Looking for some photo's of the 1972 French GP just now I stumbled on these photo's of the Clermont Ferrand Paddock makes you wonder what BE was moaning about, never seen a paddock with so much character

It just needed his magic touch ,so he could make a few $$$$ to keep him in the life style he thought he deserved

I'd have thought a Wildgoose might be enough for a man of his stature, probably a little bit more environmentally friendly too ?

Love THAT name Wildgoose. However way to modest for "The Bolt" .the camper only take up one car space it needs a few extensions to fit the F1 paddock today.

Posted on behalf of Bjørn Kjer

'Inside the Paddock'

By giraffe138 at 2011-10-08

Photo courtesy of Ron Bennett.

Magnificent shot. What a wonderful scale model subject that would make.

DCN

The thing that I noticed in that shot is the Bedford appears to have a single wheel on the rear instead of the usual dual wheels. It looks like this was done to give a lower floor for the bottom car to sit on. They have probably saved 6" height by this little trick.
To me it looks like a 20" wheel on the rear and a 16" on the front, maybe to give a better load rating on the rear because of the single wheel.
I like the winch to lower the top deck and the number of fuel tanks.

En route to Goodwood for the Tourist Trophy 62 .

If so it would mean Ron Bennett turns 80 today. Is it so?

Indeed he does! Just spoken to Ron to give him my best wishes!

Not nostalgic, but is this the largest race car transporter ever? An Australian road train for the Stone Brothers V8 Supercar team. Click on the thumbnail to get to the full-size image.

It is not a road train. It is "B-Double". You can't take a Road Train into cities or half of NSW.
Most of the V8 teams have B-Double transporters these days. Then they whinge about the costs of the cars getting too high.

Ahh, thanks! I am clearly ignorant about this!

Happy birthday Ron.

Rodney

I agree . This old J3 Beddy has only single wheels on the rear but it still retains the full floating axle and standard offset rim . That arrangement loads the bearings up a bit but they were a fairly stout rear axle and the load it is carrying is not great so you could get away with that.

I don't believe the rear rims are 20" however. The difference would be quite obvious. Not so here. Visually they appear to be the same as the fronts or very close to it. The sidewall of the tyre is greater so there is certainly a larger section tyre on the back rim. Also there were 17" rims available on Bedfords back then but I only ever saw those on the TK models (forward control). They could have fitted some of those here.

A question for Bjorn - possibly...

I have just read the story about the 917/20 Pink Pig in latest Motorsport.
Porsche Museum Boss and ex-works mechanic Klaus Bischoff mentions there, that the car could not fit into the Porsche race transporters, so they had to use an old military truck for the test weekend and the race.
Are there any photos anywhere about this unusual pairing of cars ? Which type / make of transporter was this ? Nothing more is written in the article.
Bischoff also tells, that the transporter is still with Porsche and - hopefully - might be reunited with the "Pig" again. He is currently fighting to get the funds for the 917 to have it running again.

Sorry Ralf , cant help much there , I remember 4-5 years ago to have read a few lines about it being too wide , so was transported on a drawbar low loader heavyweight trailer , which for those who dont understand my English would be a "tieflader anhaenger" ! I will try to do some renewed follow up .

Bjørn

Tieflader !

Would really be interesting to see that rather different Porsche works transporter. Especially, which type of Bundeswehr vehicle they did use.
But Bischoff obviously wants to do that rather soon, because he would like to reunite the old mechanics etc. with both cars at Weissach.

Would also great to have that transporter with car at Le Mans Classic !

So the bit behind the cab is where they stow the Barbie and the bigger bit behind that is where they stow the 4X where do they put the actual racing cars ?

Anyone know the story behind this rig ??





Sold for $ 1700,- !!!

Mystery Rig.

Brimen
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Apologies if this has been posted before, spotted on fleabay


http://www.ebay.ie/itm/John-Player-Team-Lo...5#ht_500wt_1075

Hello all,

I think this may be of interest;

revcon

Tried but failed to post the photos on here! (Photos copyright LAT Photographic.)

The motorhome pictured is a Revcon 250 that was used by Graham Hill's Embassy-Hill team in the '73-'75 F1 seasons.

It surfaced about 12 months ago after seemingly years in the wilderness and after a bit of a chase I got my hands on it about 3 months ago and have started restoration.

It came with a strong 'Graham Hill' rumour which thanks to the marvellous archivists at LAT photographic is now proven.

If anybody out there has any anecdotes or photos they would be happy to share (particularly with Graham, Bette, Damon or the any of the drivers e.g Tony Brise, Guy Edwards, Alan Jones, Rolf Stommelen, Vern Schuppen, Graham Hill in shot) then you'd make my life.

Regards

Jeremy

Hello Jeremy.

Any chance of seeing the Revcon in the 'as found' condition?

