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Started by F3Wrench , Nov 27 2008 10:17

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#51 stuartbrs

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Posted 23 December 2008 - 09:10

Andy had a habit of taking on anything and anyone on the road in his father's bog-standard 850cc Mini Countryman, and usually beat them... this was the only road car I've ever known to get through a pair of front tyres from brand new to bald-to-the canvas in under 100 miles...

That sounds like the Alonso way of cornering... Skate the front wheels accross a corner, difficult to describe, but super effective for the guys that can afford a lot of tyres!!

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#52 sterling49

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Posted 23 December 2008 - 09:22

Originally posted by F3Wrench
Sterling, Andy's (and my) parental home was some 6-8 miles west of the old A20 from Maidstone to Ashford, a little village called Pluckley. This tiny backwater was later made famous as the setting for "Darling Buds of May" with David Jason.

...mmmn, I think it is quite possible that our paths crossed, just maybe! Further Quarter,Bethersden, Caldicott, Ivychurch whites, Lyminge, Waterworks, that bluddy great canal on the marshes :eek:

It taught you how to drive tidily! The road to Rye is quite nice.......... :cool:

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#53 Giraffe

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Posted 01 January 2009 - 21:25

By giraffe138

Andy Sutcliffe's Team Kent Messenger Lotus 59 F3 at the Oulton Park British Empire Trophy meeting, May 25th, 1970.

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#54 sterling49

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Posted 01 January 2009 - 23:53

What a great car the 59 was, along with the 69, was this not the last Lotus F3 car that regularly won races?

Ansy's car looked good in KM colours :up:

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#55 Giraffe

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Posted 06 January 2009 - 11:01

By giraffe138 at 2009-01-06

Giraffe with the Andy Sutcliffe Kent Messenger Equipe, Oulton Park, May 1969.
Note the gloriously liveried matching Ford barge getting more attention than the Lotus 59!!

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#56 F3Wrench

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Posted 11 February 2009 - 16:30

Giraffe

Thanks so much for posting those pictures, I haven't seen any photos of my time in F3 and yours really brought back some great memories. It was a nice looking car that Lotus, IMHO the 59 was so much better looking than the wedge-front 69; but that Zodiac towcar was the biggest heap of junk. Epic fail by Ford after the brilliant Mk III!

I have finally caught up with the great man (Andy) and we have had a telephone reunion over the weekend. I will be driving over to see him in March and discuss this F3 book I have floating around as a future project. Unbelievably, neither Andy or I have any photos of our years in F3; I was always in front of the car and never seemed to get any of the photos, and Andy's 2 big scrapbooks of all his F2 memorabilia was in the boot of his Mercedes 6.9 when it was stolen.

Maybe you could PM me if you have any more photos perhaps? He would be delighted to see them.

Thanks again, you obviously have a goldmine of memorabilia!