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Post by Stewart on Apr 3, 2024 15:13:58 GMT -5
When someone says "Aston Martin DB4", I think of the closed coupe predecessor to the DB5 and DB6 rather than an open wheeler. Still, it's an interesting addition (though personally I'd prefer to see an actual number in the middle of those roundels). The problem there Ian is the lack of any photos of that trial. Graham Gauld couldn’t help with any photos as seemingly no journalists attended. I think I will remove the roundels. Jerry’s comments are spot on, Aston Martin quite rightly concentrated successfully on Le Mans in order to promote car sales. Their F1 car could well have prevailed in 1958 but John Cooper then beat everyone emphatically to the punch and changed the game for all time. Enzo himself finally “put the horse behind the cart”. |
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Post by jager on Apr 8, 2024 8:07:25 GMT -5
Stewart, you may have seen this online article already, but it appears many if not all of the Aston Martin's ended up 'down under' in Australia. There is quite a bit of commentary around the various tests, modifications and drivers, but no mention of Clark. primotipo.com/tag/aston-martin-dbr4250/It seems that these were painted more of a tradtional BRG than Aston Martin's metallic green.  Roy Salvadori in practice aboard DBR4-1 during practice at Zandvoort, 1959 Dutch GP weekend. |
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Post by Stewart on Apr 9, 2024 5:53:46 GMT -5
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Post by Stewart on Apr 9, 2024 12:48:18 GMT -5
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Post by Stewart on Apr 17, 2024 4:43:38 GMT -5
Tojeiro Jaguar: Continued.David Murray commissioned the car in 1959 to compete at Le Mans that year. It was fitted with a 3 litre engine developed by Wilkie Wilkinson from the Jaguar 2.4 litre engine in order to comply with the new FIA regulations. It was driven by Ron Flockhart and Jock Lawrence and held fourth place for many laps until the engine overheated and destroyed itself. After Le Mans the Tojeiro-Jaguar was modified with a large power bulge being added to the bonnet to accommodate a tall-block (reduced 3.8-litre) XK engine, and in this form the car was taken to Goodwood for the RAC Tourist Trophy race on September 5, 1959. The car was to be co-driven there by American star Masten Gregory and by promising young newcomer Jim Clark, who would explain: "For me the race was a turning point. Every driver goes through a number of turning points in his career, I feel, for each driver builds up images within himself. Once he has cracked one image he invents another and so progresses onwards and upwards. My particular image was Masten..." Jim Clark continued: "Here I was in a highly competitive car with a really top-line driver in direct competition with the might of Tthe Ferrari works team, the Porsche team and of course, the Astons....any confidence I had was strained to the limit. At the same time I had this tremendous respect for Masten who, I considered, was a really great driver... During the race I found myself lapping the Tojeiro as quickly as Masten could, and in the race I realized that I might seriously compete with the idols of my schooldays. Now this may sound strange to many people, but it had a profound effect on me. I began to enjoy the race and was quite well placed (seventh)...when Masten buried the Toj in the bank at Woodcote Corner...". The picture below shows the car, #8 at the start of the 24Hr race. Note the lack of the power bulge that came later.  I had posted previously that I had missed out on a Pinko model of the car on eBay. I sought help from our members and Jerry as always came up trumps. This significant addition to the collection arrived on Monday. Thanks Mate!   Into the cabinet. 
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Post by Tom on Apr 17, 2024 6:14:04 GMT -5
That looks great!
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Post by DeadCanDanceR on Apr 17, 2024 8:24:01 GMT -5
Very nice, indeed!  |
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Post by 105epaul on Apr 17, 2024 11:46:55 GMT -5
I didn't know that there was a model of it, I shall have to keep an eye out for one. Pinko did make some models that were not of the more popular racers.
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Post by Alfaholic on Apr 17, 2024 20:53:41 GMT -5
The blue makes a nice change from the predominantly BRG cars in this wing of your collection.
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Post by oldirish33 on Apr 17, 2024 21:41:02 GMT -5
Glad it made its way into your collection. Sadly, the 3.0L XK engine was problematic in all its forms due to a lack of money to invest in suitable development. Enjoy the Toj!
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Post by reeft1 on Apr 17, 2024 23:34:05 GMT -5
Lovely addition and very kind of you Jerry
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Post by Stewart on Apr 18, 2024 9:58:28 GMT -5
Very nice, indeed! I didn't know that there was a model of it, I shall have to keep an eye out for one. Pinko did make some models that were not of the more popular racers. The blue makes a nice change from the predominantly BRG cars in this wing of your collection. Glad it made its way into your collection. Sadly, the 3.0L XK engine was problematic in all its forms due to a lack of money to invest in suitable development. Enjoy the Toj! Lovely addition and very kind of you Jerry Thanks for all your comments. I am glad that Jerry came up with the Pinko model since I had thought about chasing after the Renaissance model, but as you can see that hasn’t got the power bulge.  |
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Post by Stewart on May 24, 2024 14:08:27 GMT -5
This is a bit of a detective story. Whilst looking into Jim Clark’s Lotus Elite drives I came across this entry on the estimable RSC website. —————————————-  —————————————————- This outing was confirmed by Graham Gaulds excellent tome. I googled for photos and only found this.  I was already discussing this with our fellow member Ron and he gave me this link. That car features in here, the story is interesting in its own right as well. youtu.be/6JY8gkKrKmE?si=fZhrWqXP3ZGoX8gzI found a way to step through YouTube and captured these photos   Amazingly Ron found a decal supplier in Italy who covered the car, I found a donor car shown below and the project was on.  This is the result.   LOTUS ELITE CLIMAX Str 4 1216cc JIM CLARK 1962 DAYTONA INTERNATIONAL GT RACE 4th IN CLASS SPARK S8216 (modified) CODE 3 BY RON WATT Thanks to Ron who completed this interesting project for me. |
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Post by alfaromeo179 on May 24, 2024 16:26:18 GMT -5
Maybe not quite the holy grail of Jim Clark cars but felt like it like the amount of research that was undertaken by Stewart and myself ! Great. Fun though and thanks to Stewart who asked me to undertake the code 3
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Post by 105epaul on May 25, 2024 7:31:08 GMT -5
Very nice conversion. I have the original Dad10 version which was Les Leston's car sitting in a cabinet.
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