Great site! A good report on the 1968 BOAC and a terrific insight to Per Inge Walfridsson, I cannot, however, begin to imagine, a Cresta/Velox of the day coming down the Mountain at speed

A Cresta was a Velox with a lot more chrome. When I worked for Hertz in Manchester in 19 umpty tump we had a PINK one on the fleet. It was known as the Strawberry Roan and was very popular with certain gentlemen of West Indian origin who paid a premium rate for it and used it to monitor their stables in the Moss Side area. It used to go awol which necessitated a trip with a spare key to grab it back from outside but it certainly earned it's corn.

I remember the pink Crestas....rather tasteful But do you remember the toffee brown (polite description ) and light yellow colour scheme ? Gee, GM knew how to pull the customers in back then, no wonder my dad had maroon Classics and British Racing Green Cortinas

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I reckon that it was a Velox not a Cresta that won at Philip Island

Not so sure about that... I'm wracking my memory bank a bit, but I do think it was a Cresta since I recall that despite the slight extra weight of the luxury spec, there was either a slight performance/specification advantage or maybe it had disc brakes vs the Velox's drums. There was definite reason to choose the Cresta over the Velox`

I belive you are correct about the DISC brakes option on the cresta......

CAMS manual says Coad, Roxborough in a Cresta. PA Crestas did not have disc brakes until late 61

If they can spell Roxburgh's name incorrectly they can probably get the model wrong too ;)

For a change don't blame CAMS, I am the one who can't spell. Must be early senility!

I'm interested in Eddie Whitham's photo showing the Renault 8 registered 8 EXP - does anyone have any more info or images? The only photo I've ever seen of this one was in a Renault Owners Club newsletter of June 1965, taken at Renault UKs headquarters in Acton, with the caption:

"Hermes Cars Ltd shoe-horned a 145 bhp Cheshunt-Dagenham twin-cam. engine and Hewland five speed gearbox... for Group IV Saloon Car racing."

Hermes were known for Renault tuning and accessories; it's not an 8 Gordini by the way, although the 1108cc R8G was introduced here about the same time during 1965. I will check with the ROC about posting their newsletter photo.

I vaguely recollect that Peter Wardle drove Hermes Renaults?

Ah! Suddenly it starts to make sense - Peter Wardle was one of the founders of Hermes. Thank you,

Nick

Hello, Nick, have you got yourself another A110 yet?

Hi Geoff - it's been a while since we last met, if not longer. No Alpine at the moment, but I do have a rusty Renault 8, a mig welder and a pile of Gordini bits...

Great photos, how I wish saloons were like this today, look at the rear wheel on Frank's Falcon burning rubber! These cars used to make the ground shake under the old "Motor Bridge" out onto the Brands long circuit

Salmon Pink Crestas if you don't mind!!

The two tone mustard ones were nice!

I can hear Johnny Kidd and the Pirates "Shaking All Over"........great memories from those days!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFXGeTvBjX4

People could really play in those days .

They still do, sterling - not 1966, but last weekend at Oulton Park

Two tones of mustard?? the mind boggles Normie didn't do a bad version either...

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=YTNvHt8VGWc

Not a special stage on the 1975 Monte, but the BTCC round at Good Friday Oulton Park


Andy Rouse, Team Piranha Dolomite Sprint


Bernard Unett, Halesfield Motors Avenger

Super Saloon action from Oulton Park 1975


I always loved the beautifully understated advertising for Adlards which Martin Birrane carried on his Capri's bootlid spoiler


Divina Galica with the All Car Equipe Escort, backed by one of the redoubtable Sid Miller's outfits.


No 1970s saloon meeting was complete without GDR Marshall and "Old Nail"


Alan Minshaw's DAF-Oldsmobile


Alec Poole's 2-litre Skoda


Camaro exponent Stuart Graham

Some more of Eddie Whitham's fine photos - these examples from Oulton Park Spring Trophy F2 meeting on the 3rd April 1965. The heyday of Mini Cooper racing.

Harry Ratcliffe's British Vita Cooper 'S'

The British Vita transporter,

and the lovely Anita Taylor with her Cooper 'S' entered by the Automobile Racing Drivers' School
An early bath for John Fitzpatrick's Broadspeed entry

More please!

OK, Mistron, here you are..

Oulton Park 1965 - Saloon and GT carnage at Old Hall



Henlys of Chester's ever-present tow truck clears up the debris


Ian McDougall's Broadspeed Mini leads the Mini of Bob Smith 24th April 1965

Anglias down the Avenue

A mixed Saloon/GT field

could that be bill bradleys lm spitfire behind the cortina, great photos .

