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[dmj]

Yesterday I read an article about Thoroughbred F1 series in an old issue of... er, Top Gear. There was mention of oldest surviving Williams FW 06 in the world hanging on the wall in a nightclub in Seychelles ! Is it true? How many precious racing cars are hanging from the walls in such places? I know about streamliner in Mercedes museum, seem to remember a Jim Clark's Lotus in someone's living room in Switzerland... but there must be others. Like all these butchered American cars from '50s in Hard rock cafes all over the world.

[DOHC]

Jo Bonnier had a McLaren on his living room wall. And some four or five years ago I saw a Williams FW16 (?) on a wall in a central London bar and coffee house. But I suspect it was a show car, although there was a plaque there saying that it was Damon Hill's car.

[Breadmaster]

there's a Ferrari 640 in the New York Art Museum (name?) which I believe is suspended upsidedown on the ceiling.....

[joe twyman]

I know that a friend of mine owns a Palliser Formula 5000 car (Adrian Stoop) and that hung on the wall in a Birmingham nightclub.

Joe

[Doug Nye]

Originally posted by Breadmaster
there's a Ferrari 640 in the New York Art Museum (name?) which I believe is suspended upsidedown on the ceiling.....

That's right where McLaren and Williams like to see them...

DCN

[Bladrian]

... yet McLaren and Williams would not be totally surprised at the grip demonstrated by that Ferrari ...

[cheesy poofs]

I know Christian Fittipaldi used to have the Minardi ( MN191 ) he drove
hanging on the wall of his Monaco flat.

[Mac Lark]

Denny Hulme used to have his Yardley M23 hanging on the wall of the house he lived after he returned to NZ in 1975. The car today is in a museum in Denny's old home town of Te Puke.

I remember seeing an ex Chris Amon 701 hanging on the wall at Donington about 20 yrs ago. It may still be there.

Chris would probably think hanging was too good for a March 701.

[Doug Nye]

When we hung the March 701 on the wall at Donington we had the Bonnier M5A display very much in mind. But the absolute max 9-foot ceiling height in the halls at Donington meant we had to suspend the car side-on rather than nose high. There's a McLaren MP4/somethingorother displayed in the glass-panelled foyer of the old McLaren Cars building in Woking, standing vertically on its tail on a rather cleverly-devised low-speed turntable.

DCN

[Dennis David]

[2F-001]

Oh, I see... we're talking of cars that have been hung on the wall intentionally...

[420]

There is an Indy car hanging from the ceiling in the back room of the Players Club in Chicago!!!
Not sure the year or constructor, but its one of the reasons I love that place!!!..

[dolomite]

Stand 'em up like this, then you can see all the interesting bits underneath

[Woking]

There's an FW14 or 15 hanging on the wall of a sports club in downtown London, near the SOHO area. Anyone remember the name of that club?

[Dennis David]

Or like this ...

[LOLE]

Michael Schumacher's Benetton, in which he won his first World title in 1994, is hanging on the wall in the souvenir shop of his indoor go kart circuit in Kerpen near Köln in Germany.

[petefenelon]

Originally posted by LOLE
Michael Schumacher's Benetton, in which he won his first World title in 1994, is hanging on the wall in the souvenir shop of his indoor go kart circuit in Kerpen near Köln in Germany.

There was another B194 (show car, though, I suspect) on the wall of the Sports Cafe on Haymarket in London last time I was there but that was about 4 years ago...

Expensive and noisy -- and so was the car ;P

pete

[ensign14]

In Dick Sommers' book 'Eddie Called Me Boss', he records how and his wife were dining with friends who had an extensive modern art collection, having endured a wreck-filled Indy.

One of the friends said 'of course, most of our wealth is on the wall.'

Mrs Sommers replied, quick as a flash, 'So is ours.'

[Dennis David]

Ouch!

[josh.lintz]

Ralph Sanchez, the fellow who organized (and eventually, disorganized) the Miami GP in the early-80's has a mid-80's Indy car on his office wall. I thought I read a while ago that it leaked oil, and had to be located at a more suitable location.

I had heard some years ago that Salt Walther had the remains of his 1973 Indy car hanging on the wall of his living room. Not sure if this is true or just a wierd urban legend...

