The Roaring Season

by **Kwaussie** » Fri Jun 17, 2016 10:42 am

Lots of history in New Zealand with this car. Sixty+ years between photos!

by **105angria** » Thu Oct 06, 2011 6:59 am

sitting on the side of the road over 200 starts 2 dnfs

by **John Medley** » Thu Sep 08, 2011 8:08 am

The Lola pictured at Longford is the FJunior imported by David McKay and sold to Tom Corcoran

Great photos, folks!

by **pallmall** » Sun Aug 28, 2011 9:01 am

Not many of the M7s from that trip, but I will have a few from other events. I will sort them out and maybe do a sixties and seventies F1 cars thread because I have a fairly large selection from that era. One of the issues with the collection displays at times was the cars tended to get jammed in close together, and the lighting was horrid, making photography difficult.

by **kiwi285** » Sun Aug 28, 2011 8:31 am

As a youngster I alway had a soft spot for the Vanwall F1 cars. All my school books had side views of this car drawn on them. I think I still have one of these exercise books now. Have never seen one in the flesh though.

'Pallmall' I see in the background of the streamliner cars I can see the early McLaren F1 cars. Do you have any specific photos of the M7 etc that are/were in the collection.

by **pallmall** » Sun Aug 28, 2011 3:54 am

A couple of photos from the web of the car since it has been made a runner once again.

by **pallmall** » Sun Aug 28, 2011 3:52 am

I guess I have a soft spot for some of the beautiful, but unsuccessful racing cars from the fifties and sixties.
While a championship car in its normal form, this one off version has always intrigued me.
Vanwall VW6 Streamliner, designed by Frank Costin and built by Abbey Panels, built for the French Grand Prix at Reims 1957, practised, but did not race. Restored back to streamliner by the Wheatcroft Collection. (Apologies for the poor photos)

by **105angria** » Sat Jul 23, 2011 12:37 am

assd pics

by **pallmall** » Fri Jul 22, 2011 11:08 pm

Aston Martin DBR4 and DBR5 F1, 1959 and 1960. Another front engined design that was at least two years too late appearing to be competitive. Six cars built by the factory, 4 DBR4 and 2 DBR5. According to what DSJ published the two DBR5s were scrapped by the factory, DBR4/1 was reconstructed and raced in historics, DBR4/2 broken up, DBR4/3 is the Stillwell/Bulcraig/Brewer/Donington car, DBR4/4 was the Davison car later returned to the UK and historic raced by Corner and de Cadenet, and another facsimilie car was built for historic racing.
This is DBR4/3 at Donington restored to F1 specs and body style and is the car we saw racing in NZ with Stillwell and Bulcraig.

by **pallmall** » Fri Jul 22, 2011 9:18 pm

Both Lex Davison and Bib Stillwell had ex F1 Aston Martins fitted with 3 litre engines. I don't recall Davison racing his in NZ, but Stillwell did at a couple of NZ GPs. I thought the Bulcraig car was ex Stillwell, that car is/was in the Donington Museum.
Will do some homework to check and post some photos later.

by **beowulf** » Fri Jul 22, 2011 8:22 pm

Aston Martin built a single seater that was as unsuccessful as the Scarab. Unfortunately the rear engine revolution was happening at the time and they were the last of the dinosaurs. As such they were never fully developed and never achieved much in the way of results.
Racing now in Historics, using , dare I mention it, modern knowledge they have shown that they would have been competitive.
Lex Davison, hated the rear engined cars even though he drove one very succesfully calling them "mechanical mice". Lex also owned an Aston Martin single seater that ended up in NZ, raced by Lional Bulcraig (spelling)from Northland.Lovely cars that are only know being appreciated. All proper racing cars have the engine up front driving the back wheels, and no roof.

by **105angria** » Fri Jul 22, 2011 1:03 pm

fords not a single seater but nice

by **pallmall** » Sat Jul 16, 2011 1:20 am

by **pallmall** » Sat Jul 16, 2011 1:18 am

I have always had an interest in Indianapolis cars, especially those from the 40s through mid 60s, must be all those early speedway and hot rod influences I got as a youngster. So, having this interest for nearly 50 years, but never having the opportunity to see any Indy cars in the flesh imagine my delight at tripping over this car at the Goodwood FOS in 1996.
This is the Lou Moore built Blue Crown Special, front wheel drive, Offy powered, an example of which won the Indianapolis 500 driven by Mauri Rose in 1947 and 1948 and Bill Holland in 1949, and the car to beat until the arrival of Bill Vukovich and the Kurtis roadster in 1952.

by **Steve Holmes** » Thu Jul 14, 2011 9:02 am

Hmmm, can we say I tweaked the rules slightly, rather than breaking them? Just this once?

by **David McKinney** » Thu Jul 14, 2011 8:39 am

Even if it's not a front-engined single-seater

by **Steve Holmes** » Thu Jul 14, 2011 4:59 am

Theres an old saying that if a race car looks right, it usually is right. That doesn't always prove to be the case, but it did with the beautiful Maserati 300S. To my mind, it doesn't get much better than this.

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by **Rod Grimwood** » Mon Jul 11, 2011 10:33 am

Beautiful photos of the Scarab, just great. Mind you they are all great photos, this site is sure getting the dust of some real history, just awesome. Bet the Scarab sounded great.

by **Steve Holmes** » Mon Jul 11, 2011 7:38 am

Gavin, what a great thread! Good work. Am really enjoying the posts and pics. Ellis and Roger, amazing photos guys!

by **Ellis** » Mon Jul 11, 2011 12:12 am

[quote="David McKinney"]Thanks Ellis

Your two "Arnold Glass Supersqualo" pictures are actually the Jones 250F. The car between seems to be an FJ Lola

The Glass Supersqualo does appear in the last of your first Walkem set, alongside Doug Whiteford's 300S

David
Thanks for info
I sent you a PM with my email address
Can you check that the captions are now correct
My refernce book on old Longford has an incorrectly captioned Pic.
Ellis

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