http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=H2hebvbZWSI&eurl=http://www.hdlcc.com/history.php
Just had a freind who is a club member point this out to me, fantastic piece of footage. The worrying bit is if you removed the grainey effect and added some colour it could be a trial from 2008!
Graham
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ReplyDeleteFor more details, see http://www.wheelspin.info/references/1948_hagleywinter.htm Andrew
ReplyDeleteSimon. Is the bald gent in the duffel coat (around 32 secs) Horace Roberts the Allard driver? Horace certainly drove regularly in a light-coloured duffel coat. Have attached a photo. Nigel
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That car has a serious amount of positive camber. No doubt for a good reason but wouldn't there be some odd tyre wear?
ReplyDeleteExtreme camber changes on trials were a hallmark of Allards fitted with the crude LMB-type suspension. On the road, tyre wear is not a problem as 99% of the time the wheels are reasonably upright. I limited the range of movement on JYM 272 by shortening the check straps.(Cotswold Clouds 2000, Mackhouse) The American J2 racers (with 400+bhp) use strip-steel check straps to prevent the front end 'jacking itself up' under cornering loads. The b/w photo is of Nancy Mitchell racing a borrowed J2 at an early Silverstone meeting.
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