Looks like hes cheating no windscreen!!
Rod I try to be ahead what about the wide wheels>>>
Is that Gary Sprague in third spot ?
Just an update. I have already spoken to Dave.
Dave's rollcage application was 1 YEAR and 12 days late.
SO what we are trying to source now is a qualified engineer in the Christchurch region who will fill out the roll protection homologation form for a reasonable price. Not the 000's that OPUS quoted.
That was an exceptionally cool car!
He took the back screen out after the front one broke.
Yes I believe his long hair was flicking in his eyes plus the top speed picked another five miles an hour!!!
The above article is out of a book "Cat out of the Bag" by Peter D Wilson, a mechanic in the Competitions dept, Jaguar Browns Road from 1961 to 1966.
Dave Silcock loaned me the book.
From the book "cat out of the Bag" by Peter D Wilson Jaguar employee
at Browns Road Competition Dept from 1961 to 1966.
the 6th photo is of the 3 Briggs Cunningham cars for Le Mans 1963.
The list of the 12 official Lightweight E Types Original Owners.
#1 John Coombs,sold to Red Rose Motors 1964.
#2 Briggs Cunningham.
#3 kjell Qvale.Disappeared til the 1990's
#4 CT "Tommy" Atkins.sold to Roger Mac 1964
#5 Peter Lidner.crashed written off, remains held by race
organisers,released 17 years later rebuilt by Lynx on a spare
monocoque.
#6 Peter Lumsden.
#7 Briggs Cunningham, Le Mans 1963
#8 Briggs Cunningham, Le Mans 1963
#9 Peter Sutcliffe.
# 10 Bob Jane ( Brysons Australia), sold to York Museum Western
Australia, after 1966
# 11 Dick Wilkins for a road car.
# 12 Phil Scragg, for hillclimbs and sprints.
#13 Sir Robert Ropner, Steel monocoque,Alloy top, doors, bonnet and
bootlid, cast iron block, road car.
@14 Pierre Bardinon (France) LHD, Steel fixed head coupe, Alloy
bonnet,Alloy block, wet sump.
# 14 was esentually a prototype,steel monocoque, iron block, ran 2nd
in class 1962 Le Mans,4th overall for Briggs Cunningham.
Lynx aquired all the spare Lightweight parts including two Alloy monocoques, 1 used for the # 5 rebuild as already shown, the other was built into a car using the spare parts. There is no history of this car known by me.
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