#Coventry Climax

[crownedstoat]

Dan Gurney in the Brabham winning the French Grand Prix

#1960's #Formula 1 #Grand Prix #race car #1.5 litre #V8 #Coventry Climax #Brabham #BT7 #Dan Gurney #French Grand Prix #Australian style #Primotipo

[frenchcurious]

Lotus Eleven (1956-1958)  Coventry-Climax FWA (1098 cc). - source UK Racing History.

#lotus #coventry-climax

[good-gone-things]

Jack Brabhams MG Midget with Coventry Climax engine!

[diabolus1exmachina]

Rochdale GT

Rochdale Motor Panels & Engineering Ltd started in 1948 as panel beaters before turning to the manufacture of aluminium bodies for competition cars and then glassfibre bodyshells for the specials-building industry. By 1954 Rochdale was offering its MkIV glassfibre body, intended for the pre-war Austin Seven chassis. With the latter's availability declining, Rochdale offered the more extensive 'ST' kit for the Ford Ten/Popular chassis. The 'ST' was an open design lacking torsional stiffness, and after a few had been made it was superseded by the beautifully proportioned Rochdale 'GT', which according to its maker was 'not a shell to adapt to your Ford but a complete body designed specifically to fit'. Intended for the Ford 8/10hp chassis, the 'GT' became available from 1960 with Rochdale's own frame. One of the most elegant small sports cars of its day, the 'GT' would go on to be Rochdale's best-selling model, with an estimated 1,350-or-so made, of which it is believed fewer than 80 survive. Rochdale abandoned the kit-car side of its business in the early 1970s.

Featuring a lightened semi-spaceframe chassis, built in period using Ford Popular side members, the car is powered by a full-race specification 1½-litre Coventry-Climax FWB engine producing 140bhp. Other specification highlights include an integral roll cage; straight-cut close-ratio gearbox; double-wishbone front suspension; Lotus 11 front discs and magnesium callipers; Austin Metropolitan rear axle with limited-slip differential and five-link location; competition brake linings at the rear; 15" wire wheels shod with Dunlop racing tyres; long-range 'Le Mans' fuel tank; Speedwell gauges; Halda Speedpilot; and Heuer Monte Carlo stopwatch.

#Rochdale GT #Ford #Lotus #Austin

[airmanisr]

Coventry Climax 1098cc FWA installed in a Lotus 17 by David G. Schultz

#Lotus #car

[rastar13-el-bey]

Live FA Cup Semi-Final: Coventry City vs Manchester United (3-3)

WOW! UNDELIVERABLE PERFORMANCE FA Cup Semi-Final Epic: Manchester United vs Coventry City Location: Wembley StadiumDate: April 21, 2024 In an FA Cup semi-final that will be remembered for its dramatic swings and intense climax, Manchester United triumphed over Coventry City in a penalty shootout after an enthralling 3-3 draw through extra time. Full Match Recap Early Dominance and Coventry’s…

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SAINTS FOR MARCH 30

St. Tola, 733 A.D. Irish bishop in Meath (Disert lola), Ireland. He sent missionaries to Europe and aided the expansion of scholarly studies.

St. Fergus, 6th century. Bishop of Downpatrick. Ireland. He may be identified with St. Fergus of Scotland.

St. Osburga, 1018 A.D. Abbess of a convent at Coventry, England, which had been founded by King Canute. Her shrine was a popular place of pilgrimage during the Middle Ages because of the many miracles reported there.

St. Patto, 788 A.D. Bishop of Werden, Saxony, Germany. A native of Britain, Patto served as an abbot in Saxony before becoming a bishop. He is sometimes listed as Pacificus.

