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Sunday, 14 October 2012
GALPOT Weekly #52
Welcome to GALPOT Weekly #52 a review of the last seven posts at "Gettin' a li'l psycho on tyres".
The week started at Bristol's M-Shed which houses what might be the worlds oldest surviving Bristol a 1906 16/20 Tourer.
On Tuesday I looked at an MG PB a model that was in production for just 12 months, despite this the cars were used in competition for a period spanning nearly years.
Last Saturdays Autumn Classic meeting at Castle Combe was reviewed on Wednesday. This was the first time the VSCC had visited the venue in thirty years. Above Tom McWirter driving his six wheel Jaguar SS 100 is seen leading the opening lap of the VSCC Pre War Sports Car race.
Thursdays post was all about the original Chevrolet Corvette C1, above is the six cylinder triple carburetor Blueflame motor that powered the featured 1954 model.
Ferrari's competition oriented 212 Export was the subject of Friday's post, chassis #0158ED above was seen by Geoffrey Horton at the recent Danville Concours d'Elegance gala dinner.
Yesterday's post featured a Lotus 69 open wheeler which was designed to compete in a variety of Formula for the 1970 season. Despite it's considerable success on the track particularly in Formula 3 the Lotus 69 proved to be the last Lotus customer competition model.
Today's mega post is about a pilgrimage I made last week to Bourne in Lincolnshire home of British Racing Motors (BRM) where the town was celebrating the 50th anniversary of Graham Hill's and BRM's World Championship victories. Above Graham Hills son, 1996 World Champion Damon, drives his fathers BRM P578 chassis #P587/1 known as 'old faithful'.
Hard to believe a year has gone by since I started these GALPOT Weekly blogs, I look forward to seeing what the year ahead brings as GALPOT enters it's third year.
I hope you have enjoyed using the links to catch up with the last seven posts on "Gettin a li'l psycho on tyres" and that you will join me daily during the week ahead, don't forget to come back now !
The week started at Bristol's M-Shed which houses what might be the worlds oldest surviving Bristol a 1906 16/20 Tourer.
On Tuesday I looked at an MG PB a model that was in production for just 12 months, despite this the cars were used in competition for a period spanning nearly years.
Last Saturdays Autumn Classic meeting at Castle Combe was reviewed on Wednesday. This was the first time the VSCC had visited the venue in thirty years. Above Tom McWirter driving his six wheel Jaguar SS 100 is seen leading the opening lap of the VSCC Pre War Sports Car race.
Thursdays post was all about the original Chevrolet Corvette C1, above is the six cylinder triple carburetor Blueflame motor that powered the featured 1954 model.
Ferrari's competition oriented 212 Export was the subject of Friday's post, chassis #0158ED above was seen by Geoffrey Horton at the recent Danville Concours d'Elegance gala dinner.
Yesterday's post featured a Lotus 69 open wheeler which was designed to compete in a variety of Formula for the 1970 season. Despite it's considerable success on the track particularly in Formula 3 the Lotus 69 proved to be the last Lotus customer competition model.
Today's mega post is about a pilgrimage I made last week to Bourne in Lincolnshire home of British Racing Motors (BRM) where the town was celebrating the 50th anniversary of Graham Hill's and BRM's World Championship victories. Above Graham Hills son, 1996 World Champion Damon, drives his fathers BRM P578 chassis #P587/1 known as 'old faithful'.
Hard to believe a year has gone by since I started these GALPOT Weekly blogs, I look forward to seeing what the year ahead brings as GALPOT enters it's third year.
I hope you have enjoyed using the links to catch up with the last seven posts on "Gettin a li'l psycho on tyres" and that you will join me daily during the week ahead, don't forget to come back now !
Sunday, 30 September 2012
GALPOT Weekly #50
Welcome to GALPOT Weekly #50 a review of the last seven posts at "Gettin' a li'l psycho on tyres".
The week started with a trip to Danville Concours d'Elegance with Geoffrey Horton where this Aston Martin DB2/4 with coachwork by Serafino Allemano was one of several one off vehicles on display.
The MG NA which I looked at on Tuesdays blog features a hidden rear petrol tank making it easy to distinguish from it's K-Type predecessor.
On Wednesday it was a huge thrill to welcome Jay 'California Streets' Wollenweber to the GALPOT contributing team, Jay also attended the Danville Concours d'Elegance where he met Geoffrey and his XK140 FHC SE MC.
