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Old 12 Nov 2009, 16:53 (Ref:2580871)   #251
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Alan the Jag when at AS NEC auction looked VERY tired had hardly any paint on it
is the Cheffins auction car same condition?
The (photocopy) catalogue states that its "glassfibre bodywork is in sound order .... a potentially rewarding restoration project". The photocopy picture suggests that the paint is white or a very light colour and a little tired at least.
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Old 12 Nov 2009, 18:51 (Ref:2580943)   #252
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I recall seeing the car at NEC auction and it looked like it had sat in a garage/ barn for donkey`s years unloved and needed a lot of TLC however the story of 1 owner for 20 yrs is not what i had heard as 1 dealer had the car and sold off the proper race car parts many years ago!
TonyH also told me that the man who did buy it after auction at NEC was a school kid when car was built that helped tonywith things like cleaning wheels on car
he said he had bought it for the nostalgia but never had the money to rebuild the car to its former glory
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Old 14 Nov 2009, 18:38 (Ref:2581977)   #253
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Some more Irish names :

Arthur Collier - Skoda SS1102/Chev 5.0
Alec Poole - Complan Mini Turbo, Skoda 110R/BDG 2.0BDG
Stee Griffin - Rolo Mini, Smarties Mini
Brendan O'Mahony - Mini
Brendan Lynch - Anglia
Dermot Faulkner - BMW 2002
Conor Linehan - Supersize Mini
Seamus O'Connor - Anglia, L'Estrange Mini
Maurice Mitton - Escort, Mini, Imp
Fintan Cunningham - Arden Mini
Mick Dillon - Arden Mini
Nicky Sheehan - Arden Mini
Jim McClements - Mini
David Byrne - Elf Mini
Cyril McCabe - Mini
Vivian Candy - Marlboro Captain America Davrian Imp [ex Hall]
Mervyn Miller - Mini
Cedric Kidd - Imp
Dan Rooney - Imp [Col's dad, Col still racing the car]
Tony Brennan - Escort, Mini [sadly died recently]
David Hall - Team PR Reilly / Gulf Sport Davrian Imp [raced by Leo Nulty today]
George Frayne - FIAT 128, Ritmo
Rosemary Smith - Princess Ita Escort 2.0 FVA
John Torrens - Imp
Ned Murray - Imp
John Hayes - Mini

I was just looking through the programme for MG Golden 1000 held at Mondello in June 1973, an event that attracted Gerry Marshall, Brian Muir, Mick Hill, Frank Gardener, Dave Brodie, Lawrie Hickman, John Pope, Chris Meek and ex-pat Pat Mannion from the overseas as well as a full house of Irish drivers for the mod-saloon event. It has an extensive interview with Des Donnelly who claimed that his Vauxhall Viva had a is a Lotus-Jenson Healey developed top end on the 2.3 litre lump. He said that though it was similar to the Formula 2 Lotus motors of the time, his was wet sumped and he had a standard GT box hooked up to. He said they were planning to dry sump it later and fit a Hewland box.

I've Mattie McNamara in a 1930 FVA Escort in The Park in 1976 [that's the Mk 1] and in a 1298 Escort in The Park in 1977, 1978. He didn't appear in The Park after that. Could that be the one we have in the picture, the Mk 11 ? Fintan Newport was entered in The Park in 1980 in an Escort BDA, so presumably that's when the picture was taken.

... plenty to chew over there for a while.
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Old 14 Nov 2009, 19:36 (Ref:2582007)   #254
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I have referred to Tony Roberts and an Anglia, notably Spottie. In fact there appears to have been three Anglias. He started with a 1.5 pushrod Anglia. having won his first ever race at Brands with this car he and his friends got drunk in the bar afterwards and celebrated the victory by writing the car off on the road whilst driving it home. The next Anglia had a 1.6 pushrod engine. which was written off at Paddock Bend (B H) whilst dicing with Gerry Amato. His third Anglia was a 1.6 Twin Cam painted white with black spots as was his crash helmet. Apparently his girl friend (later his wife) once turned up in a ultra-mini skirt in matching polka-dot pattern. This was the car that caught fire in the paddock at Lydden, but was repaired. This prompted him to buy some fireproof overalls, previously he had raced in jeans and a tee-shirt. He later became the sales and marketing person for Hawke and drove the works Formula Ford in 1970
Would this be the anglia of Tony Roberts
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Old 14 Nov 2009, 22:37 (Ref:2582087)   #255
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Some more Irish names :

