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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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Deahaye won Le Mans in 1938, the first French victory since 1926. Bugatti won again the following year.

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A very nice advertisement by Shell in my copy of Automobile Year 1967-1968. My favorite era of sports car racing.

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Anorak warning, 1967 was the year Shell changed the typeface to the one shown, from Memory, Design degree 1979, its
eurostile medium.
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The Sebring and Le Mans Mk 4s.

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Tom Pryce (known as Maldwyn by his family and friends) nicely out of shape at the Nurburgring, 1974.

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Graham in South Africa, 1963.

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The Lotus 43 with which Jim won the US GP. The bulk of the H16 engine is most apparent.

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A fond personal memory of the M4 in a Bizzarrini at 140mph.

"Allo, allo, allo..."

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Sophia Loren was among the most famous Gullwing owners.

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Designed by Prof Porsche the gigantic T80 Mercedes pre War LSR car sits vertically mounted on a wall in the Mercedes Museum in Stuttgart.

Recent research at Silverstone is inclined to suggest that the car would have taken off like an aircraft had it been run to its purported max speed of around 440mph.

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Must dig out my photos taken at the Mercedes Museum back in 1974. We were told at the time that it was common practice for most German customers collected their car from the factory rather than the dealer who sold it.
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Keith

British Merc dealers offered the same service at the end of the 1980s. UK customers could fly to Stuttgart, stay in an hotel for the night, collect their new car from the factory and drive home - all at no extra cost.

I went on one such trip. 'Twas a nightmare from start to finish, and none of it was Daimler-Benz's fault.
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The 718 GTR Porsche driven by Jo Bonnier and Carlo Abate en route to outright victory on the Targa in May, 1963.

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Trisha said:
I went on one such trip. 'Twas a nightmare from start to finish, and none of it was Daimler-Benz's fault.
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Funny that, I did the same, collecting a friend's Merc from Stuttgart for her as she was scared of driving on the right.

Merc and Lufthansa between them wrecked our time table and we had to stay over there another night, but Merc did eventually repay us.
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Does the 718 have anything to do with the 904? The body looks similar, with a longer cockpit.
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Matthew

The ancestry of the 718 series started in 1957, while the 904 of 1964 was substantially different. Both types, however, shared similar 4-cam engines designed by Dr Ernst Fuhrmann.

The 904 was also Porsche's first car with a fibre-glass body.
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Hans-Joachim Stuck once said that all racing cars should be red or white. H-J got most things right but this wasn't one of them.

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A Merc theme ahead of this weekend's start.

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Bugatti's Type 251 and its transversely mounted straight-8 engine.

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The DFV in bits.

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