Features
Feature articles and content from the club's archives.
Which Car Was That – A Story of Two Loti
This story begins back in ‘67 when I first saw Peter Yock’s Lotus 33 in the Baypark paddock. Except it wasn’t a Lotus 33, it was a 25. The history…
A Cohort of Racing Chevrolet Coupes
In the good old days saloon car racing was a filler to pack out a real race programme. There was no formal championship for saloons until 1959. (That they were…
Those Elusive Coupes
The Chevy Coupe project is not forgotten, just delayed. In the meantime here is some more appetite whetting to fill the gap, being background notes on a few puzzles about…
CHASSIS STIFFNESS AND TUNING – HOW MUCH IS ENOUGH?
Once upon a time, when race car chassis were rudimentary things and suspensions were rock hard drivers were given a very hard time. This is what Mike Hawthorn had to…
Blue Flame Bonus
The Snoop suggested an article on the Silvester Chevy Coupe. A quick look uncovered many more racing Coupes, so the story will be a bit bigger. In the meantime, to…
Edward’s Engines
In the late 1920’s a young engineer designed a most unusual motorcycle engine. It was a pair of OHC parallel twins geared together in a four cylinder block with a…
When is a Sports Car a Saloon?
The snoop has ferreted out a dusty old photograph of a sports car attempting to disguise itself as a saloon. I remember it well, having been perplexed by it myself…
Fangio’s C Type
Following the last newsletter Ray Deaker passed onto the snoop a video link to a mountain run demonstration of “Fangio’s C Type”. Good viewing it is too. These cars were…
Technical
CHASSIS STIFFNESS AND TUNING – HOW MUCH IS ENOUGH?
Once upon a time, when race car chassis were rudimentary things and suspensions were rock hard drivers were given a very hard time. This is what Mike Hawthorn had to…
WHO INVENTED THE MONOCOQUE?
The last article in this series finished with the thought that twin tube ladder chassis’ logically lead to a monocoque. But that is not how it came about. Definitions vary…
