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Milan - thanks for all your help here. Let's see how this all fits into place.
Blokdyk, Trevor - Cooper "T56" - Lotus LF
Car changed to Cooper T65. Doug Nye's Cooper Cars p243 says of the 1963 Formula Junior: 'listed as "Formula Junior Mark IV" in the Register, but became known popularly as the Mark 3A'. This car was built in 1963 and 15 appear in the Cooper Register. Blokdyk had won at Nogaro in 1962 in a Cooper Mark II (i.e. 1961 T56) and the F1 Register book shows him returning to South African competition in a Hoffman Racing T59-Alfa (i.e. a 1962 car) in October 1962. In 1963, F1R show him in a T59-Alfa at first and then alternating between a T53-Alfa (1961 F1!) and a T51 "F2-16-60" with a Maser 150S engine. (F2-16-60, in case you're wondering, was the T51 delivered to John Love South Africa in October 1960.)
Continuing through the F1R book, 1964 sees Blokdyk continue with these two cars but he then becomes suspiciously competitive in the latter half of the season, winning two events, and one wonders if he'd acquired something more competitive. A redundant one-year-old ex-FJ T65 for example? He fails to qualify at the 1965 South African GP in a Cooper-Ford. He then goes missing after the opening race of the 1965 season reappearing at the October 1966 Rhodesian GP in a "Cooper T56-Lotus LF". He races a car of the same description a few times in 1967.
So this doesn't help much does it? If the car really was a Mk3A, and I tend to trust Motoring News, I guess I should call it a Cooper T65-Ford (twin-cam). Stiill don’t know the capacity though.
Harris, Allen - (Tasman) 2.5-litre Cooper T79 [FL-1-65] - Climax FPF 4
Name corrected to Alan and engine capacity corrected to 2.7-litre. Car still owned by Love. The Cooper was in the UK by June that year.
Tingle, Sam - (F1) 3-litre LDS [10] - Repco V8
Another easier LDS. Built new for Tingle late 1965. A 2.7-litre Climax at first but now with a full F1 Repco V8. After Tingle got his Brabham BT24, the LDS was refitted with its 2.7-litre Climax and sold to Dave Henderson. Was a DNA at the Rhodesian GP.
Love, John - (F1) 3-litre Brabham BT20 [F1-1-66] - Repco V8
Love's 1967 car, just about to be replaced. Later in the season, sold to SA Sports Car Champion, Jack Holme and driven by Klerk, Piet de (R9 Rand Spring Trophy Kyalami 5 October 1968 and Rhodesian GP 1 December 1968).
Then that “1600cc class” at the Rhodesian GP looks very intriguing. Parnell’s Brabham-FVA, Puzey’s LDS-Ford and Ackerman’s Lotus-Ford seem to be pinpointed as 1600cc but what are a pair of 2-litre Climax FPFs doing in a 1600cc class? Does anyone know what classes they had in the South African series?
And did you mean "S. Domingo" or was that a typo?
Allen
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