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Post by René on Oct 26, 2021 11:18:29 GMT
Wonderful photos, René, especially the young tifoso rossa beside the Ferrari Testarossa which, by all rights, you should have been able to drive home.  Driving the Testarossa would have been cool but hey, we had a Ford!  |
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Post by charleselan on Oct 26, 2021 11:33:16 GMT
In the Uk that as known as a Ford Granada, a darn fine car. I really liked the styling of that period of Ford cars and it still looks good today in my opinion.
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Post by René on Oct 26, 2021 11:45:55 GMT
In the Uk that as known as a Ford Granada, a darn fine car. I really liked the styling of that period of Ford cars and it still looks good today in my opinion. Yes, it was also sold as a Granada here. It was the largest model if I remember correctly, one step bigger than a Taunus. It was a fine car to drive. Very eighties 'square' styling.
It was my late friend Raymond's car sitting on the trunk. Good and sad memories at the same time.
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Post by charleselan on Oct 26, 2021 11:52:16 GMT
In the Uk that as known as a Ford Granada, a darn fine car. I really liked the styling of that period of Ford cars and it still looks good today in my opinion. Yes, it was also sold as a Granada here. It was the largest model if I remember correctly, one step bigger than a Taunus. It was a fine car to drive. Very eighties 'square' styling.
It was my late friend Raymond's car sitting on the trunk. Good and sad memories at the same time.
I can well understand your mixed emotions there René. The smaller version was called the Cortina in the UK which of course was an iconic model from the 1960's onwards. They looked very similar but the Granada was aimed at a more select market. I believe that in Australia they had the Granada shell fitted with a big V8 motor which did very well in the Australian Touring car races with he likes of Dick Johnson. |
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Post by René on Nov 6, 2021 11:34:11 GMT
I wish I could time travel to these scenes...
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Post by mikael on Dec 11, 2021 19:12:01 GMT
Beauty and the beast ... (Françoise Hardy and Jack Brabham - important to get the order right, I guess, ...)
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Post by mikael on Dec 11, 2021 19:16:17 GMT
Undiscussable beauty - Brabham leads the field at Zandvoort in 1966.
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Post by René on Dec 11, 2021 19:53:15 GMT
Beauty and the beast ... (Françoise Hardy and Jack Brabham - important to get the order right, I guess, ...)
The order is quite clear.  The Zandvoort picture is fantastic. |
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Post by chrisb on Dec 12, 2021 9:56:26 GMT
sorry Mikael I made a comment elsewhere but what beautiful pictures, I take it the one with Jack and Francois is during the filming of Grand Prix?
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Post by chrisb on Dec 12, 2021 9:58:01 GMT
what a beautiful picture of a wonderful circuit, you do miss the undulations and this captures the beauty of the circuit,
this is also one of my favourite races, DSJ's musings of the race was pure poetry and he waxed lyrically about the teamwork of the Team Brabham working to keep Jimmy at bay,
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Post by charleselan on Dec 13, 2021 12:46:49 GMT
I do not recall seeing that superb picture from the 1966 Dutch GP before, I have many but not this one and in glorious technicolour.
In my opinion that was the greatest drive of Jim Clark's career, and by and large it goes unheralded by the motoring press, probably as it was not deemed as glamorous as his drive at Monza in 1967. However in my mind this drive was right up there with Fangio at the Nurburgring in 1957 and Stirling Moss at Monaco & Nurburgring in 1961.
Consider this, Jim was driving a car with a two litre engine against two Brabham's with full three litre engines. Not only were the Brabham's more powerful they had much more torque and their power was very useable. Jim always excelled at Zandvoort and on this occasion he was absolutely outstanding. He might have been slightly aided by the fact that the track was covered in a film of sand and a mixture of oil which made for very tricky conditions, however where were the other two litre cars in that race (and very competitive ones with the Lotus).
I believe that I placed a copy of DSJ's race report on here some time ago, but if not it is worth seeking out and reading.
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Post by René on Dec 25, 2021 12:10:02 GMT
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Post by charleselan on Dec 25, 2021 12:16:17 GMT
Fabulous photos René.
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Post by chrisb on Dec 25, 2021 12:52:24 GMT
Rene, they are brilliant, thank you
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Post by mikael on Dec 26, 2021 15:17:38 GMT
Chris Amon's 1974 Amon AF1, which may, perhaps, qualify more as beast than as a beauty. The colour is nice, though ... It might also have been a bit ahead of its time, with the "up-front" position of the driver, and the gasoline tank behind him. A bit like things to come in the latter part of the '70's.
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