Goodwood Whitsun trophy 1964 /Pandora

Hi, I'm new to this forum, but the autosport one was very usefull in helping me research some of the history of my car - lets see if anyone here can help where others have drawn a blank on my current problem......

I own a '60s 1100cc sports racer called Pandora which had its first race at Goodwoods Whisun trophy on 18/5/64. The car raced as number 15, and was driven by a Ray Jackson. The car was owned by Roger Phillips, Michael Homer and Anthony Cowell. It looks very much like a Lotus 23 with a 'shark-nose' front (I'd attach a pic, but can't work it out!)

I have a few photos of the car from this period, but none showing the rear end of the body..... and here's where I need help-

I'm planning to recreate the original body (it was replaced with a quasi Can-Am style one in the early '70s) and have got enough photos to get on with the front, but none of the rear - can anyone here help? was anyone at the meeting with a camera........ I know, it's a long shot!

Does anyone have a contact for the author Robert Baxter in Chichester? I tried to contact him through C&SC following a feature they did a couple of months back, but to no avail.

Many thanks in advance

Alastair Brown

Welcome, Mistron. looks like an interesting project. To post a picture, take a look at this post. It might help!

http://www.ten-tenths.com/forum/showthread.php?postid=1500706#post1500706

Welcome to our friendly forum Alastair.

I hope we can help with this and if you need to upload pics you can find out how in the FAQ's

http://img353.imageshack.us/img353/4971/pandora6vj.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

"author Robert Baxter in Chichester"
Do you mean Robert Barker who wrote the Record of Motor Racing at Goodwood?
If so, send me a PM with your e mail address and I'll pass it on
Richard

Real purdy looking car, see why you want to recreate it.

I remember seeing the car for sale on Autosport (or Classic&Sportscars), and probably one of them also published a small story about the car, but I'm not really able to track down easily the issue, the only way'd be go through them all, starting from the 90s....

Hi Fausto,

I have a copy of the article from Autosport - it was an article by Marcus Pye on behalf of Roger Phillips, one of the original owners when he was trying to track it down- it was through this article that I was able to establish the cars early history and get in touch with some of the early owners/drivers.

It was this article that I tracked down through the Autosport forum.

to illustrate what I'm trying to do, here are a couple of shots of work so far on reconstruction the original body.......

From the 1/10th scale model I scale up the co-ordinates as a guide to creating sections every 100mm through body. I'll then cut these from foam and work that into the finished surface to build my mould. (I know, there is a bit more shape to go in behind the front wheel arch!)

Problem is, as this process is quite labour intensive, i don't want to guess at the rear body shape unless I have to. (sods law of course says that the minute I take the plunge and start moulding, someone will come up with the pictures I need...)


http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/802/imgp32434gi.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/1592/imgp32699sq.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

thats dedication, and I can see why, very nice looking car.

and so the safety police don't get you I guess you can engineer some safety factors into the structure, like a roll hoop etc.


did it have an A series engine ?

Yup, it ran in the 1100cc class, so a straight forward A series mated to a VW box. At least the engine build shouldn't break the bank (dent it , certainly, but hopfully not break!!!) The original engine was an ex works 997 with a Downton head, but I'm building a fast road 1100 with cooper head etc

It has a roll hoop fitted, but I didn't fit it to the model. I have built a 1/10th scale chassis model as well though, nothing to do with the restoration, I just thought it'd make a nice desk ornament if I took a moulding from the body model....... time I could be better spending on the full size car!