Bump.
Looking for something else, I was reminded of this old thread. Treat yourself to scrolling through it and enjoy the glorious period photographs and the pertinent narrative. Not the usual pot boiler stuff. BTW, when did you last see a Diva, a Costin Nathan GT and a Nomad BRM in the same shot or thread? And if you have to ask what they are.....
My thanks again to Michael, the original poster for his and his friend’s generosity with these archives
Roger Lund
edit. usual disclaimers.
Thank you so much for the bump, I missed this delightful thread way back when, for some reason.
Some brilliantly evocative photographs, awakening so many memories from visiting the German Grands Prix 1958 and again in 1964. We were watching from the inside of the Nordkurve in 58, and from the Sudkurve five years later. This thread almost makes it possible to smell the cars...the 550 Porsches and Borgwards in the support race that first time...sneaking into the Fahrerlager late at nigh, watching Ivor Bueb describing Lotus handling characteristics with his hands, to the mechanics...and desperately wishing I could understand what he was saying! I was only 9, and just starting English at school so my grasp of the language was, er, a bit lacking. Funny how some images stick to the memory chip. Watching Peter Collins from the rear through the Nordkurve, his brown helmet leaning out of the car, his gloved hands a blur on the steering wheel...and a few laps later, Hawthorn looking behind him as if to see if Collins was still there. Sadly, he was not.
And from 1964, the Ferrari of Il grande John dipping its nose three times as John went down through the gears, braking for the Sudkurve. The brilliant red of the Ferrari was set off beautifully by those powder blue wheels...such wonderful memories tinged with sadness: On the final day of practive, I had watched from above the tunnel to the paddock, when de Beaufort appeared in his orange Porsche, wearing a blond Beatles wig...
