Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Tue Dec 03, 2019 1:52 pm
Chris Lawrence's Deep Sanderson 301 was disqualified during the night in 1963.
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They're my words with your name at the bottom.UHR850 wrote:
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!
Kees.
That car still survives, and the other one in shot (KLU) is in the same reg sequence as two S estates Radford converted at the same time which came to light when the ex owner showed me his old pics of it a few years ago. Very cool car or what?UHR850 wrote:Radford 'S' demonstrator for sale , 50 years ago..
Pete wrote:They're my words with your name at the bottom.UHR850 wrote:
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!
Kees.
You are right on that Mark, did not know Pete did the words.mk1 wrote:Pete has taken this in good humour, but people must try & give credit as to where stuff they post on this thread comes from. Most people don't mind their material being shared, but do appreciate a credit where it's due.
To simply pinch an image & caption from somewhere else without giving credit to the original source is not really on.
M
No need, and no biggy at all. On the other hand Classic & Sportscar nicked loads of my quotes in an article on 'oddball' racing Minis recently, but then got some of it completely arse over tit. I even had a very well repected writer send me an article about Vita a couple of years ago and when I read it I soon realised half the words were mine nicked off Mark's website. Sh*t happens, and some of the stuff Ive published years ago was wrong anyway.UHR850 wrote:Pete wrote:They're my words with your name at the bottom.UHR850 wrote:
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!
Kees.
Very sorry Pete, I will put your name under the story. Very sorry again
Steve, you must be the number one salesman to the rally boys of the 60'sbillycooper wrote:Just sold a car to a guy who hailed from the Bolton area originally, ran a succesful tyre operation there, his name is David Thistlethwaite, and was part of Ecurie Cod Fillet
he brought these pics in today , i just photographed them off my phone, but just nice period pics !
1st batch are the 67 Coupe des Alpes running in group 1, still with hub caps !
and then from the Welsh