I think this might be it on the right at the Nurburgring in 1958, from "BRM: A Mechanic's Tale" by Dick Salmon:



(I have a larger scan)

Paul M

(or I may be wrong and it could be the Dunlop van - the registration is TPA 230)

Hi Macca , good try , but the one on the right is Vanwalls Bedford S.

Also many thanks to Speedman.

Photo of Eifelland transporter at Phoenix Park, Dublin as used by John Watson to carry the "Eifelland" March 711 - I don't think he raced the car maybe a demonstration run
- Copyright W Patterson

I loved the original version of the Eifeland when it was launched shame it was a disaster it looked amazingly cool with it's central mirror and air intake ahead of the cockpit, over the course of the year I seem to remember it morphed back into a more conventional March that it was based on.

arrived too late for saturdays race , ran on sunday

Spotted on Facebook:

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc...35_558550_n.jpg

While I was trawling around the net last week on my mission for clues into the Zambian Racing scene I found these apologise if you have seen any before but there are certainly some I do not recall seeing on this page before :-

A wacky AMC Pacer and Citroens one hauling a #64 XM across a desert does anyone know the story behind it ?

A cool Cheetah Transporter.

The 'So What Speed Shop' hauler with a nice observation on it's hub caps :-)

Some cool dragster haulers.

Finally some kids haulers :-)

Not sure if this one's been posted before but I think it's rather fine. Found it on this terrific thread...

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthr...8585&page=3

What a wondeful US archive site, like going back in time. The Cooper s.seater well down on page 3 driving in all the traffic on the highway is quite eerie.
Roger Lund

Venue : Portuguese GP , Year : 1959 , Car : Cooper T51 , Owner : Rob Walker , Driver : Trintignant.

So , did you Stefan and Roger go through all side on the US site ? And found 1 transporter ? Then I stop at page 15 thanks!( Many good pictures , but no need for me to hurry). Thanks.

A bit too modern for you, Bjorn? Yesterday at Snetterton, the F1 truck passes the Classic Team Lotus truck................

Well , my main interest lies up to 1970 , but I never say no to a transporter , and I must admit though never being a Lotus fan , it is very nice to have a good green back in F1 , thanks .

Bjorn,
Check out page 25 of the US site

No, Bjorn, I only scrolled through the first 4 pages but it is all good archive stuff, if you like that sort of social history material. I will probably check through more pages over a period of time.

Roger Lund

Half way down this blog there is a photo of Ronnie Peterson in the drivers seat of TDG 123 H the March Transporter at Zeltweg complete with HGV 'L' plates.

The caption reads....

This document is not devoid of a small historical side, as the orange helmet placed on the dashboard of the official March transporter belonged to a certain Niki Lauda, who would make his debut the next day in the Austrian GP.

On the Jay Lenos garage website their is a report on one of the 60s BMC Transporters/ service vehicles. There was a pic of one similar on here recently.At the back it looks a bit like a big Austin Freeway !
The Leno site always has something a little different

they were used by BMC as mobile class rooms for techical training , I remember seing onr in Dublin in the 60s, there were a number of them and I think one or more were converted into transporters after BMC ownership .

I only got as far as page 24 - I'll check the rest later. But page 25 is definitely worth a look!

Found this on page 29...

@arttidesco: The Citroën SM in the desert, carrying the race-SM that was used for some speed records at Bonneville, is the property of Californian-based company SM World Ltd. More information about the car can be found here.

Thanks Rene, what an amazing feat of hydraulic engineering the trailer 'Port SM' is :-)

ps dropped a link on #2065 and emptied my cache since will see if I can retrace it :-)

Apologies for dropping the link on this in post #2065 above

Half way down this blog there is a photo of Ronnie Peterson in the drivers seat of TDG 123 H the March Transporter at Zeltweg complete with HGV 'L' plates.

The caption reads....

This document is not devoid of a small historical side, as the orange helmet placed on the dashboard of the official March transporter belonged to a certain Niki Lauda, who would make his debut the next day in the Austrian GP.

Found another great thread on pre war racing cars. Still only on page 51 but found this along the way...



http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthr...814&page=52

I have not checked my files but that last shot looks familiar from an old DCN article on Transporters some years ago in one of the comics. "How they got there" or some such rings a bell. ISTR that Bjorn and I compared notes on it ages ago with some other shots.
Roger Lund

Scammell lorry with 350hp Sunbeam from the article Transports of delight by Doug Nye .Published in Classic and Sportscar January 1990 and also with permission shown on the 8W site . Copyright Doug Nye and GP Library.

Correct
RL

Some pics from the Lotus Festival at Snetterton on Sunday 20th June. This is the Marshall's of Cambridge bodied Leyland Leopard (I think that's the correct cat!).

Also known as "JAHIL" , thanks very much for the pictures.

