A 'period' classics pictures thread (Mk III)
Discussion
Yes, great pictures indeed, thanks for that.
Really interesting grid in 71, as well as a SM there have been two Moskvitch to finish the race, which was the first time soviet cars have been classified in an international 24 hour race event.
Niki Lauda, Gérard Larrousse, Alex Soler-Roig, Nino Vaccarella, Rauno Aaltonen, Toine Hezemans, John Fitzpatrick, Jochen Mass, Pierre Dieudonne, Trevor Taylor among others.
And not to forget the first lady of Corvettes, Mme Marie-Claude Beaumont, who drove the 69 Camaro Z/28
Really interesting grid in 71, as well as a SM there have been two Moskvitch to finish the race, which was the first time soviet cars have been classified in an international 24 hour race event.
Niki Lauda, Gérard Larrousse, Alex Soler-Roig, Nino Vaccarella, Rauno Aaltonen, Toine Hezemans, John Fitzpatrick, Jochen Mass, Pierre Dieudonne, Trevor Taylor among others.
And not to forget the first lady of Corvettes, Mme Marie-Claude Beaumont, who drove the 69 Camaro Z/28
Edited by sidewinder500 on Thursday 4th April 22:15
nicanary said:
Nice little Giardinera woodie, but what's the coupe to the right? I thought Appia but the c-pillar is wrong. Looks too big to be a Bianchina, but is it?
The picture itself reminds me of a similar little garage that's a little way south of Leighton Buzzard station, right by the mainline on the left as you head north. I've seen several classics in there when passing by, mostly Minis etc, but I did see a Fiat X1/9 and a series 2 Alfa Spider parked up there once.
RustyMX5 said:
nicanary said:
I think it might be a Flaminia with a hard top.aeropilot said:
Turbobanana said:
Motorsport in general seems to have softened over the years. When I started watching the Lombard RAC Rally in the 1970s, crews were on the go more or less non-stop for 5 days and nights: now they don't really even need additional lighting.
Yep, proper rallying, none of this office hours sprint event and then home for tea and medals nonsense 
The RAC Rally I was service crew on in '84 was non-stop, which was the 1st RAC I did, was about snatching a hour or two sleep in the chase car.....from getting up at 4am on the Sunday until getting to bed about 1am on the Thursday morning, I got about 12 hrs actual sleep in a bed in total. I remember getting up at 10pm, after 3 hrs sleep in the B&B we stayed in Carlisle to have a full English breakfast
Mad dogs and rally crews indeed..
Having completed the distance he then crashes into a local taxi driver on his way to the final checkpoint.
Exhausted? Probably, but also victorious. He described it as like three Mille Miglia in one go, but with more elephants, hippos and wild cats.
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