Jay's photographs also featured on Americana Thursdays Land Yacht blog which included this 1957 pillarless estate / station wagon Buick Century Caballero.
Ferrari Friday's blog overdosed on California Sunshine and also included an error, I erroneously had the spyder above down as a 330 GTS, it has since transpired that the car is one of just 20 365 GTS models, essentially a slightly updated 330 GTS body with faired headlights and a larger 4.4 litre /267 cui motor.
Yesterdays blog featured a couple of 1958 Lotus 16's with oblique mounted motors.
Today's Sunday Special feature is about a six cylinder Aston Martin DBS that outwardly appears to be a V8 DBS for the benefit of viewers of the television series "The Persuaders".
I hope you have enjoyed catching up with the last seven "Gettin' a lil psycho on tyres" posts using the links in this 'GALPOT Weekly #50' edition of "GALPOT" and that you will join me daily in the week ahead. Don't forget to come back now !
The week started with a trip to Danville Concours d'Elegance with Geoffrey Horton where this Aston Martin DB2/4 with coachwork by Serafino Allemano was one of several one off vehicles on display.
The MG NA which I looked at on Tuesdays blog features a hidden rear petrol tank making it easy to distinguish from it's K-Type predecessor.
On Wednesday it was a huge thrill to welcome Jay 'California Streets' Wollenweber to the GALPOT contributing team, Jay also attended the Danville Concours d'Elegance where he met Geoffrey and his XK140 FHC SE MC.
Jay's photographs also featured on Americana Thursdays Land Yacht blog which included this 1957 pillarless estate / station wagon Buick Century Caballero.
Ferrari Friday's blog overdosed on California Sunshine and also included an error, I erroneously had the spyder above down as a 330 GTS, it has since transpired that the car is one of just 20 365 GTS models, essentially a slightly updated 330 GTS body with faired headlights and a larger 4.4 litre /267 cui motor.
Yesterdays blog featured a couple of 1958 Lotus 16's with oblique mounted motors.
Today's Sunday Special feature is about a six cylinder Aston Martin DBS that outwardly appears to be a V8 DBS for the benefit of viewers of the television series "The Persuaders".
I hope you have enjoyed catching up with the last seven "Gettin' a lil psycho on tyres" posts using the links in this 'GALPOT Weekly #50' edition of "GALPOT" and that you will join me daily in the week ahead. Don't forget to come back now !
Sunday, 8 July 2012
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 !
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 !
Sunday, 23 October 2011
Daily GALPOT Blog Has Moved - Summary
Some months ago I decided that with the amount of time I was spending writing GALPOT blogs I probably was generating enough material to start a stand alone GALPOT website, and with the help of my friend Mike Stuart at disphoria.co.uk I finally got the GALPOT site started last week. So if you have been missing my daily posts and in case your wondering what happened the blog continues on THIS LINK. For the time being I plan to keep this Blogger hosted page active with a weekly summary of what has been going on at the new GALPOT Home Page with links to the full blogs.
I started the week by going back to my own motoring roots with a look at an Austin A40 Countryman of the same type that was our very first family car back in 1964.
Dan Wheldon photograph courtesy Jeff Fuller.
With thanks to Jeff Fuller for his photograph Tuesdays blog was dedicated to the memory of Dan Wheldon.
I'd like to thank Racer 187 for pointing out that I had some link buttons for making comments missing and for testing them once they were up on Wednesdays Ford Model A blog.
To make a comment on the new GALPOT blogs write your comment in the 'Leave a Reply' comment box press 'Post Comment' and on the Word Press sign in page press the 'facebook' button and your comment should get posted without any further ado, so long as you are signed in to facebook.
On Thursday I looked at the Kellison J4 Grand Turismo a kit car recently acquired, sans windscreen wipers, by Lord March.
For Ferrari Friday, a feature that seems to come round every three days but is actually 'only' weekly I looked at one of a mystery batch of 12 Ferrari 196S models allegedly built in Modena by some 'Old Timers' that had worked for the Fantuzzi coach works.
Yesterday I looked at the Lotus 12 designed for the 2nd tier Formula 2 series that after an engine upgrade also became Colin Chapman's first Formula One design.
Today's blog is about a Jaguar that was conceived out of hours in 'The Saturday Club' and eventually made it into production.
The week ahead will start with a visit to The Regency Laundry Pegasus Sprint where I was a marshall last week, continue with a look at a Vintage Vauxhall and a classic Ford.
