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.

I hope you have enjoyed using the links provided to catch up with events at "Gettin' a li'l psycho on tyres" and that you will join me again during the week ahead. Don't forget to come back now !

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 !

GALPOT Weekly #37

Welcome to GALPOT Weekly #37 a review of last weeks blogs posted on "Gettin' a li'l psycho on tyres".




The week started with a look at some of the cars in the paddock at the Dick Mayo Sprint at which I was marshaling. James Spear driving the Lotus 2-Eleven above came third in class.



The day following the Dick Mayo Sprint I went Lotus Hunting at Prescott and found not only several examples of the cars I was looking for but also this rare GSM Delta belonging to Clive Scott who's father played a large part in manufacturing the car.



Wednesday's Continental Curiosity featured the highly strung Fiat 600D that once belonged to sprinter and hillclimber David Render. Follow this link to find out about it's unusual motor and how it found it's way into the car.



Americana Thursday's blog featured this '72 Dodge Dart Swinger which the original owner found difficult to park much to the detriment of the rear quarter panel.



The FIAT Dino Spyder featured on Ferrari Friday was part of a plan to help Enzo Ferrari race in the second tier open wheel Formula 2 in 1966.



(Photographer / Copyright Holder Unknown, photo will be credited or removed by request.)

Yesterdays blog was all about how sometime Formula One racer Ertl fitted a TOJ sports car with a 600hp Zakspeed Motor and covered it with a Lotus Europa body and went racing with it in various Group 5 series.



Today's blog return's to Castle Combe for the Bristol Motor Clubs Family Day. Above is the Nova of Mick Poat which was won the public vote for Best Car of the day.

I hope you have enjoyed catching up with event's at "Gettin' a li'l psycho on tyres" and that you will join me in the week ahead when I'll be visiting Goodwood Festival of Speed and bringing my regular Americana day forward to Wednesday in honour of Independence Day. Don't forget to come back now !

GALPOT Weekly #36

Welcome to GALPOT Weekly #36 a review of the past weeks blogs at "Gettin' a li'l psycho on tyres"



The week started with a look at the contrasting and eclectic collection of vehicles, as personified by the Crossley 10 and Mercedes Benz C63 AMG Edition 125 above, which attended the Avenue Drivers Club meeting at Queens Square in Bristol a couple of weeks ago.



The MG 18/80 Six Saloonette Mk I above was the subject of Tuesday's post capable of 80 mph it is still used for trips to 'The Continent'.



Fritz Fends design for a utilitarian vehicle the Messerschmitt KR200, featured on Wednesday's Continental Curiosity blog, is a wonderful example of post '39 - '45 war innovation with limited resources.



Senior Designer Harvey J Winn is credited with coming up with the name and Super Bee logo which was also turned into a diecast medallion which identified Dodge's performance model, the Dodge Coronet Super Bee which featured on Thursday's Americana Blog.



There was only one Ferrari 166/P built chassis #0834, seen above at Silverstone, you can find out about it's development from 1600 cc 97.2 super car to 1965 Hillclimb Championship winner and beyond on this Dino Evolution link.



Colin Chapman learned a lesson in anger management before lending his support to Richard Jenvey's Lotus Esprit Group 5 project, seen above on it's 'official roll out' in 1979, which was built by an enthusiastic group of amateurs find out more about 'The Jumping Coffee Cup' here.



Robin Beech got my nomination for the unofficial "Gettin' a li'l psycho on tyres" Award at Brooklands last Sunday, for a flavour of the "Double Twelve" event click on the link to today's post.

Thanks for joining me on "GALPOT Weekly #36", I hope you have enjoyed catching up with the last weeks activity on "Gettin' a li'l psycho on tyres" and that, floods not withstanding, you will join me again during the week ahead. Don't forget to come back now !

GALPOT Weekly #35

Welcome to GALPOT Weekly #35 where I am reviewing the last seven posts to appear on the "Gettin' a li'l psycho on tyres blog".



The week started with reviews of two events run over the Jubilee Bank Holiday Weekend, first, as seen above, a Banger and Demolition Derby event at Aldershot Raceway which introduced me to the delights of 7.5 tonne Truck 'racing'



and second the Jubilee Raceday held at Castle Combe which saw Steven Jensen, seen above driving his Spectrum 011b winning the Formula Ford race and the Driver Of The Day award.



On Continental Wednesday the 1964 CD 3 Le Mans car, seen above, was featured, a car which although ultimately unsuccessful anticipated some revolutionary aerodynamic developments that were first seen in Formula One in 1978.



 Americana Thursday's post featured a 1964 Prototype Ford GT which was built on the Slough Trading Estate in the UK by Ford Advanced Vehicles, after Eric Boradley of who was originally contracted to build the cars fell out with Ford in a disagreement over the materials from which the car should be built.



For Ferrari Friday the 1964 Ferrari 250 LM, above,  was featured which played a minor role, along with the rest of 1964 Le Mans grid, in the French film Un Homme et Une Femme.



Yesterday's post featured the Ark Racing Lotus Elan Group 5 World Endurance Championship race car seen above it's penultimate 'period' race at Silverstone in 1982, a privateer effort that added welcome variety to the Group 5 silhouette scene.



Today's post looks at 007 of the 50 exhibits on display at the 'Bond in Motion' exhibition currently showing at Beaulieu National Motor Museum. The original Aston Martin DB5, similar to the one seen above, borrowed for the production  of Goldfinger, was converted back to road spec use when it was returned to the manufacturer and sold as a used car, such was the dire financial position of Aston Martin at the time.

Thanks for joining me on this GALPOT Weekly #35 edition, I hope you have enjoyed catching up with the last weeks posts with the links provided and that you will join me at "Gettin' a li'l psycho on tyres' again tomorrow when I'll be revisiting the Avenue Drivers Club at Queens Square in Bristol. Don't forget to come back now !