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Your Golden Epoch?

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Most motor racing folk look back to their favourite eras from time to time because we have brains that store memories. Like all 'disciplines' motor sport, in all its forms, has gone through highs and lows, but even during troughs, we can often reflect on something that has been stored in our minds with affection.

As usual your views and images will always be of great interest. And thanks.

A few memory joggers below.

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A few red contemporaries including the V12 250F, of which just two were built in all. Maserati made 34 250Fs, plus the TecMec.
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And the usual daubings of similar.
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Yep. About right, Keith. Cameron Millar made around half a dozen.
Mark's vid above of the Targa reminds me that we shouldn't neglect Alfas. Great cars from the awf.
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Team Pescarola just announced that they will be running a Peugeot 9X9 in the WEC, so they’ll be on Le Mans as well :giggle:


I think it will be in 2024.
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It's nice to have customer cars, it's more liveries for modelling, factory teams can sell off or rent out a one year old chassis unless it's a new build sale.
Looking forward to getting the Pesca brand back to the Sarthe.
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A tiny glimpse of one of my Golden epochs, but the sports car season ahead promises the correct ingredients for a vintage Bolly. Steady, Mavis...
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Ickx at Monaco. If you look very carefully, you can see that this car is not a Hillman Minx.
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The Hillman minx begat the Sunbeam Rapier, they were quite sporty in racing and rallying back in the day, strangest choice I've seen on track is probably a Moskvitch running in touring cars, about 1972, Tony Lanfranchi at Oulton park I think.
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The world's first supercar in the form of the 1905 90HP Mercedes. Pictured here on the VSCC's Welsh Trial in Nineteen Hundred and Frozen to Death. A 90mph machine that its then owner, Roger Collings regularly drove from home in Herefordshire to his office in London.
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That reminds me of an incident told to me by a good friend who has provided material for this Forum before. He was with his wife one weekend sitting in a pub garden in East Sussex (a late lamented King & Barnes establishment) when an enormous Edwardian racing car thundered past, its driver dressed in the full gear with goggles, reversed cap and trench coat to the astonishment of the clientele. It was never seen again.

Shades of "The Ghost Train"!
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Arguably the best quality single-seaters made post War. Connaught's engineering standards were extraordinary. When Alan Cottam rebuilt his, the wheels were inevitably x-rayed .for cracks. Not even a hint of one. The rest of the car was equally intact.
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Britain's most magnificent failure. Girling Foss's least favoured racing car.
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JYS who fought so hard to improve safety. Jenks christened him as Jock McArmco. On these occasions Jenks was very wrong.
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Do you refer to photographs or conjure the image from memory, Laurence?
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Good question, Mark. I suppose a little of both. Most daubings from memory but I have to dip into photos occasionally, as the grey matter slows down. With cars I love most I never refer to photos, unless it's to check a decal. Thanks for asking.
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Thanks for answering 🙂
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Received a lovely picture paperback yesterday about the beautiful B8 Chevron. It celebrates 50 years up to 2018. Always among my favourite cars, slot models are regrettably rare.
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