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Post by René on May 17, 2024 16:48:29 GMT
Hi Rene I see Fly made a model of the very car. What I had forgotten was that Hesketh had more than one car entered in 1975. Yep, I just happened to see it on a favorite site of mine. Very tempting. After having collected all the leading cars it becomes more interesting to find the backmarkers which is often more difficult. But this one is nice.  |
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Post by robmarsh on May 18, 2024 8:44:07 GMT
I think you should get it Rene. I always liked the Polar caravans decals plus the Hesketh was a very pretty car with a very distinctive airbox.
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Post by René on May 18, 2024 12:14:35 GMT
I think you should get it Rene. I always liked the Polar caravans decals plus the Hesketh was a very pretty car with a very distinctive airbox. I know what you mean Rob. The only ‘problem’ is that I already have the James Hunt, the Alan Jones and the Guy Edward versions. I am trying to control myself…  |
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Post by mikael on Jul 13, 2024 11:42:24 GMT
Although the car in the commercial below has been "over-drawn" in a strange, odd way (for some reason or another, it has been made asymmetric), it is nonetheless inspired by a real car. (It must be a drawing, as it was way before PhotoShop :-D) So: * who is the driver? * what car (car make) is it? * what year? (Yes, Carl may have an unfair advantage here :-D (*))
((*) That was a hint ... unintended ;-) )
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Post by René on Jul 13, 2024 16:30:52 GMT
All the more reason to beat Carl to it!  I recognized the actual car immediately, a Can-Am McLaren M6B, but didn't know the number 55 to be honest so had to look that up. But I'll wait with the answer, maybe Carl knows.  As for the distorted image, it's a photo alright but it has been stretched on the right side. Maybe to make it look wider or more spectacular or fit the page width, don't know. There was indeed no photoshop back then  but a distortion like this could quite easily been made in the dark room or in the printing process. There were tricks before photoshop. But it looks a bit clumsy now. |
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Post by Carl on Jul 13, 2024 17:46:15 GMT
Canadian Roger McCaig was essentially a wealthy backmarker who could afford the latest Can-Am and F5000 McLaren customer cars, which he always numbered 55. At first I thought the photo was a distorted composite rather than an actual M6B and didn't know it was McCaig. I remember him as a good driver who could afford cars faster than he was, but he loved racing, especially Can-Am, and was always there in the background. He continued even after being diagnosed with cancer and died tragically young at 43.
Being passed by Mario Andretti's Holman-Moody McLaren  M6B with a massive Ford (8.1 litres) in 1969
A more peaceful moment  |
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Post by mikael on Jul 13, 2024 18:10:11 GMT
Carl and René: yes, that was also what I found: it is Roger McCaig in a Chevrolet-powered McLaren M6B.
Yes, apparently McCaig has a special affection for the number 55.
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Post by René on Jul 13, 2024 20:33:25 GMT
Cool, that is what I found also. I was only not sure about the driver as it could also be Canadian John Cordts who drove for McCaig Racing using the #55 on several occasions.   |
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Post by mikael on Jul 13, 2024 21:13:12 GMT
Oh! The driver in the Valvoline commercial might indeed have a dark helmet with a white peak (very well spotted, René). In whatever way, we all agree about a McLaren M6B Can-Am car, entered by McCaig Racing :-)
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Post by Carl on Jul 13, 2024 22:30:10 GMT
Cool, that is what I found also. I was only not sure about the driver as it could also be Canadian John Cordts who drove for McCaig Racing using the #55 on several occasions. Well done, René! The helmet seen in the Valvoline advertisement is clearly that of John Cordts. However, the setting is obviously the Corkscrew at Laguna Seca, returning us to the appearance of a weird composite. In 1969, Cordts replaced Roger McCaig in #55 twice in the Can-Am. Both drivers were at Laguna Seca, but Cordts drove there for Gregg Young's Young American Racing Team in #99 while Roger McCaig drove his normal #55 One possibility is that McCaig was afraid of heights and would stop each lap at the approach to the Corkscrew to allow Cordts to jump in... Sherlock Holmes would probably conclude that the advertising agency, already altering reality, decided they liked one helmet more than the other.
Date / Race / Number / Car / Driver / Entrant / Result
1969 Can-Am Mosport 57 McLaren Elva Mark III John Cordts Performance Engineering 4th 1969 Can-Am St. Jovite 55 McLaren M6B John Cordts McCaig Racing Ent. 5th 1969 Can-Am St. Jovite 57 McLaren Elva Mark III John Cordts Performance Engineering DNA* (Did Not Arrive) 1969 Can-Am Watkins Glen 55 McLaren M6B John Cordts McCaig Racing Enterprises, Ltd. DNF 1969 Can-Am Laguna Seca 99 McLaren M6B John Cordts Young American Racing 6th 1969 Can-Am Riverside 99 McLaren M6B John Cordts Young-American Racing/by Bill Young DNF 1969 Can-Am Texas 99 McLaren M6B John Cordts Bill Young-Young American DNF 1969 200 mile Fuji Can-Am 99 McLaren M6B John Cordts 17th |
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Post by René on Sept 30, 2024 18:42:16 GMT
Who is this?  |
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Post by mikael on Sept 30, 2024 19:44:13 GMT
"Casino Baden" ... so perhaps (probably) a German driver ...?
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Post by Carl on Sept 30, 2024 21:26:02 GMT
Hans Stuck Jr. on Saint Valentine's Day
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Post by robmarsh on Oct 1, 2024 15:53:12 GMT
Helmuth Koinigg RIP
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Post by mikael on Oct 1, 2024 16:41:56 GMT
Hans Stuck Jr. on Saint Valentine's Day
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but a distortion like this could quite easily been made in the dark room or in the printing process. There were tricks before photoshop. But it looks a bit clumsy now.
