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5 Aug 2002, 19:07 (Ref:469793)
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60s/70s Prodsports-Modsports pics
Oulton Park 1968
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5 Aug 2002, 19:10 (Ref:469794)
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John Chatham's famous Healey 3000 "DD300"
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5 Aug 2002, 19:14 (Ref:469795)
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Warren Pearce ( Father of Lister Cars boss Laurence) leads John Filbee and Mike Loveday at Brands 1968.
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5 Aug 2002, 19:18 (Ref:469796)
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Anyone have any pics to add?
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5 Aug 2002, 21:23 (Ref:469808)
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I should have a few, one to start with
G Marshall and Bob Ellice Brands 1966 |
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5 Aug 2002, 21:27 (Ref:469797)
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Excellent Fred! Here's another - Gabrielle Konig's Midget 1968.
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5 Aug 2002, 21:33 (Ref:469791)
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This is a long shot, but I don't suppose anyone has a bigger shot of that E-Type with the shark's teeth motif on the nose?
And is it Filbee or Loveday who drove it? (1/43rd scale miniature in mind....) |
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5 Aug 2002, 21:40 (Ref:469798)
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Wish I had TimD! As a kid I loved that car - it looked great with the teeth -like a WWII fighter plane.
I remember the car was a bright orange and I'm sure it was Loveday. Fred or Racing fxgt - you got any of it? |
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6 Aug 2002, 09:32 (Ref:469803)
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John Maklay's Daimler SP250
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6 Aug 2002, 09:35 (Ref:469804)
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At Druids
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6 Aug 2002, 10:21 (Ref:469805)
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Hope you don't mind Fred found some of your's.
Leake in the Aston chased by Ian Richardson 5.4 AC Cobra |
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6 Aug 2002, 10:24 (Ref:469806)
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Same as the first one 1970 Six Hour Relay Race Silverstone
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6 Aug 2002, 10:51 (Ref:469807)
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On the startline.
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8 Aug 2002, 19:33 (Ref:469809)
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I had the great pleasure of being part of the pit crew for Mike (Spinner) Loveday for some time in the late 60's. I can remember some great tales of those days. It was real story book stuff. I can even remember the teeth being painted on the front of the E-type and this kind of thing was typical of Mike's sense of humour. What a fantastic era and I feel priviledged to have been a small part of it. The pictures are bringing home alot of memories. Keep 'em coming!!
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8 Aug 2002, 20:05 (Ref:469799)
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John, welcome aboard the forum. Am I right in remembering that Mike's E-type was orange? Those teeth scared the life out of me as a young kid but it certainly got noticed!
What became of Mike and do you have anymore pics of the car? |
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Welcome aboard John.
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I am afraid I do not have any pictures at all of those days. I was quite young then and we were just enjoying ourselves and taking pictures did not even come into it. That is something that with hindsight I deeply regret. I must say that seeing the car again has brought the memories flooding back and I spent quite a while last night telling my wife about the funnier moments. I think she was quite supprised at some of the antics. Normally the car used to be prepaired on the Saturday for racing on the Sunday. As usual the car was all up and running when we discovered that the transporter would not start. Only one thing for it, drive the car on the roads from Sidcup to Brands. Should have seen the faces of the other motorists on the roads. In the past I have made some enquiries as to what happend to Mike but I have heard nothing back. I do remember he used to live life to the full in those days though. Mike also used to own a club in Beckenham and many a time it was back to the club after the Brands meeting. Not many clubs had the DJ sitting in the back of a vintage white Rolls Royce. Yes the car was in the acually in the club!.
I could go on for hours. But I wont, don't worry. Regards |
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9 Aug 2002, 06:35 (Ref:469811)
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Sorry forgot to confirm that the car was indeed orange and if you remember it also had eyebrows. Regards |
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Welcome to the forums, John. Hope we can provide a few more nostalgic memories for you.
You know, I think I've heard about that club. A little while back, one of the Classic car magazines reported a vintage Rolls Royce doing precisely the job you described. When the time came that a collector gave the owners the proverbial offer they could not refuse, they had to break a hole in the side wall of the venue to get the car out. |
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John Filbee ( Jag E), John Chatham ( Healey) and Rhoddy Harvey-Bailey (Jag E) Silv 1968.
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Roger Enever's Midget leads Holland's E-type. Brands 67.
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A group of cars at Brands, 1967.
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First time out in my Midget: not even enough time to paint it!
Lyydon, circa 1971? TEAC meeting. Me in paddock conversing with pit crew (AKA wife!). As an entrant (Felspeed Racing) I ran three Midgets, included Peter Beech. Noting the reference to Roger never earlier in this thread, Peter's car was in fact one of the original Enever cars, which had been run by Robin Widdows and held production sports class car record at Nurembergring. Perhaps the most interesting thing about this car was that Roger (apparently using Dad Sid's inside influence) managed to access the plant on a shutdown period and with an accomplice, they passed loads of aircraft quality NS4 alluminium alloy through the press tools and pressed out virtually a complete MG Midget in NS4! The cars (two of I gather) were built using aircraft type rivets (same as single seater monocogues and something like Avdal Cherrylock rivets) and some form of metal bonding resin like Loctite. Understandably, they were amazingly light! When the regs changed in 1970 (??) and Modsports cars had to be original material within the wheelbase - measure from axle centre to axle centre, this left Peter with a problem: his car was scrap. However not to be beaten, we took it into the bodyshop and opened up the rear wheelarches and inserted some 18 gauge mild steel sheet beneath the ally exterior skin! Scrutineers in those days merely employed a magnet to test if the composition was ferrous. Poor old senior RAC scrute Fred Mathews was pulling his hair out!  His magnet would slide off from the top bead (where the rear wing joined the boot closing panel) and slide down until it hit the bit immediately above the wheelarch and would then screech to a halt! I convinced him this was caused by the loss of friction from the new highly glossy silicon-based body polish we were testing, aimed at cutting wind resistance! Peter's car used a highly tweaked dry sump XSP F3 and although outclassed in size (as he was giving away 300 c.c.) it made up in power and aceleration!  
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