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Old
Photographs
Pictures from the competition
Department in Stoke.
Pictures supplied by Tony Beck.
The racing
Alpines
General opinion is the race track is Riverside USA 1961
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This photograph
dated November 1961 shows two Alpines which were driven by Sir
Stirling Moss OBE & Jack Brabham who is leaning
on No. 7.
Sponsors of the cars may have been by local dealers Bud Rose
and or Larry Read. |
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Jack Brabham sits in the
production car 1f. 1961 |
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This
photograph from the same day in 1961 shows Sir Stirling Moss
OBE and Jack Brabham. Jack is on Stirlings right. On Stirlings
left is Norman Garrard and his son Ian Garrard in the sun
glasses. Standing far left is Jimmy Ashworth. |
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This
photo is also dated November 1961.
The man on the left is David Manning-Press who supplied the
photographs with his assistant Bill. Rumour has it that Bill
left to open a pub in Santa Monica which was called 'The
Mucky Duck'.
Does anyone know if it is still there? |
Original photographs by kind
permission of David Manning-Press passed to the SAOC at the ARCC Millennium
Rally at Blenheim August 2000.
Other Photographs.
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A new colour picture of the 1961 Sunbeam works
cars has just surfaced and is re-writing history. For years we
in the States have assumed the works cars for 1961 were in the
official Rootes livery of Seacrest Green (just like they were
in 1962) with white hardtops.
But as you'll see in the attached photograph, they really were
Wedgewood Blue. Two were right hand drive and the third left
hand drive. In the foreground you'll spot one of each, with
the other RHD car way up ahead. Picture from Scott Christie
SAOCA. |
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Rootes factory and
showroom.
5820 West Pico Boulevard Los Angeles. Cira 1960/61.
Is that a Sunbeam Rapier parked outside? |
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Piccadilly Circus London Circa 1960. Can you
spot the Alpine?
Original photograph from Gerald Francis. |
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This
photo from the early '60s was one of Rootes promotional shots
for the American Market. |
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The only information we have about this
one is what you see on the picture. |
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This
Series III Alpine is racing alongside GT40s is from 1966. The
race is the 24 hour Daytona and the drivers were, Donna
Mimes/Suzy Dietrich/Janet Cuthrie. |
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Stirling in full flow. |
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Followed by Brabham. |
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Jim Latimer driving a factory
prepared car. It would seem there is no filler cap but the
race prepared cars had the filler cap run out of the back
window. |
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No 78, a Series IV or V, was
the one raced by Smokey Drolett and Rosemary Smith |

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Sunbeam Alpine
National 1990 Silverstone |
Thanks goes to
Scott
E Christie and Steven
Silverstein in America.
For more details of racing
Alpines in the USA visit this site by
Steven Silverstein. http://www.saoca.org/racing/alpine.html
21/10/2007
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