Brabham BT 6 (Formula Junior 1963) - 10-Tenths Motorsport Forum

Denis Lupton · 23 Nov 2006, 02:38

Thought it would be time to start this list-
Brabham BT6,
FJ-1-63 Works, then to Cunningham early '63
FJ-2-63 Works to J. Olsen,to Phillipe Martel
FJ-3-63 Ian Walker Racing Paul Hawkins
FJ-4-63 Rodney Banting,Alan Bates, Bruce Harre, Graeme Lawrence *
FJ-5-63 David Prophet
FJ-6-63 Ian Walker Racing Frank Gardner
FJ-7-63 Green Man Garage John Dunn
FJ-8-63 Curt Lincoln
FJ-9-63 Works Denis Hulme, A.Mildren Racing,Roly Levis,Bill Stone, Giggs
Alexander,Ian McDonald,Ed Holly
FJ-10-63 Mike Hailwood
FJ-11-63 Giannini A&d, Scuderia Montegrappa
FJ-12-63 Denis O'Sullivan, Ken Sager
FJ-13-63 John Peterson (written off)
FJ-14-63 Ford France Jo Schlesser
FJ-15-63 Gavin Youl, Greg Cusack,various,Henk Woelders,Jon Davison,Harry Forde,Peter Johnson.
FJ-16-63 Betty Haig, Peter Richardson
FJ-17-63 Charles Vogelle Silvio Moser
FJ-18-63 Andy Buchanan, Bill Caldwell, to Wock? UK **
FJ-19-63 Grand Prix International Corp of L.A. Bruce Kessler
FJ-20-63 Langley garage Graham White

* FJ-4-63 At Snetterton Banting had bad crash with Roy James- car rebuilt
-new chassis??
** FJ-18-63 Roly Levis helped in rebuild after big accident and drove the car but never owned it.
More to come Regards Denis

Ted Walker · 23 Nov 2006, 08:19

FJ-11-63. Are you sure Denis ????

allenbrown · 24 Nov 2006, 13:12

Great stuff Denis. I had been asked to hold of publishing your list until I'd had a chance to speak to Duncan Rabagliati but it never got to the top of my to-do list.

Now the cat is out of the bag and right in among the chickens!

Allen

David McKinney · 27 Nov 2006, 09:52

Interesting statement that Levis never owned #18 - was it still owned by the Caldwell family then?
Next owner's name was Yock, incidentally

Also, on #9 - Jiggs Alexander (not Giggs)

Chris Townsend · 30 Nov 2006, 21:42

FJ-1-63 observed by F1R on Mike Lawlor's car entered for John Miles 31 Jan 1965, so presumably the Lawlor car in 1964?

Hard to square this with the car going to Cunningham

Chris

allenbrown · 1 Dec 2006, 08:18

... unless Brabham were already doing what they later did with the BT14s and sending cars with the same chassis plate to different corners of the planet.

Ted Walker · 1 Dec 2006, 08:27

That is possible Allen. That could explain the chassis 11 mystery.Sent to Tasman Series on a BT4 as well as Italy on a Junior.Has anyone got any race entries for Italian FJ races ???

Andrew Fellowes · 6 Dec 2006, 05:06

FJ-15-63 Tasman Revival Meeting

Ted Walker · 13 Dec 2006, 09:03

Denis. Could you please reply re chassis 11 .I have had contact with someone in Europe who claims to know its where-abouts, but until your list always thought it was allocated to a BT4

**John Turner** · 16 Dec 2006, 11:55

Bryan Miller sent me this a while back (aplogies, Bryan). A scan taken from
'The Book of Australian Motor Racing' , W.P. Tuckey [Murray Publishing ] about 1966. I'm afraid that I can't really read the caption properly; perhaps Bryan can clarify:

**John Turner** · 16 Dec 2006, 12:05

Another scan, sent by Bryan:-

Bryan Miller · 16 Dec 2006, 23:25

Thank you very much John.

1st photo is the Catalina Park accident in Jan. 1964 of FJ-15-63 , after this a new frame and other components were recieved from the factory and the car rebuilt , the new frame that was supplied appears to be a BT9 , slight differences.

The remains were acquired about 1967 by ex Brabham employee Roy Pounder and along with the radiator and other stuff from the John Harvey/Bob Jane BT14 , FL-1-65 , these were all built back up and was the car 1st used by Andy Frankel , thence to Pat Burke racing for a new and upcoming driver Neil Allen , then with Terry Finnigan and called a BT18 then recieved BT36 body panels , then to Roy Goodman , then to Current owner Brian Pymble , rebuilt back as an FJ , frame no. is 2363 , from memory , but maybe 2763.
The bits that came from FL-1-65 were available as Bob Brittan [ Rennmax] had converted that car to 2.5 Repco and they needed some heavier duty components .

The second set of photo's are from Bob Brittan's collection of FJ-15-63 as it was being readied to transport to Canberra for Greg Cusack , the car having just been offloaded from the boat from the U.K.
I have about 20 various photo's of the car at this point.

Bryan Miller.

Denis Lupton · 16 Dec 2006, 23:38

Regarding the rebuilt car which ended up with Pat Bourke Racing,
I think the young upcoming driver was Warwick Brown,was it not.?
Had quite a career after this car,also.
Also,I'm sure Neil Allen could afford his own cars.
Cheers Denis

Bryan Miller · 17 Dec 2006, 01:08

You are quite correct , Sunday morning brain fade.

Ted Walker · 19 Dec 2006, 08:37

Please ignore all the c..p I was talking about re FJ-11-63 I do of course mean 11-62 (BT2)