They WERE Homologated with front disc brakes, in fact TWO disc options were offered. The girlings were the same as what they fitted to the TDF Galaxies IIRC... Of course you could not get these on...
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They WERE Homologated with front disc brakes, in fact TWO disc options were offered. The girlings were the same as what they fitted to the TDF Galaxies IIRC... Of course you could not get these on...
Wonderful pics!
http://new.livestream.com/CAMStvmedia/SirJackBrabham-StateFuneral
Wow, that 2008 re-enactment is fantastic! Thanks!
Cheers!
How good is this! (hmm, sorry I dont know how to post this properly...obviously!)
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R.I.P... A true innovator and hot rodding pioneer...
Thanks so much to Jac Mac, 225sloper & spinner32 for taking to time to share info, looks like a pretty tough corty, and plenty quick... I remember buying a photo at a swap meet of a brown Mk 1 corty...
What else can you guys tell me about that cortina?/ Looks awsome! I do love me a V8 Mk 1 Corty!
Love it! LOts of media attention for the sponsors and lots of merch sales too...great idea!
If you knew me mate you would know I'm FAR from being a f%#king rivet counter... Unfortunately I have looked at so many damn cortina engine bays over the years I could tell them by braille....
I started a thread on ten-tenths yonks ago and from what came forth, It is now claimed to be owned by a Martin thomas in the UK... No pics or any info provided, apart from that It may be restored......
Steve, well done on adding these wonderful build threads to your Forum, I can't wait to see all these Killer builds unfold, and ca't wait to see what you bring us next!
Thats a Lotus Elan guys...
Yeah thats what I reckon Steve...
Dug up something interesting in my archives today, a program from a brands hatch short track meet on october 31, 1965. Never realized that Howard Mardsen (of GTHO fame, one of Alan Manns first...
Man, wish I could be there! Looks like a lot of work went of behind the scenes to make this happen, well done!
I NEEDS TO HAVE ONE OF THESE!
My bad, Ellis had it right, no pushrods.... may as well have had no rockers though! Its been a while since i thought about TP stuff..sorry
Ive always been mystyfied at why the 302TP was considered so bad, driveability wise... I'm no engineer or race engine guru, but I always thought a BOSS 302 would be heaps worse (for lower & mid range...
Lew Spencer also spoke of getting a "Ready to run" engine in a crate from Ford that were missing it's rocker arms! Apparently at the end of the season, Shelbys team built a TP engine behind fords...
Actually 1968 was the first year the T/A Mustangs ran 4 wheel discs....
I believe that could have been possible Robert, as I have seen pics of the 1963 TDF cars going around the Monaco?? track....
In Alan Manns biography, He claims to have won a race at Brands hatch in the first week of January 1965. That race was actually a delayed Boxing day meeting... He was driving an ex TDF mustang and it...