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Durango Silverton Train - and Healeys at Silverton ..
The train ; photo from in the Lincoln
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Silverton Main Street - Greene St ?
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Those Hills [ Mountains ].
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The Healeys heading up into the Mountains - unsure if before or after Silverton, I think we were heading for Durango, for our night stop, then the following day on to Snowmass - at Aspen, Colorado.
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There were Tunnels on the Route - well at least one. was in the Lincoln - we " The Kiwi Five ", Brenda, Bryan, Craig, [ BMC BOY ] Ross, and Roger [ me ] took turns to ride or drive various Healeys on the trip.
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Must look at the Route Map. below.
As created by the the South Central Coast Club, part of Austin Healey Pacific Centre
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AH 100 Six - later a 3000 .. Works Racer/ Rally car VOK490
VOK490 was built in 1958 as a BN4 100 Six, used in the record breaking attempts at Montlhery in France in 1958, later became a works Rally Car and later again a Modified Racer.
The Circuit " Autodrome de Linas Montlhery " is still there but I believe - now unused.
The car is now in New Zealand, in the hands of Tim Riley [ son of Anne Wisdom/Riley - BMC works Rally Driver and Peter Riley, Racer and BMC works driver].
Peter came to New Zealand in 2015 and saw the car, the story appeared in the issue #60 of NZ Classic Driver
[ May June 2015 issue ] story written by Tony Haycock.
Allan Dick of Autonews, Classic Autonews and Classic Driver fame posted a photo of one of the works cars with Anne Wisdom and Pat Moss - Carlsson and all their trophys.
a montage of photos that relate to the Riley family and VOK490.
Anne Wisdom [ Riley ] and Pat Moss and their trophys around 1960 - with URX727 which was a works Rally car and features later in the thread in August 2023..
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VOK490 as the record breaker - still a 100 Six
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Jack Sears BMC works racer and Le Mans AH entrant in 1960 signed this
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The car even appears on a book cover - driven by a Clergyman .. Rupert Jones.
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Another photo of the record breaker - in Monochrome - for the Cambridge University Automobile Club CUAC who were in the record attempt - from their archives - same photo.
The gentleman are the drivers and include Marcus Chambers - names recently revealed in a recent post on Fb.
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Found one more on the track and left hand drive !!
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More of the VOK490 and Peter Riley story to follow when I get some more scanning done, I am well behind as the damn machine sits in the garage and I don't when on the laptop.
see the views of the AH thread have topped 220,000 long way to go to catch ERC or Nigel though !!
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NOJ391 - The Works racer 100S ..and some other 100S .
From Karsten Stelk archives - unsure of the meeting but the 100S is in the background with WAC247 a 100/6 or early 3000 in two of the photos.
The car was destroyed in 1964 and the engine and some parts were put into several other 100S according to Joe Armour
Karsten has more photos which he will post and has allowed me to " borrow " them.
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and finally a group of 100S, a 100M and a 3000 or as believed by some one of the prototype AH 4000's ;
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from JME Healey archives Goodwood 2009.
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NOJ391 and the track - then VOK490..
Thanks ERC and 928 - will pass that image and notes onto Karsten Stelk.
He has just sent me another picture of the ex works [ ex Peter Riley ] 100/6 endurance and racer which become a works 3000 Rally car now with Peter's son Tim Riley in New Zealand.. VOK490 - the Cambridge University Auto Club car.
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VOK 490 featured in this issue of NZ Classic Driver #60 May-June 2015, as did a story about Peter Riley
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More to come from Karsten Stelk on NOJ391 works 100S VOK490 works 100 SIX / 3000 and others - as he finds them.