The Roaring Season

John H wrote:Hi Alan what about showing the whole video as you seem to hanging it out a bit? Chrs

Hi John (and Ray), that's been my plan for years but home PC issues (like a dying video card, motherboard refusing to recognise any video card and quality drop off after editing) have continued to stymie my efforts. I think I'll be getting on top of it in the next week or so, but at present I'm using the Windows Snipping Tool on my work PC to get the stills I've posted as my home PC won't even run the footage.

With the number of GoPros I see on other competitors cars at events, there must be a lot of footage out there that never gets seen by the wider public. I feel like there is an opportunity for a historic/classic enthusiast with video editing skills to get involved in car clubs and help club members out with getting their footage to a state ready to be loaded onto YouTube. Actually, this feels like a possible topic for a club technical evening...

Oldfart wrote:Ray, I think your id question is the Humber Warwick, now displayed differently, if I could read that number plate I could be more sure.

Confirmed, by a nice email from the curator. If only all other queries could be resolved as easily.

"Thank you for the email and the great comments. The car in your photo is our Humber Super Snipe, 1935, reg no BWA 360."

Spent most of yesterday evening transferring more driver/car details from the weekend's meeting to my system. Some useful resources around but boy, does it take time.

I have no intention of even trying to build up a full record of drivers/cars over the last 50 years, but dipping into some race programmes and adding relevant information to complement the digitised or digital photographs, keeps me occupied. For future historians though, I'd add the caveat that often the car as in the programme (if they are even in the programme of course) may have had a drivers swap or had to run with a different race number.

When cars get transferred to new ownership, often the links aren't clear. For example, is James Watson's car (Swift DB4) the one previously owned by David Heron?

I remember so well the first Roycroft Trophy meeting, where most of the entries had initials rather than Christian names and just about every Austin 7 had entered as number 7... A commentator's nightmare. Guess who the commentator was.

An Oriental flavour. First pic is left over from the London Motor Museum visit in September.

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Green Mazda RX2 is Ian Williamson from Whanganui, Blue Mazda RX3 is Darryl Monk from Wellington.

Fffffords
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Adam Jones is the cameraman/producer/publisher of the Fast Files that many of you will be aware of. if not, worth a look.

​http://www.facebook.com/thefastfiles
http://www.youtube.com/thefastfiles



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Ray- great Historic Sports Sedan action you caught in the last pic.

Morris... No apology for the repeated pics.

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Fitted with a supercharged 3.8 Jaguar engine. Would have been an early contender for a drift championship - until they removed the supercharger.


December 16th 1984 I believe


Nev & Glen Thompson ran this in the ERC Series, since sold on and it appeared at Classic Trials, but not seen out for a while.



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Another bit of a mix.
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Formula Libre was exactly what it should be. A real mix. Two Lolas and a March. (Should that be MARCH, given the origin of the name?)


Beowulf coasts to a halt. Thankfully, nothing more than a loose wire - on the car that is.


More Fords




More contrasts. 1950's sports car and 1960's. What phenomenal progress. The Elan still looks modern, 50 years on.



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No, Beowulf DOSENT coast to a halt.........Mr Wright might coast to a halt. Beowulf......the car, was driven by his son Peter, and didnt coast to a halt as far as I know. I am not sure of the name of Richards 'new' car, but since buying it he seems to have had a lot of bother with it........hence the coast to a halt !!!!!!!.....got to keep the records straight.

Beowulf in this instance related to the driver's TRS name AMCO! I was well aware of the car Beowulf, having seen it around for so many years. Sorry for any confusion, but I knew what I meant! "Beowulf's Mallock M6B coasts to a halt." That better? Yup, agree, keep the records straight. Like that interloper in Vauxhall car 40 wasn't Adrian Dobbe.

MG/BMC/BL/Rover
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Phil Joseph's Rover Tomcat. More variety and as you can't import a Tomcat now, like TVRs, they fall foul of NZ's somewhat strange import safety rules. I could be cynical and suggest they concentrate on the drivers rather than the cars.


Grant Kern driving well as always, one of his growing MG fleet. He is currently restoring an MGA. He really enjoys this car which shows a clean pair of heels to several much newer cars. There was a very successful T-series championship in the UK some time back and one of the few times I have seen a crowd on their feet cheering every car on every lap!


Adrian Hayman leads a bunch in practice before a later race tangle with a wayward V8 Capri. The Porsche should not have been out there as it is not part of the series.


Satin black or matt black is not my favourite paint finish... Zac's BMW looks great though, in gloss black with white pin-striping. Barry Hare's well campaigned Rover, less so.


Dave Mallin, always a very good driver in my opinion, is really getting to grips with this genuine MG BV8, which used to be campaigned in the ERC Series by Harley Norager. The first car in the series to have a stop go penalty for exceeding the speed bar that used to be in force.


What was I saying about matt black? Presumably recently back on the road judging by the plates, unless personalised.

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Pretty sure car #321 is the ex Bill Stone Mk6 Mallock U2.

Ray
That same white Porsche- with a blue one- also came out when it was not supposed to....in the HSS field .
Wouldnt we all love to get so many races for our entry fee

John McKechnie wrote:Ray
That same white Porsche- with a blue one- also came out when it was not supposed to....in the HSS field .
Wouldnt we all love to get so many races for our entry fee

the problem with teeny bopper dummy grid mashalls, they lack authority when it is needed just my 2c

These 2 cars actually showed up a flaw in the system.
It doesnt matter if you are in the program, it doesnt matter if you are not a member of a class, or have not been Invited to run with a group.
IF you go out in any practice session , you will get a time, which will get you on the grid, and can drive straight out. Love to see them trying this in CMC
Sorry 928-The grid marshalls are there to make sure the cars follow the grid order.- they have no fault at all in this case- blame the drivers only.
The grid goes out, cars are racing ....suddenly people say- How did that car get there, who allowed it?
In my case I was silting in my car right at the back and saw these 2 going out with the HSS cars-WTF ?
What was I to do.....get out, run to race control, still in helmet, black flag the drivers?
Too late, I had to let race run and sorted it out later.
How do you make sure it doesnt happen again- Coordinators or their representitives are on the marshalling grid making sure no ones double dipping.
Drivers are ready for racing and not expecting this.
Spectators may notice but its not their responsibility.
Any one want to add more here?
BTW- if you look at Nigel Watts thread beautiful pix of HSS cars you will see this blue 911 on #605

when i ran race cars john you could not get onto the dummy grid unless you were entered in that particular race. this was in the uk where we also had scutineering every event. if these things are let go then problems of the type you mention will happen

928- thats why I also added my 2 cents worth

we should stop now John, very soon we will have enough coin to go and have a beer

Nah, only when Ray says its his shout.....after all its his thread.
Also I am sure that on this topic there will be more 2c s

You raise an interesting point here. What's to stop me going through documentation etc for an event and then letting someone else drive my car?
In Australia when drivers complete their documentation they are issued with a wristband (similar to one put on you if you are admitted to hospital-one that is not easily removed and reattached). These wristbands are checked on the dummy grid.