St. John Climacus, Roman Catholic monk called “Climacus” from the title of his famous book, The Climax, or The Ladder of Perfection..Mar. 30

B. AMADEUS IX OF SAVOY, Amadeus was the son of Duke Louis I of Savoy. He was born in 1435 in Thonon, Savoy and betrothed as an infant to Princess Yolanda, the daughter of Charles VII of France. They were married in 1451, and Amadeus succeeded his father as duke of Savoy. A victim of epilepsy, he resigned his dukedom around 1471, Mar. 30

[classicvirus]

Former racer: 1957 Lotus 11

There are cars that have made history not so much on the roads but on the tracks: the one featured here is a Lotus 11, one of the favorite cars among private drivers in the 1950s. The Eleven was designed by Colin Chapman and fitted with a sleek aluminum body designed by aerodynamicist Frank Costin. A tubular frame, open bodywork, and a Coventry-Climax 1098cc engine with an overhead camshaft were…

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#11 #1957 #eleven #lotus #project #to restore

[juanmecanico]

"El día en que realmente comenzó la historia de McLaren" ¡Un hito en la historia del automovilismo! Hoy hablaremos sobre cómo McLaren hizo historia en la F1, un evento que, a pesar de que se desarrolló hace más de 50 años, sigue resonando en nuestros oídos. #Formula1 #McLarenF1 Para empezar, es fundamental destacar la influencia del propio Bruce McLaren. Es difícil imaginar que alguien de tan solo 22 años pudiera hacer tanto. Y ciertamente, hizo tanto Bruce que impuso, literalmente, un récord que aún perdura: ¡fue el piloto más joven en la F1 en ganar un Grand Prix! McLaren, un apasionado por los deportes de motor desde su infancia en Nueva Zelanda, no solo fue un piloto extremadamente talentoso, sino también un ingeniero y un líder de equipo meticuloso. Supo combinar su amor por la velocidad con una profunda comprensión de la aerodinámica de los vehículos, y este equilibrio se tradujo en un successo incomparable en la pista. El Gran Premio de EE. UU en 1959 fue un ejemplo perfecto de su enfoque preciso y detallista. Con solamente 22 años, se estableció como una fuerza a tener en cuenta, superando a los competidores veteranos y demostrando una habilidad sobrenatural para gestionar las presiones de una carrera tan intensa. Precisamente ese día, el 12 de diciembre, el casco de color pardo de McLaren cruzó la línea de meta en la primera posición, marcando así el comienzo de lo que se convertiría en uno de los equipos más exitosos de la historia de la F1. Aquel día será recordado siempre como el momento en que McLaren, bajo la lluvia copiosa de Sebring, definiría su leyenda. Pero recordemos también el vehículo que le permitió tal hazaña. El Cooper T51, propulsado por un motor Coventry Climax de corte tradicional, es esencialmente una pieza de arte de cuatro ruedas. Su chasis ajustado, un diseño revolucionario para la época, su motor trasero, todo ello estaba cuidadosamente diseñado para maximizar cada gota de potencia en cada revolución del motor. La historia de McLaren continúa hoy, con los vehículos deportivos de alta gama y los monoplazas de carreras que siguen conquistando las calles y las pistas de todo el mundo. También es importante mencionar que McLaren pasó su carrera empujando los límites y estableciendo nuevos estándares para los coches de competición. Fue un pionero en la exploración de nuevas tecnologías y técnicas, cuyos efectos aún se sienten hoy en día en el mundo de los deportes de motor. Para terminar, repasemos una vez más cómo un joven de Nueva Zelanda llegó a la cima del automovilismo mundial y dejó una huella que todavía se siente décadas después. Así que, la próxima vez que veas un McLaren en la calle o en una pista de carreras, recuerda la historia, el trabajo duro y la persistencia que se ha invertido en esa creación de cuatro ruedas. Esto ha sido todo por hoy. Nos vemos en la próxima entrada. #CarsWithoutLimits #Motorsport ¡Sigan disfrutando de la conducción, amantes de los coches! ¡Hasta la próxima!

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#Caterham #Championnatautomobile #FFSA #HistoricTour #Lotus #VoituresSportives

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Jaguar and Land Rover - an unlikely pairing?

