by Ray Bell » Sat Jul 02, 2016 5:41 am
Originally posted by Steve Holmes
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Some old stuff here I'd struggle with, mainly because of the lesser-known Victorian content.
However, the Lotus 15 is the car which brought Bevan Gibson to notice, starting its Australian life in the hands of Derek Jolly. It ran well at Le Mans prior to this with Graham Hill on board, this pic is when Paul Gibson was just starting out in the wake of Bevan's untimely death. The car had a 'queerbox' and sometimes wore out its crownwheels, these were too expensive for cinema-operator Hoot Gibson to replace through Lotus spares (ZF made them exclusively for Lotus) and so Vauxhall crownwheels were lapped in running with grinding paste on the lathe overnight to suit. The gearchange was always dicky with this car, but when Bevan Gibson took it to England he was able to set it up properly with a hacked-up unit alongside and found some spacers in the wrong place. Nigel Mansell promised Grant he'd pay for a new body for the car if he won the World Championship the year Bevan was his personal mechanic... he didn't win.
The Cortina seems vaguely familiar, but I couldn't say who it is. It certainly looks like a quiet practice day as it rounds Homestead Corner.
[quote][i]Originally posted by Steve Holmes[/i]
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Some old stuff here I'd struggle with, mainly because of the lesser-known Victorian content.
However, the Lotus 15 is the car which brought Bevan Gibson to notice, starting its Australian life in the hands of Derek Jolly. It ran well at Le Mans prior to this with Graham Hill on board, this pic is when Paul Gibson was just starting out in the wake of Bevan's untimely death. The car had a 'queerbox' and sometimes wore out its crownwheels, these were too expensive for cinema-operator Hoot Gibson to replace through Lotus spares (ZF made them exclusively for Lotus) and so Vauxhall crownwheels were lapped in running with grinding paste on the lathe overnight to suit. The gearchange was always dicky with this car, but when Bevan Gibson took it to England he was able to set it up properly with a hacked-up unit alongside and found some spacers in the wrong place. Nigel Mansell promised Grant he'd pay for a new body for the car if he won the World Championship the year Bevan was his personal mechanic... he didn't win.
The Cortina seems vaguely familiar, but I couldn't say who it is. It certainly looks like a quiet practice day as it rounds Homestead Corner.