GALPOT Weekly #44

Welcome to GALPOT Weekly #44 a review of the last seven posts at "Gettin' a li'l psycho on tyres".

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Monday's post came about thanks to a reminder from Barry Boor on Sunday night I just managed to finish our "The Connew Story" film, linked here, in time to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the Connew Grand Prix car's one and only Grand Prix appearance in the 1972 Austrian Grand Prix.

I have been working on for this film for the last two years and would like to thank everyone who has generously contributed to this no budget production, and to everyone who has, subsequent to it's appearance in the public domain, so graciously commented on the film and sent on links to friends and social networks, according to the youtube stats at the time of writing the film has been viewed over 1000 times.



Cream Crakers I a successful competition proven MG PA was the subject of Tuesday's blog, the car is seen here in the works brown & cream colours.



Wednesdays Continental Curiosity blog was about the Trojan 200, built in England under license from Heinkel Flugzeugwerke and marketed with the strap line Put The Family On The Road.



Marking the passing of the King in 1977 I posted a blog about the '59 Cadillac Series 62 4 Window Hard Top Sedan above, a model he appears never to have owned but closely associated with the birth and era of Rock'n'Roll culture.



Thanks to John Aibels wonderful photographs I looked at the Ferrari 250 LM #6217 on Ferrari Friday, this particular car was very successful on the Italian hills with Edoardo Lualdi-Gabardi at the wheel in 1965 when Edoardo is known to have recorded at least eight overall wins in 1965.


Yesterday Lotus blog was about the one off all wheel drive gas turbine powered Lotus 56B R1 Grand Prix car, which closely resembles the 1968 Lotus 56 Indy 500 contender, most obviously the 56B has side tanks fitted to cope with the extra non stop distance, over 200 miles, the car was expected to cover in world championship races.



My 700th consecutive daily blog posted to day visits last weeks Summer Classic show at Easter Compton just outside Bristol. My vote for car of the show was this Lincoln Zephyr V12, above, which was visiting from Dresden a mere 800 miles away in Germany.

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GALPOT Weekly #43

Welcome to the review of the last seven "Gettin' a li'l psycho on tyres" posts.



The week started with a look at a TATA Loadbeta TDI imported from India.



Tuesday's regular MG feature looked at an MG F-Type Magna which is powered by a six cylinder version of the 4 cylinder Wolseley Hornet motor that has dummy side panels to hide it's origins.



Lancia's Fulvia Sport 1.3 Zagato narrow angle V4 powered brightened up the week on Continental Curiosity Wednesday.



Americana Thursdays post featured this Chevrolet Corvette Stingray C3, the first US vehicle to feature a split roof Targa Top first patented by Gordon Buehrig in 1951.




Ferrari Friday's post looked at this Ferrari 512M replica and noted "Big" John's little remembered return to the Ferrari fold in a similar Ferrari 512S.



Yesterday's Lotus blog featured Bryony Serrells Formula Ford Lotus 51A, little different from the Lotus 51 apart from some brackets to mount an oil tank for drysumped motors which some of the later 51A's did not use.



Today's post features a rare, one of only 17 built, QSC Quantum Coupé a GRP shell which uses a Ford Fiesta (Mk 1) donor car for it's running gear.

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GALPOT Weekly #42

Welcome to GALPOT Weekly #42 a review of last seven blogs at "Gettin' a li'l psycho on tyres".



The week started with a look at an 8 foot bed that never has to be made in the form of a Dodge Ram Mega Cab 3500 4x4 Laramie, if sleeping on the bed of a truck is not your style the seats in the back of the Mega Cab are recliners.



RAF legend Len Miller ownedthe MG PA Supercharged Sports, which was featured on Tuesday, for 59 years during which time it survived hurricane damage.



Continental Curiosity Wednesday featured the BMW 'Dixi' DA2 3/15 above which was a metricated version of the Austin Seven built under license in Germany.



Americana Thursday featured my favorite Corvette a Stingray Coupé complete with split rear screen that appeared only on the original 1963 models.



