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Jun 28, 2012 3:25 pm
Jun 28, 2012 3:25 pm
Subject: Re: Rapides being raced in the 1960's
Simon, I have a 10x8 wetfilm copy of the image with number 52 in the magazine, also one from Snetterton track testing wearing 118, but am not sure who owns copyright. As far as I know the car is in USA. It's (never?) been in either LC or AMOC, and I think last changed hands publicly in 1980 through the Robin Hamilton auction, Lot 76. It had a 4-speed DB gearbox and special series cylinder head with triple SU carbs from new, also oil cooler in the valence, and must have had a modified exhaust because it was once described as "fast and very noisy" on the track at BDC Silverstone in August 1964, its first competition outing. I'd suppose it was tuned to 290 bhp or thereabouts, and at Ghent speed trials achieved 140 mph, not bad for such a bus. It's now LHD
Simon, I have a 10x8 wetfilm copy of the image with number 52 in the magazine, also one from Snetterton track testing wearing 118, but am not sure who owns copyright. As far as I know the car is in USA. It's (never?) been in either LC or AMOC, and I think last changed hands publicly in 1980 through the Robin Hamilton auction, Lot 76. It had a 4-speed DB gearbox and special series cylinder head with triple SU carbs from new, also oil cooler in the valence, and must have had a modified exhaust because it was once described as "fast and very noisy" on the track at BDC Silverstone in August 1964, its first competition outing. I'd suppose it was tuned to 290 bhp or thereabouts, and at Ghent speed trials achieved 140 mph, not bad for such a bus. It's now LHD