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Goodwood Revival 2000 - pre digital practice day
Still many people's hero...
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Italian red watching out for British Racing Green
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Is this the ex Leuch car? Note the Gryphon on the scuttle of the Connaught.
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Good to see a couple of Scarabs out there.
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The Ferrari is just as good looking as the 250F Maserati really! Seeing cars like this is why historic racing is so attractive compared to modern characterless single seaters.
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Another change of tack...
I'm not sure if the Merit range of 1/24th scale car kits ever made it to NZ but they were pretty good kits given that they were 100% plastic - which also included the tyres. Dad built virtually the full set and photographed some of them - circa 1962 at a guess. I remember well him mixing up his own charcoal grey satin paint, as black gloss always looked totally wrong.
Two were "Super Kits" including the Alfa, with detailed engines.
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Most, like The Mercedes, just had the body polished rather than painted as in those days, small spray cans weren't really around.
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Not many kit manufacturer's have bothered with the Cooper and other 500cc cars, yet there were many different full size models deserving of reproduction in plastic.
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The other "Super Kit". The Talbot Lago. Incidentally, I brought these built up kits back to NZ when dad passed on, so maybe I should now re-photograph them in colour. For the day though, these were extremely accurate kits.
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Back to May 29th 1966 - Mallory Park
Although the Chris Summers' 5.3 litre Chevvy engined Lotus was always a huge crowd favourite at Mallory, in this instance the top placing in the 20 lap Bob Gerard Trophy race (part 2) was taken by a 1900cc Lotus BMW (W Forbes) with a 1600cc Brabham in 2nd (D Preston) and David Prophet's 998cc Brabham in 3rd. The Lotus Chev obviously didn't finish.
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J Sutton's Attila Chevrolet heading off Peter Sutcliffe's Ford GT40. Just using driver initials in the programme instead of the full name is a convention of the day that annoys me - especially if I am the commentator... It reeks of only ever being called by your surname - probably a throwback to English public schools or the services! Meeting organised by BRSCC rather than the friendlier NSCC. There were 3 Ford GT40's entered.
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One of the few Lotus to be less than successful - Driven here by B Muir, so I presume it is Brian Muir. The programme states "Lotus-Ford" so I am guessing it is the Lotus 30.
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Again "F Gardner" so presumably Frank Gardner in Alan Brown's McLaren Elva-Ford
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This one needs no introduction at all, although the programme states Ferrari 365P2 it is David Piper's 250LM
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When you look at the overall quality of the 19 strong field, it wouldn't look out of place at one of today's historic meeting "glamour grids".