The tractor being a Volvo F89.

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Is that Eddie Jordans caravan on the right ?

It looks like it's (been) left

Stumbled across this at a local vintage vehicle/steam fair yesterday...




RJ

So it has

Graham Hill in his own F1 team (Embassy) had a Ford D800 or 600 with Luton box. I have yet to see that , anyone have a full or partpicture (or more) , please ?

"Graham Hill in his own F1 team (Embassy) had a Ford D800 or 600 with Luton box"

YOU HAVE(maybe) THE ANSWER HERE:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtTjwh0TpDM&feature=related

Very kind of you Tarpon , I totally forgot this one , here the semitrailer is with a Scania 80 or 81 as tractor. The Ford I asked about was a 4x2 boxed lorry , still good picture.!

1st one Crystal Palace? Early FJ Brabham?
2nd T59? Cooper
3rd Lotus 20? at Crystal Palace
4th Early Brabham?
5th Somebody's Lotus Elite belonging to a part-time racer (The 1/4 bumpers are still attached)
6th Can't make my mind up on this one Lotus/Lola..... I'll go for Lola.
7th Mk5 Merlyn FJ at Brands Hatch
8th Tojeiro Jag? The kick over the rear wheel looks too sudden for a C Type.
9th Lotus 18 at a nascent Lydden Hill?
10th Cooper Monaco?
11th Lola There's something familiar about the big groove in the side panel...

A Lola Mk 3 perhaps ?

Is that at Gerrards?

This was just posted on the Racing Comments Forum

You'll have to excuse me knowing the corner names at Mallory Bloggsworth first time I'd seen the track in 20 years and only time I've ever ventured outside the pits the pic was taken on the entry to the big first corner at Mallory if that helps ?

That will be a Brabham Transporter then

I wonder what happened to the passengers windscreen wiper ?

In that case it is....

Thanks Mr B now I know

I recognised the duck....

Ferrari Le Mans 1963

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For no particular reason, other than the fact that I shot them at Oschersleben last weekend, two photos from the DTM paddock with the team trucks of Audi



...and Mercedes-Benz

Thanks for the latest contributions.

Now, I am looking for a lorry specialist , anyone out there able id Italian pre-war lorries (1930-40) ????

Team Merazio & Rebaque teams watching start of Procars.

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Greetings, fellow enthusiasts. Just stumbled upon this excellent forum, so this is my first post.
Thought I'd add a crude drawing to the wealth of information available here. Tony Dean's Can-Am Series transporter is a topic which has already been addressed by others, so I hope the experts in this matter
will correct the caption attached to my drawing.


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Drawing: ©2010 David Hepp

Cheers!

Two modern transporters from the 2010 Avignon Motor Festival.

I am the one wearing an anorak and a wooly hat on the other side of the track

I see you? iam standing on the top of motorhome taking the pic.

I probably saw you to 'eldougo', but I was a little distracted by events on the track !



Mean time is it possible for any TNFer to go anywhere without sparing a thought for Bjorn ? Castle Combe 'Mini Festival' yesterday.

Sorry did not stop to think to get the drivers name :-(

But I'd be surprised if some one here can't help us out ?

In the track parade at the Goodwood Revival:




Paul M

Fab A55 Van Macca

The Gemeni car in the centre of the pic is different. In Oz we got them as 4 door sedans or 2 door coupes. That one is a 2 door sedan.

That's because the Gemeni car in the centre of the pic is an Opel Kadett C, depending on where you lived options included :-

4 dr saloon, 2 dr fast back and 2 door estate,
2 dr hatchack, I don't recall ever seeing one except in Vauxhall Drop nose Chevette guise.
and 2 dr saloon.

Which covered most of the bases in that particular market segment

I thought there were Van and Pick Up variants of the Kadett C too, but if there are they are conspicuous by there absence on Google

Hi - I have just spent a very enjoyable half-hour looking through the images on this thread. Thank you so much for sharing them.

Stumbling across this thread was quite timely for me as I am considering rebuilding/restoring/whatever a suitable period means of transport for my current project - Jaguar's XJ13 (1966 Jaguar XJ13 - Building the Legend. Although I consider myself to be a fairly competent "spanner-man" I do know my limitations and the vast majority of the build will be carried out by specialist engineers. To keep myself busy in the meantime, I thought I would look at sourcing a suitable means of transport of the finished car - preferably something that needs work.

I am ashamed to admit that my knowledge of the kinds of car transporters that may have been available from the mid-1950s to the mid 1960s is practically non-existent! During its development the car was tested at venues such as MIRA and Silverstone and I imagine it was transported in some sort of closed container.

Does anyone have any suggestions of the kind of vehicle that may have been used by Jaguar at this time? Any pictures of their race transporters or other vehicles used for ferrying cars? I can then begin the task of sourcing a suitable vehicle.

