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Cheers. I emailed them yesterday but haven't had a reply yet.
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I think my late father used to race one in the mid to late 50s, only club level stuff.
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The amount of spam I get in my little business even with mail washers etc. is unbelievable and so easy to throw out the baby with the bath water, I can only imagine how much they must get!
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Of no real help regarding obtaining papers but seeing this thread - I live about 500m from the site of the Berkley factory in Biggleswade. The Biggleswade Historic Society published some pictures of Berkleys and Lawrie Bond in a local free mag recently so they must have some info available although I doubt they have anything racing releated.
There are also so bits on Biggles FM web. You could always try contacting them to see if they can get any info - I'm sure they'd love the story angle http://www.bigglesfm.com/berkeley.htm Last edited by DaveGT6; 10 Dec 2012 at 21:44. |
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I've got a B95 (my third Berkeley) and i wrote most of the Wikipedia article on them.
Your dad's is one of the very last 492's (they only made 666 of them). The 492 was the most successful racing car in the Berkeley range, so you won't have a problem entering it in any historic series. I think your problem will be satisfying yourself that it can be made safe in the modern sense, as there is precious little structure in the standard car to which to attach roll cage, seat, belts etc to. Do call me if you'd like any help or to be put in touch with other Berkeley racers around the world. Good luck! Guy Lachlan Classic Oils 01296-488927 Last edited by injected; 10 Dec 2012 at 23:38. |
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It can be viewed here but your MSA contact may be able to guide you through it easier..... The 1959 Berkeley in question will fall into period E, and the safety equipment required for that is less stringent than anything newer. Whether the owner wants to race with lesser safety measures is obviously down to personal choice. |
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A mate of mine used to own the Monza Berkeley, he never finished it & it was sold on.
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Taken at Donington but not sure of the date - if anyone can help I'd be grateful as I have several other pics from the same meeting! As regards Appendix K, I opted out of it with my Marcos, because although the 1800 Volvo engine ran in period and has a great history, the Volvo 3 litre wasn't homologated. Just not worth the bother. Fortunately, here in NZ, we don't need expensive paperwork to race in most classic events and about three-quarters of the cars don't even bother with the local equivalent, a CoD (Certificate of Description). Ironically, we have very well supported events with up to 150 or so at a one day meeting and 250 for a two day. Extras such as the forthcoming higher profile event, ostensibly for fairly pure cars, the Denny Hulme meet, could well have over 300. |
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Berkeley...
A friend of mine had one of these in the `70`s. Is it right that they had no reverse gear. You had to stop the engine & do something (maybe reverse the polarity...he did demonstrate this to me...?) & start the engine but it then ran in the opposite direction ? So it had 3 forward & 3 reverse gears ??
Or was it something else ?? Maybe not a Berkeley ? Seem to remember it had 3 wheels, 2 front one rear? Alex |
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The thing about reverse and three wheelers was that you could drive a 3 wheeled vehicle on a provisional motor cycle licence with L plates and no licenced driver sitting beside you as long as it didn't have a reverse gear, if you had a reliant "trotter mobile" you where supposed to have reverse blanked off.
All of the 2 strokes were easily reversed by simply advancing the ignition timing as they will run in either direction, as found out by some of the "home tuners" back in the old days |
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My parents ran a four-wheeled Berkeley in vintage events in Canada in the '80s and '90s. I believe it was also a '59 but I don't know the model. It was indeed a very lightweight car, so my mom generally drove it.
Delta knows my brother Doug (with the Dreossi) so could find out more info from him on how VARAC classified the car. keke |
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A word of caution
this sounds like the classic beginners approach of first having a car and then looking into where this could be raced. Problem with that is that You might find Yourself at the very back of the grid with much more suitable machinery in front, getting lapped 2or 3 times. I know how this feels because this is how I started. I bought a 1925 racing Aston Martin 16 valver because I fell in love with it. Only to find out that EVERYBODY ELSE had either 2 or 3 times the power of my car. You soon tire of that. I dont know how quick a Berkely like that is and how much the low weight makes up for the power difference. I have a gut feeling that there is a reason why You dont see them racing out there. Rudolf |
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The format works so well that we ended up with enough for two grids, so they are now separated by speed, meaning that no car gets lapped in a handicap race and all drivers get the 8 laps they have paid for. It also means that we have a huge variety of cars, which is one of the main objectives. I am now in my 17th year of running it this way and it means that you can run a highly developed V8 or a modest 4 cylinder, though we do demand that even the slowest cars can meet a specific target time. Slower than that and they take part in what we term a Classic Reliability Trial where the driver merely has to circulate as close to his/her nominated lap time as possible. |
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