I'd love to have that Tow Truck, although there are very few cars one can put on the hook nowadays.

Fantastic photo's Alan,

Superb photos Alan, they bring back great memories of lovely prepared cars with no stock car tactics.

Yes, same Rod Embley. He used to own a photographic shop in Olton, Solihull and was a Cannon dealer too.

Eddie Whitham's photos from the Gold Cup meeting, Oulton Park September 1967


Chris Craft - Superspeed Anglia crests Deer Leap


John Fitzpatrick's Broadspeed version


Tony Lanfranchi and Bernard Unett's Alan Fraser Imps sandwich, I think, Chris Montague's Mini

...and Lotus Cortina hero Jim Clark from the 1965 Gold Cup meeting

British Grand Prix '78 TWR Pentax BMW 530 I entered this shot for a Pentax comp. Didn't win..

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Another variation on the BMW theme Rad Dougal's Toleman version.

I entered this one in the Pentax competition; I didn't win either!

When I saw what did win my reaction was : bollox, it's a fix.

I have regurgitated this tale before, in the Brands Hatch thread, but seeing as the topic has resurfaced...


This is one of the winning shots from the Pentax competition. The runners-up were revealed one by one during a prize-giving reception in Syon Park, London - and eventually there were only two prints still concealed. One of them, above, was mine. I had a 50/50 shot at winning a BMW 316 at the age of 17, but the judges then said, "And our youngest runner-up is..."

It was only 20 years later, when I overheard my mum talking to a friend over dinner, that I discovered the full story. My picture had, apparently, been chosen as the winner, but Pentax phoned my parents to check I had a full licence. "Not yet," quoth my mum, "but he's taking his test next week."

Having crossed my hands at the wheel of her Renault 5TL in Sale town centre, I duly failed said test and Mrs A - honest to a fault - confirmed as much to Pentax when they made a follow-up call. The shot that subsequently took first prize was a colour print, taken at Lodge Corner, with the Pentax 5-series in full headlights-on mode.

I came away with a) mixed feelings but b) a Pentax K1000 and a bunch of lenses, with which I was very happy. The bottom line is that mum probably did me a favour. Had they given me the BMW I would almost certainly have stuck it into a ditch while racing TNF devotee P Rainford around the Cheshire countryside. As an aside, I still use Pentax SLRs to this day.

Oh.....no !!.....

Is Stuart Graham driving his Capri or is he sitting in the back of the Walkinshaw BMW?

Kind regards

Phil

See- I told you it was a fix.

Is that disbelief about my mum's possibly misguided honesty or the fact I still use Pentax?

I was reading the Brands thread, saw your story and you would not believe how long it took me to find my shot.

A belated congratulations.

No wonder you failed your test crossing your hands in Sale Town Centre .............it was a pedestrain only area by 1977 ;)

Kind regards

Phil

1968 and the start of the support race at the Gold Cup meeting.

Gardner in front of Nick Faure and who is in the 2nd Mann car?Tony Dean in the ex-works Cortina? The hoardings depict great times back then, whenever I venture to a circuit nowm they are very corporate affairs, with "corporate" colours dominating. Nice photo

The second Alan Mann Escort was in the capable hands of Graham Hill. The two Tony Dean Cortinas were driven by Barrie Maskell & Barry Pearson. The silver 911T is being driven by Charles Lucas. The Ford Falcons were in the hands of Roy Peirpoint, Brian Muir, Terry Sanger and David Hobbs.

NGH driving the period-tactical, notionally forced-induction Mann Escort T/C to steal points from the larger class. Hobbs was in the Gartlan Falcon
Roger Lund

I went to Silverstone for the pre GP testing last year. The first time back to the old place for about 15 years and I noticed how bare the place was for advertising hoardings. Just Santander and virtually nothing else. I thought come the race there would be a few more, but watching on TV there was nothing, just Santander.

Re: the 1968 Gold Cup support entry, from Frank de Jong's excellent website
http://homepage.mac.com/frank_de_jong/Race...ton%20Park.html

Club racing saloon legend, Nick Brittan, with his famous "Green Bean" Anglia from 1965. Eddie Whitham photos

Alan do you touch any of Eddie's pictures up at all?

Because the lighting and colours on them are all incredible....

Kind regards

Phil

No, Phil. No doctoring required. I agree that the colour quality is superb.