Showing posts with label DB. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DB. Show all posts
Wednesday, 3 June 2015
Sunday, 15 July 2012
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 !
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 !
Thursday, 10 February 2011
Broken Promises - DB Panhard HBR
Somehow almost overlooked this photo by Ed Arnaudin of John B Mull in his DB Panhard competing in Race 1 at Thompson CT on the 20th July 1958, although John did not finish this race, we shall see this is a significant model in the world of national and international class H up to 750 cc 45.7 cui racing.
The manufacture of DB cars commenced after a promised drive failed to materialise at the 1936 French Sports Car Grand Prix for Charles Deutsch and René Dubonnet. The following year they entered a special of their own devising using the remnants of of a Citroen Traction Avant 11 CV.
Their specials placed in the very first post war race in Paris in 1945 and with the construction of the open wheel DB7 Automobiles Deutsch & Bonnet became a business entity in 1947.
Unhappy with the supply of Citroen parts they switched primarily to using flat twin Panhard motors of 744 cc / 45.4 cui. DB Panhards took class victories at the Mille Miglia, four times, Le Mans, three times, Sebring, twice and SCCA class H, the latter in 1958 with Howard Hanna at the wheel and in 1959 with Ray Heppenstall at the wheel.
Despite their on track success after building nearly 1000 vehicles, a disagreement over the architecture of their next model led to Deutsch and Bonnet going their separate ways forming CD and Automobiles René Bonnet respectively, the latter using Renault power became part of Matra Automobiles in 1965.
Panhard which as Panhard et Levassor had been in business since 1897 was absorbed in to Citroen in 1965 with the last vehicle produced in 1967 the name is still to be found in use as a brand of French built military vehicle.
The HBR model seen here was built from 1954 to 1961 on the most common DB chassis shared with Mille Miles and Coach models of which a combined total of 660 were made.
John B Mull appears to have had a collection of vehicles to race with Evelyn Mull between them they are known to have raced a Jaguar XK120, AC Ace Bristol, Austin Healey 100 S and this DB Panhard, JB is also known to have raced an OSCA S750.
Hope you have enjoyed the Race 1 Thompson CT 20th July 1958 series, my thanks to Ed and Steve Arnaudin for the photograph and to Terry O'Neil for the race results. Join me tomorrow for Ferrari Friday when we will be looking at a vehicle driven by a reigning 3 time World Grand Prix Champion on it's victorious debut and a month later was driven to a class victory by the USA's first future world champion. Don't forget to come back now!
The manufacture of DB cars commenced after a promised drive failed to materialise at the 1936 French Sports Car Grand Prix for Charles Deutsch and René Dubonnet. The following year they entered a special of their own devising using the remnants of of a Citroen Traction Avant 11 CV.
Their specials placed in the very first post war race in Paris in 1945 and with the construction of the open wheel DB7 Automobiles Deutsch & Bonnet became a business entity in 1947.
Unhappy with the supply of Citroen parts they switched primarily to using flat twin Panhard motors of 744 cc / 45.4 cui. DB Panhards took class victories at the Mille Miglia, four times, Le Mans, three times, Sebring, twice and SCCA class H, the latter in 1958 with Howard Hanna at the wheel and in 1959 with Ray Heppenstall at the wheel.
Despite their on track success after building nearly 1000 vehicles, a disagreement over the architecture of their next model led to Deutsch and Bonnet going their separate ways forming CD and Automobiles René Bonnet respectively, the latter using Renault power became part of Matra Automobiles in 1965.
Panhard which as Panhard et Levassor had been in business since 1897 was absorbed in to Citroen in 1965 with the last vehicle produced in 1967 the name is still to be found in use as a brand of French built military vehicle.
The HBR model seen here was built from 1954 to 1961 on the most common DB chassis shared with Mille Miles and Coach models of which a combined total of 660 were made.
John B Mull appears to have had a collection of vehicles to race with Evelyn Mull between them they are known to have raced a Jaguar XK120, AC Ace Bristol, Austin Healey 100 S and this DB Panhard, JB is also known to have raced an OSCA S750.
Hope you have enjoyed the Race 1 Thompson CT 20th July 1958 series, my thanks to Ed and Steve Arnaudin for the photograph and to Terry O'Neil for the race results. Join me tomorrow for Ferrari Friday when we will be looking at a vehicle driven by a reigning 3 time World Grand Prix Champion on it's victorious debut and a month later was driven to a class victory by the USA's first future world champion. Don't forget to come back now!
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