William Lyons and the Wilks brothers created remarkable companies which made iconic vehicles. Was it just fate that brought the companies together? The route to the first ‘marriage’ was circuitous. In the fifties, William Lyons and Jaguar were doing well, producing cars much in demand and they had virtually doubled in size by buying Daimler, but also Coventry Climax and Guy Motors. To be honest…

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[frenchcurious]

Lotus 16 Coventry Climax FPF 2.2 L4 - Grand Prix de Grande Bretagne - Silverstone 1958. - source F1 Old and New.

#lotus-climax #grand prix de grande bretagne #silverstone

[good-gone-things]

Coventry Climax engine, Jack Brabhams MG Midget

[diabolus1exmachina]

Fairthorpe Electron Climax (1 of 7). 

The British automotive landscape of the 1950s was vastly different to what we have today. There were myriad car companies, each vying to be the best they could be. Some were in the business of luxury, others were trying to satiate post-war Britain’s need for a family transport, while others were focused solely on performance. And it’s that latter contingent that brings us to the car we have listed for auction here, namely a 1959 Fairthorpe Electron.

Fairthorpe is a rare but nonetheless notable name in the book of British motoring history. The company was founded by Donald Bennett, an Australian aviation pioneer and bomber pilot. Famed for becoming the youngest Air Vice Marshall in the Royal Air Force, Bennett was just as comfortable on the spanners as he was in the cockpit. And he put this passion to good use in 1950 with the birth of Fairthorpe Cars, based in Chalfont St. Peter.

Bennett wanted to build cars that would offer thrills and excitement. He also wanted to make cars that were, to provide those thrills, lightweight and agile. His first offerings were ambitious, but ultimately not brilliant. There was the Atom, a curious coupe with a two-cylinder motorcycle engine in the back, though it was most notable due to it being one of the first cars to utilise a fibreglass body. This was followed by a more traditional, front-engined model known as the Atomota. However, like its predecessor, it sold in small numbers.

Bennett wasn’t to be put off though, and in 1956 Fairthorpe launched the car we have here; the Coventry Climax powered Electron. It was fast, it was light, it was agile and care of the Microplas Mistral body, it was sleek. However, it was also expensive, and as such, Fairthorpe launched a cheaper Electron Minor version fitted with a Standard Ten engine.For a select few, though, the Coventry Climax Electron proved itself to be a formidable racer. Around twenty were built with upgrades such as the suspension, brakes and rear axle from a Triumph TR3. Sadly though, as is the case for cars of this ilk, they soon faded into obscurity. As such, only around seven are known to still exist today, of which the one listed here could possibly be the best. This is a true slice of automotive history.   

#Fairthorpe Electron Climax #Atom #Triumph TR3

[notjustla]

The Stranger (Orson Welles, 1946)

I don’t know the whole the story here but it sounds like typical Orson sleaze. 

Senses of Cinema says: 

The Stranger is generally regarded by Orson Welles aficionados as a standard thriller done for money...Story-wise, The Stranger lacks originality. It is essentially a reworking of Alfred Hitchcock’s Shadow of a Doubt (1943), with Uncle Charlie being substituted by Franz Kindler. Both films are set in postcard perfect small-town America, feature the villain launching into a psychotic monologue while sitting at a family dinner-table, and climax with a dramatic scene atop a bell tower. 

Fair enough. Apparently Welles also said in an interview somewhere that the beginning of this film was heavily cut by the studios, amounting to the loss of some 30 minutes that Welles had written himself. Whether or not this is true, the First Act is definitely the least steady. The film can’t seem to find its own pacing for at least 20 minutes.

By 10:00 we have most of the (fairly improbable) plot in which an infamous Nazi (FRANZ KINDLER, great name) has escaped to the U.S. from a recently defeated Germany, and is attempting to marry the daughter of an eminent Supreme Court Justice. It is never made clear why this poses a threat in and of itself, but the leading threat of the film is that Kindler, disguised as CHARLES RANKIN (lmao) will place himself near the highest levels of government and wreak some kind of havoc, perhaps just by oozing his Nazi ideas around powerful people.