NICE PHOTOS Jeremy
By the way...Could you post some photos from the current restoration project?
Another question I saw in one of the photos a Range Rover and a green Mercedes besides Team Lotus motorhome I wonder if thet belonged to Colin Champan or his drivers......

I've added a couple of photos to the link above 'revcon' showing the coach as it is today (somebody got carried away with the nitromors in an attempt to make it look like an Airstream at some point) as well as an amusing photo of one of the reasons the engine wasn't running too well, this despite the character I bought it from assuring me he'd 'just driven it round Wales' and casually putting a couple of flyers from welsh tourist attractions in it for good measure - quality, we did chuckle.

I wouldn't mind getting the matching Bultaco Alpina pictured that I've seen footage Graham Hill riding round his back garden.

Nice find, looks in good order too

RJ

Hi all,

I would like to know if anybody has other pictures of this transporter.
It is a Renault "1000KG" type R2060 (I think), used by the French Ecurie Edger from Mr Edouard Germain in 1961, to race Lotuses 18 Junior for drivers Jo Schlesser, Bernard Boyer (who will became famous at Matra as technical director) and later Henri Grandsire. Cars, trailer and van where all painted in light blue color.

Any help is welcome.

How about transporters from our side of the pond?
Found this recently. It is the transporter for the Meister Brau Racing Team from 1959/60. They ran the Reventlow Scarabs in SCCA racing all over the USA.
Enjoy!









ZOOOM

Does anyone have pictures of the Alfa Romeo / Brabham / Renault F1 transporters from the 1980s? thanks.

ZOOOM:

The Whiteman photos are interesting. He was apparently quite a "car guy" from the days when his band used big American sedans (Chryslers?) as transporters to get themselves and their instruments from one gig to another. In about 1966-67, I met him at an Amoco station in Lambertville, New Jersey. He was driving a huge white Pontiac station wagon that probably needed the "white gas" premium that Amoco then sold. We had a short but genial conversation about cars, etc., and that was it. He lived in New Hope, Pennsylvania, on the Delaware River. He was quite involved with SCCA and racing, though to my knowledge he never drove a race car himself. He died in December 1967, and I recall listening to a tribute to "Pops" on a Philadelphia radio station.

Frank

Hows the book coming along?

Hi , as could be expexted , trouble occured , it should land in US and UK this week , so , sorry again , probably not under the tree !

I'm in Australia ,best place to order/buy?

Amazon pre-order might be the best right now ! (Sorry again).

Dear members . Thanks for your contributions , they have been very interesting.

I wish you all a Happy 2012 with a lot of good news.

PS. Take a look here over 1200 NASCAR transporters 1950-60's plus a lot others and a host of great pictures , mostly US racing , but also Targa Florio. contributors and members .

http://public.fotki.com/gwadagone/nascar--race-car-ha/

Thanks Bjorn for that link page 4 shows a great photo of the old team truck the big black Kenny love it.

And a Happy 2012 to you . Doug

After reviewing the whole thread (quite a job!) I found a partial answer to my own post #2528 earlier on this page, about the Renault van used by Ecurie Edger from France for Jo Schlesser in the early sixties. It appears that this van (also known as a "Renault Goelette") has been sold to Rene Bonnet which then became the racing division of Matra.

A nice color picture of this very same van has been posted to the TNF Transporter forum at post #1481 (link here: Renault 1000KG)

Happy new year to all of you guys!

hello
research picture mercedes martini brabham

http://www.flickr.com/photos/38921598@N05/4303486143/
best regards

THANKS!

Posted on behalf of Bjørn Kjer



I think Bjørn wants to know the logo on the top left of Team Lotus transporter. Also date/location

Rob

Lotus 18 1960....Rheims ?

Seem it is Aintree F2 in april 1960.

With permission from Cliff.....Thanks for adding to this thread.


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Hi. What is this car? I think the Tyrrell camion, of course. Do you have more and the better picture?
Thank you
goro

it was ELF Motorhome not a transporter

Many Thanks for your answer!

From "Mr Hudson's photos" - the transporter might not be particularly of interest, I think the Mercedes is a 300SL from 1952, but the most remarkable thing about the photo, IMHO, is Neubauer and his enormous belly...

http://www.fotocommunity.de/pc/pc/mypics/1...isplay/16797838

That collection of photos, largely from the Nurburgring over the years, was epic, but sadly most are now on 'private', although there are still a few gems on view. Not quite sure what 'private' means - whether if you registered with fotocommunity and contacted 'Mr Hudson' you could view them with his permission - but it would be well worth your while if you could. I trawled through all of them when they were on public view and they were amazing.

One for Bjorn, perhaps!

Seen (in the outside display) at Retromobile earlier this month. I wasn't able to find out anything specific about it, but no doubt someone here may know more.