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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 studio shot of the 1966 works' 906. Porsche produced 54 of these cars, and although they were used only by the factory for a very short period, they remain among the company's most successful sports racers.

Privateers used them in international events through to 1971.
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Still hoping Flyslot retool to make the 906LH.
Read that they have dropped the Mclaren M26 plan, due to excessive rights costs from Mclaren.
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Ah, the ever-elusive 906 longtail. Sometime never, I imagine.
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Wasn’t there a tread somewhere on this forum where one was being created, perhaps in 3D printing ❓
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Trisha said:
A studio shot of the 1966 works' 906. Porsche produced 54 of these cars, and although they were used only by the factory for a very short period, they remain among the company's most successful sports racers.

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My younger brother’s first ‘proper’ slot car was a 906 - strange what you can remember . . .
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Mercs and the very great Rudi Uhlenhaut.
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The penultimate photo has me intrigued. Is that a prototype W154? It has the V12 engine but is styled on the lines of a W125. I recall a hill climb special on those lines too. I think it is a better looking car than the W154 or W154/M163 too.
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The pic is of Uhlenhaut in early testing with the W154 at Monza in February, 1938.
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Rudi Caracciola died in September, 1959, aged just 58. His funeral was held at Unterturkheim with ex team-mates dressed in white racing overalls.
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Grid prep at Tripoli, 1938.
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The Merc C111 project is now more than 50 years ago, and had almost been forgotten. They still look very modern to me.
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Dick Seaman chasing Manfred Von Brauchitsch at Brno in 1937.
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And to redress the Merc balance/imbalance, a few proper cars from Zwickau...
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Alfred Neubauer died on this very day - 22 August - 41 years ago in Stuttgart. Despite having been obese for most of his life, he made it to the grand old age of 89!

A larger-than-life character in every respect.
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Ronnie Bucknum, 1965? And they complain about today’s curbs being problematic!
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E-Type and Cobra from the mid 1960s and, perhaps surprisingly, front-engined cars are still running at Le Mans (and elsewhere).
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Ronnie Bucknum, 1965? And they complain about today’s curbs being problematic!
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Richie Ginther, Michael.
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So much nicer without wheel spats.
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Another pic of a 'spatless' V12 looking rather purposeful and lovely.
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