Personal photos from the workshop
#1
Posted 19 November 2007 - 01:38
Now's your chance, let's see what workshop pics we can post here. Peter Nightingale's the instigator of this, he's got some from his old Repco-Brabham engine days. I'm sure I can dig up some with a little time, and there will be others.
Please, start posting!
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#2
Posted 19 November 2007 - 02:40
#3
Posted 19 November 2007 - 11:44
I could, however, though it's not a 'personal' photo, start with this one:
Yeah, the same car... look at how the chassis was altered, cut off from the bulkhead and totally rejigged.
And here's the car nearly complete:
These photos we have courtesy of Stuart Randall. This next one, however, predates the Tasman Cup:
Campbell McLaren and his lifelong companion with the car they built while still at school.
I'll dig up more later...
#5
Posted 19 November 2007 - 21:41
This picture was taken in 1973 when the car was evolving into an F.5000 car.
#6
Posted 19 November 2007 - 21:44
I almost included a line in the introduction saying that you'd be able to contribute!
#7
Posted 20 November 2007 - 00:15
What a brilliant idea for a thread! I'm confident this'll be a looong one...(I hope!)
May restoration photos be included here, or should they have their own thread(s)?
#8
Posted 20 November 2007 - 03:05
Post away!
...and it wasn't my idea! Cosworth BDG (Peter) suggested it...
#9
Posted 20 November 2007 - 04:50
Originally posted by Ray Bell
Workshops are workshops, Anders...
Post away! Please do , as Ray said Workshops are workshops no matter where you are or where you come from.
...and it wasn't my idea! Cosworth BDG (Peter) suggested it...
#10
Posted 20 November 2007 - 07:43
Originally posted by Barry Boor
Don't laugh, this really was where the Connew was built!
This picture was taken in 1973 when the car was evolving into an F.5000 car.
Take 50 extra bonus points for degree of difficulty Barry...very well done
#11
Posted 20 November 2007 - 11:50
Henry
#12
Posted 20 November 2007 - 13:09
Go right ahead!
#13
Posted 20 November 2007 - 23:14
#14
Posted 20 November 2007 - 23:20
I love these pictures that show actual TNF members in their own surroundings.
#15
Posted 20 November 2007 - 23:29
Originally posted by Barry Boor
Don't laugh, this really was where the Connew was built!
This picture was taken in 1973 when the car was evolving into an F.5000 car.
Any detail pic of how the chassis or engine mounts were adapted to give ( I presume GM V8 block) a proper mounting.....as the DFV F1 engine was a self-supporting part of the whole construction.
#16
Posted 20 November 2007 - 23:40
#17
Posted 20 November 2007 - 23:48
This isn't my thread, by the way. It was all Peter Nightingale's idea and I'm just waiting for him to post some Repco-Brabham Engines photos.
macoran... the Lotus 70 used the Ford engine as a stressed member, so the Chevy would have been fine in the Connew.
#18
Posted 21 November 2007 - 00:59
#19
Posted 21 November 2007 - 02:45
After seeing Ferraris 288 GTO at the Geneva Show PGL decided to purchase an interest in Zagato and build the Vantage Zagato. It was a very big deal for us at the time.
The rolling chassis arrived from Newport Pagnell and were clothed in Rho.
#21
Posted 21 November 2007 - 06:40
Originally posted by cosworth bdg
Very interesting, Thanks..
Interesting?
That's a staggering addition to this fledgling thread... keep 'em coming...
#22
Posted 21 November 2007 - 06:55
Yes , please keep them coming, this really is a staggering thread, thanks very much for the input from all including Ray Bell.Originally posted by Ray Bell
Interesting?
That's a staggering addition to this fledgling thread... keep 'em coming...
#23
Posted 21 November 2007 - 07:13
Motor Racing Developments, early '71
#24
Posted 21 November 2007 - 08:07
Originally posted by cosworth bdg
Ray, as soon as i get my scanner working properly i will post some pictures, this is a fantastic thread, please keep the workshop images coming, they are really great
Perhaps Mrs Coughlan can be of assistance
#25
Posted 21 November 2007 - 10:10
[RANT]
Isn't it amazing what top-flight as well as dedicated enthusiast F1 teams could achieve in the 1970s in premises hardly bigger than a loo in today's F1 mega-factories? To me, it's a sign that a lot of the 'sport' has left 'motor sport'. And that the amount of money circulating in F1 nowadays is way out of proportion to what the product really is: A gadget designed to entertain (which it dosn't do very well, IMO), with no real relevance to road cars for transportation of society. Personally, I would 10 times rather work for peanuts for a small, dedicated, enthusiastic 1970s F1 team, than make a very good living with a current F1 corporation. But then, I've never tried anything that resembles the latter but only the former.
