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Re: Who What and Where?
Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2011 7:15 am
by Jac Mac
Hmm, Mclaren used to run the #47, looks like a Austin healey 100/4, could it be Levin ?..Im not familiar with NI circuits of old. Car currently owned by B.C. Clearwater if it is...
Re: Who What and Where?
Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2011 9:20 am
by Kwaussie
Lots of people seem more interested in the car in the background!
The Healy entrant has I think near new Dunlop racing tyres so must be someone serious like Bruce or Pop McLaren.
Re: Who What and Where?
Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2011 9:53 am
by stubuchanan
Place would be Ardmore 1955 GP Meeting (circuit was run anti-clockwise in the first 2 GPs)
Car 47 was J(John?) Seabrook - of Seabrook Fowlds Austin importers presumably.
McLaren car was No 11.
Re: Who What and Where?
Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2011 10:19 am
by David McKinney
Reg no. is wrong for the McLaren car. I'm with Stu on this one
From memory Bruce didn't run the Healey as 47 very much - it wasn't really till the Coopers that he stuck with it
Re: Who What and Where?
Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2011 6:37 pm
by RogerH
Yes, Stu's correct. It was a little bit of a trick question with the 100/4 and number 47. The McLaren 100/4 had a rego number of 346.239.
Re: Who What and Where?
Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2011 1:35 am
by stubuchanan
David McKinney wrote:Reg no. is wrong for the McLaren car. I'm with Stu on this one
From memory Bruce didn't run the Healey as 47 very much - it wasn't really till the Coopers that he stuck with it
Sounds very technical! I just looked it up in the programme(s).
Stu
Re: Who What and Where?
Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2011 5:45 am
by Oldfart
stubuchanan wrote:Not as many as you might think, O.F.
Only one actually.
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Red cars from left : O.Cullen Buckler, K.Yeats Orchid, Hughes Lotus 11.
By mid 1960's Bucklers were getting a bit sparse on the staring grids.
Stu
Hi Stu, what is the white car behind the Daimler, alongside Cullen? In front of the Hughes car is a Mistral. Keith Yeats is still a very handy peddler of an innocuous looking BMW on Targa events. (Assuming it's the same Yeats!)
Re: Who What and Where?
Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2011 10:24 am
by stubuchanan
Oldfart wrote:Hi Stu, what is the white car behind the Daimler, alongside Cullen? In front of the Hughes car is a Mistral. Keith Yeats is still a very handy peddler of an innocuous looking BMW on Targa events. (Assuming it's the same Yeats!)
Should be the Austin Healey of Charlie Conway, and Mistral is Richard McNair.
Yeats' Orchid body looks very similar to AMW Buckler but tail looks different :
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Re: Who What and Where?
Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2011 7:46 am
by bob homewood
Well my friend who arranged in later years for me to take the MG twin Cam engine out of the Alpine and convert it back to Rootes power ,told me today that to his understanding ,the Alpine engine was removed from the Alpine back in the beginning and found a home In Robbie Francevics Humber 80 ,then of course the Alpine ended up with the MG twin cam engine ,can anyone expand on this
bob homewood wrote:Heres something that some one might remember ,early sixties there was in Auckland a Sunbeam Alpine that had been fitted with a MGA twin Cam engine ,in the time that I first worked on it I think it was owned and raced by a chap who was a chemist in white Swan Road ? Does anyone remember the car and who put the MG engine in it in the beginning
Re: Who What and Where?
Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2011 8:29 am
by Oldfart
Well
Re: Who What and Where?
Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2011 10:00 am
by bry3500
Is that one of those Mini based cars? Terrapin?...OK just checked..not a Terrapin
Re: Who What and Where?
Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2011 10:03 am
by GD66
Looks more like a pre-unit Triumph twin. Could it be an early version of an MER ?
Re: Who What and Where?
Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2011 10:34 am
by David McKinney
I'm pretty sure it's the Mini-Max
Re: Who What and Where?
Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2011 6:31 pm
by Oldfart
David McKinney wrote:I'm pretty sure it's the Mini-Max
OK David, you got the what, how about the who and where? OOOh it feels good to be ahead of you just once David!
This is from a bunch of my photos taken around the mid 60s which I have just had digitised.
Re: Who What and Where?
Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2011 10:32 pm
by jamie
Yo At the bottom of Chamberlan Rd hill climb ready to roll down the start Jamie A
Re: Who What and Where?
Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2011 10:48 pm
by David McKinney
And probably Ross Hollings, I would think
Re: Who What and Where?
Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2011 4:40 am
by Oldfart
Sorry, both David and Jamie are not right yet. Much closer to your old home town Jamie.
Re: Who What and Where?
Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2011 9:06 am
by stubuchanan
Oldfart wrote:Sorry, both David and Jamie are not right yet. Much closer to your old home town Jamie.
My photo of the car was possibly taken at the same event. I have labelled it Challenger Special, not a car I was particularly familiar with, but obviously I got the info from someone who was.
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It was apparently built by Northlander Graham Walker and had a 250cc BSA motor, and was quite competitive.
PS When I first saw your picture, Oldfart, I thought it was somebody's accident, with cars, people and wheels all over the place. Not so, obviously.
Stu
But, On The Other Hand....
Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2011 9:51 am
by stubuchanan
The dense subtropical forest of Oldfart's picture doesn't look like Chamberlain Rd Bombay. Perhaps a little bit further north at Puhipuhi for a Gold Star hillclimb. Perhaps it really is the Mini-Max with Ross Hollings or J Pettit in the helmet.
Or maybe I was right first time with car/driver.
Does the sign on the side of the car say "Just Married"?
Stu
Re: Who What and Where?
Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2011 10:01 am
by David McKinney
Oldfart wrote:Sorry, both David and Jamie are not right yet. Much closer to your old home town Jamie.
In that case it must be John Pettit
I was guessing, based on the fact that Hollings would have run at Chamberlain Road more often than Pettit
Or of course it could have been the guy who bought it from RH, and put it down the bank somehwere. Or am I thinking of a different car now?