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[Rupertlt1]

Year Driver Vehicle FTD Notes

1955 R. Mackenzie-Low, Elva-Ford, 31.5 sec, Oct 15. (Kent & Sussex Courier, Friday 21 October 1955, Page 3.)

1956 Stuart Lewis-Evans, Elva-Climax, 31.2 sec, Oct 6. (Kent & Sussex Courier, Friday 25 October 1957, Page 6, back refers.)

1957 S. Lewis-Evans, Elva-Climax, 30.4 sec, Oct 19.

1958 S. Lewis-Evans, Elva Mk IV, 29.6 sec,  Oct 11.

1959 Basil Bowman, Beart-Rodger-Climax, 1,098 c.c. sports, 33.6 sec, Oct 11; wet.

 

For the first time, complete 1950s.

 

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Edited by Rupertlt1, 16 May 2021 - 19:52.

[Rupertlt1]

1960 J.J. Richards Lotus 33.6 sec Oct 15.

1961 Hugh Dibley #39 Lola FJ 30.0 sec Oct 13.

1962 Roy Pierpoint Lotus XV-Climax 2-litre #59 28.0 sec R Oct 13.

1963 R. Pierpoint Attila II 28.28 sec Oct 19. 2nd FTD Patsy Burt 28.42

1964 David Beckett Lister Jaguar 3,781 c.c. #53 27.04 sec R Oct 17.

1965 John Barnes Elva Mk7 27.63 sec Oct 16.

1966 John Barnes Elva Mk7 27.86 sec Oct 22.

1967 J. Barnes Elva 1,650 c.c. 28.33 sec Oct 21.

1968 Don Harris DMF 1,500 c.c. #41 29.46 sec Oct 19.

1969 J. Henley Jaguar 3,781 c.c. 31.97 sec Oct 25.

1970 P. Voigt, Dove 3, 1,142 c.c. 26.41 sec Oct 24.

1971 P. Voigt, Dove 3, 1,142 c.c. 25.02 sec Oct 23.

1972 Dick Noble, Hurricane-Buick 3,500 c.c. 26.21 sec Oct 21.

 

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Edited by Rupertlt1, 15 October 2024 - 04:02.

[Rupertlt1]

AFAIK Bodiam went on hiatus until 1978-1986.

See previous post.

Saturday 23 September 1978, FTD Doc Roger Willoughby, March 712-Buick 3520 c.c., 24.03 sec, Record

(The program has 20th event on cover page. One missing?)

23 September 1979, FTD - The ELVA Trophy & Replica & £20 - Trevor Stiles, Crosslé FF, 25.1 sec.

(21st event? Was there an event in 1973? 1954?)

Saturday 6 September 1980, Richard Thompson, Brabham, 24.31 sec

Saturday 5 September 1981, Richard Thompson, Brabham BT21, 24.25 sec

Saturday 21 August 1982, Keith Norman, Mallock U2 Mk.17B-Ford, 24.19 sec

Saturday 3 September 1983, Richard Thompson, Saracen SF79-Ford BDJ 1.1-litre, 25.07 sec

Saturday 25 August 1984, Peter Black, Mallock U2 18, 24.38 sec

Saturday 7 September 1985, Richard Thompson, Mallock Mk II/14 1.7-litre, 23.35 sec, Record

Saturday 6 September 1986, FTD - Richard Thompson, Mallock, 22.92, Record

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Edited by Rupertlt1, 09 October 2024 - 19:29.

[Doug Nye]

Jenks pic just unearthed showing Frank Nichols of Elva Cars and Stuart Lewis-Evans with their latest - 'MBW616' as discussed above - at Bodiam probably 1958.  On the original print Jenks wrote "I was meant to drive it later but it broke!".

 

Interesting that Vanwall's new Formula 1 star, Lewis-Evans, had the broad enthusiasm still to appear at this most modest of levels in a local hill-climb.  Note he is sporting the well-trimmed beard he adopted towards the end of his life...so tragically terminated by his accident in the Moroccan GP at the end of that year.

 

Photo Strictly Copyright: The GP Library/DSJ

 

DCN

 

Edited by Doug Nye, 08 October 2024 - 06:15.

[Rupertlt1]

Great picture. Definitely 1958 with the Elva Mk IV. Note magnesium wheels. FTD 29.6 secs.

Frank Nichols treated the Bodiam Hill Climb as an end-of-season Elva party at his local hill climb close to the factory.

He put up the Elva Cup for FTD, presented at the Castle Hotel, Hastings.

Jenks was fastest closed car in the Porsche. Stuart Lewis-Evans also drove an Elva Courier that day, "33 seconds dead."

This was the debut for the Courier at Bodiam. What car was it?

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Edited by Rupertlt1, 08 October 2024 - 07:00.

[Odseybod]

Maybe more likely to have been the Castle Hotel in Bodiam (officially Robertsbridge)? When we visited the Castle in the mid-70s ("Collect key from lady in house opposite"), we adjourned there for lunch and learnt it was the only Guinness-owned pub in England at the time. Apparently Guinness owned the nearby hop (?) fields and when the directors visited to make their annual inspection of the crop, they were disappointed by the lunchtime offerings of the nearest pub - so they bought it.  No mention of their ownership on the pub's current website, though.

[Doug Nye]

Great picture. Definitely 1958 ...

Jenks was fastest closed car in the Porsche. 

 

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Here's DSJ in full flight at Bodiam '58 in his familiar Porsche 356 - 

 

 

And a late-edit now to include this...'UYY 34' at last month's Goodwood Revival Meeting, in which it again acquitted itself pretty well, Robert Barrie driving her into 4th place in the Fordwater Trophy, from 10th on the grid.  

 

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Photo Copyright: The GP Library/DSJ

 

DCN

Edited by Doug Nye, 08 October 2024 - 18:32.

[Rupertlt1]

Maybe more likely to have been the Castle Hotel in Bodiam (officially Robertsbridge)? When we visited the Castle in the mid-70s ("Collect key from lady in house opposite"), we adjourned there for lunch and learnt it was the only Guinness-owned pub in England at the time. Apparently Guinness owned the nearby hop (?) fields and when the directors visited to make their annual inspection of the crop, they were disappointed by the lunchtime offerings of the nearest pub - so they bought it.  No mention of their ownership on the pub's current website, though.

Tony,

I think you are right, despite the newspaper report.

We have been at the Castle before.

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Edited by Rupertlt1, 15 October 2024 - 04:32.