The Roaring Season

fairly easy

Presume it is Sir Frank Gardner RIP in the Alan Mann Racing Escort Mk1 1968.

I will have a guess at Thruxton for the circuit.

pallmall wrote:Presume it is Sir Frank Gardner RIP in the Alan Mann Racing Escort Mk1 1968.

I will have a guess at Thruxton for the circuit.

right first time PM//your turn

where?

Big guess, they look like BMW bikes, so I think it must be in Berlin and the bit of track they are on looks like Avus.
Maybe celebrating the World Championship wins of BMW racing bikes?

pallmall wrote:Big guess, they look like BMW bikes, so I think it must be in Berlin and the bit of track they are on looks like Avus.
Maybe celebrating the World Championship wins of BMW racing bikes?

Jeez...I thought that might have you stumped for more than half an hour. I have been to Avus on a number of occasions and must say that this is a magnificent sculpture...

This shouldn't be too difficult.

Rex Ramsay in the LeGrand Formula A at Bay Park, December 1968. The drooping exhaust may belong to Peter Moloney's Cooper Climax...

bob homewood wrote:Yes good to see Jamie here ,A huge and I believe underated talent both on the driving and the mechanical front ,and a hard and worthy competitor ,one of the kind of people that I feel NZ motor racing is really about

SID mk1
Timaru early 70s (top)
Bay park with 289 v8 1972 (bottom)
photo's from Jamie Aislabie

Ok,here is one I am trying to place ,Jamie might know the answer on this one

Here is one I am trying to place,Jamie might know the answer to this one

bob homewood wrote:Here is one I am trying to place,Jamie might know the answer to this one[ATTACH=CONFIG]4575[/ATTACH]

Message from Jamie
Des Hammill - Falcon motor with Bathurst Cylinder head at Bay Park

bry3500 wrote:Message from Jamie
Des Hammill - Falcon motor with Bathurst Cylinder head at Bay Park

Is that Des Hammill who later wrote 20-odd "How To..." books on a variety of tuning and engine-building topics, plus a book on Coventry Climax engines, and co-wrote a biography on Cyril Kieft. And a book on the Treaty of Waitangi, just in case we didn't already have enough.

Not to be confused with Denis Hamill from a few years earlier who raced saloons.

A note in the Kieft book says that Des Hammill was author of the Coventry-Climax book

stubuchanan wrote:Is that Des Hammill who later wrote 20-odd "How To..." books on a variety of tuning and engine-building topics, plus a book on Coventry Climax engines, and co-wrote a biography on Cyril Kieft. And a book on the Treaty of Waitangi, just in case we didn't already have enough.

Not to be confused with Denis Hamill from a few years earlier who raced saloons.

It is Des Hammill the author in the pic

bry3500 wrote:Message from Jamie
Des Hammill - Falcon motor with Bathurst Cylinder head at Bay Park

Ok thanks Bry ,I forgotten about Des Hamill ,where did that car come from and go to ,ok and what happened to the nose that day ?,sorry for all the questions but the answers will help tidy up a few loose ends,That meeting is April 2nd 1972 out of interest

Another who ,what ,when ,where

Another who ,what,when,where ?

Hi Bob Is that the Mc Beg being built Jamie A

bob homewood wrote:Ok thanks Bry ,I forgotten about Des Hamill ,where did that car come from and go to ,ok and what happened to the nose that day ?,sorry for all the questions but the answers will help tidy up a few loose ends,That meeting is April 2nd 1972 out of interest

According to Jamie the last time he saw the car it was in Des's workshop in the early 90,s and he was trying to sell it...