Arthur Collier - Skoda SS1102/Chev 5.0
Alec Poole - Complan Mini Turbo, Skoda 110R/BDG 2.0BDG
Stee Griffin - Rolo Mini, Smarties Mini
Brendan O'Mahony - Mini
Brendan Lynch - Anglia
Dermot Faulkner - BMW 2002
Conor Linehan - Supersize Mini
Seamus O'Connor - Anglia, L'Estrange Mini
Maurice Mitton - Escort, Mini, Imp
Fintan Cunningham - Arden Mini
Mick Dillon - Arden Mini
Nicky Sheehan - Arden Mini
Jim McClements - Mini
David Byrne - Elf Mini
Cyril McCabe - Mini
Vivian Candy - Marlboro Captain America Davrian Imp [ex Hall]
Mervyn Miller - Mini
Cedric Kidd - Imp
Dan Rooney - Imp [Col's dad, Col still racing the car]
Tony Brennan - Escort, Mini [sadly died recently]
David Hall - Team PR Reilly / Gulf Sport Davrian Imp [raced by Leo Nulty today]
George Frayne - FIAT 128, Ritmo
Rosemary Smith - Princess Ita Escort 2.0 FVA
John Torrens - Imp
Ned Murray - Imp
John Hayes - Mini

I was just looking through the programme for MG Golden 1000 held at Mondello in June 1973, an event that attracted Gerry Marshall, Brian Muir, Mick Hill, Frank Gardener, Dave Brodie, Lawrie Hickman, John Pope, Chris Meek and ex-pat Pat Mannion from the overseas as well as a full house of Irish drivers for the mod-saloon event. It has an extensive interview with Des Donnelly who claimed that his Vauxhall Viva had a is a Lotus-Jenson Healey developed top end on the 2.3 litre lump. He said that though it was similar to the Formula 2 Lotus motors of the time, his was wet sumped and he had a standard GT box hooked up to. He said they were planning to dry sump it later and fit a Hewland box.

I've Mattie McNamara in a 1930 FVA Escort in The Park in 1976 [that's the Mk 1] and in a 1298 Escort in The Park in 1977, 1978. He didn't appear in The Park after that. Could that be the one we have in the picture, the Mk 11 ? Fintan Newport was entered in The Park in 1980 in an Escort BDA, so presumably that's when the picture was taken.

... plenty to chew over there for a while.
tony brennan allso raced the ex pole hornet SZJ 2 ,
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Old 14 Nov 2009, 22:39 (Ref:2582088)   #256
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The Arden minis referred to above were not Arden built, some used Arden 8 port heads .
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Old 15 Nov 2009, 09:48 (Ref:2582215)   #257
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Thanks for that Eddie. Among the more interesting concoctions were George Frayne's FIATs... particularly the Ritmos. There weren't a lot of modified FIATs in the British Isles around then.
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Old 15 Nov 2009, 10:29 (Ref:2582221)   #258
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It has an extensive interview with Des Donnelly who claimed that his Vauxhall Viva had a is a Lotus-Jenson Healey developed top end on the 2.3 litre lump. He said that though it was similar to the Formula 2 Lotus motors of the time, his was wet sumped and he had a standard GT box hooked up to. He said they were planning to dry sump it later and fit a Hewland box.
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June 2008 - Des Donnelly reunited with his 1973 Viva, mentioned above, with present owner Gabriel Konig - it ended up with the dry sump but a ZF box not Hewland
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Old 15 Nov 2009, 23:09 (Ref:2582502)   #259
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I would think Gabriel warrants her own thread!
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Old 16 Nov 2009, 12:40 (Ref:2582780)   #260
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Whose are these cars from Mallory 81

I know who the escort is but who are the other two?

