A 'period' classics pictures thread (Mk III)

[aeropilot]

Escort3500 said:

Wonder how the NSU Prinz fared against the Healeys, Midgets and Sprites

Looks like Castle Coombe...?

[Escort3500]

aeropilot said:

Escort3500 said:

Wonder how the NSU Prinz fared against the Healeys, Midgets and Sprites

Looks like Castle Coombe...?

You’re right! I wondered where it was and I’ve just Googled it, which came up with this colour version dated 1963

[nicanary]

maxc said:

Milkyway said:

nicanary said:

Is that the Emeryson ?

A film relating to the car.. . but unfortunately, none the wiser.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CQ0MENnadk0

Edited by Milkyway on Sunday 10th July 14:48

It was my late father who crashed in the film. "Not seriously injured" wasn't quite true as he broke his neck! I now have the chassis and will get round to building it up one day

I didn't realise that your dad raced anything other than the Sphinx Allard and the C-type Jag. I think I heard 4-litre Mercury from the commentary so presumably this was a special powered by same. (I believe that the guy who bought your dad's old Commer Superpoise found the job bigger than he had anticipated! I don't think it's finished still, even allowing for the pandemic lockdown which I assume gave restorers more spare time.)

[P5BNij]

CharlesdeGaulle said:

P5BNij said:

A thirteen year old Mk1 Mini gets a makeover in 1977...

Is that you?

No, I tried growing a beard once and it was rubbish...

Two from Dundee - both of these Mk2 Minis look like 850s to me (the short badge on the lower right of the bootlids suggests it), both are much rarer than the Coopers of the period...

[bigothunter]

P5BNij said:

Two from Dundee - both of these Mk2 Minis look like 850s to me (the short badge on the lower right of the bootlids suggests it), both are much rarer than the Coopers of the period...

Could national frugality have made Mk2 850s more popular in Scotland ?

[bigothunter]

aeropilot said:

Escort3500 said:

Wonder how the NSU Prinz fared against the Healeys, Midgets and Sprites

Looks like Castle Coombe...?

Do you mean Castle Combe ?

[threespires]

Milkyway said:

1957: Roberta Cowell competing at a Shelsey Walsh hillclimb.

I was at that meeting and remember seeing Cowell. The thing that stands out to me were her large mascline hands.
I believe she was driving an Emeryson

[nicanary]

threespires said:

Milkyway said:

1957: Roberta Cowell competing at a Shelsey Walsh hillclimb.

I was at that meeting and remember seeing Cowell. The thing that stands out to me were her large mascline hands.
I believe she was driving an Emeryson

Indeed. I don't think Paul Emery owned an Alta, although he had an Alta engine which he bored -out to suit F1 engine rules. I believe that's the Emeryson F1 car of 1956 with either an Alta or Jaguar engine. Pedantry matters,

[aeropilot]

bigothunter said:

aeropilot said:

Escort3500 said:

Wonder how the NSU Prinz fared against the Healeys, Midgets and Sprites

Looks like Castle Coombe...?

Do you mean Castle Combe ?

[bigothunter]

aeropilot said:

There may be two Os in aeropilot but there's only one in Castle Combe

[P5BNij]

bigothunter said:

P5BNij said:

Two from Dundee - both of these Mk2 Minis look like 850s to me (the short badge on the lower right of the bootlids suggests it), both are much rarer than the Coopers of the period...

Could national frugality have made Mk2 850s more popular in Scotland ?

Being of ever so slightly Scottish descent on my Dad's side I couldn't possibly comment...

Birmingham in the '60s...

[aeropilot]

P5BNij said:

Birmingham in the '60s...

Cooper or S on the right with the white roof perhaps...?

[bigothunter]

P5BNij said:

Birmingham in the '60s...

With strong allegiance to BMC and the A-series

[P5BNij]

aeropilot said:

P5BNij said:

Birmingham in the '60s...

Cooper or S on the right with the white roof perhaps...?

Could be, can't quite tell if the upper door frame has the stainless steel trim that all Mk1 and Mk2 Cooper models had, but then lots of owners painted the roof of their 850s in contrasting colours.

A comment from a passer by on my monotone purple Mk2 Cooper S at Stanford Hall a few years ago - ''can't be a Cooper mate cuz it ain't got a white roof''.

Righto!

Edited by P5BNij on Monday 11th July 12:23

[bigothunter]

V6 Pushfit said:

Milkyway said:

A film relating to the car.. . but unfortunately, none the wiser.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CQ0MENnadk0

In perfect RP: ‘Roberta used to be a man…’

Brilliant

Transas City said:

ROBERTA COWELL GETS READY FOR CAR-RACE COMEBACK. May 4, 1972. Silverstone, Northants, Thursday, PA: Roberta Cowell, the wartime fighter pilot who re-registered as a woman in 1951, is pictured to-day at the Silverstone circuit, where she was practicing in preparation for a comeback to motor racing. She took a Kitchmac racing car on the track. Miss Cowell (formerly Robert Cowell) is now 53.

[nicanary]

I'm note sure Roberta Cowell ever raced at Goodwood (she concentrated on hillclimbs and sprints, just like Patsy Burt) but I've always thought it would be fun to attend the Revival dressed as Roberta. On the other hand, I have an odd sense of humour. And as Allan Lupton pointed out, we're not supposed to take these things lightly any more.

It must have been so difficult for her back in the early 50s - took some guts.

[aeropilot]

nicanary said:

I'm note sure Roberta Cowell ever raced at Goodwood (she concentrated on hillclimbs and sprints, just like Patsy Burt) but I've always thought it would be fun to attend the Revival dressed as Roberta. On the other hand, I have an odd sense of humour. And as Allan Lupton pointed out, we're not supposed to take these things lightly any more.

It must have been so difficult for her back in the early 50s - took some guts.

Sad and lonely ending though.
Worse for the two young daughters 'she' refused to have any further contact with after the change.

[Allan L]

nicanary said:

Just realised, Cowell was a partner with Gordon Watson at Leacroft Engineering and Watson raced an Alta. Could this be it?

We Lea-Francis folk think of this sports-car as our contact with Cowell & Watson as they built it (and at least one other). Unsubstantiated rumour is that it was styled by D.S. Jenkinson but I can't say he ever mentioned it.

[P5BNij]

Birmingham in 1960...

[bigothunter]

P5BNij said:

Birmingham in 1960...

Before towns were blighted by yellow lines. Must be an aesthetic way of controlling parking.