Your Golden Epoch?

It was nice to see the group 44 cars at the Sarthe, it did pave the way for what came later as well.

Nice car the Cistalia, be good if such cars could be made as slot cars, I suspect there would be demand.
I've just been reading about Le Zebre cars, with a photo of one bearing a VSCC sticker in the windscreen and a smartly dressed chap in flat cap. The article mentioned that Le Zebre preferred to make larger cars from 1920 then concern themselves with less important matters like quality control issues that plagued their cars (loosing wheels and regularly breaking axles).

Bet in photo three Jim is saying " no, no, no, I sit in front of the engine, got to keep my back warm, I don't get cold feet" 😂

last photo thinking "I wish the team would choose the grid girl"

That first pic of JC shows him sitting in the first Lotus 29 Indy car, doesn't it? AFAIK only that one had the stack pipes, and only for a short time.

And the one of him in the dragster's interesting as the car has a front mounted blower, most unusual at that time.

The pre War ERAs, with the exception of R4D, had their blowers fitted at the front of the engine.

Kit Spackman said:

And the one of him in the dragster's interesting as the car has a front mounted blower, most unusual at that time.

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That's a Potvin crank driven blower which as you say were almost obsolete by about 1964/5. They were replaced by the ubiquitous GMC 6/71 top mounted belt driven jobs - the ones you collected in the face if you dropped a valve.

Trisha said:

The pre War ERAs, with the exception of R4D, had their blowers fitted at the front of the engine.

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Most the European machinery that I can readily think of had direct crank driven blowers, usually at the front. AU's was vertically mounted at the rear and I think the Alfa straight 8's were low down on one side, driven from the power take off in the centre of the crankshaft

Quite right, Gripping. The Alfas and Bugs had their blowers positioned on the right-hand side of the engine. R4D, incidentally, had its Shorrocks at the rear of the engine between the driver's legs.

Trisha said:

had its Shorrocks . . . . . . between the driver's legs.

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Sorry! Couldn't resist.

Shorrocks, Gripping. An excellent euphemism, and polite. Noted.