The Roaring Season

Ray Bell wrote:Graeme Tribe (or John Moxon) in 1966...

DNF, apparently.

Entered also in 1965 but didn't start.

Yes photo from John Moxon archives - they ran out after brakes after about one lap - motor was still 2639 cc but with Waggot modifications, and that little oil cooler on the front

Ran out of brakes?

No doubt, I've seen those brakes... no wonder they went to discs for the A99 in 1959/60.

Like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZudOFndylQ&t=734s

By the way, though he says the power booster is Japanese or something, it's actually original, I remember that type of booster from my several ownerships of these models.

Ray Bell wrote:Ran out of brakes?

No doubt, I've seen those brakes... no wonder they went to discs for the A99 in 1959/60.

Like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZudOFndylQ&t=734s

By the way, though he says the power booster is Japanese or something, it's actually original, I remember that type of booster from my several ownerships of these models.

Shot down to Taihape on wednesday & picked up a 3ltr motor & gearbox to overhaul for our car, they were about to be burried in a big hole with tons of other parts, round trip 1200km back home in Mangawhai at 7pm, pretty full on sorta day

Kevin Hirst wrote:Shot down to Taihape on wednesday & picked up a 3ltr motor & gearbox to overhaul for our car, they were about to be burried in a big hole with tons of other parts, round trip 1200km back home in Mangawhai at 7pm, pretty full on sorta day

Good rescue Kevin, a big run too .. haven't done that sort of distance in years.
Cheers
Roger

More photos from Jonathan Whitehouse-Bird
- one of the 1962 Alloy bodied Sebring Sprites. car is in good condition, not concours though - a driver
One of the original cars under construction at The Cape .. photo from J Whitehouse-Bird archives.
#22 is the Pedro Rodriguez car [ must check that out ] It is 9253 WD ..

Roger Dowding, as you are the Healey man, have the pencil drawings of the last Healey Le Mans drawings ever been seen by you? They disappeared in a workshop on The Concourse Henderson a long time back. (As in over lunch time).

Oldfart wrote:Roger Dowding, as you are the Healey man, have the pencil drawings of the last Healey Le Mans drawings ever been seen by you? They disappeared in a workshop on The Concourse Henderson a long time back. (As in over lunch time).

No I have not seen them and they are not in my possession, if they were you could have them back and I would just take copies
RN " Oldfart ".. actually in Auckland at the moment - do you know which workshop, I could ask ??

I do however lose things too - like the Line Drawing of an Austin Healey Hundred - side and topview - with measurement marks on it - was an Envelope A3 size that you got at Snowmass in 1982 and could get Posters to store inside it - the envelope .. looked a bit like this one of the DMH 100 Coupe but in monochrome..
This from the Dutch Healey Museum archives ..

Cheers RN " O " ..

I was given them just outside of Perranporth, the family and I shared another hobby. I hesitate to name the workshop, let's just say they claimed to be specialists in the marque. I left them with said place one morning so they could get them large format copied. when I returned they said they had never seen them, although one of the other staff told me that he had been shown them over lunch.

Some more from the 1962 Sebring 3 hour Race.
with Moss #15 , McQueen #16 , Ireland #17 and Pedro Rodriguez #22.

Rodriguez chasing an Abarth #4
Innes Ireland
both photos Jonathan Whitehouse-Bird archives - by Dave Freidman

3 more shots of Rodriguez #22, chasing an Abarth - photos Doug Morton
Have a few more to come too !! - some in colour.

Unusually I didn't date this clipping about R. Leathers' Ruddspeed Austin Healey 3000.

Milan,
Thank you for that - will pass a copy on to Myles Hicks, who is continuing Gavin's task of restoring the Ruddspeed..

Photos downloaded and resized - only one Austin Healey - Allan Horner, an AHCCNZ member who also has a Sprite with Toyota Twincam power that he runs in the Classic Touring Track series - The Sprite wouldn't start so the 3000 came.
The Flying A's - Kevin Hirst A95 Saloon and Ron ? with an A95 Wagaon - a good pair.
Will put others cars on the MX5 thread - the MX's that were there !!

there were two NM [ AM's ] at C and C in June - different ones to those that have been before that I have seen.
The Left Hand Drive a restoration project was for sale - all there but scruffy [ a bit like a certain MX5 I know of ].

Anyway the photos .. and RHD and an LHD .. are they Austin or Nash ?

I read up on this a while back...

I think they were built by Austin at a separate plant to the A40s from which they got their mechanicals.

A couple of photos posted on the BMC Competitions Dept facebook page.
Pat Moss had an off during a Rally.

Information from a Peter Scott " This, I believe, is SMO 746 and on the 11.4 km Solutude race track near Stuttgart on the 1960 Lyons-Charbonnieres Rally. It was driver only with the cars starting at 5 second intervals. Pat had caught and passed all the cars in her class including a number of Porsches and this was the Glemseck, a long open hairpin and the last corner before the finish. She lost control and hit the barrier of railway sleepers, one of which went through where the passenger would have been. The car then rolled. Pat was trapped but future husband Erik Carlsson was watching from the finish line cafe and rushed to the car, ripped off the sidescreen, and pulled Pat out, little the worse for wear. Apparently a brandy, supplied by the Mercedes team, ensured full recovery. "

Must have a look in the Bill Price book " The BMC/BL Competitions Dept " history to find out more.
Photos posted by Sal Paul
Is this [ this is ] how it looked in later life photo from Joe Armour's archives The Book
a bit more on the story - apparently there are details in Pat Moss' own book which I do not have.
This from Tom Coulthard - " Bill Price relates that though this car was SMO 746 it carried SMO 745’s plates (the 5 is just visible in the front shot); 745, the car identified in the entry, had been in an accident just before the rally, so the mechanics did an all-nighter to prepare 746 in its place and swap identities. Both cars were repaired, 745 for Pat Moss to drive on the Geneva Rally the following month (April), 746 for John Gott on the Alpine in June. "

Did they run the event in the opposite direction to normal?

Roger,
I may have done this one already, but I liked how BMC used racing for their marketing.
October 1959.

(Ken H)

Google Earth says they've done some earthmoving at the location of the pic on the lower left, Ken...

Great piece of Advertising and BMC / A H History Ken H,
Thanks.
Ray Bell - about the Pat Moss/Carlsson accident- I do not know -must read up the Bill Price book
- then need to get hold of the Pat Moss story / biography

Before - just stripped of parts - lights etc.
some time later - all stripped back
The car is progressing well - more to come.

May 2024 - Car is finished and being fine tuned as it were !!.

a recent Brett Young photo