Old racing transporters and support vehicles

[nicanary]

Wow! That's dennis poore's old Dodge, which I think was converted from an ex-WW2 staff coach, and used to carry his Alfa 8C. A real piece of British 50s transporter history. looking good.

[RedexR]

So is that the actual Italian Job Coach or a replica ? we saw the 1960s England football team coach at Goodwood last year of course , picture anyone ?

Ferrari support vehicle as mentioned :-

[guru_1071]

RedexR said:

So is that the actual Italian Job Coach or a replica ?

the real one was a bedford VAL six wheeler, with harrington coachwork - it was chopped up in the mid-1990's in scotland (a real shame as it would be worth mega money now-a-days)

mines a bedford vam, with plaxton panorama coachwork (the best looking of all the coach bodies from the 1960's, plaxton used the panorama front on all sorts of commercials).

[LotusOmega375D]

Cholmondely Festival two or three years ago:

[occrj]

This old girl first appeared in the "classics left to die/rotting..." photo thread, a couple of years back, posted by a son of the owner.

Last week it was retrieved from its long-term home. Used by two privateer drivers in the 1960s, it carried a single-seat Lotus, a C-Type, and an Allard-based sportscar.

It's another long-term project, the first jobs will be to get it running, and arrange for a suitable shelter to be built.

As it regularly visited circuits and hillclimbs across Britain throughout the 1960s, I'm hopeful that photos of it "in period" will turn up. Its last outing was at Crystal Palace in, I think, 1971.

RJ

[tapkaJohnD]

Can't remember if these were featured on this forum, but they are appropriate. The Tissier Citroen DR car (and others) transporters. The Tissier Company built multiple versions. See: http://www.thepetrolstop.com/2011/05/tissier-citro...

The best known today is the one owned by Meilenwerk Historic Racing team, that is used regularly to transport, among others its Cobra. See: http://blog.caranddriver.com/the-continental-meeti...

John

[CR6ZZ]

At the Le Mans Classic a few years back.

[V8forweekends]

soxboy said:

Now you see that's going to put a cloud over the film for me as that's too late a model Transit for early-mid 70's racing. I'm now going to be bugged by errors like that and keeping an eye out for them. Sad I know!

And me - and even that C-reg Tranny has got the wrong front indicators - at that age it should have the ones with the sidelights in.

[Old Merc]

I missed this topic first time around,its now got me going through my old F1 photos

[Old Merc]

[Old Merc]

Sorry I did not get the whole Tyrrell transporter,only interested in the six wheeler.At least there is a Hesketh transit van.

Looking at that photo makes you realise how an F1 paddock has changed.
First I`m wondering around taking photo`s,odd bods hanging around,the site looks a mess.
Now no one gets near an F1 car with a camera,the "hangers on" pay £2K plus for the privilege,everything is a clinically clean corporate image friendly show piece with mobile hospitality units costing millions.

[Old Merc]

AND! F1 cars being prepared in the open air !!

[Old Merc]

I could not resist showing this photo of John Player "support vehicles" ???

[andrewrob]

Loving this thread. Has anyone ever seen the video from inside the Hesketh motorhome barreling across Hesketh's estate to Silverstone?
I think it was on an old documentary but haven't managed to find it since.

[Hybrids]

occrj said:

This old girl first appeared in the "classics left to die/rotting..." photo thread, a couple of years back, posted by a son of the owner.

Last week it was retrieved from its long-term home. Used by two privateer drivers in the 1960s, it carried a single-seat Lotus, a C-Type, and an Allard-based sportscar.

It's another long-term project, the first jobs will be to get it running, and arrange for a suitable shelter to be built.

As it regularly visited circuits and hillclimbs across Britain throughout the 1960s, I'm hopeful that photos of it "in period" will turn up. Its last outing was at Crystal Palace in, I think, 1971.

RJ

Enjoyed following your previous highs and lows, will follow this one too

[Carsie]

[Mark A S]

WOW !

[S3_Graham]

andrewrob said:

Loving this thread. Has anyone ever seen the video from inside the Hesketh motorhome barreling across Hesketh's estate to Silverstone?
I think it was on an old documentary but haven't managed to find it since.

I used to work with his son, thoroughly nice guy!

[a8hex]

I spotted this the other day and thought about this thread. I hadn't realised how long ago the thread had been active, it almost qualifies as a classic itself these days.