Pictures on Parade.

[bauble]

Originally Posted by Tel 911S

Yes , nostalgia ain,t what it used to be .
Sometimes you see pictures or write ups on things and it takes you back in your memory . Then you often realise how long ago that was .

So I suppose we should thank Bauble for bringing back those memories .???

A nice sentiment, but who the heck cares about some obscure Ford special, start your own thread, or post some pictures, I get bored reading you fading memories.

[bauble]

Here I go, blundering into my archives, and risking even more maudlin ramblings from nostalgic, Old Gits.

[bauble]

Why do I do It?

[Lancsbreaker]

Pace Bauble, reading the meanderings brought to mind the name Doc Merfield in relation to V8 Cortinas, and a little light research brought up this somewhat dusty thread: https://tentenths.com/forum/showthre...+sanger&page=3

[bauble]

Now these will I'm sure, will trigger some comment.

[Mike Harte]

Originally Posted by Tel 911S

Thinking back a long time , I can remember some Mk 1 Cortina,s with a 289 ford V8 in them .
I believe that Ford looked into the idea because they were worried about Holden,s with their big V8s beating them in saloon car racing over here .
Not sure if the factory went very far with that plan , but a few private owners did race them .

Just going back to this for a moment, my recollections of that time are that Ford wasn't that concerned about the Yank tanks; OK, they had plenty of grunt, but they were nowhere near as nimble as the Lotus Cortinas in the hands of such luminaries as Clark, Hill or Whitmore. The tanks didn't handle as well nor could they brake as easily as the Cortinas; unlike the Goodwood specials that we see more and more of nowadays.

Also, Ford had the Escort on the horizon for International competition; they already had some experience of it's potential in the hands of Ford's boss' son, Roger Taylor, who started campaigning one prepared and maintained by Ford's Boreham engineers. And in the background were firms such as Broadspeed, Superspeed and Willments, plus Zakspeed and Eggburger.

[morninggents]

[QUOTE=Tel 911S;4222245][QUOTE=Gerard. Thinking back a long time , I can remember some Mk 1 Cortina,s with a 289 ford V8 in them .
I believe that Ford looked into the idea because they were worried about Holden,s with their big V8s beating them in saloon car racing over here .
Not sure if the factory went very far with that plan , but a few private owners did race them .[/QUOTE]

This has just nudged a memory in the back of my brain of a Ford Corsair with a V8 in the mid to late 60s. Run by either Martin Maudling or Alan Peer/East Anglian Racing Team. If the latter I could see a potential Ford involvement.

[Mike Harte]

[QUOTE=morninggents;4222275]

Originally Posted by Tel 911S

This has just nudged a memory in the back of my brain of a Ford Corsair with a V8 in the mid to late 60s. Run by either Martin Maudling or Alan Peer/East Anglian Racing Team. If the latter I could see a potential Ford involvement.

I can only recall Maudling with his Anglia; not the quickest of pilots around. As for EART and/or Peer, that was part of the Roger Taylor team; Roger drove the larger engined Anglia, whilst Alan drove in a lower class. And then they both swapped for the Escorts maintaining the different classes.

Both of their cars were entered at different meetings under varying entry names, to suit Ford's needs. Sometimes just under EART, but also, for example, under the guise of Dagenham Motors or other main dealers that possibly required a publicity boost. However, they always ran the same two cars and always looked after by the crew from Boreham under the watchful eye of Bert Avard, one of, if not the, top engineer at Boreham and who was a true gentleman , who would help pretty well anyone on the grid if needed.

[Gerard C]

Originally Posted by E.B

Yeah its the saloon, with the reverse angle rear window like the Anglia 105E had

Sure? If yes because I rely on you both with Richard I need to go to Specavers quickly…

[Gerard C]

Originally Posted by bauble

[/B] A nice sentiment, but who the heck cares about some obscure Ford special, start your own thread, or post some pictures, I get bored reading you fading memories.

By the way, is the Vauwhall van a diesel? Asking for a friend…

[bauble]

What is the forum coming to? Gerard claiming he has a friend! I might have to resign my commission.
Let's get some semblance of normality back;

[bauble]

That's better;

[Mike Harte]

Originally Posted by Gerard C

By the way, is the Vauwhall van a diesel? Asking for a friend…

Yes, it is also taxed, insured and has a current MOT.

