Roll-Call?

[quintin cloud]

Welcome Racer.Demon

[Vitesse]

And about time too! Welcome Mattijs, what took you so long?

[luigi2]

Hello,

I'm lloyd Lewis, 51, married and have a 12 year old son.
For most of the 1970s I was a mechanic for various UK racing teams, mostly group 1 saloons but with some excursions into Formula Ford, Formula Vee, a Lola T212 and some rallying. I had a bad hair day in 78, walked away from the sport and never went back.

I have not really followed motorsport much since then apart from F1, but since I discovered this forum the memories are coming back.

I was really sorry to read about Gerry Marshall's illness and wish him a speedy recovery.Even though he was usually 'the opposition', I have many fond memories (most not repeatable here) of Gerry and two of our drivers, Tony Lanfranchi and Barry Williams.

Although most forms of motorsport interest me, I particularly like the racing sportscars of the late 50s and 60s, as well as the grassroots formulas such as Formula 750, clubmans etc.

Keep up the good work

Lloyd

[macca]

Hello, I'm Paul Mackness from Hampshire, born about the time Fangio had his first GP as a works Ferrari driver (that old? Shame!).
I've only just discovered this site today. My earliest memory is seeing Moss in a blue Cooper rounding Woodcote at Silverstone, which must have been '60 or '61. I became a fan of Graham Hill and BRM in 1962, especially after being driven round Zandvoort not long after his first GP win there, while my father was a fan of Jim Clark and Lotus.

I've always liked all types of racing, but especially F1 and Le Mans, and have been a big fan of Historic racing since the first Silverstone Festival in 1990 (probably getting old and nostalgic!).

Coys always used to be the highlight of my year, and then the Goodwood Festival and Revival, and I also go to as many HSCC meetings as possible and some VSCC races and hillclimbs.

I was very interested in the Forum about the Kincraft as I would like to know more about Jack Pearce who built it. I know from various articles by Doug Nye and others in old mags that he was a demon welder at Cooper, raced himself, ran J. A. Pearce Engineering making Magna alloy wheels, traded in racing-cars and parts thereof, and built the Cooper-Ferrari F1 in 1966 (which I saw at the 1967 RoC at Brands) and the Pearce-Martin V8's which never raced. Robin Darlington who drove the Kincraft was also down to drive the F1 Pearce, but the only man who I believe actually drove it was Chris Lawrence of Lawrencetune/Deep Sanderson fame and now engineer at Morgans. Chris also had further involvement in the Martin 3.0l V8 through the prototypes of the Monica roadcar built by Jean Testevin, and sold the Martin engines and used one in a Deep Sanderson sports-prototype at the 1969 Nurburgring 1000k (does anyone have any pics of this?)

I'd very much like to hear from anyone who has more information about the above, and any other obscure 1960's F1's such as the 1963 Scirroco, the 1967 Lucas-Martin 3.0l (converted F2 Lotus 35 by Charles Lucas' Titan concern),and the 1968 Parnell-BRM which may or may not have been an incomplete conversion of a Lotus 25/33.

[paulzinho]

Welcome aboard macca, you seem to have quite a bit of knowledge there like many of our memebers here!

Hope we see more of you and listen to the aray of interesting stories and memories that you must hold!

[ss_collins]

I'm SS Collins - 21 clubman nutter - I do all sorts of events all over the south! I've always been interested in motoring history have a fair book collection to prove it! If anyone has any information on Clans or McCoys please let me know, especially McCoys - no thought not.

[66stang]

66stang (real name Jeff) from Texas. Mostly linger, but can't tell you how much I enjoy this site. I have a 66 Mustang Opentrack car that keeps me broke and occupied most of the time.

I love vintage (60s & 70s) roadracing sedans and GT cars...from Mini Coopers to Cobras. Really like the Aussie Mustang action by Geoghagen, Jane, Moffet, et al in the 60s also. I dream of my wife and I attending the vintage races at Goodwood one day!

Keep the vintage photos coming!

ps. Brock, I'm with you if you limit the cross country race to vintage cars. I'm not overthrowing anyone for the right of some ground effect Audi to trounce the field.

Su Amigo/Jeff

[zefarelly]

Im Joe, 31, and I love MK1 Cortinas . . .I have a road car, Im trying very slowly to build a GT to race, and I help out with a lotus which does race. so I guess historic saloons is my thing.

Ive just bought a TVR Vixen as well . . . .well . . .I thought why not!

