Personal photos from museums
#1
Posted 04 July 2007 - 09:16
If it's not suitable, I hope Twinny will remove it entirely.
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#2
Posted 04 July 2007 - 09:22
Also some have temporary exhibits such as the Mercedes one at Donington now. We can record them here! Perhaps we can include static shows here too such as exhibits at Stoneleigh?
#3
Posted 04 July 2007 - 10:26
Roger Lund.
#4
Posted 04 July 2007 - 11:37
#5
Posted 04 July 2007 - 12:07
Can I make my usual request for captions to photos as the reader may not be as familiar with the subject as the photographer
And for thumbnails as it makes the thread so so much quicker to open and easier to review.
#6
Posted 04 July 2007 - 15:23
Here with an example of the cars.
#7
Posted 04 July 2007 - 15:41
Ferrari 250LM, Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum, July 1989. The car is painted like the NART 250LM that won Le Mans in 1965 with Gregory and Rindt. I have no idea if it's the actually winning chassis, but it was presented as such.
Also visible are a MkII GT40 (1032 I believe, painted as a look-alike of the 1966 Le Mans winner), a Grand-Sport Corvette (IIRC) and a Mercedes W196 Stomlinenwagen (IIRC again).
#8
Posted 04 July 2007 - 16:43
The Corvette is the 1957 SS that raced at Sebring.
#9
Posted 04 July 2007 - 17:03
#11
Posted 04 July 2007 - 17:42
My favourite car is this one from the Henry Ford Museum.
Does anyone know this car, also from the Henry Ford Museum.
#12
Posted 04 July 2007 - 17:57
That's the famous Old 16 Locomobile that won the Vanderbilt Cup.Originally posted by Mark A
Does anyone know this car, also from the Henry Ford Museum.
#14
Posted 04 July 2007 - 19:29
Originally posted by Gary C
Here's a very rough Lotus Elite from the Sanxet Museum the other week.
which the museum owner reckoned was ex le Mans when I spoke to him 2 or 3 years back, just like his claim for the AC Ace, the nearest to that claim being if they were in the Sarthe car park, I suspect. At least it was a "new" car to the AC Ace Registrar.
Please note also the Ghia-designed-steel-bodied Jowett Jupiter, ex Monte Carlo Rally next to it. Rough but interesting as a piece in itself IMHO
Ed Nankievell, the Jupiter Registrar, knows all about it
Did you photograph the 1920s Citroen coupe, fascinating little car, like a Bugatti tank with a roof on. ?
Roger Lund.
#15
Posted 04 July 2007 - 19:31
#17
Posted 04 July 2007 - 22:03
[B]I set up a museums section on my website but I haven't updated it for years. Got loads of pics from Le Mans, Coventry, Gaydon, etc which aren't online.
My favourite car is this one from the Henry Ford Museum.
If that's the 1964 car, I helped build it. I've got a Polaroid of it or Dan Gurney's car being loaded on the flatbed, I'll try and find it.
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Posted 04 July 2007 - 23:47
#19
Posted 05 July 2007 - 00:06
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Posted 05 July 2007 - 02:13
#21
Posted 05 July 2007 - 06:29
David
#22
Posted 05 July 2007 - 07:18
#23
Posted 05 July 2007 - 12:35
Bathurst Museum - 1966 Mini first nine across the line!!
Senshiem Germany...just a fabulous, fabulous Museum
#24
Posted 05 July 2007 - 12:54
Al Unser Sr's T500 from 1978:
Wally Dallenbach's T270 from 1972:
The MSI also has Craig Breedlove's original Spirit of America LSR car, but it's nearly impossible to shoot a good photo owing to the sheer size of the thing.
#25
Posted 05 July 2007 - 13:30
What do they think is likely to happen to the cars, I wonder?
Good job Donington don't have that attitude.
#26
Posted 05 July 2007 - 14:21
Originally posted by petefenelon
A few links....
Donington Collection
Prague Technical Museum
Brooklands
Pete,
Those are great. Must get to Donington at some poiint...
#27
Posted 05 July 2007 - 14:28
Originally posted by Barry Boor
Behind glass! What a pity....
What do they think is likely to happen to the cars, I wonder?
Good job Donington don't have that attitude.
When I was nobbut a lad, I sat in the ex Fangio Mercedes, like the one illustrated earlier, at the Montague Motor Museum, much to the annoyance of the jobsworths (I didn't know you weren't supposed to, I was only 10) - loved those tartan seats!
#28
Posted 05 July 2007 - 14:35
Originally posted by EcosseF1
Pete,
Those are great. Must get to Donington at some poiint...
It's a very special place, with a lovely laid-back atmosphere. You can get very close to the cars and really look closely at them. I was there on a nice quiet morning and there were only a few other punters in. There's a very magical feel to some of the cars and it's very hard not to feel humbled by some of the - the wreckage of David Purley's LEC just to give an idea of the violence of the accident he survived, and the Roger Williamson display just to emphasise how much the sport (and Tom Wheatcroft in particular) lost with his passing.
There are a few oddities there - the Iso-Marlboro nosecone in amongst the Marlboro BRMs, for a start! - but it's a splendid museum and I think anyone with a love of racing should try to get there.
I understand that Tom himself can often be found in there (I think Doc Knutsen found him in the café one day!)
#29
Posted 05 July 2007 - 14:56
#30
Posted 05 July 2007 - 15:39
Originally posted by wildman
One of the little-known attractions in Spartanburg, South Carolina, is the BMW Zentrum museum that's attached to the BMW factory there....
Was just thinking of all the NASCAR fans turning in their graves at what became of the town from which Bud Moore ran the Ford "works" effort...
