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#3863 GregThomas

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Posted 12 March 2024 - 06:50

I wish i could come up with a pic of a (now deceased) friend's bike transport.  I doubt if anyone bothered at the time, sadly.

 

A Bentley MkVI, towing a small ,rough wooden trailer with a Montesa 360 converted to a roadracer tied on. The trailer and load sitting at a jaunty angle as the Bentley towbar was a low one.

 

He'd arrive and parade slowly around the pits waving like the Governor-General was on board. To of course, a lot of shouted impolite comments.

 

Very memorable. His family still have that Bentley and a prewar 3 litre.



#3864 10kDA

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Posted 12 March 2024 - 13:02

I wish i could come up with a pic of a (now deceased) friend's bike transport.  I doubt if anyone bothered at the time, sadly.

 

A Bentley MkVI, towing a small ,rough wooden trailer with a Montesa 360 converted to a roadracer tied on. The trailer and load sitting at a jaunty angle as the Bentley towbar was a low one.

 

He'd arrive and parade slowly around the pits waving like the Governor-General was on board. To of course, a lot of shouted impolite comments.

 

Very memorable. His family still have that Bentley and a prewar 3 litre.

Awesomeness.