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[mab01uk]

Steve Soper and Paul Taft demolish a marshals post during the 1275GT Challenge, Brands Hatch 16-4-1978
(Photo: Autosport)

 

[mab01uk]

Alan Curnow in the Datapost 1275GT at first round of the 1979 British Saloon Car Championship at Silverstone.
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[mab01uk]

Geoff Wood 1968

Sporting Minis:-
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[mab01uk]

John Hopwood in the Howley Racing 1275GT leads the pack, Mini Challenge 1978
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[mab01uk]

Bob Whittington, fuel injected 1293 Weslake eight port race engine with sliding throttle, BLMC Comps 1969.
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[Aly-g]

wow ! 

 

Allan

Edited by Aly-g, 04 December 2022 - 12:44 AM.

[Aly-g]

wow ! I could do with one of them, i'll have to ask father Christmas if he has one in his sack for me ....

 

Allan

[mab01uk]

Mick Hills 'Janglia' 1968-1970 - Jaguar-engined Ford Anglia:-
https://www.mickhill...k/janglia-68-70

 

[Aly-g]

Mick Hills 'Janglia' 1968-1970 - Jaguar-engined Ford Anglia:-
https://www.mickhill...k/janglia-68-70

 

Those Anglia's getting in the way again !

 

Allan

[mab01uk]

"Ginger Marshall's aluminium bodied, space-framed Mini Clubman Estate leads off the line (Imp engine on a Mini gearbox), this is 1976 it is a Forward Trust up to 1000cc Special Saloon race, the 850cc Imp was on pole but didn't win."







The Imp engine mated to a Mini gearbox to challenge the Imps in the up to 1000cc class.

 

[mab01uk]

John Homewood's Imp leads Ginger Marshall's Imp powered Mini Clubman Estate

 

[Mini-Hazel-Nut]

Re Ingliston - I looked up the circuit on google maps and it is still there albeit devoid of anything to do with racing but what surprised me was that the whole layout looks like a housing estate but with no houses!! There is a young drivers school alongside the former track and a skeletal grandstand but that`s ya lot.

[Mini-Hazel-Nut]

I remember watching these races on BBC,s granstand on a saturday afternoon and i sat enthralled as a young boy.
Somebody should put them on a series of DVD,s as they are fantastic entertainment.

I used to sit glued to the telly watching saloon car racing and rallycross on Grandstand too and my dad always said "I can`t see anything in it myself" yet he`d happily watch 90 minutes of 22 blokes kicking a bag of wind about! I wonder what the BBC has stashed away?

[mab01uk]

 

I remember watching these races on BBC,s granstand on a saturday afternoon and i sat enthralled as a young boy.
Somebody should put them on a series of DVD,s as they are fantastic entertainment.

I used to sit glued to the telly watching saloon car racing and rallycross on Grandstand too and my dad always said "I can`t see anything in it myself" yet he`d happily watch 90 minutes of 22 blokes kicking a bag of wind about! I wonder what the BBC has stashed away?

 

 

This Grandstand 1970 Crystal Palace race video in link below is a recent example of what the BBC has stashed away hidden in its vaults......there are many more archived but access is only allowed for TV researchers and no copies can be made without difficult to get/expensive copyright permissions......which sadly means most of the films will never see the light of day again, unless the BBC has a change of policy.

https://www.theminif...otos/?p=3567409

Edited by mab01uk, 31 December 2022 - 10:17 AM.

[mab01uk]

Nostalgic old film of a sprint held at Sandtoft Aerodrome in 1966 featuring a range of 60's cars including a good sprinkling of Minis.