GALPOT Weekly #49

Welcome to  GALPOT Weekly #49 a review of the last seven blogs at "Gettin' a li'l psycho on tyres".



Last weeks blogs all came from one of the worlds biggest fancy dress party's known as the  Goodwood Revival.  Monday started with an overview of the event which included the mascot of this Daimler LQ20.



On Tuesday I looked at some of the MG's both on the track and in the car park which appeared at Goodwood. Above is Howard Maguire in his K3 which appears to have once belonged to Otto Stone in Australia.



Wednesdays Continental Curiosities blog again featured stars from the track and car park not least the Tatra T603 seen at St Mary's corner above.



Thursdays post featured some of the cars from the Dan Gurney Presidential Campaign including Dan's 1970 Eagle Offenhauser, his last ride in the Indy 500.



Ferrari Friday's billion dollar blog featured a hand full of the many storied Ferrari's at Goodwood, above Jean Alesi is seen driving Nick Mason's Ferrari 250 GTO, one of eleven GTO's at Goodwood last weekend.



Among the Lotus cars at Goodwood, which I looked at yesterday, was this BRM powered Lotus 24 seen driven by Nigel Williams which carries the bodywork from a Lola Mk4 as it did when Peter Revson drove it in 1964.



Today's post features some of the Silver Arrows dating from 1934 to 1939 from both Mercedes Benz and Auto Union which were demonstrated at Goodwood. Above is a 1936 Auto Union C-type, driven by 5 times Le Mans winner Frank Biela similar to those driven by Bernd Rosemeyer to three race victories and the European Grand Prix Championship.

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GALPOT Weekly #48

Welcome to GALPOT Weekly #48 a review of the last seven posts from "Gettin' a li'l psycho on tyres".



This week started with a visit to the Haynes International Motor Museum for the Rare Breeds show. Though it was a little after my time as a television addict in my humble opinion the talking Knight Industries Two Thousand (K.I.T.T) stole the show.



Advertised with “Spots-car Performance, Family-car Comfort, Small-car Economy” it is perhaps not surprising that the MG Magnette ZB I looked at on Tuesday out sold the similarly bodied Wolseley 15/50 BMC stable mate 3 to 2 between 1956 and 1958.



Driven by John Cobb the Napier Railton holds the Brooklands out right circuit record at 143.44 mph set in 1936 in perpetuity. The Napier Railton which I looked at on Wednesday also stared in a film alongside James Mason and Ava Gardner in 1951.



Lurking beneath the bonnet of the Marmon Sixteen, which I looked at on Thursday is an aluminium 200hp 8.1 litre / 491 cui V16 motor that earned it's designer Howard Marmon a Society of Automotive Engineers annual design award.



Ferrari Friday was all about the Ferrari 166MM #0022M which, like the Marmon Sixteen, was seen at the Hillsborough Concours d'Elegance by Geoffrey Horton.



Thanks to Jon Bawden and his Dad's photograph yesterday's blog was all about a pair of Lotus 62's built to test a noisy new 4 cylinder motor that would form the bedrock of Lotus road car through the mid '70's to the early '90's.



Todays blog is about last Sundays Avenue Drivers Club meeting at Queen Square in Bristol where I saw this Bristol 412 gliding by.

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GALPOT Weekly #47

Welcome to GALPOT Weekly #47 a review of the last seven posts at "Gettin a li'l psycho on tyres"



The week started with a visit to Dunsfold Aerodrome for Wings and Wheels, my favorite surprise from the show was this 1970 Surtees TS7 Grand Prix designed by Sahab Ahmed and Peter Connew.



On Tuesday I celebrated the 55th Aniversary of E Day with a look at a 1958 Edsel Ranger.



W.O. Bentley described Wednesdays featured car seen above as a Pervesion and Corruption, he also inadvertently created an incorrect myth about these cars never having won a race.



Thursdays post was about this one and a quarter litre MG YB, a pre '39/45 war design that did not go into production until 1947. MG posts will be returning to Tuesday as usual next week.



Among the most alluring of prototype sports car designs is the 1969 Ferrari 312P Berlinetta, chassis #0872 as seen above has a class winning history.



Yesterday's post featured a more humble design from 1969 the wedge shaped Lotus 61 Formula Ford racer belonging to hill climber Les Buck.



Unique amongst Rolls Royce Silver Ghosts must be this 1921 copper bodied example with coachwork by Brockman which was seen by Geoffrey Horton at Hillsborough Concours d'Elegance a couple of weeks ago.

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GALPOT Weekly #46

Welcome to GALPOT Weekly #46 a review of the last seven posts at "Gettin' a li'l psycho on tyres".



Monday started off with a visit to Donington Park for a test day for some noisey racers including this somewhat recalcitrant 1939 Mercedes Benz W154.



Tuesday's regular MG feature will be interrupted next week postponed for good reason to Thursday, last Tuesday's MG blog was all about the MG SA which was delivered after loosing sales due to corporate dithering in 1936.



Thanks to Geoffrey Horton's photographs Wednesday's blog paid another visit to Carmel by the Sea for a look at some of the Continental Curiosities like the Peel Trident that were on view on August 14th.



Staying in Carmel Thurdays post looked at some of the Muscle cars, like the '70 Chaparral Camaro above, that participated in the Golden Era of the Trans Am Series between 1968 and 1972.



Ferrari Friday concluded this years visit by Geoffrey to Carmel by the Sea with a look at some of the Ferrari's on the Avenue including this show winning 275 GTB NART Spyder.



Yesterday's Lotus blog looked at this 1970 Lotus, 60, Seven Series IV with just 68,000 miles on the clock from new.



Today's blog pays a visit to last weeks Silverstone 6 Hours World Endurance Championship race where the #7 Toyota TS030 Hybrid was in contention for the win.

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GALPOT Weekly #45

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



The week started with a visit to the Avenue Drivers Club at Queen Square in Bristol, if your at a loose end on the second Sunday of the month in Bristol this is a great way to start your day, why not pop along it free !



Tuesdays post featured an MG M-type with a hot cam of the type that helped MG win the JCC Double Twelve at Brooklands in 1930.



Geoffrey Horton kindly sent some photo's of the Mullins Automotive Museums Avions Voisin C-25 Aerodyne, a car that has won two Concours d'Elegance events in the last twelve months, featured on Wednesday.



Americana Thursdays post featured this 1959 Cadillac 6 Window Sedan, unfortunately the exterior distinguishing details between the Series 62 and de Deville options are missing so I have been unable to determine which it is.



Ferrari Fridays blog featured this 1950 Ferrari 166 MM a chassis which had a short racing career in period but has been seen at many Classic events since primarily driven by Sally Mason-Styrron.



Surely counting as one of the coolest looking cars never to have raced in anger the Lotus 58, featured yesterday, was to have served as a racer and test bed for Colin Champman's pet de Dion suspension which he hoped to use on the Lotus 57 Grand Prix challenger. A chaotic 1968 season which included two fatalities in the team, numerous accidents and a world championship winning run meant the Lotus 58 never got the opportunity to shine.



Today's post comes again courtesy Geoffrey Horton's photographs from the 6th Annual Carmel by the Sea Concours d'Elegance. This Lamborghini 400 GT Interim was one of several cars that were difficult to correctly identify.

My thanks to Geoffrey Horton for his many contributions this week.

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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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