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Old 16 Nov 2009, 15:26 (Ref:2582868)   #261
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could do with better photo if car is yellow possibly derek walkers LB4 skoda
cant see teh car in the rear of photo possibly Dickenson skoda but i cant see the blue paint on body
skoda pilots in this era
Jim Price
Tony Sugden ( but he had esprit in 80-81 before it was skoda rised)
tony D
malcolm Johnson
michael mcerlain had 1300skoda i think he bought off or sold car to David Auger
john maguire built skoda did only 1 or 2 races tom shepard then it went sprint hillclimbing
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Old 16 Nov 2009, 17:45 (Ref:2582980)   #262
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Michael Mcerlain, you are right I could'nt remember his name, is the skoda behind me, I'm still trying to work out who the other car is. It gets harder to remember as you gat older!
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Old 16 Nov 2009, 21:11 (Ref:2583127)   #263
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I was just looking through the programme for MG Golden 1000 held at Mondello in June 1973, an event that attracted Gerry Marshall, Brian Muir, Mick Hill, Frank Gardener, Dave Brodie, Lawrie Hickman, John Pope, Chris Meek and ex-pat Pat Mannion from the overseas as well as a full house of Irish drivers for the mod-saloon event.
DB - I don't haver a record of this - can you give me a date and maybe e-mail me a copy of the prgogramme and results?
I will be forever grateful!!
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Old 16 Nov 2009, 23:14 (Ref:2583217)   #264
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John is the race upto 1300 class or a full Wendy wools 2.5 litre race?
only 1 1300 skoda in these times i think car at rear is poss 2 litre car
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Old 17 Nov 2009, 09:00 (Ref:2583376)   #265
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DB - I don't haver a record of this - can you give me a date and maybe e-mail me a copy of the prgogramme and results?
I will be forever grateful!!
Sure Gregor, no problem... PM me your e-mail address.
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Old 17 Nov 2009, 09:23 (Ref:2583386)   #266
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Wife's just seen the photo and says the 3rd car is Derrick Walker, so it must be! I seem to remember that he had the car out for the first time at Mallory and found out the hard way, at the hairpin, that the Skoda was wider than the Escort. Does anyone have any photo's of this era 78-82 as all the photos on here seem to be from an earlier time.
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Old 17 Nov 2009, 09:28 (Ref:2583390)   #267
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I was just looking through the programme for MG Golden 1000 held at Mondello in June 1973, an event that attracted Gerry Marshall, Brian Muir, Mick Hill, Frank Gardener, Dave Brodie, Lawrie Hickman, John Pope, Chris Meek and ex-pat Pat Mannion from the overseas as well as a full house of Irish drivers for the mod-saloon event. It has an extensive interview with Des Donnelly who claimed that his Vauxhall Viva had a is a Lotus-Jenson Healey developed top end on the 2.3 litre lump. He said that though it was similar to the Formula 2 Lotus motors of the time, his was wet sumped and he had a standard GT box hooked up to. He said they were planning to dry sump it later and fit a Hewland box.
Was it in June 1973? I have had the first six months of 1973 MN out last week and did not come across this. I'll do some more searching.

The reference to the Lotus-Jensen-Healey engine becomes more prevalent in 1973. I have a note of the following:-
Des Donnelly – Viva 2.3 – LV240 engine;
Gerry Marshall – Firenza 2.3 16-valve Lotus head;
Bill Dryden – Firenza 2.2/2.3 (16V twin cam Jensen-Healey).
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Old 17 Nov 2009, 09:41 (Ref:2583396)   #268
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It was more a Lotus engine that also happened to be used in the Jensen Healey as a 2.2 but DTV tried it in many guises; 2.0, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5 and 2.6 - which is how it ended up as in Old Nail - 275bhp with dry sump and TJ fuel injection.
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Was it in June 1973? I have had the first six months of 1973 MN out last week and did not come across this. I'll do some more searching.
I'm almost certain it was... I'm away from home at the moment but will double check when I get back on Friday.
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Old 17 Nov 2009, 11:28 (Ref:2583453)   #270
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John im sure derek walker had yellow skoda
who built the space frame escort your driving?
was it 1300 bda or a 2 litre
i remember the car but not the details
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Old 17 Nov 2009, 11:47 (Ref:2583461)   #271
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My escort was the ex Derrick Walker spaceframe with the back bit, hewland gearbox support cut off, and trailing arms fitted. I think I'm the only one to have ever had an ex Walker spaceframe as he used to cut them up while making his latest car. Wife still says the second Skoda in the pic is the first time out of Derricks car. My car had a 1300 bdh engine with jack knight box.
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Old 17 Nov 2009, 12:10 (Ref:2583469)   #272
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I am now terrified of Mrs Wood !!
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Old 17 Nov 2009, 12:19 (Ref:2583475)   #273
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So have I been for 40yrs!!
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Old 17 Nov 2009, 13:30 (Ref:2583511)   #274
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John is the pic from July 12 '81? That was a nice sunny day like in the pic, I'd just finished A-levels! If so the Skoda is McErlains ex-Auger 1300. The other one I don't think is Walker's car, which was entered, along with those of Sugden, Dickinson and Walter Robertson. At a push, I'd say its Tony D's car.

Walker's was yellow, that one looks more blue/white. Walker won from Dickinson, Jim Price in the DFVW, Sugden, Baldwin's mini, then you and McErlain. Dickinson broke the lap record that day, going quicker than more than a few of the Atlantics there that day!
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Old 17 Nov 2009, 14:15 (Ref:2583542)   #275
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i tend to feel inclined to agree with you Dan that it is the McEarlin Skoda behind the escort ( based on S2000 lola T490 series car?) and the obscured white car at the rear is Tony D in his 2 litre Hart car but Mrs Wood does worry me
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