The Roaring Season

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Wal Will wrote:Steve, In posting 10 you have Phil hill in the second of the McLaren team cars. This was Bruces 'Slim Line' from the previous year.
The second photo in posting 17 bought a smile to my face. I am working head down in the forground on one of the 2 McLaren team cars in with Bruce Harre (back to camera watching on). Tyler Alexander is without a shirt on the far right and half of Teddy Mayer is next to him.
What bough the smile was Jimmy Clark denting the roof of his Rental Car with his elbows in the back ground. He had run into the back of Bruce McLarens car when pulling out of the Hooka Falls 'Look Out' and done a fair amount of damage to the 'Renta'. It would have been only moments later than this photo was taken that a man was trying to get Jim's attention. Not being able to hear what he was saying because of the noise, stood up on the bonnet and walked dent, dent forward, to hear the man say "Mr Clark I am the local agent for the Rental Car Company coming to get a report on the accident you had". We chuckled about that one for the rest of the series.

Grant Ellwood wrote:If anyone has a photo or two of Bryan's Anglia I would be very greatful if you could send to my email address -
mailto:?subject=&body=.
I worked with Bryan in his last season with the Anglia then his first Tasman series with the Brabham Climax but most of the pics I shot have been lost.
Currently I have a LHD Anglia up here in Virginia, 105Es are pretty rare in USA, I only know of one Broadspeed example based in Florida and racing in some vintage events.
Cheers, Grant E.

Shano wrote:Amerikiwi - this is from the latest Classic Car magazine and may put you one step closer to that photo - "One of Bryan's old Levin mates, Murray Whitehead, now owns the ex-Faloon Anglia 105E, still in its original livery..." Article is by Michael Clark. Allan Walton is the editor and his email is mailto:?subject=&body=

You can probably track it down through them.

hollylodge wrote:well I can tell you it is the original, it been around the mill, had different owners but he bought it back while living here in wellington in the 80's, rebuilt it with some mods (improvements), then saw the light and has rebuilt it again back to it's original state. I saw the car again just today !! hope that helps.

Can anyone tell me if Peter Bennetts A40 Farina pictured above is the car he still has today, or did he build a replica of his old race car?

hollylodge wrote:yes it does...well the body does, it has swapped a few owners s a body since about 1980, now back with tht owner here in wellington, and a long slow restoration starting, still has those fabricated front guards and aluminium bonnet that gave it that distinctive look...