Name this car....

[Michael Hiles]

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Looks like an E-type Jaguar.

[Jim J]

1 hour ago, pippy said:

And you would be right to do so, Charles!

A 1934/35 Wolseley Hornet Special according to the programme of events.

Oh dear.  I'll have to hang my head in shame.  My only defence is that I didn't get to see the second photo until it was too late.  I was otherwise occupied typing up a report for the Committee Meeting tomorrow of the Wolseley Car Club of New South Wales......

[Charles Morgan]

45 minutes ago, Michael Hiles said:

Looks like an E-type Jaguar.

Correct country.

[wlaidlaw]

Aston Martin Project 214? 

Wilson

[Charles Morgan]

In one. This was at Bicester Flywheel in 2018.

 

 

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[wlaidlaw]

I will look for something tomorrow.

Wilson

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[wlaidlaw]

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Here is your next one. We went to try this car out at Oulton Park in the late 90's and this photo was taken from some distance away with my M6 with a 35mm lens, so it is quite a small crop. I liked this car far more than I expected having raced its predecessor some 30 years earlier  but my brother didn't like it, so we didn't buy it. Financially it would have actually been a good buy, as the seller wasn't asking a lot of money for it and they have gone up in value a lot since. I suspect it was a lot better and certainly far faster when I drove it than when it was when new, like many historic race cars, with not far off 50% more power than original. 

Wilson

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[hektor]

Dear Wilson, can you give us a fraction more please.

[stuny]

I know I've seen those megaphone exhaust tips before, but where?

[wlaidlaw]

23 minutes ago, stuny said:

I know I've seen those megaphone exhaust tips before, but where?

Stuart, 

This is the one of very few of these I have seen with megaphone tips and that is because they use different heads, called twisted wedge heads. It was on treaded tyres and I would have said was close to my limit for treaded tyres. The previous model I raced in 1970, when it was a few years old, was on Dunlop CR70 semi-slicks but like slicks they have been banned for pre-1970 historics for most series. I was looking at my helmet in the picture and wondering what on earth had happened to the photo, when I remembered my then 10 year old son had painted a butterfly on it  Here is a slightly larger crop but the name is on a number of places on the car, which limits the options. I told my brother that this car was very much set up for speed hill climbing (you can see the beam breaker at the front) and I was certain I could get it handling a fair bit better for circuit use. It was set up quite tail happy with very little confidence inducing understeer - very pointy, which is just what you want for a mid engined car on a hill climb but makes the car too nervous on a circuit, unless you are Lewis Hamilton.

A driver would normally sit far lower in the car. In one of these, my shoulders would usually be level with the rear bodywork but it had a raised seating position for the very modestly sized owner to get good visibility on hill climbs. 

Wilson

 

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[stuny]

I was thinking along the line of Cooper. 

[wlaidlaw]

Not a Cooper but no more exotic. 

Wilson

[250swb]

Off the top of my head I'd have said many of these cars had megaphone exhausts, but I realise I was looking at many photographs of the same car.

[wlaidlaw]

Steve,

This car has been through many hands over the years. I have seen it subsequent to our trial of it at historic meetings at Silverstone, Donnington, Dijon Prenois, Spa, Nurburgring, Goodwood, Pau and other places. It never seems to do as well as one feels it ought to, so maybe there really is an inherent problem with it or it would perhaps take an extraordinary driver to get the best out of it. 

Wilson

[250swb]

Just now, wlaidlaw said:

Steve,

This car has been through many hands over the years. I have seen it subsequent to our trial of it at historic meetings at Silverstone, Donnington, Dijon Prenois, Spa, Nurburgring, Goodwood, Pau and other places. It never seems to do as well as one feels it ought to, so maybe there really is an inherent problem with it or it would perhaps take an extraordinary driver to get the best out of it. 

Wilson

The image of this type of car was ingrained in my mind with the exhausts sticking up in the air for ever, the iconic image if you like. Maybe it's photos from Riverside or Brands that cemented it and made me buy a slot car shell with my pocket money back in the day.

[m410]

A Lotus with a Ford V-8?  I think I recall them at Riverside Raceway at Times Grand Prix.

Edited August 14, 2020 by m410
thought Lotus, typed Lola. It has to be a Lotus...

[wlaidlaw]

10 minutes ago, m410 said:

A Lotus with a Ford V-8?  I think I recall them at Riverside Raceway at Times Grand Prix.

Correct a Lotus 40 with a 302 Cu.in/ 5 litre "Windsor" engine. Originally it would have had a 289 engine putting out around 330 HP. The seller of this car claimed that the engine had been dyno'd at 460 HP and it certainly had more power than traction when I drove this one in 1999 on the Dunlop M series historic race tyres. When one of my companies was a Lotus dealer  in the late 1960's it was cynically said that a Lotus 40 was a Lotus 30 with 10 more mistakes. I did a couple of races in a customer's Lotus 30, trying to sort out its handling, which could be described as inconsistent and erratic but oddly could be tamed by softening off the suspension a lot. The chassis was just not stiff enough to cope with the suspension loads. Now supposedly the 40 had a stiffer chassis and with a wider spine and over the years these have been "improved" but the spine design has inevitable torsional weakness compared with say a monocoque tub design. I suspect with a brave or good enough driver, they could do better than they seem to but even Jim Clark disliked driving the 30 and 40 and would try and avoid them. There is one ex-Jim Clark car around but the rumour has it that it has an aluminium block 375 cu in engine, so at least in a straight line, it would be very quick. 

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Wilson

 

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[m410]

The identification question is two parts:

1. What is the name and type designation of this late fifties race car?

2. More importantly (at least to me) and possibly unique to this car, what exactly is leaning against the left front fender?

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[a.j.z]

1. Porsche 718 RSK Spyder?

2. The front bonnet? (the hole would be in the right position)

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[m410]

38 minutes ago, a.j.z said:

1. Porsche 718 RSK Spyder?

2. The front bonnet? (the hole would be in the right position)

1. Yes on the Porsche RSK Spyder answer.

2. All RSK Spyders have a front bonnet/hood and while each bonnet/hood was handmade for each car, having a bonnet/hood itself is not unique to this particular car.  So, yes this is a bonnet/hood but what else is it?