Thanks to everyone who has supported the GALPOT blog, I hope you will find time to continue to support me on the stand alone GALPOT site.
Don't forget to come back now !
I started the week by going back to my own motoring roots with a look at an Austin A40 Countryman of the same type that was our very first family car back in 1964.
Dan Wheldon photograph courtesy Jeff Fuller.
With thanks to Jeff Fuller for his photograph Tuesdays blog was dedicated to the memory of Dan Wheldon.
I'd like to thank Racer 187 for pointing out that I had some link buttons for making comments missing and for testing them once they were up on Wednesdays Ford Model A blog.
To make a comment on the new GALPOT blogs write your comment in the 'Leave a Reply' comment box press 'Post Comment' and on the Word Press sign in page press the 'facebook' button and your comment should get posted without any further ado, so long as you are signed in to facebook.
On Thursday I looked at the Kellison J4 Grand Turismo a kit car recently acquired, sans windscreen wipers, by Lord March.
For Ferrari Friday, a feature that seems to come round every three days but is actually 'only' weekly I looked at one of a mystery batch of 12 Ferrari 196S models allegedly built in Modena by some 'Old Timers' that had worked for the Fantuzzi coach works.
Yesterday I looked at the Lotus 12 designed for the 2nd tier Formula 2 series that after an engine upgrade also became Colin Chapman's first Formula One design.
Today's blog is about a Jaguar that was conceived out of hours in 'The Saturday Club' and eventually made it into production.
The week ahead will start with a visit to The Regency Laundry Pegasus Sprint where I was a marshall last week, continue with a look at a Vintage Vauxhall and a classic Ford.
Thanks to everyone who has supported the GALPOT blog, I hope you will find time to continue to support me on the stand alone GALPOT site.
Don't forget to come back now !
Monday, 3 October 2011
RIP WB - William Boddy Brooklands Tribute
On Saturday events conspired to allow me to visit for the first time the worlds first purpose built motor sport venue, Brooklands.
Brooklands was built in 1907, it was simultaneously also one of Britains first airfields. Brooklands became a centre of engineering excellence and racing continued their interrupted only by the Great War of 1914 - 1918. By 1939 what would become the all time lap record was set at 143.44 mph by John Cobb. A well known photo of John's record breaking run show's his 24 litre / 1461 cui Napier Railton, weighing several tons, flying along with all four wheels off the ground ! Such was the unevenness of the track. After the second world war racing failed to resume as industrial and residential pressures on the previously rural circuit took it's toll on the circuits fabric.
Enthusiasts gathered on Saturday to pay tribute to William 'Bill' Boddy MBE who in a career spanning 81 years served as editor of the publication Motor Sport from 1936 - to 1991. He famously kept the magazine going through out WW2 during his spare time while working for the Ministry of Aircraft Production.
Bill passed away in July and this Saturdays gathering included many of the actual cars, like this 1926 Sunbeam 3 Litre Super Sports, with which Bill had been associated during a career that played a significant part in firing this writers imagination during his miss spent youth. Owner of the Sunbeam Oliver Heal tells me WB was a passenger in this car one cold wet November day while being chaufferred by John Wyer future team manager at Aston Martin, Ford and of his own Gulf Sponsored JWA teams that successfully ran Ford, Porsche and Mirage chassis in sports car races.
In 1930 Bills first article published in Motor Sport was on the history Brooklands, the above 1907 Berliet V8 seen on The Hill is contemporaneous with the year the track opened 20 years before Bill made his first visit to Brooklands.
One of my favourite irregular features in Motor Sport is Bills 'Forgotten Makes' series into which category I would have to include this 1926 Gwynne 8 of which WB, as Bill was known to his readers, owned 3 using one as his transport through out WW2.
The 'racing dentist' Tony Brooks is seen above on the left retelling his memories of WB when his career was in the ascendant scoring the first Grand Prix win, since 1923, by an Englishman driving a British built car, the Connaught, at Syracuse in 1955.
While working at the Ministry of Aircraft Production WB met conscientious objector Denis 'DSJ' Jenkinson who was building a motorcycle by torch light in a shed during the WW2. WB would eventually employ DSJ, who was so obsessed with racing that when he settled down he eschewed both mains electricity and mains water, to become Continental Correspondent at Motor Sport. Among many cars that DSJ enjoyed was the red E-Type Jaguar above in which he drove 110,000 miles between 1965 and 1970 visiting all the top races and the best circuits in Europe during that time.