As for that hanging Ferrari 640...I'd be afraid to stand underneath the car when the transmission invariably breaks for the 900th time!

[desmo]

Not a wall, but related: When I was a young lad in the 70s a friend's family, the Gilmores who for years sponsored AJ Foyt's Indy car, would hang the chassis from that year's race on the roof of their house as an ornament. Impressed the hell out of me!

[dmj]

There must be a lot more of great cars hanging around... I remember a few of them featured in Discoveries parts of classic car magazines... One interesting I am recently remembered of is Beart Rodger Climax special, found hanging in a Newbury garage in early '70's. It seems that this car had its racing debut at Easter Monday 1955 in Goodwood, driven by no one else but Stirling Moss. Another famous driver that raced it in period was Les Leston.

[Doug Nye]

Originally posted by dmj
There must be a lot more of great cars hanging around... I remember a few of them featured in Discoveries parts of classic car magazines... One interesting I am recently remembered of is Beart Rodger Climax special, found hanging in a Newbury garage in early '70's. It seems that this car had its racing debut at Easter Monday 1955 in Goodwood, driven by no one else but Stirling Moss. Another famous driver that raced it in period was Les Leston.

Not a Newbury garage, a house garage in Aldershot - the car was owned for many years by VSCC member Nigel Woollett who ran the F&N Garage crash repair business with his pal Fred - hence 'Fred & Nigel'... 'F&N' - Nigel's still very much around in the Farnham/Aldershot area...

DCN

[dmj]

Originally posted by Doug Nye


Not a Newbury garage, a house garage in Aldershot - the car was owned for many years by VSCC member Nigel Woollett who ran the F&N Garage crash repair business with his pal Fred - hence 'Fred & Nigel'... 'F&N' - Nigel's still very much around in the Farnham/Aldershot area...

DCN

Are you sure? Here is what Nigel said to C&SC in 1999: "I found it hanging in a Newbury garage. It belonged to Roy Adnams who hillclimbed it in early '60s with modified Ford sidewalve power and an Aquaplane head."
Now, I know as much about Newbury and Aldershot as you probably about Galgovo and Rakov Potok but it seems that it was hung up in Newbury and then moved to Woolett's premises in Aldershot. Whether he hung it up too or not, I don't know, of course. But I do believe he instead started restoring it...

[rdrcr]

I'm pretty sure I remember one of Kenny Bernstein's Top Fuel cars hung on the wall at the Marconi Museum in Tustin, CA.



yup... there it is...

[Catalina Park]

Remember that Mclaren that Jo Bonnier hung on the wall of his house? Jack Brabham hung the same car on a wall at Goodwood a couple of years ago

[Ray Bell]

That was after the Adelaide meeting where he made the comment...

"Well, McLarens never handled well when we used to race against them, and this one still doesn't!"

[fines]

Originally posted by Breadmaster
there's a Ferrari 640 in the New York Art Museum (name?) which I believe is suspended upsidedown on the ceiling.....

Museum of Modern Arts, I believe it is. They also have a 166SC, as far as I can recall; I remember seeing a brochure about these some years ago. Never having been a Ferrari fan, I don't think I kept it...

Brian Henton had one of his (March?) Formula One cars hung up the wall of an old church he'd acquired in the late seventies, I recall.

[Jhope]

This was on display at this years Goodwood Festival of Speed. *sigh* This would complete my back yard, right next to the big oak tree.

[petefenelon]

Originally posted by Catalina Park
Remember that Mclaren that Jo Bonnier hung on the wall of his house? Jack Brabham hung the same car on a wall at Goodwood a couple of years ago

Cruel.... but neither unfunny nor wrong!;)

[FlatFoot]

I recall an issue of F1 Racing a few years back that had an article about Jean Alesi ...away from the track. They had a shot of him in his workout room and one of the room was one of his Ferrari GP cars...with a treadmill sitting next to it.

[mp4]

In 1978, I had dinner in a restaurant in New York City called "The Pit Stop" (I think).
On the wall was one of Jim Clark's Lotus race cars. I have no idea if it was an Indy car or an F1 car.
I wonder if that place still exists.
Does anyone know?

Cheers