70s Super Saloon Pics

[GBRM]

Originally Posted by Geoff Clement

It was Nick, he told me personally." Wasnt within the rules!" Not his rules anyway!

Thanks Geoff, glad I remembered something correctly!!

[Geoff Clement]

I have uploaded a video on to you tube that my Dad took in 1977, its a bit of a mixture of Brands and Lyden hill, It includes Rob Mason, Brands, nearly got him!! in the wet. Nick Whiting,Brands, Eddy Punt, Brands and Lyden, and many others that i dont know but someone may recognise themselves. Rod Birley in a white Capri at Lyden i think.
If anyone has any information as to what happend to my car please let me know. i sold it in 1978.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xol7JHwqYfk

[Andy Clegg]

Thanks very much Geoff, I enjoyed that. That looked very quick into Clearways at Brands.
Andy

[morninggents]

Good to see this footage, Geoff. Certainly brought the memories flooding back.

[Alan Cox]

A few of my own efforts from years gone by. Some of you may remember them from TNF, but I don't think they have seen the light of day for a number of years.
All from Oulton, the 'Baby Bertha' shots are from 1975, Colin Hawker's Capri is from 1974, as is the Doug Niven/Nick Whiting photo, while Gerry with 'old Nail' is from early '75.

[Geoff Clement]

Looks like you were pretty good wih a camera Alan!

[Andy Clegg]

Great photos Alan. Those were the days!!!!
Andy

[Clive Brown]

Originally Posted by Andy Clegg

Hi,
Just found this. Don't recognise at all. Imp exit of Macleans, Donington.
Andy

The black Imp carrying #72 is David Enderby's first Maguire car, PIG 1, later destroyed at Thruxton. Crap flexible chassis.

The blue Imp #79 with the white roof is probably the Chris Roberts/Adrian Gamble Rawlson-bodied car, either Rawlson-chassised, or later on a spaceframe chassis that they made themselves. Usually ran as an 850, hence the Shell stars on the roof. I wouldn't have put any money on its true capacity, though. Chris Roberts was a loveable rogue who we called the biggest liar in Birmingham, and sadly perished in the alcohol-fuelled helicopter crash that also claimed the life of David Prophet.

The blue Imp #87 with George Bevan on the rear quarter panel looks like it might be a Maguire, but I'm not sure. That's not pukka Bevan blue, and the signwriting doesn't have the black undershading of the white lettering that a true Bevan car had. Pass!

[Clive Brown]

Originally Posted by big andy

thats not a escort its a stiletto imp !!

And I think it's David Enderby's Mason Stiletto. Could be at Mallory Park?

[yellow tr3]

i see a John Wood listed here.
is this the same John Wood who lived in Liverpool and owned a car carpet company?

[fridgeman]

fantasic thread guys, keep the memories coming .

[chase106]

Have just brought this car back from Florida where it was sprayed yellow. I would like to put the car back to how it should look and need some pictures of the car in Brook Hire colours (rear view particularly) from the time it was raced by Dave Millington (and occasionally Gerry Marshall) in 1974/5. Anyone have any such pictures?
Thanks

[saaben]

Hi fellow looners,
Relatively new on here (only my fourth post on 10/Tenths) but I have followed club racing since 1975 especially special/supersaloons.
Over the last two evenings I have read all 58 pages on this topic and the memories have flooded back.

Does any one remember a driver called Terry Stone?
I think he drove in modsports but...I'm sure he also had a Corvair and in some of the photos on this topic there is a Corvair lurking in the background.
Would that be Terry or is my memory a bit dodgy nearly forty years on.

Back in the seventies Sheffield and Hallamshire mc used to organise a summer evening out at Hope in Derbyshire and a good turn out of competition cars were on display and I remember talking to Terry next to his modsport (Midget?).

Sadly Terry lost his life in an accident at his garage.

Hope someone can shed some light on this.

Regards,
saaben.

[Alan Raine]

Originally Posted by saaben

Hi fellow looners,

Does any one remember a driver called Terry Stone?
I think he drove in modsports but...I'm sure he also had a Corvair and in some of the photos on this topic there is a Corvair lurking in the background.
Would that be Terry or is my memory a bit dodgy nearly forty years on.

Regards,
saaben.

The Corvair would be the Ian Richardson car. I'm not sure who, if anyone, raced it after him.

[GBRM]

Originally Posted by Alan Raine

The Corvair would be the Ian Richardson car. I'm not sure who, if anyone, raced it after him.

It was subsequently owned (and tested but not raced) by my late father and he let Tony Strawson race it before he sold to Mick Leary IIRC.
Apparently it's body still exists but the mechanicals went back into what they came from.