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Originally Posted by Mistron
certainly not with small engines - Seems that every 23 built was originaly built as a 23B with a twin cam????? All of the period articles were apparently mistaken.
shame really. Some of the most interesting cars are the one off specials which ran in those classes. So far i've owned 'Pandora' :mid mounted A-Series engine, the Coldwell Mink: front engined 1000cc A Series F3 / clubmans car (split beam front axle but IRS!) and my current unknown project - maybe 1100 sports racer, early clubmans, F1200?????
They seem to have been a mainstay of club events in the mid 50s to mid 60s, but this doesn't seem to fit in with the high end sportscar grids seen at historic meetings - 'History isn't what it was' and all that  |
Very true and what is crazy is you can have a car that was very well known, raced a lot and is original but because it never competed in an International event is not acceptable for historic racing.
Cars like the Rochdale Olympic that was raced by John Anstice-Brown, given he was editor of Motor magazine its exploits are rather well documented, but since he lived on an island (GB) the events he competed in were only National.
But you can take an old road car, that at best only ever appeared in the public carpark at a motor race, and modify it beyond recognition and enter that in historic races.
And if you do have a car of a type that did race Internationally you can change that to a spec. that it never raced in at the time - Lotus 23s with twin-cams (presumably even they will be upgraded to BMWs soon), Lotus Eleven Clubs with FWBs and De-Dions rather than their original Ford sidevalve/solid rear axle....
So much for nostalgia, historics has almost become a contemporary race series but with cars that claim to be old.