[/RANT]
#26
Posted 21 November 2007 - 10:34
Cooper 500 5/10/48
Coopers thought to be ??/7/48 Spike Rhiando's Banana Split on the left and 5/10/48 ex-Kenya on the right
#27
Posted 21 November 2007 - 15:45
Originally posted by Cirrus
Not a personal picture, but an appropriate one....
Motor Racing Developments, early '71
Brabham "pinces de Homard"
comment dit-on en Anglais?
#28
Posted 21 November 2007 - 16:20
#30
Posted 22 November 2007 - 16:31
#31
Posted 22 November 2007 - 21:00
From the Autopics site, the captions say they are Leo Geoghegan's Lotus 39 being fitted with the Repco V8, but most of them are the John Harvey Brabham having the same work done.
http://www.autopics....0.html?cache=no
People in the pics are Bob Britton, the Rennmax builder and general fixer-upper of racing car chassis, Peter Molloy (Harvey's mechanic, later worked for Benetton in F1) and John Sheppard, who was the Geoghegan's spannerman, later became head of the Holden Dealer Team and worked for Bob Jane for a time. Always oversaw the most immaculate preparation.
There is a third person there, but as only his derriere is presented I can't identify him...
#32
Posted 23 November 2007 - 17:19
Tiga SC 78 being upgraded to 79 spec
#33
Posted 23 November 2007 - 17:28
#34
Posted 23 November 2007 - 17:41
Of course racing cars do tend to be pretty big often 6ft wide or more ..on an F1, and about 16ft long from nose tip to back edge of the rear wing. then when you take the body off you need that much space again.
#35
Posted 23 November 2007 - 19:36
#36
Posted 23 November 2007 - 20:27
#37
Posted 24 November 2007 - 11:12
#38
Posted 24 November 2007 - 11:34
Strange how the garage from the outside looks small, but larger once inside ;)
I spent many a week in my garage, radio blaring and meagre1 bar heater to ward off the cold, you have to be driven !!!!
Nice engines on tne bench in Pic 2, what are they?
Sterling
#39
Posted 24 November 2007 - 11:46
The engines are a Novamotor twin cam and Holbay twin cam F3 engines. I bought the car in Liverpool.
#41
Posted 24 November 2007 - 12:34
Originally posted by RTH
The year was 1983, the car was a 1973 Ensign LNF3 the works development car driven close to the end of Mo Nunn's F3 days by Brian Henton.
One of the best looking F3 cars of the period. They made a strange 'whistling' sound coming into North Tower at Crystal Palace. It must of been something to do with aerodynamics, but I never heard it anywhere else.
Happy days
#42
Posted 24 November 2007 - 12:39
#43
Posted 24 November 2007 - 12:49
Originally posted by alansart
.....They made a strange 'whistling' sound coming into North Tower at Crystal Palace. It must of been something to do with aerodynamics, but I never heard it anywhere else.
Could that have been something to do with the restrictors and the particular revs/gearing they used at that point?
#44
Posted 24 November 2007 - 13:13
Originally posted by sterling49
They were a great looking car, had the nice tail fins, as driven by Riki Von Opel?
That tail fin and wing was on the 72 cars. When Mo Nunn went into F1 the F3 cars were neglected a little. Dave Baldwin did a bit of of a redesign which tried to keep them competitive and Brian Henton won a few races in 1973. The tail fin had gone by then.
I also think it may have been Von Opel's money that took Ensign into F1.
#45
Posted 24 November 2007 - 13:20
1984
March 712 in historics. That is me on the right.
#46
Posted 24 November 2007 - 13:36
#48
Posted 25 November 2007 - 11:02
#49
Posted 29 November 2007 - 21:57
What can one say......
#50
Posted 29 November 2007 - 23:01