Straker Squire

Hi Nick
I have talked to dave sykes about this car just recently ,and my memory of it when it raced at silverstone in the 80s driven by adrian liddel was that it originally had conventional body work ,and a little later with the zig zag stripey stramline from the 20s
My memory also tells me that it had a red roundel on the tail of the car
when i reseached this i found out that the reason for this was that the colorscheme was instigated by the bentley boy ,bertie kensington moir who had it painted to match a set of socks given to him by a girlfriend
interestingly enough ,bertie K m,s brother in law ,mr kennedy produced the cars and track for the tim birkin race game that was the worlds first ever commercial model car raceway .
Hows that for a coincidence !

Cheers tony

Thank You Nick, Fantastic information. I hope to post more pictures of where mine is up to although I probably do not have the right number of stripes. It does fool the eye when painting and I wonder how other drivers feel when racing against it. I have always loved this car as it is the spirit of Brooklands for me.
My Uncle had a Riley "march" special when i was a boy and driving around in the back of this car was something special so to drive the Straker that must have been a dream.

Unfortunately it has been too cold for me to dare the cellar just recently and i want to make copys of the drivers heads and bodies in shirt sleeves before i move forward. Nuvolare has one of my shells and his version will be something spectacular when he finishes it I look forward to seeing it.
Dave

Hi Dave
all looking good, do you know we will be running there at Rockingham on the 19th Of January 2014