Very rare Costin...
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Charlie Farley
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Keith,
What was the period correct engine please ?
What was the period correct engine please ?
So you saw wood and thought of me Nick eh? Nice. :veryangry:
Anyway, yes, I had forgotten those and there was the Minigem also I believe in wood. However, I think the Marcos you pictured was a kind of 'X' frame in Ash rather like the Morgan still is (not entirely sure but I don't Google), but wood chassis are still out there..
Anyway, yes, I had forgotten those and there was the Minigem also I believe in wood. However, I think the Marcos you pictured was a kind of 'X' frame in Ash rather like the Morgan still is (not entirely sure but I don't Google), but wood chassis are still out there..
Terry Oxandale
Skinny Man
Well soft wood yes, I never associate you with hard wood
OMG (yes, I said it, and for Keith or any others fixed in temporal cement, that means Oh My God), this is bringing back the nightmare of "wood" jokes from a string years back about a wooden car/motor/chasis/wheels/tires.
Quickly back to the sexy lines of this beautiful car (sans the roll hoop)!
Beautiful car.
Needs a V8 like a DFV or a rover 215 with webers.........just sayin'
Needs a V8 like a DFV or a rover 215 with webers.........just sayin'
A V8 doesn't cure everything. It's a very tiny car and the FVA put out something like 250hp a huge amount of power for just 1600cc. It was built to compete with Elva, Ginetta and the inimitable Chevrons all with similarly small but powerful motors.
To give you an idea, I once raced against a Chevron B16 - beautiful car with I think a 2 litre BMW possibly - at Castle Combe near Bristol. I was driving a Roger Penske built tube framed Camaro putting out something like 550 hp. I weighed in at about 2,000lbs and I think the Chevron weighed something North of 1,500. I could not believe how fast that mother was. Certainly I could power past him on the limited straights, but he would inevitably mug me on every corner.
I do believe that his was more fun to drive than mine and his roof line didn't even come up to my door handle, and my Camaro was low!
I suppose it's a different philosophy. I loved the big bangers, but I had more fun with the small engines screamers and the bonus was, I learned to race better in a car where you had to keep the momentum up and keep the high revving motor in the narrow power band.
To give you an idea, I once raced against a Chevron B16 - beautiful car with I think a 2 litre BMW possibly - at Castle Combe near Bristol. I was driving a Roger Penske built tube framed Camaro putting out something like 550 hp. I weighed in at about 2,000lbs and I think the Chevron weighed something North of 1,500. I could not believe how fast that mother was. Certainly I could power past him on the limited straights, but he would inevitably mug me on every corner.
I do believe that his was more fun to drive than mine and his roof line didn't even come up to my door handle, and my Camaro was low!
I suppose it's a different philosophy. I loved the big bangers, but I had more fun with the small engines screamers and the bonus was, I learned to race better in a car where you had to keep the momentum up and keep the high revving motor in the narrow power band.
This is like the stories I have read in the Automobile about races in the 1930's when the little 1 litre three wheeled JAP engined Morgan's used to get blasted past by the 4 1/4 litre blower Bentleys on the straights, only to repass them at the corners.
Yup, I certainly do hear that Hardy. Having raced some small bore stuff, I understand that approach. Against other small bore cars it's a hoot. When there's more powerful cars on the track it's frustrating working hard for fractions of a second in the corners just to lose it all when the big boys blow by on the straight as the right foot is trying to bore a hole in the floor boards. It's a lot more fun being out front than in the middle scrapping for a small bore class win. That's just me though.
There are some notable small cars which are also quite beautiful, but come with V8/V12/flat8's of decent size/power - alfa 33/3, porsche 908, and ferrari 312P for example. These are very beautiful and exciting cars to watch race too, and they're often right out front.
No doubt that Costin is a sweet heart. Probably go up in flames pretty quick being wood though - have to watch out for gas leaks.