#31
Posted 05 July 2007 - 15:57
#32
Posted 05 July 2007 - 16:15
Isn't that the Jupiter that turned up in that huge mysterious collection in France in the early 1980s, later to be seen in Sarlat ? If so, I would think that it is rather a very early Ghia Aigle body, not a Ghia Torino body.Originally posted by bradbury west
Please note also the Ghia-designed-steel-bodied Jowett Jupiter, ex Monte Carlo Rally next to it. Rough but interesting as a piece in itself IMHO
Ed Nankievell, the Jupiter Registrar, knows all about it
Roger Lund.
I remember that there was quite a discussion about Ghia Aigle in the mid 80s in C&SC as it was not recognized as a stand-alone body builder but rather seen as affiliate to Ghia of Torino. In the meantime, there is a webpage tracing the history of Ghia Aigle: http://www.ghia-aigle.info/
It should also be noted that they operated as Ghia Lugano at some point in time and often used the term "Ghia Suisse" when presenting in a more International environment (like the Salon de Genève or de Paris).
#33
Posted 05 July 2007 - 16:25
#34
Posted 05 July 2007 - 16:40
Vince Howlett, Victoria, B.C., Canada
#35
Posted 05 July 2007 - 16:52
D Type asked for captions: if they are wrong, bear in mind that I wrote them when I was 14, please! (Sorry, don't think thumbnails would be good for this one,when opened up in Image Shack)
#36
Posted 05 July 2007 - 17:05
Perhaps if you spoke a little louder ...Originally posted by D-Type
An excellent idea, but...
Can I make my usual request for captions to photos as the reader may not be as familiar with the subject as the photographer
And for thumbnails as it makes the thread so so much quicker to open and easier to review.
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Frank S
#37
Posted 05 July 2007 - 17:11
Now let me guess:Originally posted by wildman
One of the little-known attractions in Spartanburg, South Carolina, is the BMW Zentrum museum that's attached to the BMW factory there....
A replica? of the Mille Miglia winning BMW 328
A genuine BMW 328
A genuine BMW 507 despiter the erroneous caption stating that they dominated hill climbs in the 1950s
A BMW 5?? touring car from the ??? Touring car championship together with anoff-road motorcycle from the Paris-Dakar? and a Formula 2 BMW engined March ?
The rear end of a BMW-powered Sauber F1 car?
But what the hell! I wasn't there and they're pretty pictures anyway.
#38
Posted 05 July 2007 - 17:11
Originally posted by David Beard
Photos from my album taken with my Kodak Brownie Cresta 3 circa 1963. This is the Montague Motor Museum when it was housed in a large wooden hut, without the gimmicks to be seen at Beaulieu today.
D Type asked for captions: if they are wrong, bear in mind that I wrote them when I was 14, please! (Sorry, don't think thumbnails would be good for this one,when opened up in Image Shack)
Brilliant - and I think the lack of thumbnails can be forgiven.
#39
Posted 05 July 2007 - 17:14
Sauber??? Looks like a Brabham rear end to me.
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#40
Posted 05 July 2007 - 18:08
Absolutely. I can't see on the picture, but is the engine slanted in any way? If if is, BT55. If not, BT54.Originally posted by Gary C
'The rear end of a BMW-powered Sauber F1 car?'
Sauber??? Looks like a Brabham rear end to me.
#41
Posted 05 July 2007 - 18:18
#42
Posted 05 July 2007 - 20:47
rudi, you are probably correct, but I just repeated what it said on the card on the car. Please e mail me and I will send some photos of the car[i]Originally posted by r.atlos
Isn't that the Jupiter that turned up in that huge mysterious collection in France in the early 1980s, later to be seen in Sarlat ? If so, I would think that it is rather a very early Ghia Aigle body, not a Ghia Torino body.
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Roger Lund.
#43
Posted 05 July 2007 - 21:05
#44
Posted 05 July 2007 - 21:37
1. Audi Museum, Ingolstadt.
2. National Motor Museum, Beaulieu.
3. Brooklands Museum, Weybridge.
4. Cotswold Motor Museum, Bourton-on-the-Water
5. Museum of British Road Transport, Coventry.
6. David Sutton Collection, Daventry.
7. Deutsches Museum, Munich.
8. British Motor Industry Heritage Trust, Gaydon.
9. Scottish Transport Museum, Glasgow
10. Museum de La Sarthe, Le Mans
11. Toyota Megaweb, Tokyo.
12. Argyll Motor Museum, Alexandria, Scotland.
#45
Posted 05 July 2007 - 22:42
I have tried to find a few of the less obvious options. No thumbnails, but the images are only 650 pixels wide and less than 100k each.
Oh well, perhaps not all less obvious...
More to follow in a day or so.
#46
Posted 05 July 2007 - 22:42
#47
Posted 05 July 2007 - 23:05
In the afternoon we went to the Coventry Museum of British Road Transport, where (like Mark A) we found - errm - Henri Toivonen's 1980 RAC Rally-winning car:
#48
Posted 05 July 2007 - 23:47
Any TNFers ever own one?
#49
Posted 06 July 2007 - 09:51
Originally posted by raceannouncer2003
Musee Gilles Villeneuve, Berthierville, Quebec, 2004:
Vince Howlett, Victoria, B.C., Canada
Thats not a Musee....thats a shrine!! Brilliant
#50
Posted 06 July 2007 - 10:25
And inside:
And later that day, a sort of 'mobile musem' at Hockenheim... Jim Clark Days, 900+ cars (until 1977) on track at the same time...
And there it was Audi museum...
And to complete the trip:
Best weekend ever.