Hi Neville , Jaguar was not known for having (race)car transporters , not even in the 50's. But they did have some ordinary vans and/or lorries then . And also later in the 80's, when tractor/semitrailer was used. But these were not actually Jaguar cars. Right in the middle 1966, your project , I have no evidence of any kind of transporters from Jaguar. My own belief would be an ordinary lorry with a box on , or even a Jag sedan with a simple open trailer and perhaps a small support van . I have not seen all Jaguar books , but my own books show no pictures with any hints.Perhaps a contact to Paul Skilleter could help you out here. Good luck with your project , I hope someone on the TNF can help out with a contact , or try Googling. Paul has written Jaguar books.

At Donington this weekend the VSCC is running its "end of season" See Red Meeting. David McLaughlin's FORCE organisation has arranged a demonstration each day of erecent F1 cars including three 1990s Benettons. This transporter was behind the pits but I regret that I did not take the opportunity of ascertaining whether it was a genuine ex-team one. here are the pics, anyway.







Great day yesterday in the Autumn sunshine. Not so today; it's pouring down. Although the ex-Ayrton Senna Toleman TG184 could re-create Monaco 1984 if they fix the turbocharger oil fire (I think that's what it was) from yesterday in time!

IIRC correctly the Works Jags were driven not transported to Le Mans, I wonder if the reason Jaguar are not known for having any transporters is because they saved themselves the expense and did not use them at all ? (Bad news for Bjoern !)

Bjorn, Don't forget that they had that special estate car bodied mk2 3.8litre saloon as a support car in one of the early 60s TdF events, when Bernard Consten was successful there. Photos are in MS somewhe IIRC. ISTR that the useable space in the rear section was limited by the room taken up by the rear suspension and diff etc.. Still, it was a shapely creation and must have gone very well.
Roger

A couple of transporters for Bjorn from yesterdays Somerset Grand Prix at the Oak Tree Arena near Burnham Without.



First a Citroen towing Ben Hurdmans twin engined NASA Class 10 Special.



And second a Ford Transit Transporter which takes Lloyd Morgans NASA Class 2 Ford Fiesta to and from the races.

Thanks guys!

In 1954 one of Jaguars support vehicles broke down en route to LM. So they for 1955 decided to fly cars and spares over for LM. As did they in 1956.
From 1954 and backwards racecars and spares were driven to LM.
Jaguar never had a racecar transporter.
The Bedford big van I know of was an M type used in the fifties , and at least one Bedford S lowsided lorry which was used in 1954 also for LM.

I guess Jaguar used private car transporters to take their production cars around , just like many or most other factories did. Some however used the private car transporters for races like Triumph in 1959/60/61 or Aston Martin in 1962/63 all for LM.

Hi All:

As a Team Lotus fan (I fell nowadays a bit confused because the row between Group Lotus and Lotus F1 Racing ), I am reseching about motorhome used by ESSEX TEAM LOTUS in 1981.
It was a state of the art vehicule with 2 floors.
Manufacturer was NEOPLAN in Germany
Engine was a 320 HP Mercedes V10 Diesel.
Model was NEOPLAN SKYLINER.
Does someone knows if this bus still exists
I supposse that amend prior Lotus Transporters were restored
Besides that ,the motorhome was used during only 2 F1 seasons
In this tread was published a Tony Mathews (a TNF) cut away drawing, but photos are very scarce.......

A bit of history of this vehicle,Brabham had it built by a company in Cambridge on a AEC double deck bus chassis with a 12 litre non turbo engine it was then sold to Sid Taylor who had it converted by Pullman coachworks into a team motorhome/hospitality unit to which it attended various Grand Prix in the early 1980 s, I then bought it of Sid and used it to tow my F3 cars around in 1983/1984 and again for hospitality, I eventually sold it on to a HGV dealer in West Yorkshire and since lost track of the vehicle although they have been previous photographs on this thread both in Theodore livery and Brabham.

Rodney Dodson.

my F1 transporters collections

Would that have been in one of these?

Group 44 transporter at Sears Point, July 1983:

An almost random find in photobucket for Bjorn

What no Eddie Stobbart transporters or even operating for Mercedes Petronas F1 team? See under:

http://demand.five.tv/Series.aspx?seriesBa...tTrucksTrailers

Last episode tonight showed the guys working for ES but under racing team guise, loading the trucks with F1 Mercedes cars at the Brackley works, the logistics of getting to the Belgian GP 2010. Must see programme.

How many competition vehicles have been turned into towing vehicles ?

Here is one I was surprised to learn about, used to tow Sam Colliers Ferrari 166 after it had finished 10th at Le Mans. The give away is the triangular chrome tow bar cover under the bumper.

Wonder if anyone has any pics of it with the trailer and the Ferrari on the back ?

A different type of transporter. The car is a 1917 Hudson.

what do you think about this ,

http://www.kueke.com/neues/archiv/porsche-...u-verkaufen.php

Porsche Renntransporter
Daimler Benz O 317 K, Vetter Aufbau,
ähnlich Original Porsche Transporter

original?

As the text in German says : Lookalike to the Original Porsche transporter , the answer to your question must be a no! Also this is a Vetter build-up.