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1 hour ago, pippy said:

What takes place at Bo'ness these days? Being a 'bairn' from Falkirk myself I'm rather curious as there was never any such gathering (AFAIK) when I was still in the area.

Nice wee car, too!

Philip.

Hopefully it's back in 2023, open to spectators after being closed to the general public for the last two years. https://bsac.scot/

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vor 13 Stunden schrieb wlaidlaw:

Ronald, 

did Glas design make the 250/300 two stroke twin themselves or buy it in from elsewhere? 

Wilson

The basic construction of engine and gearbox was „in house“ by a hired ex-Adler engineer who suffered a stroke during a bad engine test and couldn’t proceed. Then Mahle redesigned the engine* and also the gearbox had to be redesigned by Hurth (Munich) I think.

*Glas had not enough money to pay an external redesign, so his production engineer Dompert played a trick on Mahle. He told them their parts failed. So Mahle found the construction fault with the Glas engine and proofed it wasn‘t their fault. Glas was happy having saved money and eleminated their prototype flaw.

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About same period as Goggomobil, but this is a special example of a real car:

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6 hours ago, FrozenInTime said:

Mercedes-Benz W111 series   300SE Rally ?

Yes!

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5 hours ago, NigelG said:

Revell Model or the real thing….? 😀

This :

 

 

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8 hours ago, AZach said:

Yes!

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This :

 

 

A real wolf in sheep's clothing - thundering along a dirt road in one of those, in luxury on a cushion of air, would be some experience.

I found some details and images here: https://www.classicargarage.com/archives/mercedes-benz-300-se-rally-1962

 

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Here is another modest car from Bo'ness :

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51 minutes ago, Graham (G4FUJ) said:

Ginetta G15?

With a front mounted fuel tank I presume the engine is in the rear/middle.

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That was quick !

I read it has a Hillman Imp engine in the rear - so its father was a water pump

 

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On 11/27/2022 at 10:01 PM, FrozenInTime said:

Hopefully it's back in 2023, open to spectators after being closed to the general public for the last two years. https://bsac.scot/

Apologies for going back a few entries but having just read up a bit about the Bo'ness hill climb - linked by FrozeninTime regarding the Gogo - I thought a few of you might be interested to know a touch more so the link posted below has a bit of a potted history of the place / event. Past winners include the likes of George Abecassis, Sydney Allard, Ken Wharton, Ron Flockhart and a certain Jim Clark;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo'ness_Hill_Climb

Philip.

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I did the Bo'ness hill climb (not very successfully) in my mother's mini cooper in I think 1963 or 64. It was only the second hill climb I had ever done after Fintray near Aberdeen. I had the bright idea that, as winter tyres were softer rubber than the standard Dunlop Gold Seal cross ply, they would give me more grip and they were wider at 5.50 instead of 5.20. When my father came to refit the winter tyres in October of that year, there was a a bit of an inquest, as to how the winter tyres, which had been put away in April with almost new tread, now appeared to be bald. i blamed my brother, who had also used them for marshalling on the Scottish Rally and was now safely away at university in New York. 

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21 hours ago, FrozenInTime said:

That was quick !

I read it has a Hillman Imp engine in the rear - so its father was a water pump

I regularly see one at Prescott hill climb.  An orange one, as posted somewhere further up this thread (by quite a long way :) ).

It was the location of the indicator that gave it away to me.  Could have been a Europa, but the bumper was wrong for that.  Imp engine - in original  build, yes.

I have nothing to post, so it's open to anyone to post the next quiz.

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