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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Abarth Mike

· #701 · Apr 29, 2021 (Edited by Moderator)

Here is Aurora's G4

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HiFi

· #702 · Apr 29, 2021

The Can-Am series really caught my imagination as a boy and remains an era I never tire of

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chappyman66

· #703 · Apr 29, 2021

Hard to beat the decade from 1965 to 1975. Amazing cars and racing.

Note the field above.....absent the innovative Chapparals, the front half of the field is T70s or M1B/Cs. The backmarkers are a different lot...Genies, the Chinook, other sundries.

anddelanyno20

· #704 · Apr 30, 2021

As to above pics the innovative chaparrals are the cars with the great big surfboard size raised wings,so they are there

HiFi

· #705 · Apr 30, 2021 (Edited by Moderator)

I think he meant absent as in take away.

Why do apostrophes or inverted commas not work via mobile phone on this site? Makes things very difficult at times . . .

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Trisha

Discussion Starter · #706 · Apr 30, 2021

Bluebird at Brooklands, 1935.

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Trisha

Discussion Starter · #707 · Apr 30, 2021

One of three Chitty Bang Bang Fords built by Alan Mann, seen here at Malvern a generation ago.

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Trisha

Discussion Starter · #708 · Apr 30, 2021

The Type 41 Bugatti 'Napoleon Coupe' at Brighton, 1948. Of the six originally made, there are only eight left.

Allo, allo, allo...

Trisha

Discussion Starter · #709 · Apr 30, 2021

Apologies. The photo below belongs with the post above.

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HiFi

· #710 · Apr 30, 2021

Right hand drive!

Trisha

Discussion Starter · #711 · Apr 30, 2021

Indeed, Mark. Most Bugattis were right-hand drive.

Trisha

Discussion Starter · #712 · Apr 30, 2021

Alex Boswell's stunning 1923 Bequet-Delage at Shelsley on the day he set a new class record for the hill at 41.05 secs, and was 6 secs faster than Richard Swindall's Lotus Cortina. Almost, but not quite, incredible.

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HiFi

· #713 · Apr 30, 2021

Trisha said:
Indeed, Mark. Most Bugattis were right-hand drive.

Well, I never realised, Laurence - thanks for enlightening me.

Trisha

Discussion Starter · #714 · Apr 30, 2021

A pic below of the North Curve of the AVUS circuit near Berlin. It was banked at an angle of 43 degrees.

In 1937, Bernd Rosemeyer lapped the circuit at an average speed of 171.6mph in the C-Type Auto-Union.

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Gripping Pneus

· #715 · Apr 30, 2021

The Bequet Delage photo is one of those action shots where you can feel the speed. The rear wheel looks to be distorting under the load and the front one is almost lifting from the ground. I wonder how many spokes broke on that run!

These days, I don't think its realised quite how much "give" there is in a wire wheel and just how it affects a car's handling. Colin Chapman was one of the first (and of course, Ferrari the last) to realise the benefits of stiff wheels with the Lotus wobblies, so that the contact patch position and spring rates were as per the suspension designers intent. It removed a variable from the design process.

Thanks for the thought provoking photo.

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Trisha

Discussion Starter · #716 · Apr 30, 2021

Gripping

If you look at the 24-litre Napier-Bentley in post 693 of this thread, you'll see plenty of rubber smoke. I recall that car lap after lap, year after year, spinning its rear wheels all the way from Woodcote on the old Silverstone Club Circuit to the Motor bridge two-thirds of the way down the old pit straight before Copse.

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beardy56

· #717 · Apr 30, 2021

A little helmet cam from Monaco last weekend

Trisha

Discussion Starter · #718 · May 1, 2021

Dick Seaman has just passed Tazio Nuvolari, who is trying to clear oil from his goggles, during the 1938 German GP.

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Kit Spackman

· #719 · May 1, 2021

Trisha said:
A pic below of the North Curve of the AVUS circuit near Berlin. It was banked at an angle of 43 degrees.

In 1937, Bernd Rosemeyer lapped the circuit at an average speed of 171.6mph in the C-Type Auto-Union.

Ah yes, a familiar viewpoint for me. That pic was taken from the observation platform of the Funkturm radio tower just by the circuit. You're not supposed to stay up there for more than 30 mins. but the guy in charge gave up trying to move me on after I'd re-appeared three times on the trot while watching a club meeting at the Avus in 1978.

Sadly the 'new' North Curve is/was a mere shadow of the 1937 version as it was somewhat less banked. But it was still fast!

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Trisha

Discussion Starter · #720 · May 1, 2021

Thanks for that marvellous picture above, Kit. A wonderful shot that takes me back to so many happy times mooching around Germany years ago. All that important motor racing history, yet today the German GP seems to be constantly in doubt. Makes no sense to me.

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