Your Golden Epoch?

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Trisha

Discussion Starter · Oct 1, 2020

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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Trisha

Discussion Starter · #681 · Apr 25, 2021

A long-defunct facet of car design that might be useful today... It's an opera lamp, for those occasions when, after a performance at Covent Garden, an individual could more easily identify his or her car with a personalised and illuminated opera lamp.

Some folk might benefit from one in a supermarket car park today...

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Gripping Pneus

· #682 · Apr 25, 2021

Trisha said:
Some folk might benefit from one in a supermarket car park today...

Include me in that!

beardy56

· #683 · Apr 25, 2021

Some years ago we were at a large open air proms concert and when I parked the car we walked to the end of the line and I counter the rows so I could find the car when we returned. At one point during the evening I needed to go back to the car and entered the carpark in the middle, counted the rows and no car to be seen. I ended up walking around the carpark clicking the central locking remote and looking for flashing lights till I found the car. Turns out the parking lines weren't parallel and there were more lines at one end than the other.

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Trisha

Discussion Starter · #684 · Apr 28, 2021

Anyone remember the Lotus Elan Sprint Estate?

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Trisha

Discussion Starter · #685 · Apr 28, 2021

Not quite what Steve McQueen had in mind, perhaps, but we take your point, Mr Broad.

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Trisha

Discussion Starter · #686 · Apr 28, 2021

Tony Lanfranchi at Mallory en route to another victory in his Moskvich 412. Unlikely but true.

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Trisha

Discussion Starter · #687 · Apr 28, 2021

Happy VSCC days for me, and everyone else interested in old cars. Billy Wilks in his Lotus 16 at Thruxton half a century ago.

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Gripping Pneus

· #688 · Apr 28, 2021

Ah - the "showroom price" class for standard cars. What fun. My motor club friend Roger Turner ran Mountsorrel Garage near Leicester which at the time had a Lada agency so he also saw the opportunity. Watching the drivers wrestle with 16 inch steering wheels and road tyres was entertaining. The cars were successful of course as the 1500 cc Moskvitch and the 1200cc Lada were in the same class as 850 Minis IIRC so as soon as there was a straight they were gone.

Trisha

Discussion Starter · #689 · Apr 28, 2021

A few pics of the RAC Rally in days long ago when having fun wasn't frowned upon by 'Elfs.

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matthew77

· #690 · Apr 28, 2021

That's a great photo of the Alpine and Lancia Fulvia

anddelanyno20

· #691 · Apr 28, 2021

Trisha just goes to show, you might not be able to polish a turd but you can make it quick,a racing car from a moskovitch who have thought it or bothered for that matter

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Trisha

Discussion Starter · #692 · Apr 28, 2021

Proof below of Scalextric authenticity. Carlos Reutemann's Brab on the brink of losing its 'goblin hat' as well.

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Trisha

Discussion Starter · #693 · Apr 28, 2021

Lest we forget, this is how the 24-litre W-12 Napier-Bentley looked originally when it was built in the mid 1960s by David Llewellyn. It's pictured below driven by its second owner, Peter Morley.

Today, the car has a very different body but the same terrifying performance.

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Trisha

Discussion Starter · #694 · Apr 28, 2021

A Stratos on Safari without its engine lid - again.

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Trisha

Discussion Starter · #695 · Apr 28, 2021

Oops, and again.

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Trisha

Discussion Starter · #696 · Apr 28, 2021

Opening lap, Brands, 1976.

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Gripping Pneus

· #697 · Apr 28, 2021

That was the illegal extra 1 cm of width on Hunt's McLaren that caused that.

Trisha

Discussion Starter · #698 · Apr 28, 2021

I seem to recall that Hunt put a sticker on the back of his car for the Spanish GP that read: "Wide Load".

tangerinedream

· #699 · Apr 28, 2021

Saw Tony and his Moscow witch at Oulton Park, remember it being a very pale green, Satra motors, the sponsor may have been the importers.

The touring car championship that year was retail price based for the various classes, it was a mater of the biggest engine for the least cost, hence the Moscow witch ran, think they were 1500 cc.

Must say the most entertaining races I remember from those days were for the Ford Mexico championship, some of the driving makes the current btcc mob look like nuns.

Abarth Mike

· #700 · Apr 29, 2021

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anddelanyno20 said:
Trisha just goes to show, you might not be able to polish a turd but you can make it quick,a racing car from a moskovitch who have thought it or bothered for that matter

@Aurora scratch built one for a proxy series. Maybe he will be along shortly with pictures?

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Moskvitch GM-5 circa 1973

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