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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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Kit Spackman
Trisha said:
'Tis the very first hole cut into the Berlin Wall before a new epoch swept Europe. Jus' sayin'. View attachment 287806
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I never thought I'd live to see the day the Wall fell, but I'm so glad it did.

I lived in Berlin in 1978, and it was like being in a large pressure cooker. You couldn't go more than 10-15 miles in any direction without some blokes toting AK47s trying to stop you! :rolleyes:
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If you haven't watched the Deutschland series of dramas on your electric televisual thing, I recommend them all. A fair account all round.
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HiFi
Zandvoort 67

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Gosh, Mark! What a picture. Another I hadn't seen previously. Abfab. My grateful thanks. Wish I could find a bodyshell to build the Cooper-Mazzer. Drama at its visual and aural best.
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HiFi
It looked such a HUGE car, the Cooper!!!

Beta advertise a ‘66 . . .
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Kit Spackman
HiFi said:
It looked such a HUGE car, the Cooper!!!
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Compared to Graham's Lotus 49 in the pic, the Cooper looks as if it's a 1/24 scale car behind a 1/32 scale one. :oops:
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A pic I managed to snap at Oulton some 35 years ago of a wayward Aston. A different way to negotiate cornering.
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beardy56
For some reason whenever I see a head on photo of a Lotus from that period I always think of crabs.o_O
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Gripping Pneus
Well, it was superseded by the Lobster Claw Brabham.
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A rarity below in the form of the Swedish Bam-Bam pictured at the Nurburgring in 1967. 'Twas a Lotus 23 with a Volvo engine.
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Sundry Porsche luminaries on a visit to the Lamborghini factory.
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chappyman66
Lots of tacked-on flares over the wider tires on that Lotus. Racing cars are never as pristine as we would like them to be, especially privateers.
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Bernd Rosemeyer in the C-Type at Donington in 1937. Victory was easy for an ace like the man from Lingen.
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The vastly under-rated Tony Brooks on his way to winning the Belgian GP for Tony Vandervell in 1958.
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Second place for Michael Parkes in the 1966 French GP. Mike was too tall for most GP cars, which is apparent in this photo of the 312.
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Gilling Foss with Rob Walker, a brace of gent from the old school of motor sport.
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Girling stoss, remember seeing him pedalling an Audi 80 at Oulton park many moons ago.
Brundle was his young upstart of a team mate.
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Tangerine

Stirling famously said that if he could pay to wipe out the Audi venture with Brundle from his CV, he would happily hand the dosh over.
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Kit Spackman
Trisha said:
Second place for Michael Parkes in the 1966 French GP. Mike was too tall for most GP cars, which is apparent in this photo of the 312.
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Which goes some way to refute that the Hillman Imp was short on leg room.

Mike Parkes was Chief Engineer on the project.....
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Gripping Pneus
Maybe they just fitted very long seat runners.
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