Ferrari Friday featured the 1957 Le Mans class winning 500 TRC #0682MDTR seen above at the recent Silverstone Classic.



Yesterday's Lotus Blog featured two Lotus Ford 49C's, the #3 above is chassis #R6 with which Jochen Rindt broke his duck by winning the 1969 US Grand Prix. The following year using the same chassis Jochen also won the 1970 Monaco Grand Prix which would be the last of 12 Grand Prix victories for the Lotus 49 won between 1967 and 1970.



Today's post features a Bond Equipe 2 Litre Convertible featuring a fiber glass body mounted on Triumph Vitesse Mk II running gear.

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GALPOT Weekly #41

Welcome to GALPOT Weekly #41 a review of the last seven blogs that have appeared on "Gettin' a li'l psycho on tyres".



The week started with a visit to last weekends Silverstone Classic meeting where all tickets are access all area during all times, above Mike Whitaker Snr makes a compulsory pit stop during the Pre '66 GT event.



Tuesday's featured car was this 1930 MG 18/80 Sports Tourer Mk II said to have been found in a coal cellar.



This weeks Continental Curiosity featured on Wednesday was this NSU Prinz seen at the Malta Classic Car Collection. The first incarnation of the Prinz was used as a basis for Egypts first cars including sports Pharoh.



Americana Thursday featured the Scallieti bodied Chevrolet Corvette Italia, seen in Geoffrey Horton's photo above, which was the brainchild of a Chevrolet Dealer who balked at the price of Ferrari engine parts.



Ferrari Friday featured the car with the largest Ferrari motor ever built the Can Am Spec Ferrari 712 with a 6.86 liter / 418 cui V12.



Colin Chapman's Lotus 49, featured on Friday, was built around the Keith Duckworth designed Ford Cosworth DFV motor that was to become almost ubiquitous in Grand Prix racing during the 1970's. The car seen above won on it's debut at the 1967 Dutch Grand Prix in part due to Jim Clark's skill at the wheel and a touch of luck involving a cam gear tooth.



Today's post features the GSM Delta belonging to Clive Sinclair who's father John was responsible for the UK production of the South African bred sports car.

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GALPOT Weekly #40

Welcome to Galpot Weekly #40 the compendium of activity on the "Gettin' a li'l psycho on tyres" blog.



The week started with a look at some of the machinery that appeared at the most recent Avenue Drivers Club meeting at Queens Square in Bristol where I spotted this vintage Sunbeam 20/9 pick up. The next Avenue Drivers Club meeting is scheduled for August 12th and it's free.



The world's oldest known MG a 14/28 Super Sports, seen above at the recent Brooklands Double Twelve meeting was the feature of Tuesday's post.



James May and glamor model Madison Welch allegedly took part in a Majorcan Classic Rally with the Citroén Ami 8, seen above at the recent Goodwood Festival of Speed, which was the feature of Wednesdays blog. For some reason the car became known by fellow competitors as "The Love Boat".



Americana Thursday's featured car the Chevrolet powered Shadow Mk III was another star of the Goodwood Festival of Speed.



The extreme styled Ferrari Enzo designed by Ken Okuyama was the subject of Ferrari Friday's blog.



Saturday's Lotus blog featured the racing version of the Lotus Elan known as the Lotus 47. Seen here is the rechassised car that John Miles and Jackie Oliver drove to a class victory in the 1967 Brands Hatch six hour race.



Today's blog looks at some of the vehicles that took part in last weekends Classics at the Castle event at Sherborne Castle which included this Chevrolet powered Austin Healey 100 BN1.

Thanks for joining me for GALPOT Weekly #40 I hope you have enjoyed catching up with the weeks posts at "Gettin' a li' psycho on tyres" and that you will join me during the week ahead when I'll be featuring the latest from Silverstone Classic in a bumper edition tomorrow an NSU on Continental Curiosity Wednesday, an Italian bodied Corvette on Americana Thursday and a big banger Ferrari on Friday. Don't forget to come back now !