[klaus]

hello macca,
here the link to the Lawrence Deep Sanderson 302 with the Martin engine:
http://www.motorracingretro.com/60sp...ro69adac17.htm
I did see it in 1969 at the 1000km race, took several pictures of it and it´s once in my super 8 movie, going round the banked karussell-bend.
Some weeks later I met it again in the 1000km at Spa. I filmed it again, when it was pushed in position at the starting grid.
klaus

[DaveM]

Hello! David Marshall from South Cave (yes, there are still cavemen in Yorkshire), born 1945 so old enough to know better.

Interested in motor racing from boarding school days, when our English master (Mr. Fable!) used to take lucky ones to Mallory Park - school was in Nottinghamshire. He had an old Opel in Air Force colours (but I can't for the life of me remember why), very rare in those days and I remember once when one came the other way they saluted each other!

My first hero was Wolfgang von Trips because he was so glamorous to an impressionable youngster. I was heartbroken when he died. Later heros include the usual - Moss, Clark, Rindt. And, like many others on this site, Dan Gurney. He could drive anything, and if he had tinkered less he would have won even more times! I will always remember the first Goodwood Festival of Speed I went to, because almost the first person I saw when I arrived in the paddock was Dan, who was reunited with his F1 Eagle for the weekend. I asked him to autograph the inside of Denis Jenkinson's Sports Car Racing book, and he showed real interest in the book looking through it from front to back and recounting various anecdotes which the photos reminded him of - also signing his autograph whenever a page with his photo appeared! All this for a four-eyed geek he hadn't seen before. A real Gent.

Back to the biog - interested in photography, so took lots of photos during the time I used to go to races. These were forgotten about until I discovered this forum, but I've resurrected them and scanned a few for various threads recently.

Main interests now are Can-Am 66-74, Carrera Panamericana 50-54, Scarabs, Cunninghams, but will watch anything that races (and preferably overtakes and is overtaken). Also have a collection of models (but many more are still in kit form awaiting the time...!)I have the above two race series as my main modelling themes, and have spent many a happy hour surfing the internet for sites with contemporary photos, and have also met some good friends through having the same racing/model interests.

Message to Macca about his post above - the Pearce-Martin F1 cars never actually raced. Two were completed and were taken to Silverstone for the International Trophy on 29th April '67, but even before practice the transporter caught fire and was gutted. Both cars were completely destroyed together with the earlier Cooper-Ferrari. I have a photo of the remains which I can post but it's not a pretty sight.

I was also at Mallory the day after Boxing Day in '66 (brrrr!) and saw Roy Pike drive the Charles Lucas Lotus 35-Martin. This I suppose was the forerunner of what was intended to be the F1 car. Again I have a photo, but this thread is probably not the place for it. Where do you want me to stick it TimD?!

I remember most of the names/cars mentioned above and have pics of many of them. Do you remember Peter Hawthorne who drove an imacculate Anglia (pale metallic blue I think) with a 2.5 litre Tasman engine? He then had a dark red one entered by Castle Service Station Racing and "registered" CSSR 1. Both very successful in club racing at the time.

I'm rambling, and nurse says it's time for bed (oo er!).

[DaveM]

Forgot to mention - the name Kincraft above sent me back to the photo albums and I have posted some pics on the Kincraft thread.

Okay, Nursie, lead on...

[Hobson]

Originally posted by Hobson
I can beat that!

Hobson, 15 years old (16 in October, time to injure myself on a 50cc scooter ).
Interested in all forms of Saloon racing, especially CSCC as my dad raced in it in 1990 with our family Volvo 122s.
I own a Volvo 340 (my first car for when I'm 17, its a Volvo - should be safe then )and if I can afford it, then it might appear in the CSCC Pre-'90 series in the future.



Next!

Just to show things change, I'm now 17, the 340's long gone and I've now got the Best-of-British, and E-reg MG Maestro.The Pre-'90 plan hasn't gone though.

[allez_jacques]

Okay, my turn.

My name is Seine Seinen (yes, really...) and I live in Groningen in the Netherlands. I am a software engineer, 37 years old, married and have two children. I have been a Formula 1 fan from my 15th (the year Alan Jones became world champ) and still are. My oldest son (6 years old) is rapidly becoming a racing enthousiast as well.

I consider myself an "armchair enthousiast" of racing. I have no real racing experience and I doubt I will ever get some. My interest in the pre-80s history of Formula 1 was raised when I tried the PC game "Grand Prix Legends".

Lately I have become interested in other forms of racing as well, especially WRC rallying.

