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Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Tue Nov 19, 2019 5:10 pm
by medwaybeat
Lucky escape for Paddy on the '66 Circuit of Ireland. The car was written off and the number plate never appeared again until 1986 when it was applied for, conveniently just after the DVLC torched all their old records of scrapped cars
, one of many scrapped works Mini number plates that reappeared from the scrapyard in the sky soon after this one.
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That will just polish out and look like new
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Tue Nov 19, 2019 8:40 pm
by UHR850
Explain please?
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Tue Nov 19, 2019 8:56 pm
by mab01uk
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2019 11:11 am
by UHR850
Just a picture from a very nice item I bought just now.
This enamel sign (10 cm) is from the factory where the Mk1 Mini was assembled
in the Netherlands in the years 1959 up till 1961.
They also assembled the Morris Minor before that.
Kees.
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Sun Nov 24, 2019 5:38 pm
by Costafortune
Some proper old photos. One is for SMH279F, a Cooper 998 that is still with us.
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Sat Nov 30, 2019 3:32 pm
by WMU 211G
Took this at Quorn & Woodhouse on the Great Central Railway about ten years ago...
GC33.jpg
This one is from 2007, just before the old Brush Works was demolished, the Rover 3500 Auto was one of three P6s I owned for a while, a great motor, I wish I hadn't sold it....
GC52.jpg
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Mon Dec 02, 2019 2:03 pm
by UHR850
How about this mk1, take a look at the towhook
Kees.
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Mon Dec 02, 2019 3:51 pm
by UHR850
Wow take look at that
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Mon Dec 02, 2019 4:10 pm
by UHR850
Engine bay shot of a Britax Cooper Downton racer taken in 1969 by Malcolm Linder..
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Mon Dec 02, 2019 4:22 pm
by jay weinstein
UHR850 wrote:Engine bay shot of a Britax Cooper Downton racer taken in 1969 by Malcolm Linder..
nice picture....I wonder if the Downton badge is real?
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Mon Dec 02, 2019 4:26 pm
by UHR850
One of the two Downton tuned Deep Sanderson 301s , for Chris Lawrence and Gordon Spice at Le Mans in 1964.
Neither car fared well as one crashed in practice and the other overheated early in the race before Spice could even take the wheel.
Kees.
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Mon Dec 02, 2019 4:59 pm
by UHR850
jay weinstein wrote:UHR850 wrote:Engine bay shot of a Britax Cooper Downton racer taken in 1969 by Malcolm Linder..
nice picture....I wonder if the Downton badge is real?
Must be real if this picture is the original engine bay.
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Mon Dec 02, 2019 5:01 pm
by mk1
That is a lovely RARE picture.
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Mon Dec 02, 2019 5:02 pm
by mk1
UHR850 wrote:One of the two Downton tuned Deep Sanderson 301s , for Chris Lawrence and Gordon Spice at Le Mans in 1964.
Neither car fared well as one crashed in practice and the other overheated early in the race before Spice could even take the wheel.
Kees.
And Chris Lawrence never paid for the engines either!
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Mon Dec 02, 2019 6:08 pm
by WMU 211G
Somewhere in Welsh Wales...
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Hatfield New Town...
PH RAC Hatfield NT .jpg
Unknown...
PH MIN c776e.jpg
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Mon Dec 02, 2019 6:23 pm
by Oneball
UHR850 wrote:Engine bay shot of a Britax Cooper Downton racer taken in 1969 by Malcolm Linder..
What’s the circular thing at the bottom of the bonnet stay?
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Mon Dec 02, 2019 8:42 pm
by goff
WMU 211G wrote:Somewhere in Welsh Wales...
PH POLICE W 22ca.jpg
Hatfield New Town...
PH RAC Hatfield NT .jpg
Unknown...
PH MIN c776e.jpg
EET726D Rotherham Reg.
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Tue Dec 03, 2019 1:38 pm
by UHR850
Radford 'S' demonstrator for sale , 50 years ago..
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Tue Dec 03, 2019 1:49 pm
by UHR850
Edinburgh lass Michaelle Burns-Grieg got the racing bug after watching Christabel Carlisle
show the boys how to do it in the early 60s and so ordered a new Mini Cooper in 1963 and
had it delivered straight to Downton Engineering for preparation. Whilst there ,the Downton
workshops were surrounded by the police who searched the car looking for the loot from
the Great Train Robbery! All explained by the fact that Michaelle was the then girlfriend of
promising racing driver and soon to be infamous getaway driver Roy James!
Pete, not Kees
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Tue Dec 03, 2019 2:28 pm
by UHR850
1000cc Downton powered Deep Sanderson, 1963.
