Obscure race and rally cars

[Save Ferris]

The Life W12 F1


Mastercard Lola F1


AGS JH22 W12 F1


First F189 F1

Edited by Save Ferris on Tuesday 10th February 10:59

Edited by Save Ferris on Thursday 23 July 20:51

[mycool]

Vauxhall Cresta Rally Car - did the Monte Carlo Rally

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austin maxi london-mexico rally car.

[Chassis 33]

Shamelessly ripped from the December 2001 edition of Motorsport...

The Chapparral 2E with its rear wing air brake, operated as your released it pedal with the left foot in order to hit the wheel brakes pedal


McKee Mk 14, again with a flip up air brake but also 4WD powered by a twin turbo Oldsmobile V8


Mac's-iT Special, 4off rotax 800cc engines (one at each corner) driving modified VW transaxles via centrifugal clutches and a belt and pulley CVT...



Regards
Iain

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'69 shelby turbine indy car

[Chassis 33]

It see your Shelby turbine, and raise you the Rover-BRM Turbine Le Mans entry


Regards
Iain

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like that is it? i re-raise you the howmet tx turbine:

[chevronb37]

Lotus 23 Rotovic - 6 Aeriel tiwns combined to form a 1.5L V12. Not very good!



Toyota 7 was Toyota's effort at a Group 7 car, intended for the Can Am. It was eventually tubocharged and produced in the region of 800bhp. Never raced outside Japan, sadly.



My favourite - the Chevron B37. A one-off F5000 car which spent most of its competition life in the Antipodes. It is now raced beautifully by Simon Hadfield.

[chevronb37]

shirt said:

like that is it? i re-raise you the howmet tx turbine:

If memory serves, the Howmet actually qualified second for a Group 6 race at Oulton Park in about 1968. Is anyone more of a geek than me and can confirm this?

[freedman]

Interscope Porsche, dropped when USAC renaged on their agreement with Porsche

http://www.962.com/historic_porsches/porsche_indy_...

[Chassis 33]

The Rover BRM predates both anyway. I win
Regards
Iain

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aye but the howmet is the only turbine car to have won a race and set 6 FIA speed records.

[freedman]

chevronb37 said:

shirt said:

like that is it? i re-raise you the howmet tx turbine:

If memory serves, the Howmet actually qualified second for a Group 6 race at Oulton Park in about 1968. Is anyone more of a geek than me and can confirm this?

3rd at the Sebring 12hrs!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howmet_TX

[Rude-boy]

chevronb37 said:

BRM P351. Developed at the end of Group C. It failed to qualify for Le Mans in Wayne Taylor's hands, was powered by a development of the Weslake V12 which Dan Gurney used in 1966 and 1967! And did almost as little for the name BRM as the Rover 200 of the same name. Later emerged in open-topped form for the ISRS. I saw it in the paddock at Donington in 1997, but never again. It then belonged to John Mangoletsi, who started the ISRS.

Beaten to it is see. I was planning on digging this one out today myself. I wasn't involved with the project itself, but know others who were, although I was somewhat involved with Miss M at the time

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRM_P351

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shirt said:

aye but the howmet is the only turbine car to have won a race and set 6 FIA speed records.

Bah Humbug.

Regards
Iain

[dougc]

pah - you lot and your turbine cars.

What you want is a Ford BDA petrol engine AND a turbine like this has:



BDA makes it go, APU runs the turbo for instant lag free acceleration.

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someone had a link to a youtube clip a while back of either than car or one like it doing a hillclimb. the acceleration of the startline and the noise of the thing was unreal. another for the 'want' list

[Marvindodgers]

shirt said:

like that is it? i re-raise you the howmet tx turbine:

No idea where it finished in races in the 1960s, but it looked and sounded awesome at Le Mans Classic last year!!

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Marvindodgers said:

shirt said:

like that is it? i re-raise you the howmet tx turbine:

No idea where it finished in races in the 1960s, but it looked and sounded awesome at Le Mans Classic last year!!

I heard it raced there last year - was gutted not to see it. Best I've managed is at Goodwood FoS. I did Monaco Historique instead, but LMC beckons for 2010.