Features
Feature articles and content from the club's archives.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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
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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…
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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…