The remains of a Lotus seven Clubman race car are due to go up for auction at the Autosport International show on the 12th, 13th January at the NEC Birmingham . The car was originally fitted with a Cosworth 109e engine and was raced successfully until 1973 when racing at Silverstone it spun at Copse [...]
Ford’s Blue and white competition Capris, known as the “Cologne Capris” of the early seventies, are well remembered. But with the fuel crisis of 1973 this put paid to Ford’s racing program and the German works competition department at Werke was closed. Ford still kept its hand in motorsport and used the Zakspeed firm to [...]
Following the deaths of Ayrton Senna and Roland Ratzenberger at Imola in 1994, the FIA demanded that aerodynamic changes be made to cars to reduce downforce and cornering speeds by up to 25 percent. Lotus driver Pedro Lamy was at Silverstone circuit testing the upgraded Lotus 107 ready for the next race at Barcelona. Johnny [...]
It was tough times for British Leyland in the mid seventies. Sales were down, with internal politics causing much grief throughout the company. An announcement of a full racing program with its Jaguar marque looked the best way forward and could only serve to boost sales. The car of choice was the Jaguar XJ coupe [...]
Jappic was an extremely pretty single seater of truly minute proportions. Its all enveloping teardrop shape body being designed in 1925 by H.M Walters and built by the coachbuilder Jarvis of Wimbledon, with an all alloy body, the chassis frame being made from ash. The engine was a 350cc single cylinder J.A.P engine which sat [...]
Built in 1962 from a 1961 250 SWB Ferrari for Count Giovanni Volpi’s race team Scuderia Serenissima, the plan was to race at Le Mans and other sportscar series against the new Ferrari GTO. The Breadvan, so called because of it’s van like appearance from the sides and back, was built by engineer Giotto Bizzarrini [...]
Looking like a scaled down 1930’s Mercedes GP car, the lightweight special (built in 1933) was built by Alec Issigonis along with his friend George Dowson after blowing up his supercharged Austin Seven. The body-cum chassis was built around aircraft construction principles of the time and is beautifully made, looking perfect from every angle, complete [...]
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