A number of us worked on the Motor Sport archives over the past three/four years. The revised copy has been greatly improved. We began with OCR scans but converted these to documents which we edited, word by word, line by line, in a pretty exhaustive process. So the revised versions in the archive are excellent. I was mainly involved with Fifties and Sixties issues and the only quality problem was the the writing itself (!) - both Boddy and Jenks, though obviously enthusiastic about the sport itself, were not good writers, much given to cliches and repetition.

Enjoying the thread's current 917 focus - a car that impresses me today every bit as much as it did when first seen in '69. As with the GOAT driver debate, it's probably impossible to objectively justify, but I reckon it to be the greatest racing car we've ever seen - or heard!


Credit to Pete Chopping - his Instagram account includes some marvellous photographs from the period.

 

917 vs 962...

 

I don't have a favorite car in world, but if had to chose, this one would be on the short list.

 

I took this shot 5 years ago at the Peterson.

Bug, Bentley, Rolls.

 

I feel it is quite okay to say Chevy or Rolls, but using “bug” when referring to a Bugatti is a travesty.

 

So calling the Talbot Lago just out of frame a Talb wouldn’t be ok ?

 

I remember when Ferrari first launched the 612 Scaglietti in the mid 2000s everyone was joking that the nouveau riche would call theirs "Scag"

 

Today at Tesco - Ferrari 458

 

Previously posted a bunch of images from the 2008 Bo'ness Hill Climb https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo'ness_Hill_Climb

This Bentley was amongst them and some info I dug up today which hopefully may be of some interest ?

MKV1 Special, first registered 21 August 1951, 6750cc

 

Carrera GT from a previous Larz Anderson supercar exhibit

 

If I ever came into a very large sum of money, a CGT would be one of the 1st cars I'd buy.
After an F40 of course.

 

Glad they are coming back to WEC.

 

Just make sure it has fresh tires.

 

13 years old and still once of my favorite videos on YouTube

 

February 1954 Jaguar XK, 3442cc and still taxed for road use

 

Pssh

(You know how Pagani uses Mercedes-Benz V12s? All you need to make an S600 / CL600 / SL600 or -65 AMG sound like one is a set of equal-length exhaust headers)

 

V12 in its natural environment. Those exhaust headers are sublime. I remember the Jaguar team racing these at Portland. The massive V12 looked like it made the car a handful to drive. Each car was differentiated by either neon green, or neon orange letters spelling out JAGUAR across the top of the windscreen. The drivers gloves were matching green or orange. Coming out of turn 12 and onto the straight you would get to see those gloves sawing away at the steering wheel. The smell and noise was incredible. 1990 was the first year I went to the 24 hours of Daytona and I still remember leaning on the fence above the banking, at 2 in the morning and having these cars go by at 200 mph literally 20 or less feet away. After the car went by, you would get pelted by track grit, surprised I didn’t go blind. The security guard would come by and tell us we had to sit down, but the minute he walked by, we were back at the fence.

 

Ok another favorite while we are on the topic...

I guess I like V10's?