[Gerard C]

Thank you, Mike.

[bauble]

I'm back;

[bauble]

I know you missed me;

[bauble]

Save the best 'til last;

[Tel 911S]

Glad you are back Bauble , we all missed you ???????

But a question about your post 492 , 4th picture .The green Aston .
Do you remember what event / where that picture was from .
The registration is not from that car , and an original car would be probably much to expensive to race .
The last original ,[ that I know of ], sold for £17.5 million at auction , so that might well be one of the replica cars that I helped to build with these people.
.http://asmotorsport.co.uk/

[bauble]

Originally Posted by Tel 911S

Glad you are back Bauble , we all missed you ???????

But a question about your post 492 , 4th picture .The green Aston .
Do you remember what event / where that picture was from .
The registration is not from that car , and an original car would be probably much to expensive to race .
The last original ,[ that I know of ], sold for £17.5 million at auction , so that might well be one of the replica cars that I helped to build with these people.
.http://asmotorsport.co.uk/

See what happens when I come back -controversy!

Silverstone Classic 25/07/2015, Stirling Moss trophy.

[bauble]

Tel; Same event, hope this helps.

[Gerard C]

Simon Hadfield?

[Tel 911S]

Thanks for that . It does give me a bit of a reference to work from .
I helped build a lot of those replicas , perhaps over 20 .
It does look exactly like the ones I did . Although a lot of them were Jag engines , that one has an Aston engine so that narrows it down a bit .

We had one customer who got his own Aston 12 spark plug engine which I believe cost about £70,000 ,just for the engine .

[crmalcolm]

Originally Posted by bauble

Tel; Same event, hope this helps.

Is it DBR1/5?

https://astonmartins.com/car/dbr1/

https://platesmania.com/uk/nomer20495891

https://tentenths.com/forum/showthread.php?t=81151

Originally Posted by John Turner

DBR1/5
1959 – The only one built from new for a customer, Graham Whitehead. Registered 900BH and fitted with 4-bearing engine. Some minor races plus Le Mans where it crashed (Whitehead/Naylor). Whitehead sportingly withdrew the car from the Tourist Triophy to allow the works to take over his pit following the fire in theirs(see DBR1/3 above)
1960 – Retired from Nurburgring 1000kms (Whitehead/Naylor) but came 1st in the Rouen 4-hour GP (Fairman). Then to the African continent for the Angola GP and it appears to have stayed in Africa for many years.
1961- 63 – Raced by Whitehead and then Pfaff
1965- 66 – Raced by van Tilburg in South Africa
1970- 72 - Rebuilt by Howard Cohen
1973-76 - Remained in the ownership of Cohen?
1977 – Acquired by Bob Tuccio and rebuilt in that year.
1978 – 198? Retained by Tuccio in the USA
1990? – Acquired by P. Kaus in Germany
2001? - Acquired by Wolfgang Friedrichs in Germany

Fitted with engine no. RB6/300/5

[Tel 911S]

Still not sure about that one .The registration on it is for a Porsche , which makes me think it is not an original car , because an original car with original registration would be much more valuable .

A few details , like the little front winkers just in front of the headlights , would not have been on original , but were on ones I did .
And a lot of the details were as we made them , but we were copying a lot from the original cars
So , all in all , still not sure .

[crmalcolm]

Originally Posted by Tel 911S

Still not sure about that one .The registration on it is for a Porsche , which makes me think it is not an original car , because an original car with original registration would be much more valuable .

A few details , like the little front winkers just in front of the headlights , would not have been on original , but were on ones I did .
And a lot of the details were as we made them , but we were copying a lot from the original cars
So , all in all , still not sure .

Maybe - but when you look at the history of the car it left the UK many years ago and would have been removed from the DVLA database at that time. I think looking at the UK VIN is a red-herring. It has also been rebuilt on a few occasions, so details might easily have changed from the original.


Wolfgang Friedrichs behind the wheel of the car in 2015:


The car in 2017 with lights in the bumper:


Same car in 2020 without lights (and different mirrors):