Sonoma Historic Motorsports Festival. June 2-3 2017

[khyndart in CA]

Some other cars at Sonoma;

A beautiful 1966 Bizzarrini 5300 GT driven by John Fudge

Jeff Abramson driving a 1954 Ferrari Mondial # 22 around Turn 11

# 21 Mike Fisher driving a 1959 Bocar XPS

# 63 Scott Renner driving a 1952 Jowett Jupiter

(Ken H)

[khyndart in CA]

Can someone fill in a description of this fine piece of English engineering please.
Thanks.

(Ken H photo )

[Ray Bell]

Wow! It looks like a piece of British eccentricity which somebody has modified to enable easier burnouts...

[John McKechnie]

Looks like a 3 wheeler Morgan.
Hammond drove one in Top Gear once

[khyndart in CA]

Again I should do my homework first !

Check this site.
https://www.morgan-motor.co.uk/3-wheeler/


(Ken H)

[John McKechnie]

Ken- In Remmers we have a healthy Morgan population and its not uncommon to see them zooming around.
Also understand some non purists are putting huge Harley Davison motors in them to make them less british.

[Spgeti]

I have had the privilege of going for a ride in a 1936 Morgan three wheeler and powered by a period JAP V twin. It would of left an Austin 7 for dead... They make them today powered by Harley's.

I just love the Jowett. We have one that races here in NZ and he always drives it to the track !!

[Roger Dowding]

Can someone fill in a description of this fine piece of English engineering please.
Thanks.

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(Ken H photo )

Ken H, this car was at Caffeine and Classics in Auckland at the end of May and parked next to an early Buckler,I have a couple of photos in my camera and it is a Morgan 3 wheeler ..

[khyndart in CA]

More from Sonoma.

An ex Richard Petty car. Always had # 43. This is a 1971 Plymouth Road Runner driven today by Trace Chalmers.

Patriotic 1970 Z28 Camaro # 48. (Not sure of the driver as it was not in the programme,)

A sweet looking 1962 MGA Mk 2 # 31 Driven by Edward Lamantia




(Ken Hyndman photos )

[Steve Holmes]

Some other cars at Sonoma;
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A beautiful 1966 Bizzarrini 5300 GT driven by John Fudge

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# 21 Mike Fisher driving a 1959 Bocar XPS

(Ken H)

A couple of my favorite cars. This Bizzarrinis are just epic. I could have my wires crossed, but isn't the engine on these cars mounted so far back the rear two spark plugs have to be changed from inside the cockpit?

The Bocar was one of many low-volume sports cars that appeared during the 1950s and early '60s. Some were Chevy V8 powered. I believe others were powered by Jaguar or Triumph motors from memory? They're beautiful looking cars.

[Bruce302]

[quote="Steve Holmes"]A couple of my favorite cars. This Bizzarrinis are just epic. I could have my wires crossed, but isn't the engine on these cars mounted so far back the rear two spark plugs have to be changed from inside the cockpit?

Don't worry about the spark plugs, what about the old distributor and changing the points !

[Paul B]

The Bizzarrinis and Bocar XPS was a very nice era of car, The 1964 Kellison ASTRA J-5 Coupe Sports Car was an interesting design, This was the Mk2, the mk1 had single headlights, I believe was designed in 1959. very revolutionary for the time.

[khyndart in CA]

I liked the look of this 1964 BRP BRM Formula 1 car that had been driven by Innes Ireland back then. Now by Kurt DelBene.

Note the clean lines of race cars back then without wings etc.

It was not until I had read this article that I realized that I had probably seen this car before when it came to NZ in a bizarre fashion !
It was the legendary NZ team of Peter Bruin and Ferris de Joux that saved this car from extinction.

http://www.britishracecar.com/KurtDelBene-BRP.htm

(Ken Hyndman photos)

[Terry S]

I liked the look of this 1964 BRP BRM Formula 1 car that had been driven by Innes Ireland back then. Now by Kurt DelBene.

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Note the clean lines of race cars back then without wings etc.
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It was not until I had read this article that I realized that I had probably seen this car before when it came to NZ in a bizarre fashion !
It was the legendary NZ team of Peter Bruin and Ferris de Joux that saved this car from extinction.

http://www.britishracecar.com/KurtDelBene-BRP.htm

(Ken Hyndman photos)

This light green colour is that of the UDT/Laystall Racing Team and was the colour of Frank Matich's Lotus 19 when he bought it from that team.

[Steve Holmes]

This light green colour is that of the UDT/Laystall Racing Team and was the colour of Frank Matich's Lotus 19 when he bought it from that team.

Its a colour that works well on just about any car from the '60s. I've also seen it on a Ferrari 250GTO, Lola T70 MIIIB, as well as this Cobra that raced at the Goodwood Revival a couple of years ago, and it looks great on all of them.

[Steve Holmes]

More from Sonoma.

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Patriotic 1970 Z28 Camaro # 48. (Not sure of the driver as it was not in the programme,)

(Ken Hyndman photos )

This Camaro was raced by Dick Hoffman in the Trans-Am series in, I think, 1971, and it would have been racing with Historic Trans-Am at Sonoma. But John Greenwood, of Corvette racing fame, also had involvement with the car, hence the stars and stripes livery that was being used on his Corvettes at the time.

This photo is from a thread on the Camaro Research Group page that has a little info about the car: http://www.camaros.org/forum/index.php?topic=9935.0

[PDJ]

The Bizzarrinis and Bocar XPS was a very nice era of car, The 1964 Kellison ASTRA J-5 Coupe Sports Car was an interesting design, This was the Mk2, the mk1 had single headlights, I believe was designed in 1959. very revolutionary for the time.
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Yes I like the Kellison's to . I like Nolan White's early 60's Bonneville car which I think was Kellison.

[khyndart in CA]

Another red white and blue vehicle was this 1960 Sorrell Special that had an interesting history relating to Riverside Raceway.
(See attached site ).

1960 Sorrell Special # 23

Read all about this car at this site.
http://www.tamsoldracecarsite.net/SorrellStory.html

(Ken Hyndman first two photos )

[khyndart in CA]

It has been a month since I went to Sonoma for 1 day.
Can I quit now ?

(KH )

[Allan]

NO