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" I suppose that now we are in lockdown, I could get stuck into more scanning, but with a crook shoulder, limited time on a keyboard. My lovely wife thinks I should be tidying the office... "

" Ray, and the "lovely wife"please keep these coming. It's helping some of us who are now into second week of a 4 MONTH lockdown stay remotely sane. "

Ray and Rhys - my " Her Indoors " is letting me have some time as have just been doing a big effort getting new garden ready for her - so time off for good behaviour - let me report a couple of weeks in.

Ray the Office will be tidy -how you like so you alone can find stuff - keep it up as Rhys says for our sanities.


Take care all of you - stay safe.

No new photos so an older one ..well from 1955 at Sebring.. Classic Cars USA article on " Cunningham " has AHS3501 an Austin Healey in the background

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Oldfart wrote:Right now I can't even register for food delivery as a 70 year old here in Outer Pongolia as the system is overloaded.
Sorry to hear that Oldfart. Be patient.

One of my very best ex-work buddies, lives in Norfolk (ex grade 1 police driver), has been looking after his wheelchair-bound wife, who has MS, and has been doing so for 25 years now.

Bad enough having a restricted life anyway, without family being able to come in to assist, so we are just counting our blessings.

Gave up trying to go to the supermarket or veg shop as the queues were horrendous, but the local butcher (who we don't normally use - normally too expensive) there was just one person being served, so we bought bacon and home made sausages. Two doors away, fresh fish shop and no queue so bought two large fillets of snapper.

Keep smiling chaps.

Meanwhile, any requests for cars, events, locations etc., will be considered for this thread!
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ERC, do have any pictures of the 76,77,78 shellsport f5000 series in the UK? would love to see them if possible. thanks
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Hi 928, I may have some, but so far, I have only ever published one on here, and I suspect that I don't have many of a decent quality.

I have posted this before, from 1976 but I'll see what I haven't yet scanned. It was a time when I was actively competing in sprints and hillclimbs, so I didn't go to too many race meetings.

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ERC wrote:Sorry to hear that Oldfart. Be patient.

One of my very best ex-work buddies, lives in Norfolk (ex grade 1 police driver), has been looking after his wheelchair-bound wife, who has MS, and has been doing so for 25 years now.

Bad enough having a restricted life anyway, without family being able to come in to assist, so we are just counting our blessings.

Gave up trying to go to the supermarket or veg shop as the queues were horrendous, but the local butcher (who we don't normally use - normally too expensive) there was just one person being served, so we bought bacon and home made sausages. Two doors away, fresh fish shop and no queue so bought two large fillets of snapper.

Keep smiling chaps.

Meanwhile, any requests for cars, events, locations etc., will be considered for this thread!


Ray, we have an ocean full of large snapper up here & boat full of fuel & bait & lot's of time & no waiting at the boat ramp & calm water & not allowed to go fishing so am going to go to yard with fishing rod & a couple of beer's & sit in boat for a couple of hours, stay safe
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Check these numbers out. I don't remember any attempt to shut the country down. Perhaps they should have !
I do remember we had a different president then who was not getting thrashed by the press !

"The 2009 flu pandemic in the United States was a novel strain of the Influenza A/H1N1 virus, commonly referred to as "swine flu", that began in the spring of 2009. The virus had spread to the US from an outbreak in Mexico.[116]

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that from April 12, 2009 to April 10, 2010, there were 60.8 million cases, 274,000 hospitalizations, and 12,469 deaths (0.02% case fatality rate) in the United States due to the virus.


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2012
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2016
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2018
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British Sports Racing/GT cars.

1966 Attila
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1970 - Chevron
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and again
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Coldwell GT
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ERC Ray - the first photo Atilla and last fourth - Coldwell GT white race #146 are not showing - but,
If you right click on the image to "Open image in a new tab " - another tab appears - click on that and there is the photo.
I had the issue yesterday when posting - " Submit Post " and when i went of the thread and back on they were there - Wierd ..
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All showing for me!
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None showing for me right now although they were yesterday.
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All OK for me today - ??? all four photos.
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All back again for me.
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Phew! If they show for me (they don't always, and I re-post), then I assume they are visible to others.

2012 - Monaco. The mid 1950's sports racing cars are amongst my favourites, as they coincide with my first visits to Mallory Park, at a time when it was either sports cars or single seaters - no saloons.
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Cooper
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1970 - Felday. Apologies if any have been posted previously. interesting in the background, if you can be bothered looking past the, er, mechanic, on the right, is a Mini Marcos and Ash Cleave's Morris Special.
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1973
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2016
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Felday was a very interesting 4WD device wasn't it. Maybe even driven by Jim Clark.

Please don't apologise for repeats! #19 - is that a Merlyn?
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I have it as an Elva Michael. You can vaguely see the bonnet badge. I'm afraid that with the advent of the Lotus 23, sports car racing changed forever and the cars all started to look the same.

I think the Felday has been discussed on here before, but as initially, I didn't keep a record of what I had posted, one or two of the earlier postings may reappear. Jim Clark did indeed drive the Felday, but not sure when without consulting Google. (Added: Jim Clark drove the car in 1966 - Guards Trophy Race.)

I noted in my diary for 27/12/1965 - it was the only entry worth transcribing to the old diary spreadsheet I have been building - that it was the first time out and beat the McLaren Elvas at Brands Hatch - televised. Won 1 race and second in another (to a McLaren). According to my diary, an 1880cc engine (probably BRM). Also reverting to my diary, apparently the first day I wore a string vest!!! I'm sure that conjures up an image you'd rather forget.

"Departing from previous Felday spaceframe chassis practice, Westbury built a sheet-steel 'monocoque' backbone structure for his 'Mark 4' with the BRM V8 engine turned about-face at the rear, clutch at the front. A short propeller shaft then ran forward to the Ferguson FF gearbox and control unit, mounted in unit with the front-drive assembly. A jointed prop-shaft then ran back from the control unit under the engine's left-side cylinder bank to a rear-drive differential unit."

The car was built by Peter Westbury (this was Felday 4) and the driving often shared with a Channel Island co-worker, Mac Daghorn, who I think drove the car in that first race.

The above quote was taken from:

https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/21906/lot/306/

Well worth a read, as there are links to the Ferguson P99, which Westbury drove to great success in the hillclimb championship, and the Techcraft BRM 4WD.
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Thank you Ray. Having guessed wrong with the Elva, what about the #34. No badge there so my stab is either a BT5 or BT8 Brabham, if it's not a Lotus 19!.

You are quite right about the Lotus 23 defining the shape of the majority of small bore sports racers from that time - the Crossle 7S was an Irish version on a similar theme
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Chocolate fish Michael. Brabham it is. I have to say that I was rather glad they dropped that class for 2018, as it isn't a class that really interests me too much, certainly not photographically, apart from the much missed local Festivals, where they did add variety to the grids.
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