Festival of Speed was super...shot over 200 pictures and about 1 hour of film. It's amazing that they let you walk into the paddock inbetween the priceless pieces of automotive history. There was a display of UK's finest hotrods and the 4 AA/FA gassers. Unfortunatelly I missed it when they ran (schedule got messed up 'cause someone crashed his Ferrari). Later, when I was walking around in one of the paddock's they fired up 'Pure Heaven'...got it all on film and made my day after all I've posted a whole bunch of pictures on my website: http://users.pandora.be/elcaminokid Here's a sample of what was there. If you like, check the site for more... Enjoy! This one had a Hemi and was super nice: Look at the frame...seriously Z'd frame and a six pack This one (together with the green one in the first shots) was one of my show favorites: amazing craftmanship! Classic MV Agusta... Undoubtly, the coolest car at the show, a late 50's maserati, 400bhp and here's it's engine: RR with DuVal style windshield and an American Body. The Blue Crown Sparkplug Special with the only 6 cylinder ever made by Offenhauser Alfa racing history Two of the most beautiful F1 (both Lotus)cars raced in one picture: And, not to forget: Pure Hell
I need to get in touch with the owner of the Blue Crown Sparkplug Special. He used to have his business here in Tucson, and he gave me the number for that some years ago, but he retired. I need him for his expert knowledge on vintage Race Cars... If anybody can help, please P/M me... Thanks.
Where on your website are the pics, can't find them? Love that Black T on deuce rails, that's amazing
Thanks for posting the great pictures from Goodwood! Love the MVs as much as the black Maserati (reminiscent of the factory Abarth coupes). The Italians are incapable of designing homely motors.
Great pictures, I missed it this year.....As I was here! Love the JPS Lotus, I met Mario Andretti in the other one there several years ago Dave
[ QUOTE ] The Italians are incapable of designing homely motors. [/ QUOTE ] AV8, I am pretty sure that the body on that particular Maserati was desighned by Frank Costin. An Englishman... He was an aerodynamist with the De Haviland Aircraft Company, he got into desighning car body's through his brother Mike who was helping Colin Chapman at Lotus. The work was done in Itally though, and he was very upset with them because they did not get the vents and scoops at exactly the places where he had calculated the high and low pressure points were going to be. Neat picture, I did not realise the car was Black, I thought it was a dark shade of red...
Much better if you click on THIS LINK. Looks like some great stuff there. That green deuce roadster is just the most!
Thanks for the extra pics Brootal. Yep, that sure looks like the Costin Maserati. It looks very different to me than what was being penned in Italy at the time, but I can see the family resemblence with the Lotus 8 , 10, 11 and 15, the Costin Lister and the Costin ( the one with the marine plywood Chassis ).
My legs fell asleep sitting in my chair, looking at all 144 images..but it was worth it! The black Maserati coupe is awesome but I can't help but wonder why they made the door glass square?
thanks for sharing some really nice cars... especially some of the vintage Eurpoean models that are seldom seen this side of the pond
Rocky, Frank Costin was a Form Follows Function kinda guy. He didn't style his cars, he calculated them. Literally.. on a slide rule... It was also probably what he was used to with his Airplane background ( Look at a DC3, or another plane of that age...)
[ QUOTE ] Thanks for the extra pics Brootal. [/ QUOTE ] They're still elcaminokids pics, I just pointed you in the right direction. Sometimes it's good to be a computer geek!
[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] Thanks for the extra pics Brootal. [/ QUOTE ] They're still elcaminokids pics, I just pointed you in the right direction. Sometimes it's good to be a computer geek! [/ QUOTE ] Well, thanks to the both of you then...
[ QUOTE ] The work was done in Itally though, and he was very upset with them because they did not get the vents and scoops at exactly the places where he had calculated the high and low pressure points were going to be. [/ QUOTE ] I think it was in one of the latest issues of Octane that I read about a fella that calculated the low pressure points and then confirmed them in practice by literally hanging out of the car while someone else drove and placing little markers (ribbons?) on the car. That's dedication!! Thanks for the pics elc kid.
Peddro, that was Frank. Those tests were ( I think ) on the Lotus 8. The hot air from the Radiator came out behind the front wheel, out off the wheel well. he had taped pieces of wool string under the fender, and he was lying across the hood of the car, with his head down beside the car, so he could check the flow of the air at speed. I think they took it up to over 100MPH that way... Edit. I looked it up, I made mistake with the speed. It was 110MPH...
Looks like I have to go and check it out myself next year! But I think I heard that the price to get in is pretty high... Is that right..?
Thanks for all the nice comments. About the batwing Alfa Romeo, I believe there was a HAMBER who was going to try and recreate one based on a Volvo P1800 (was it DrJ?). en Christian: yep ze zoeken hier constant vollek.
[ QUOTE ] Rocky, Frank Costin was a Form Follows Function kinda guy. He didn't style his cars, he calculated them. Literally.. on a slide rule... It was also probably what he was used to with his Airplane background ( Look at a DC3, or another plane of that age...) [/ QUOTE ] Hey metalshapes..., I believe that this particular car was modified for racing so that the driver could exit the car quickly in case of an accident. Does anybody have a picture of the other side...? (It appears to have a normal window...!) Mark
[ QUOTE ] Hey metalshapes..., I believe that this particular car was modified for racing so that the driver could exit the car quickly in case of an accident. [/ QUOTE ] I believe it was the other way around in this case. The car was built to compete in the 24 hrs of Le Mans but did not do as good as they hoped it would do. After the race the car was stripped and rebodied. And the body was left to rot, untill somebody found it and turned that into a car again ( for the street ) It was lengthened, and the windshield was changed ( it was several pieces of flat glass before, like an old airplane...) The Alfa Romeo is one of a seres of Aerodynamic studies that Bertone did. This one is BAT 7 ( Berlinetta Aerodinamica Tecnica 7) The Italians did some really cool stuff back then. Like the wild streamliners Penin Farina for Fiat Abarth...
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