[Fogelhund]

Not too many North Americans in this portion of the website. Most of my experience in racing is as a result of my Father's involvement in the sport.

Dad was the National Director of the Canadian arm of the FIA in the Seventies, so I spent most weekends at the track throughout this time.

After this, he got into photography, and has been doing Vintage and Historic Photography since 82', having done work for a number of magazines, including Vintage Motorsport and Victory Lane, as well as being the official photographer for HSR and SVRA.

I helped him get the photog business going at first, and have done quite a bit of work with T&S for both HSR and SVRA, though not so much recently now that the young family is keeping me occupied.

[djb]

Well Allez_ it's a good thing that you don't live in Paris, near the banks of the ..........

all jokes aside, hope that you and Fogel enjoy hanging around here. I too am pretty much an armchair enthousiast, and also have a young family, but this place is fun to share ideas about racing or even bad jokes.

Fogel-neat background, must have been fun as hell as a kid, not to mention the photo side of it. I'm not around much in Historics, but I can probably say for everyone that we would be interested in seeing some photo work that your family has done.

djb

[John Reeves]

OK now Stay awake. My name is John Reeves from Kent and I am 53 years young. I have been a petrol head my entire life. I am lucky my wife and daughter are very tolerant and put up with all my car stuff. I love the whole car history thing and have been lucky to have been involved in motor sport at a minor level most of my adult life. I was lucky enough to do some pit work for Mike Loveday's racing E'Type in the 60's which has got to be the absolute highlight. Living and socialising near to Brands Hatch has meant I have been able to spend many very happy times there especially in the past, meeting up at a pub in Chislehurst with other friends in my MGB and paying a very small sum of money to use the track at Brands. This was always a Thursday evening spectacular. Happy Days. The highlight of my year now must be the Goodwood Festival. I am now driving a warmed up family saloon, which gives the boy racers a few surprises. I absolutely love this forum and am a daily visitor to this site and thoroughly enjoy both the stories and the pictures and hope to continue to do this for a very long time to come.
John

[allez_jacques]

Well, djb, actually, I have been to Paris in 1993 on my honeymoon. And two years before I was in Rouen and the first thing I did there was having my picture taken on a bridge over the you-know-what river...

A real shame that at that time I knew so little of racing history. If I'll ever come back there I will definitely look for the remains of the famous Rouen racing track.

[macca]

To Dave Marshall:
Thanks for the mention of the Pearce-Martins and the Kincraft. I have a picture of the burnt-out Pearce transporter at Silverstone in 1967 from an article by Doug Nye in his Skullduggery column in Classic & Sportscar magazine from years ago, also I seem to remember another pic of the ashes in a 1967 magazine. Doug Nye also did an article about Ted Martin (with a couple of pics of Graham Lawrence testing the Pearce-Martin at Brands) in Motor Racing mag in early 1967. I have heard a libellous rumour about that fire which I won't repeat unless anyone can say whether Jack Pearce is still alive or not.

I have a pic of Roy Pike in the Lotus 35-Martin at Mallory on Boxing Day 1966 that I bought from a dealer and also a couple of pics of Piers Courage practising for the 1967 Race of Champions (non-started to to engine problem while warming up on raceday). That Lotus, also known as a Lucas-Martin, was said to have been destroyed by Courage in a testing crash at Snetterton soon after; yet it was advertised for sale by J. A. Pearce in an advert in Autosport in early 1968! If anyone knows more, please say.
Cheers for now, and love to nursie! (oo-er Missus)

[macca]

to Dave M
Forgot to say, please post your pic of the Lotus-Martin V8 at Mallory on the Kincraft thread if that's OK - I think the link is not too tenuous!

Thanks.

[Yimkin]

Just occurred to me that I've been posting here for quite some time now, but never formally introduced myself.

My name's Chris Glaister, from Carlisle, but have lived in Cambridge for the last 13 years (although now back in Carlisle for a bit). I've been interested in motorsport for longer than I can remember. This was largely sparked by my dad, Ed, who competed in stage and road rallies round the Cumbria and southern Scotland region since about 1950, with some success at club level. He often had my uncle (Stan) as navigator, while my mum also competed for quite sometime, including managing to roll a Cooper S while she was pregnant with me. My other Uncle, Mike, was European Formula Junior champion (historic) a couple of times in the early 80's, and also owned a BT2, BT8, Lotus 22, a Shadow DN9, and an ex-Graham Hill BRM amongst others.

