Am I dreaming??? Pix
#1
Posted 29 September 2002 - 17:21
And now the Great Britain and Europe team seem to have put the US to the sword and have won golf's Ryder Cup...
And there's still the US GP at Indy to come... Blimey...how can Formula 1 live up to all this????
And then I also dreamed I'd found these assorted pix...
This Frenchman with developing dreams of gold...
Who seriously upset great uncle Umberto, inventor of Mussolini's arma secreto...
...who took this snapshot of a rather obscure Lombard event just postwar...
Out of focus 'cos the phantom goggle snatcher had nicked his windows...
...but he still tried another shot...
...which morphed itself in shape,content and colour...
http://members.atlas...ug_nye/Atlas -
...sprouted wings...
...and tried to FLY...
...and even before Christabel Carlisle could race to the rescue...
...it all just became a total nightmare...
DCN
Pix from - of course - The GP Library
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#2
Posted 29 September 2002 - 20:54
* the 2nd - when you still owned a razor, but need better advice on what hat to buy;
* the 7th - when you spent too long in the sun without a hat;
* the 8th - when you'd only ventured as far as a hat and a mo';
* the 10 - when despite a new hat and throwing away the razor completely, you'd clearly spent too long in the sun and started hanging around other fuzzy creatures.
There's a lesson in this for all of us.
Neil
#3
Posted 29 September 2002 - 20:59
Won't say who won though, too soon and some may not have had the pleasure.
#4
Posted 29 September 2002 - 20:59
DCN
#5
Posted 29 September 2002 - 21:32
Originally posted by Doug Nye
It's been a funny old Sunday. ...........
And then I also dreamed I'd found these assorted pix...
...........
...it all just became a total nightmare...
DCN
Pix from - of course - The GP Library
Brilliant..and are we to believe you posted this BEFORE the US GP, Doug?
#6
Posted 29 September 2002 - 22:07
DCN
#7
Posted 30 September 2002 - 01:44
BTW, thanks Doug
#8
Posted 30 September 2002 - 18:52
DCN
#9
Posted 30 September 2002 - 19:32
Is the 'man with dreams of gold Marcel Violet'?
#10
Posted 30 September 2002 - 19:37
#11
Posted 30 September 2002 - 20:00
The winged thing is Art Malone's Daytona record breaker - it must have taken some guts to drive it at 200mph+. Malone went from dragsters to Indy (driving the Novi), a route later denied to Danny Ongais.
#12
Posted 01 October 2002 - 20:06
Originally posted by Tim Murray
I would suggest that the 'rather obscure Lombard event just postwar' is the Circuit of Milan held on 30 September 1946, with No 14 being Leslie Brooke in ERA R7B.
Is the 'man with dreams of gold Marcel Violet'?
Circuit of Milan is right - photos taken by an officer of the British Army occupying force - the pic of the intrepid pilote in the vestigial rear-engined cyclecar is captioned as Eugene Mauve, founder of the Bol d'Or, in the Elfe...
It is indeed Art Malone in 'Mad Dog' too, at Daytona. Where ERAs are concerned I'd trust Weg...
DCN
#13
Posted 02 October 2002 - 03:25
There were those who sneered, but where are they now?
Time has vindicated this mechanical visionary, and shut the mouths of the scoffers.
What Steve Jobs did for apples, Umberto Braglioli did for jodhpurs and spats.
Whilst his compatriots trudged knee-deep through the weeds and rotting fruit of Tuscany orange-groves, this man stode in style with the bearing of a Prince: immaculate when he began his day's work, and spotless when he'd picked his quota of six crates of Red-navels.
He then turned his brilliance to the problem of Italy's bomb-torn roads, and designed the 'Whirli-gig', (or in Italian 'Il Gigalo') a vehicle which didn't need a road, because it took one with it, and negotiated yard-deep pot-holes with ease. Unlike bicycles and motorbikes, which are inherantly unstable, Bragliloi's invention had great stability derived from the whirling mass of the outer flywheel. Infact, the faster he went, the more stable it became, such that at 30 miles an hour it was impossible for the device to deviate from a straight-line trajectory.
Tuscany is not renowned for long straight roads, and both Umberto and his 'Gigalo' were last seen disappearing at speed over a mountain precipice outside Lombardy, August 13th. 1953.
Both, sadly missed.
AM
#14
Posted 02 October 2002 - 03:27
This Froggy 'Allez-Voiturette' has every pre-requisite of the modern Go-Kart.
1) Driver's backside on the chassis, four inches above the road.
2) Driver's elbows brushing spinning flywheels and various lethally sharp bits.
3) Driver's back pressed against hot exhaust manifold and high-revving explosive mota.
This put's to death the lie that bored GI's invented the Go-Kart.
AM
#15
Posted 02 October 2002 - 03:40
Originally posted by Anorak Man
....Tuscany is not renowned for long straight roads, and both Umberto and his 'Gigalo' were last seen disappearing at speed over a mountain precipice outside Lombardy, August 13th. 1953.
... on account of the braking forces being too great?
After all, any brake application would have to be smooth and light, otherwise the operator would be rotating with the wheel!
#16
Posted 02 October 2002 - 07:08
Amazing coincidence that there were 2 chaps contemporaneous on the cyclecar circuit with names like that.
#17
Posted 02 October 2002 - 11:56
Originally posted by Doug Nye
Circuit of Milan is right - photos taken by an officer of the British Army occupying force ...Where ERAs are concerned I'd trust Weg...
DCN
So would I, but can anyone confirm the date of the race?
#18
Posted 02 October 2002 - 13:06
I am beginning to wonder if I am dreaming. A Masten and Elvis pic in the same thread on TNF? Weird dream.
BTW, the Masten pick appears to be circa 1957 or 58. I will have to have my wife take a look at the Elvis pic as she is pretty good at identifying Elvis pics from movies.
#19
Posted 02 October 2002 - 13:57
Am I right in thinking there might be a slight clue in these pics? Like, all the names and numbers are clearly visible on the scoreboard? (If only all quiz questions would provide such thoughtful clues).
So, 36 Platé, then...
some Delahay whose number I can't decipher, which makes me realise that my above statement was nonesense and that I really need even easier clues. (Could probably work out the driver by elimination, though, if I put a little more time into it)
Then 34 Parnell (Tim has correctly remembered, or, just possibly, read from the scoreboard, that #14 was Brooke, but has failed to notice that there isn't a #14 in the photo).
Then some Maser which looks like 16 so must be Villoresi
So whose Delahay? Not Christabel Carlisle, so, er, who else is there...