Welcome to the 23rd edition of GALPOT weekly where you will be able to catch up on all that has been happening at '
Gettin' a li'l psycho on tyres'.
The GALPOT Week started seeped in history with a brief overview of the exhibits at
Brooklands Museum hard to pic a favorite exhibit when like the Halford motor above, that was first turbocharged in 1925 and when that didn't work it was supercharged, so many of the exhibits have so many stories to tell.
MGB GT's like the example I looked at above on Tuesday were slightly slower to accelerate than the
MG B Roadster I looked at last week, but conversely they also had a 5 mph higher top speed than their roadster siblings.
Mark Hales shared the #13 Ford Sierra Sapphire RS Cosworth, seen above at Brands Hatch, with former ABBA drummer Slim Borgudd to win the Willhire 25 hour race at Snetterton in 1989. On Wednesday I discovered that the
Ford Sierra Sapphire RS Cosworth was built in Genk Belgium.
Geoffrey Horton's photograph above show's the only known survivor of just three Hupmobile Speedsters thought to have been built in 1932. Amongst the many fascinating things that I learned for Thursdays Americana blog was that the vehicles 103 hp 8 cylinder motor was marketed as having 'Big Bertha Power'.
It would be absolutely unthinkable at today's values for some one to turn a car with as much history as this
Ferrari 246, last front engined Grand Prix winning chassis, which I looked at on Friday, into a two seat runaround road car. Yet back in 1965 New Zealander Pat Hoare did exactly that, turning this car into a replica Ferrari GTO, when this car became obsolete and he retired from racing.
Over the two years since I first posted the photo of the 1965 Indy Winning Lotus 38, which I re examined on Saturday, at
Rowdy.com I was surprised to learn that Jim Clark demonstrated the forth of of the eight Lotus 38's, fitted with symmetrical suspension on a couple of Swiss Hillclimbs.
Today's 'Gettin' a li'l psycho on tyres' post is about the forerunner of the Mercedes Benz S Class the W108 chassis above was known as the Fintail without Fintails and marketed as the
Mercedes Benz 250 SE.
Coming up next week an overview of a Classic Car Museum in Malta, a look at an MG racing Series from the 1980's and on Wednesday I'll be looking at the final Sierra RS Cosworth incarnation.
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The week started with a look at a recently rebodied Elva Mk III that is usually on view at the Bexhill Museum.
On Tuesday I returned to Len Miller's MG PA that first featured at GALPOT several months ago, the car is seen above on the premises of TLK Repairs, Purfleet, Essex after the great storm in October 1987.
January's Avenue Drivers Club meeting was the subject of Wednesday's blog, where the Mercedes CL 500 once owned by R2-D2 and later by Darth Vader was on display.
Americana Thursday's blog featured this 1926 Hupmobile Eight Tourer powered by an eight cylinder L-head motor and fitted with double tilt beam headlights.
A 1960 Ferrari 250 GT SWB Berlinetta Competizione was the subject of Ferrari Friday's blog, one with a competition history spanning the 1960 Tour de France to the 1964 Dakar 6 Hours.
Yesterday's post was about the Lotus Ford T 91 of the type that would be the last Lotus that Colin Chapman saw score a Grand Prix victory.
Today's blog is about a vehicle built by the almost forgotten make Paramount who used an aluminium over ash construction technique that is still found on Morgan cars.
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