GALPOT Weekly #39

Welcome to the 39th edition of GALPOT Weekly #39 where you can catch up on the last weeks "Gettin' a li'l psycho on tyres" blog.




The week started with a visit to the Classic and Sports Car Action Day at Castle Combe where David Roots kindly drove me for a very slow lap around the track, the Cadbury's Creme Egg converted Bedford Rascal, above, easily won the Strangest Vehicle of the Day award.



Above is the interior of the last top of the 1931 range MG 18/80 Six deluxe Saloon MkII known to exist which featured in Tuesdays post.



Wednesday's Continental Curiosity post featured this 1959 DB Panhard HPR 5 which was found abandoned in a barn in Pennsylvania in 1982.



Peter Bryant was asked to design the 1971 Shadow Mk II Can Am car, featured on Americana Thursday, seen above in Geoffrey Horton's photo around Formula One size wheels and tyres, such was team owner Don Nichols interest in minimising the frontal area of his cars.



The last 424 2.4 litre FIAT Dino Spyders, featured on Ferrari Friday, were built along side their Ferrari Dino cousins at Maranello.



The 1963 Ford Consul Cortina by Lotus, Lotus project 28, featured yesterday, was the 17th Lotus Cortina to be built, the first to be prepared for the works team and was raced by none other than future presidential candidate Dan Gurney at Sebring in 1964 as part of the "English Ford Line".



The 1982 British Grand Prix was won by Niki Lauda driving a McLaren, but the story of the race for fan's of underdog teams was that of Derek Warwick driving the Toleman TG 181C, above which features in todays post. After a season and a half of struggling to qualify Derek raced from 16th on the grid to 2nd place before retiring with a broken CV joint.

I hope you have enjoyed catching up with the seven day's of posts at "Gettin' a li'l psycho on tyres" and that you will join me on the blog in the week ahead, when I'll be visiting the Avenue Drivers Club in Bristol and looking at the world's oldest surviving MG. Don't forget to comeback now !

GALPOT Weekly #38

Welcome to GALPOT Weekly #38 a review of the last seven posts on the "Gettin' a li'l psycho on tyres" blog.



The week started with a review of the Goodwood Festival of Speed who's theme was the 60th Anniversary of Lotus, above Jackie Oliver can be seen driving the Lotus 49 R2 powered by a Ford DFV which his predecessor Jim Clark drove to a debut victory in the Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort in 1966.



On Tuesday I attempted to disambiguate the differences between the MG 18/80 Six Mk I and Mk 2.



Disambiguation continued as a theme on Independence Day, this time between the Lincoln Continental and Continental marques, above a 1978 Continental Mark V displays the Lincoln Cross despite not being marketed as a Lincoln marque.



This tribute 1972 Moskvitch Scaldia 427 service barge, which gets used in rally's dedicated to cold war era Soviet Bloc vehicles, was the subject of Thursdays post.




(Chris Amon, Ferrari 166/246 #0004, Longford, Tasmania, March 4th, 1968, Copyright Rod Mackenzie 1968)

The Ferrari Dino 166 #0004 featured on Ferrari Friday won races in Australasia, Europe and South America in 1968, since then it has also won a Concours d'Elegance and Revival event.



Patrick McGoohan selected the Lotus Seven S2, an example of featured in yesterdays Saturday Lotus blog, as "A symbol of all The Prisoner was to represent; standing out from the crowd, quickness and agaility, independence and a touch of the rebel" for his character in 'The Prisoner' TV series.



Finally today's post about the recent Dana Point Concours d'Elegance comes courtesy of Geoffrey Horton where Geoffrey and his Wife Gayle celebrated a their 43rd Wedding Anniversary and their XK140 was awarded a class win !

Thanks for joining me on GALPOT Weekly #38, I hope you have enjoyed catching up with this weeks posts at 'Gettin' a li'l psycho on tyres' and that you will join me again in the week ahead. Don't forget to come back now !