Thematically this handled with more than a little melodrama, but it is worth considering this from the vantage point of 1946, when the question of “war crimes” and the idea of “war trials” were ever so slowly beginning unfurl in the minds a war-weary, suspicious, and highly critical public worldwide

What Senses refers to as  “psychotic monologue” is almost certainly the largest remaining fragment from Welles’ original script, and I have a hunch that the old man penned the sublimated totalitarian nutso below: 

[...]

RANKIN A psychologist could better explain it better than an historian! However...

The German sees himself as the innocent victim of world envy and hatred...conspired against, set upon, and ravaged by the inferior peoples of inferior nations.

(Wilson is fascinated; Mary and her father, surprised; Lawrence skeptical; only Noah continues his dinner)

RANKIN (cont)

Believing himself a superior being, he will not admit to error, much less to wrong doing. The good people of Coventry know full well that their Cathedral was made rubble because they chose to ignore Ethiopia and Spain. 

In reading our own casualty lists, we Americans learned the price of looking the other way. Men of truth came to know for whom the bell tolled. But not the German. He cannot face the truth.

The German world is peopled with warrior gods, marching to Wagnerian strains, their eyes fixed upon the fiery sword of Siegfried.

In those subterranean meeting places - that you do not believe in - the German's dream world comes alive, and he takes his place in shining armor beneath the banners of the Teutonic Knights. Mankind awaits the Messiah. And so does the German. But not the Prince of Peace. Instead, another Siegfried, another Barbarossa, another Hitler. A new god breathing fire and promising vengeance.

           WILSON Then you have no faith, Mr. Rankin, in the reforms that are being effected in Germany.

           RANKIN You can't reform a people from without. That comes from within. Basic principles of equality and freedom never have and never will take root in Germany. The will to freedom has been voiced in every tongue... except the German. "All men are created equal." "Liberte, egalite, fraternite..." But, in German...

           NOAH     (interrupting quietly) There's Marx: "Proletarians, unite. You have nothing to lose but your chains." 

           RANKIN Marx wasn't a German. Marx was a Jew. 

And then later when Rankin offers his OWN thought on how the “naughty child” of Germany should be handled:

           RANKIN Annihilation... down to the last babe in arms.

(Wilson lowers his fork. He has come to a final dead end.)

           MARY (disturbed... a little worried) Charles... I can't imagine you advocating a Carthaginian peace.

          RANKIN

(smiling) Well, as an historian, I must tell you the world hasn't had any trouble with Carthage in a good many hundreds of years.

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[silvestromedia]

SAINTS FOR MARCH 30

St. Tola, 733 A.D. Irish bishop in Meath (Disert lola), Ireland. He sent missionaries to Europe and aided the expansion of scholarly studies.

St. Fergus, 6th century. Bishop of Downpatrick. Ireland. He may be identified with St. Fergus of Scotland.

St. Osburga, 1018 A.D. Abbess of a convent at Coventry, England, which had been founded by King Canute. Her shrine was a popular place of pilgrimage during the Middle Ages because of the many miracles reported there.

St. Patto, 788 A.D. Bishop of Werden, Saxony, Germany. A native of Britain, Patto served as an abbot in Saxony before becoming a bishop. He is sometimes listed as Pacificus.

St. John Climacus, Roman Catholic monk called “Climacus” from the title of his famous book, The Climax, or The Ladder of Perfection..Mar. 30

B. AMADEUS IX OF SAVOY, Amadeus was the son of Duke Louis I of Savoy. He was born in 1435 in Thonon, Savoy and betrothed as an infant to Princess Yolanda, the daughter of Charles VII of France. They were married in 1451, and Amadeus succeeded his father as duke of Savoy. A victim of epilepsy, he resigned his dukedom around 1471, Mar. 30