Document all you can. People here are hauling away what is out there for souvenirs and the government is saving the planet by closing the roads. The old places are so much fun to poke round and think of who was there before.
A while ago I posted the above pic of the side-valve V8 Alfa. At the Rob Roy Hill Climb on 19 Nov. 2023 I didn't know that I was taking photos of the same car (substantially rebuilt/restored). https://primotipo.com/2018/02/15/mrs-jas-jones-alfa-6c-1750-ss-zagato/
That was cool. Neat to see the Lambos and Ferraris mixed in with the old stuff. Sure was a lot of different style cars at that event.
These videos are chock-full o specials. I like Nick's videos. No music or talk, like you walked around a car show. Vintage Sports Car Club at Brooklands Jan 2024 Mike
Mark Bisset (primotipo): https://primotipo.com/2016/11/11/so...lans-ballot-olds-and-greensborough-hillclimb/ First pic is Jim Gullan's Special at 'Ballarat Car Road Races' Jan. 27, 1947; George Thomas photo; second pic is 'Racing Cars at Fisherman's Bend' 1954; Arthur Gordon Fraser photo; third pic is from 10th Rob Roy Hill Climb, June 7, 1946; George Thomas photo. All photos from State Library of Victoria
The first photo (at Parramatta Speedway, NSW) is dated 11 November 1938; it has to be the Kleinig Hudson Special. [can just about read '..LEINIG ...' on the bonnet] The second photo of this car (Rob Roy Hill Climb and posted previously), is from 1939. First photo is courtesy of ACP Magazines Ltd and the Mitchell Library/State Library of New South Wales; second photo is by F. H. Hince and courtesy of State Library of Victoria.
'K. Rilstone's special at a race meeting on Port Adelaide circuit' (1953?) State Library of South Australia
A recreation of the Parsons and Phillips Special shown in the B/W pic (State Library of South Australia). https://primotipo.com/2023/03/07/jack-phillips-ted-parsons-ford-v8/
The first photo I posted a while ago: 'Racing D.F.P., 1946' [parked in a suburban (Melbourne?) street]. Second photo, titled only as 'AMSC Trial', has to be the same car: big-skinny tyres, slanted/flat back, rear springs/shackles, bonnet strap [edit: in the first photo there are two very small headlights fitted quite low - in the second photo the left headlight is visible]; second photo taken by George Thomas, also in 1946; both photos State Library of Victoria.
I have to admit that I knew nothing about DFP cars ... I thought the DFP in the two photos above was just a special made by someone who decided to call it DFP, perhaps using their own initials for the three letters ................... Here's a primotipo article about DFP cars: https://primotipo.com/tag/dfp/
I posted this cropped photo a while ago, not knowing anything about the car or driver, just that the photo was taken by George Thomas at the 10th Rob Roy Hill Climb on 7 June, 1946. (State Library of Victoria) I see now, on primotipo, that it was a Lycoming Special driven by Ron Edgerton. [I guess it's a Lycoming engine, six cylinder. What vehicle would the engine have been installed in originally? Edit: Cord, Auburn, Duesenberg, Locomobile, Paige, Graham, McFarlan and Checker used Lycoming engines.]
I had never heard of JMW Specials until a couple of days ago ... first two photos from Rob Roy Hill Climb, 1957 and 1961
Love that video of 1914 Peugeot & been watching lot of of “Ivan’s shed” stuff. Wow what a collection. Always loved the few Bugetties I have seen
That looks like the Rob Roy Hill Climb. Eldred Norman Double V8 https://primotipo.com/tag/eldred-norman-double-8/ Edit: the article says that the car was scrapped, so the car pictured above must be a recreation .....
Three photos of the same bug-eyed Ballot-V8 Special, French chassis and a V8 (Ford?). In order: 'AMSC Trial' (Sept 1, 1946); 'E. Thomas driving a Ballot-V8, AMSC Standing 1/4 Mile' (1946); 'Rob Roy Hill Climb' (April 20, 1947). All photos by George Thomas; State Library of Victoria
Unident photo from another site. I find it interesting that the engine in this car has been, seemingly, offset to the left IOT counter the driver's weight. The foot box area is also much larger and it sure makes the steering linkage look easier to design! I've thought about doing this (but to the right side of the chassis) on my '29 A Coupe project - which will also have an I-4. Perhaps not as much offset that this car has, but helping out with the both the foot box and steering shaft seems like a good thing here if there is room to still fit the rest of the junk under the hood / sides.
That's a Bugatti Type 23 under that radiator cowl. I'm not sure: is the engine offset or merely tucked far forwards?
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