Just A Mix Of Pics - Ray Green Collection

[Roger Dowding]

From your photos Ray - I am puzzled - English ?? with SU's looks like a Triumph but the body looks Sunbeam !!

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Re ; Raymond Mays cylinder head on a Mk2 Ford Zephyr Ken. [ make that Roger ]

Thanks Ray - why i didn't pick that up before was thinking Sports Car I guess

[ERC]

Apologies Roger... Can I blame jet lag, or advanced senility - or both?

Here you are Roger - and another car with a link...

[Roger Dowding]

Apologies Roger... Can I blame jet lag, or advanced senility - or both?

Here you are Roger - and another car with a link...

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Ray, thanks - A mate of mine had a Mark 11 Zodiac in the early 1970's - he lived in the Waikato - near Ken H at Walton - his had the Raymond Mays Head but think the carburettor was a twin choke Weber a down-draft from memory. his was an Auto I seem to think.

[ERC]

Heading home - just for two days, then away again and a mountain of stuff to wade through.

A taster for the regulars, from Goodwood

1) Roger:

2) Spgeti:

3) For others who like rare (although a recreation - Lancia D50 - announcing its failure, not to be seen on track again and quirky. (Keift with a prototype Coventry Climax engine which sounded fantastic too.

4) For the Brits

5) For the Porsche brigade

6) And for the odd few who are into Americana

[Spgeti]

Hi Ray, hope you enjoyed yourself over there.

The Lancia of that model is one of my favourite Italian cars.

Cheers
Bruce

[ERC]

Interesting Spgeti, but in the two weeks in the UK, I saw just one Marcos (in a museum) but several Lancia Aurelias.

Even more surprising, more Facel Vegas (French, not Italian of course). One in a museum. One on the open road two days before Goodwood; the Rob Walker Facel Vega in the tribute parade and three more in the pre '66 car park at Goodwood.

At six picture posts a time, it will be a while before I have posted the pic of the crop(ped) on here.

[Roger Dowding]

Interesting Spgeti, but in the two weeks in the UK, I saw just one Marcos (in a museum) but several Lancia Aurelias.

Even more surprising, more Facel Vegas (French, not Italian of course). One in a museum. One on the open road two days before Goodwood, the Rob walker Facel Vega in the tribute parade and two more in the pre '66 car park at Goodwood.

At six picture posts a time, it will be a while before I have posted the pic of the crop(ped) on here.

Ray, Thanks for the " personal " pictures, and Bruce enjoyed his too !!
The AH 100 has quite a history - I hope you have more photos of it.

Cheers, Roger D.

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Plenty to come Roger... However, I seem to have a (owner?) problem with the camera focus point moving. I need to have another read of the manual, as I unfortunately have to ditch what would have been excellent pics, as although I have it set for a single point focus, that point seems to move around at will, so I have several (far too many!) with in focus backgrounds but the subject is a bit fuzzy. Very frustrating. Difficult to tell at the time without wearing glasses and expanding the pic. The net result is a load of duff ones.

Pity, as watching the cars four wheel drift through Madgwick with the sun in exactly the right place is a dream position.

Examples:

Duff

Fair

There are always cars I have never seen before, such as this Lightning Envoyette-Ford, Formula Junior

I'm out of date order here so might revert to the correct sequence...

[Spgeti]

Love those Austin’s Ray...

[ERC]

They sounded superb too! The green one on the left is I believe the ex Jack Sears' car. They were celebrating the first touring car season of 1958. Jack Sears famously won it after an equal points race off, in Riley 1.5s... Can't see that happening today.

Probably because the only saloons in 2016 were Austin A30s/A35s, this year, the St Mary's Trophy race and the Jack Sear's race were right up my street - and some new pictures for the library.

This is the original prototype Ford GT40.

Back to Grimsthorpe, August 26th. (Amilcar)

One for Oldfart.

One for Ken. Trojan 101 at Donington

Goodwood. One of the two Alta's racing

That is it for now as I am off overseas again for a week, this time with my lovely wife, who very kindly allowed me to go to the UK without her.