This sparked by Dad's interest in Formula Junior, and he bought and completely rebuilt the FJ Yimkin (hence my username), and took it to 2nd in the UK championship in 1984. We've also had a Deep Sanderson FJ, the ex Mike Spence Emeryson FJ, Mike Spence's Emeryson F1, PDS (monoposto/toyota F3) and Lola T202 FF. At the moment we have a Centaur FF, Centaur Monoposto and Gemini FJ (all in bits), and my baby, our 1958 Ford 100E. This was one of Dad's rally cars which he's owned for more than 30 years - I used to get taken to school hanging onto the roll cage....

Dad and I race this in the HRSR series (which includes Simon Drabble and Zefarelly who also post here) and in the Top Hat and Oldies but Goldies Endurance Series. In the HRSR we do alternate races, while we share the car in the double driver races. We've been lucky enough to be invited to Goodwood twice, in '98 and '02, finishing 5th overall this year. Tony Lanfranchi shared with my Dad in this race, but it was still great fun for me! It was really nice to meet some 10/10thers there e.g. TimD, just sorry I was a bit too busy to have a proper chat.

Unlike (suprisingly) quite a few historic racers, I love the whole thing and stay for the whole meeting, and have a huge interest in the history of it all, my hero being Jim Clark. My realistic ambition is to do single seaters in the near future, my unrealistic ambition is to buy back my Dad's Yimkin and my Uncle's Mallock U2! Or a Chevron B16

I've tried to attach a pic of the 100E which probably won't work

[gfm]

Well, I'm shocked. As you can see, I've just discovered this site and topic after topic reveal cars and memories that I naturally cherish.

I'm very pleased to read of everyone's enthusiasms here too, and privileged to be amongst it.

I only discovered this historic/hysterical section but I'm sure I'll be back for some more of these gems from all of you.

Ok, my name is John Morrison, 54, from Milton Keynes but don't hold that ... etc. My father introduced me to racing at Goodwood late fifties and sixties. I started competing in '67 and had a good second place at Silverstone a few weeks back in a GT3. I'm afraid I haven't been able to put it down all these years and have really enjoyed an incredible time. It's a huge catalogue of cars and races in most catagories except F1. Ultimately, I was racing for fun (I've never been able own any race car) and too busy working-for-a-living to be able to make an impression on big works teams. Having said that, I have driven some wonderful cars throughout UK & Europe and a bit of the States. Make that Riverside, Daytona, Watkins Glen, Mid Ohio, Road America and a few other great places.

Most precious memories include F3 and FSuperVW '60 & '70s (including 10 races on the old Nurburgring), Touring cars (for Walkinshaw for three seasons) and Sports cars (Thundersports and a class win at the Daytona 24 Hours), more recently Porsches, GT3, 2 and 1 (made British GT champion in '97). Thankfully I made the grade sufficiently to become a BRDC member, one of my most precious possessions of course.

I've been most fortunate and am extremely indebted to them, to have had people allow me to drive their super cars, which I did with reasonable care - another reason why I think I didn't make the grade! But I still enjoy it immensly and hopefully there's a few more seasons still to apply for that licence.

Anyway, it's a joy as I said to come on the site and share your enthusiasms. I look forward to reading more. Now, can someone please tell me where the spell checker is?

[Rob29]

Welcome John,I remember you in the red Tecno F3 around 1968,have a photo somewhere..

[gfm]

Hi Rob29
It was a super little car. We just didn't know enough of what to do to make it go faster. It spread me like jam down the road at Brands GP circuit Motor Show meeting in 68. I went upside down after trying to avoid Charles Carling at Westfield. Ended up with a lot of skin missing and lying in petrol and v. hot water pinned under the car! The morphine made me very giggly. Took them 12 mins to get me out.
The following year the car was metallic blue and yellow rebuilt by Robib Searle in Worthing but we'd no more money so we had a couple of races and then it had to go.
PS I love doing on the streets - did Birmingham twice, once in Thundersports once in Ferguson's 911SC.

[Roger H]

Hello my name is Roger Hurst and I've been lucky to be around racing cars since the early 60's. Usual things, started in Minis, then a couple of Diva GT cars. Then Formula Three, when you could still run a car out of your back pocket. My company built the Lenham GT Racing cars, a few FFords, F100, F3 cars. Since that all wound down I've run odd bods and moved into dealing in the bits and bobs and obscure racing cars.
Thats enough about me I think.

[gfm]

Roger - I'm no longer surprised at your recall. I remember the Lenham company and read the adverts over the years. Great to make contact. Do I remember you at Lydden Hill?