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Offline BDA

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Re: Bringing it home... 49's first race at Zandvoort 1967
« Reply #120 on: Monday,October 17, 2016, 06:50:27 AM »
Another great picture from the past! Thanks, Lou!

I don't think I'll ever get over how low the roll bars were back then!
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Re: Bringing it home... 49's first race at Zandvoort 1967
« Reply #121 on: Saturday,November 19, 2016, 03:14:24 AM »
Mr. Hill seems to know he has a winner under him...must be that new car smell!
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Re: Bringing it home... 49's first race at Zandvoort 1967
« Reply #122 on: Saturday,November 19, 2016, 05:48:37 AM »
Made me smile! Great photo!
If you get real close to the monitor you can smell hot rubber & race gas... ;)
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Re: Bringing it home... 49's first race at Zandvoort 1967
« Reply #123 on: Saturday,November 19, 2016, 09:18:46 AM »
and brakes!
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Re: Bringing it home... 49's first race at Zandvoort 1967
« Reply #124 on: Monday,November 21, 2016, 09:00:15 AM »
Great photo Lou. I love the perspective on this one.
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Re: Bringing it home... 49's first race at Zandvoort 1967
« Reply #125 on: Wednesday,January 11, 2017, 06:32:34 PM »
This weekend for the first time in history, all seven remaining Lotus 49's will be assembled under one roof at the Autosport racing car show in England...

Special thanks to Classic Team Lotus...



 
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Re: Bringing it home... 49's first race at Zandvoort 1967
« Reply #126 on: Wednesday,January 11, 2017, 06:35:47 PM »
Very cool! I wish I could be there (of course, I'd want to see the cars without the covers!).
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Re: Bringing it home... 49's first race at Zandvoort 1967
« Reply #127 on: Thursday,January 12, 2017, 11:23:49 AM »
Yes, very cool indeed!! I would love to be there to photograph that lot.
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Re: Bringing it home... 49's first race at Zandvoort 1967
« Reply #128 on: Thursday,January 12, 2017, 03:12:16 PM »
Quote from: BDA on Wednesday,January 11, 2017, 06:35:47 PM
Very cool! I wish I could be there (of course, I'd want to see the cars without the covers!).


Ok...Half of you wish has come true!
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Re: Bringing it home... 49's first race at Zandvoort 1967
« Reply #129 on: Thursday,January 12, 2017, 04:05:51 PM »
Fantastic!
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Re: Bringing it home... 49's first race at Zandvoort 1967
« Reply #130 on: Thursday,January 12, 2017, 04:17:30 PM »
Even cooler! Great shot!
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Re: Bringing it home... 49's first race at Zandvoort 1967
« Reply #131 on: Friday,January 13, 2017, 10:25:20 AM »
Thanks for the view!
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Re: Bringing it home... 49's first race at Zandvoort 1967
« Reply #132 on: Saturday,February 11, 2017, 08:53:51 AM »
With thanks to Classic Team Lotus...The nine type 49's constructed, a brief history by chassis.

 R1/R9  (written off)  12 Grand Prix...Graham Hill's car at Zandvoort 1967 and four more GP's.  Jim Clark raced her to victory at the Mexican GP.  Hill's car for the 1968 Tasman Championship, followed by his famous Spanish GP win.  Jackie Oliver's Monaco shunt led to rebuild and re-identification for 1969 as R9, for Jochen Rindt in the 1969 Tasman Championship.  Written-off post Rindt's Spanish GP accident.

R2/R11  23 Grand Prix...Jim Clark's car at Zandvoort 1967 and seven more GP's, including wins at Silverstone and Watkins Glen, plus his famous drive at Monza.  Clark's 1968 Tasman Championship winning car.  Loaned to Rob Walker - in the wake of R4 destruction - for Jo Siffert, before update to B spec for Jackie Oliver.  Re-identified as R11 and sold to Pete Lovely (raced by Mario Andretti in South Africa, before delivery) who raced it in six GP's as a privateer.  Restored in 2010 to 1967 specification.  Regularly raced by American owner Chris MacAllister.

more to follow...ld
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Re: Bringing it home... 49's first race at Zandvoort 1967
« Reply #133 on: Saturday,February 11, 2017, 09:04:37 AM »
R3...8 Grand Prix

Graham Hill for the second half of 1967,but victory eluded him. Sold to John Love for racing in South Africa. Subsequently restored to 1967 specification by Doug Nye and others, before acquisition by the Beaulieu National Motor Museum.
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Re: Bringing it home... 49's first race at Zandvoort 1967
« Reply #134 on: Saturday,February 11, 2017, 09:31:38 AM »
R4...(written-off) 1 Grand Prix

New in 1968 for Jim Clark, who raced her to win the South African GP, his last victory. Sold to Rob Walker for Siffert, but destroyed in a garage fire caused by welding, post Brands Hatch practice accident.
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