This 1947 Volkswagen was road tested by WB in 1952, he was so impressed VW's that he used them for editorial transportation. This particular vehicle is possibly also responsible for coining the 'Beetle' name for the model, VW importer and owner of this car John Colborne-Barber founded the VW Owners Club of Great Britain and published a magazine called 'Beetling' because contemporaries of his sons at school referred to this very car as a 'Beetle'.
Finally perhaps the greatest thrill of the WB tribute day was to see a few of the cars, including Cobb's Napier-Railton, that made history at Brooklands being demonstrated out on part of the remains of the famous 100 ft wide Brooklands banking. Sure they were only tootling about having fun, but the noise was absolutely unforgettable and sure to have been heard by the spirit of WB where ever it resides. A fitting tribute to the man who was involved in saving much of what remains at Brooklands for us to enjoy well into the future.
Thanks for joining me on this Bill Boddy edition of 'Gettin' a little psycho on tyres' I hope you will join me again tomorrow. Don't forget to come back now !
Brooklands was built in 1907, it was simultaneously also one of Britains first airfields. Brooklands became a centre of engineering excellence and racing continued their interrupted only by the Great War of 1914 - 1918. By 1939 what would become the all time lap record was set at 143.44 mph by John Cobb. A well known photo of John's record breaking run show's his 24 litre / 1461 cui Napier Railton, weighing several tons, flying along with all four wheels off the ground ! Such was the unevenness of the track. After the second world war racing failed to resume as industrial and residential pressures on the previously rural circuit took it's toll on the circuits fabric.
Enthusiasts gathered on Saturday to pay tribute to William 'Bill' Boddy MBE who in a career spanning 81 years served as editor of the publication Motor Sport from 1936 - to 1991. He famously kept the magazine going through out WW2 during his spare time while working for the Ministry of Aircraft Production.
Bill passed away in July and this Saturdays gathering included many of the actual cars, like this 1926 Sunbeam 3 Litre Super Sports, with which Bill had been associated during a career that played a significant part in firing this writers imagination during his miss spent youth. Owner of the Sunbeam Oliver Heal tells me WB was a passenger in this car one cold wet November day while being chaufferred by John Wyer future team manager at Aston Martin, Ford and of his own Gulf Sponsored JWA teams that successfully ran Ford, Porsche and Mirage chassis in sports car races.
In 1930 Bills first article published in Motor Sport was on the history Brooklands, the above 1907 Berliet V8 seen on The Hill is contemporaneous with the year the track opened 20 years before Bill made his first visit to Brooklands.
One of my favourite irregular features in Motor Sport is Bills 'Forgotten Makes' series into which category I would have to include this 1926 Gwynne 8 of which WB, as Bill was known to his readers, owned 3 using one as his transport through out WW2.
The 'racing dentist' Tony Brooks is seen above on the left retelling his memories of WB when his career was in the ascendant scoring the first Grand Prix win, since 1923, by an Englishman driving a British built car, the Connaught, at Syracuse in 1955.
While working at the Ministry of Aircraft Production WB met conscientious objector Denis 'DSJ' Jenkinson who was building a motorcycle by torch light in a shed during the WW2. WB would eventually employ DSJ, who was so obsessed with racing that when he settled down he eschewed both mains electricity and mains water, to become Continental Correspondent at Motor Sport. Among many cars that DSJ enjoyed was the red E-Type Jaguar above in which he drove 110,000 miles between 1965 and 1970 visiting all the top races and the best circuits in Europe during that time.
This 1947 Volkswagen was road tested by WB in 1952, he was so impressed VW's that he used them for editorial transportation. This particular vehicle is possibly also responsible for coining the 'Beetle' name for the model, VW importer and owner of this car John Colborne-Barber founded the VW Owners Club of Great Britain and published a magazine called 'Beetling' because contemporaries of his sons at school referred to this very car as a 'Beetle'.
Finally perhaps the greatest thrill of the WB tribute day was to see a few of the cars, including Cobb's Napier-Railton, that made history at Brooklands being demonstrated out on part of the remains of the famous 100 ft wide Brooklands banking. Sure they were only tootling about having fun, but the noise was absolutely unforgettable and sure to have been heard by the spirit of WB where ever it resides. A fitting tribute to the man who was involved in saving much of what remains at Brooklands for us to enjoy well into the future.
Thanks for joining me on this Bill Boddy edition of 'Gettin' a little psycho on tyres' I hope you will join me again tomorrow. Don't forget to come back now !
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