I am a huge fan of the early VW Type 1 pickup & transporter derivatives. I think the Volkswagen Type 1 LWB Transporter is one of the slickest, (especially with a Porsche 550 Spyder on the back) but I am only aware of the Rennstall Bunker used in the States in the 60's. Premium Classics makes a nice 1/43 scale.




There must have been other LWB Race Transporters. Has anyone any information or pictures of them? Preferably with Porsches...

Cheers.
GM

On behalf of RR , Google : www.talacrest.com , and click stock to get their story of Ferrari 682 Transporter .

Thanks. A simply Fabulous machine. Was the P4 picture taken at LeMans in 1967. Are those long-tail Porsche 910s on the transporter in the background. I remember them being driven on the road out of the circuit after the event - they followed our coach.

In 1974 when Maki F1 first came onto the scene in the UK I took a phone call from Japan and the following day I picked up three Japanese guys who had flown direct from Japan to Newcastle airport. They took one look at my transporter, exchanged it for a nice briefcase containing cash and drove it down South - one of them shewed me his UK HGV licence. I believe it finally ended up in Japan.

I had a road haulage fleet and unusually for a small team in those days we went racing in FF and F3 with a state of the art transporter! It carried three cars and had workshop facillities with accomodation for six people in two three high bunk beds. It had its own electricity at 240 volts and air conditioning together with hot and cold running water. The cars were lifted in by Ratciffe tail lift.

This is what became the Maki F1 team transporter. http://captkenn.com/my-transporters.html (click on the thumbnail)

Thanks for that Ken , and welcome!

For those of us who like transporters, and who also hold the memory of Jenks in high regard, Hedingham Models
http://www.hedinghammodels-collectables.co.uk/
have produced a fully liveried Austin K8 as a model of that used by DSJ and Eric Oliver. I understand that the accuracy of the livery is very high, as they had the benefit of archive material from the "right" sources.
In 1/43 size at £12.99 it is a bargain. No pictures on the website but their ad is on page 132 of this month's Motor Sport
Roger Lund

Post 2081 , Retreiver : Yes it is LM67 . The "Porsche longtail "in the background is the NART Ferrari 365P2 and the Maranello 330P3/4

The Oliver/Jenks is shown in post 278 Talk about model cars thread

Bjorn, thanks - that was a pretty poor effort of car recoginition on my behalf.

Room for a small laugh , I know all about it. By the way , the other transporter is one of the Baricchi(private haulier)Fiat's in green /cream colours. They helped out Ferrari since the mid 50's.

Just a bit off topic; I have been to shows of various kinds where usually there are at most a half-dozen vintage trucks.
Are there any LARGE vintage truck shows in the U.S. I find these vehicles, especially those of the fifties exceptionally interesting.
Bob

The BRP transporter, a Commer coach chassis, body by Robsons,s of York Way,Kings Cross area London.
The car a Lotus 19, mechanic working on car George Woodward.(just for the record)

Cheers

Tony Robinson

On behalf of Bjorn

Here is Escuderia Nacional CS Pegaso Transporter used to carry Alex Soler Roig´s Porsche 908 and 917


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What kind of surprise is this ? A BIG ONE ! Absolutely never seen , I would if asked have suggested a Mercedes van , never a PEGASO !! Thanks a lot !

A nice picture that I haven't seen before of a 1969 Ferrari being pushed out of its transporter at Le Mans :

http://lh5.ggpht.com/_Xr2k3rpageQ/SvGUuUc6...Q/s512/0602.jpg

You can read more about those Pegaso Capitone at:

http://www.camionesclasicos.com/FORO/viewt...?f=24&t=998

The same race-team did in 1968 use the famous Pegaso Bacalao!!!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/brimen/sets/7...7775920/detail/

Many thanks,

Brimen

Brimen

I saw it and was allowed into it at the show.

Premium Classixxs have released another 1:43 Porsche transporter, this one based on the factory liveries of the 1980's Group C Porsche 956 / 962. The truck looks a bit bare and I'm wondering if its missing some Rothmans logos ?

Seen in the field above the trailer/caravan paddocks at the Festival of Speed .

Original uncropped larger file size shot available if anyone wants it. The paling fencing made other angles unattractive and it was surrounded by cars later, incl a very nice Flaminia variant.
Roger Lund

Not "Rothmans" is missing, but "Essex". The factory used this paint scheme in the days of the 936 Essex. The year after "Essex" they took these logos away and used it as "Porsche Motorsport". But the model is a little bit far from the original, there lots of mistakes in that premium classics paint scheme.
Here you can see it with the remaining "....X" from Essex at Le Castellet


here without the X at Le Mans 1980


here the same car (S-M 2187) as Rothmans transporter


all photos from this thread.

Here's a actual photo of the transporter.
As you see, it's also a bit bare !!!



Enjoy...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/brimen/