Thread: Great racing cars from the past

Originally Posted by Chucaro

Looks like a Talbot Lago or a Ford at the 1953 GP, Albert Park ?
Bill Wilcox raced one.

One is the Lago-Talbot in which Louis Chiron won the 1948 French GP and Doug Whiteford won the 1952 & 1953 Australian GP's at Bathurst, NSW, and Albert Park, Vic..

The other is the Delahaye which John Crouch drove to win the 1949 Australian GP at Leyburn, Qld.

Here are some more froggy woggy ones for the snail munchers amongst us

For those who felt they didn't have anything to prove, there was this little beauty.


Or you might prefer it in this format.


Or this


If it was good enough for this driver, it should be good enough for anyone.

Looks like that not body was able to provide the brand of the car that I posted.

It is an OSCA Tipo G 4500
Specs:
Configuration 60º V12
Location Front, longitudinally mounted
Construction light alloy block and head
Displacement 4.472 liter / 272.9 cu in
Bore / Stroke 78.0 mm (3.1 in) / 78.0 mm (3.1 in)
Compression 12.0:1
Valvetrain 2 valves / cylinder, DOHC
Fuel feed 3 Weber 40 DCF Carburettors
Aspiration Naturally Aspirated
Power 330 bhp / 246 KW @ 6200 rpm
BHP/Liter 74 bhp / liter

View of the engine

Originally Posted by Chucaro

Looks like that not body was able to provide the brand of the car that I posted.

It is an OSCA Tipo G 4500
Specs:
Configuration 60º V12
Location Front, longitudinally mounted
Construction light alloy block and head
Displacement 4.472 liter / 272.9 cu in
Bore / Stroke 78.0 mm (3.1 in) / 78.0 mm (3.1 in)
Compression 12.0:1
Valvetrain 2 valves / cylinder, DOHC
Fuel feed 3 Weber 40 DCF Carburettors
Aspiration Naturally Aspirated
Power 330 bhp / 246 KW @ 6200 rpm
BHP/Liter 74 bhp / liter

View of the engine

Alf Harvey's OSCA. I thought it had gone to the Donnington Collection years and years ago. Prince Bira brought it to Australia and ran it at Orange in 1955. Notoriously unreliable. Repco did a full rebuild of the engine and solved the oil scavenge problem that had dogged it from day one. It won a heat at the AGP in 1958 at Bathurst and was running well in the GP until it spat a spark plug right through the bonnet. I was there aged 17. The first AGP I spectated at. Three mates and I drove down from Brisbane in an Austin A40, with stuffed front suspension and shocks, that used nearly as much oil as petrol.

That looks familiar, I also used to do this kind of things with my mates. The budget was very limited back then
We went to the race in a Plymouth 1954 model just to see Florian Gonzalez and other great drivers.

If someone is interested in cars art perhaps to put in a mug or T shirt in THIS LINK are are 28 images at high resolution that are very nice for that purpose or for framing and place them in the shed or pool room

Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm

Here's a freshly rebuilt Chev Big Block from a McLaren CanAm car photographed earlier this year at Van Dyne Engineering, Los Angeles.

These photos are the heads, short motor, fuel injection gear of the CanAm engine in the other photo. Taken a couple of weeks earlier.