Just A Mix Of Pics - Ray Green Collection

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The Coventry museum is not that well known but is well worth a visit. Highlights are the Thrust exhibits and simulator. Also a good insight into the transport manufacturers of Coventry-bicycles, motorcycles, trucks, tractors are all represented.

You might be shown around by one of the volunteers with a Kiwi accent in the New Year !

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Love that ex Seaman Delage.

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One Rover, 1 Austin, 3 MGs (yes, 3 MGs, not two Austins, despite the badging...). Apart from the last pic, the others are from what is effectively the non-display, storage area at Gaydon. What a fascinating collection that is.

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On further inspection I don't think it is the ex Seaman car, as I think Ramponi shifted the front spring outboard of the chassis on his car. Any idea of its pedigree?

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On further inspection I don't think it is the ex Seaman car, as I think Ramponi shifted the front spring outboard of the chassis on his car. Any idea of its pedigree?

Sorry, I'm not sure of its history! Enjoyed Brooklands but the Napier '4D' experience wasn't worth the extra money.
Between 600 and 700 volunteers are involved, with the aircraft, motorbikes, cars and the London bus museum. There were quite a few around when I called and as with most volunteers, both informative and helpful. The sunshine helped make this a very enjoyable visit - and I can highly recommend chef's cottage pie!

From May 1977 at the re-opening of Donington, Willie Green - no relation!

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I have slimmed the pics taken in the UK down to about 2,400 but I still have to eliminate race duplicates from Goodwood. So far, I have only managed half the Formula Juniors!

Sir Stirling Moss

The Heritage museum has the frustrating habit of the display boards almost touching the cars and making getting a decent photograph almost impossible.

Sometimes, a customised car is so bad, it almost makes you sick! The London Car Museum had some prize examples. This was possibly the worst.

Rhys - as this may well be one of your charges, could you or anyone else please identify it for me?

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Now started the elimination of duplicates from Goodwood.

Formula Junior first. With most pics, the make will be found by running the mouse over the pic.

The two fastest cars - the Alexis and the Ray Mallock, Mallock, failed to finish. The Mallock failed on lap one and the Alexis expired towards the end of the race.

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That is it, as a virtually full sample of the Formula Junior entry. As the first race up on the Sunday, Chichester Cup, they had the benefit of a sunny day, unlike the Saturday competitors.

Huge thanks to Tony O, who managed to get me a Saturday ticket when they'd all sold out and also a mechanic's armband that got me not only into the paddock, but also the roof of the pits where I was able to take many of the photographs seen here. Getting a clear view of the chicane for example, from the outside of the track, was just about impossible Saturday and Sunday as the crowd was huge.

Saturday, I managed to rig up my umbrella and hide under it for most of the day.

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Slightly rarer stuff - off track.

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Probably my least favourite race group of the whole Revival was the under 3 litre 1960 - 1966 sports prototypes. For that reason and the fact that there were so few makes represented, what I put on here is only a selection of the grid.

What was missing from the Revival this year was a decent varied saloon grid, as the St Mary's Trophy (two races) was Austin A35s only. So, three grids out of a total of just 16 had the all important variety I crave, missing, plus two motor bike grids, which is a popular part of the Revival, but I'm a bit lukewarm about those too. I may be in a minority here, given that the event was and always is a total sellout, but the programme is dragged out over two race days, plus a late race on Friday which I missed, with far too much precious track time, totally wasted. A proper saloon grid always produces great racing and should never be dropped. My opinion only!

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Last of this group.

An altercation at the chicane when a faster car was bit impatient, resulted in this 1 door Lotus 23... The passenger side door left in the middle of the track. It would be interesting to see his Go Pro coverage, but I doubt the picture quality would be too good.

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Before:

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After - sadly, Duncan Ricketts ERA that had been going so well at recent events, only managed the out practice lap.

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Lavant Cup - for drum braked BMW/Bristol engined cars, 1930's to 1960's.

One of my favourite shots of the whole event.

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After - sadly, Duncan Ricketts ERA that had been going so well at recent events, only managed the out practice lap.

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Bill Shepherd is a long-time Cobra racer. I saw him competing in a Cobra at the Silverstone Classic way back in about 1993/94. That was a dark green car, but I wonder if its the same one pictured. Most of the Cobras these days run the hardtop lids to make them a little more slippery, which they didn't use back then.

Shepherd had a coming-together with the Bamford 250GTO at Goodwood, hence the damage.