[Spgeti]

Yes they were really a wolf in sheeps clothing. They sound awesome as when I stated work in Whangarei one of the mechanical apprentices had a hot A90.
Sad that the Riley 1.5 of Arthur’s went down south.

Safe trip Ray.

[khyndart in CA]

Thanks Ray,
Where else but at Brands Hatch in 1973 could you find :
" The Trojan slips through on the inside as it enters Bottom Bend !"

A fond memory of John Watson at work in the Hexagon of Highgate Trojan T101. # 44


Ken H

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Yes they were really a wolf in sheeps clothing. They sound awesome as when I stated work in Whangarei one of the mechanical apprentices had a hot A90.
Sad that the Riley 1.5 of Arthur’s went down south.

I presume you mean the ex-Jimmy C Wolseley Bruce?

The Sears 1958 cars were fantastic to watch at Goodwood and they didn't sound very standard at all! Personally, bog standard cars of that vintage aren't very appealing and although limiting modifications may keep costs down, purely from a spectator viewpoint, bog standard cars don't sound right or look right on a race track especially of that vintage.

The Hooter's series in NZ appears to be little more than a classic trial and maybe they need a class for period modified and a class for standard? Those 3 big Austins were very impressive on the track, as were several other cars, including the noisiest MG Magnette I have ever heard. Using cross ply tyres, there were many examples of four wheel drifts across several classes.

Plenty of pics now to be posted over the next few months but getting RSI from several long sessions of mouse work - not housework.

Incidentally Ken, Hexagon of Highgate actually built my Marcos! I have copies of the original build paperwork.

[Spgeti]

Yes I do mean Jimmy’s Wolseley.

I really love that era.

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Up early so a bit of time to upload a couple more…

Grimsthorpe Castle again - Raymond Mays.

Frazer-Nash BMW

Goodwood - Ferrari - subject of an article in one of the British car magazines last year.

Part of the tribute to Rob Walker parade. Apparently he was managing the Surtees team.

Note the attire. Rob was famously a gentleman who drove in a lounge suit and word has it that at Le Mans, he came in to change into an evening suit...

[Kevin Hirst]

Yes they were really a wolf in sheeps clothing. They sound awesome as when I stated work in Whangarei one of the mechanical apprentices had a hot A90.
Sad that the Riley 1.5 of Arthur’s went down south.

Safe trip Ray.

Same model as the one I raced [ the green one [ would love to have a look at the motor etc.

[Oldfart]

Kevin Hirst, I'll bet your engine downporting was more clever than TOL!

[Kevin Hirst]

Kevin Hirst, I'll bet your engine downporting was more clever than TOL!

Would love to have one of those 12port heads the healey's had in those days but way beyond budget.

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Now back in NZ with the pile of pics taken in the UK so far whittled down to just over 3,000... Still cropping and deleting before moving on to deleting duplicates. Just a few more from Goodwood to be going on with.

The lighter green of the 2 Altas was one of the stars of the Goodwood trophy, finishing in 3rd place.

I wonder which of the above may well have been taken by dad at Donington in 1939? (Posted previously) Judging by the seating position and maybe the mirrors, it looks more like the dark green one, even though the colour in the black and white pic looks as though it was light green, but the wheels are smaller - a common complaint about several of today's 1930's cars is the wheel size not being original.

Alvis Goodwin Special

This Scarab (one of two) failed in practice, so the intrepid owners shot back to Nottingham for their Cooper Bristol!

The Lancia D50 (a re-creation - although not noted as such) also failed to start the race, seen here at the end of its practice.

This Frazer Nash survived but the other Frazer Nash was another race non-starter.

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Another mix...

Grimsthorpe

Gaydon. Triumph Lynx. Just one of the many prototypes at Gaydon.

Goodwood - parade of past winners - much appreciated. Lotus Bristol

MG Magnette

The somewhat short of leg Sir Jackie Stewart struggled to reach the pedals of the Eagle Weslake, given that creator Dan Gurney was a six footer. The Eagle was demonstrated the day before by Derek Bell. Bit of a waste when only one car is on the track...

Cooper Jaguar. Love the 1950's sports racing cars.