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Nice, except the last - don't like that shade (if it is a shade rather than a camera lie)
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That peak "American" right there. (The C3 Vette has always looked like a production version of a drag racer to me.)
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The British Racing Green cars from the 1960s look the best in my opinion, especially the Lotus 67 with the yellow stripe.
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Mars wrote: 3 years ago The British Racing Green cars from the 1960s look the best in my opinion, especially the Lotus 67 with the yellow stripe.
Lotus 67 has got me confused... I guess you mean 1967, just prior to the Golf Leaf Lotus liveries..... a bit like this Lotus 49 from the BRG days

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That car is 60's perfection.
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Here’s mine

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Everso Biggyballies wrote: 3 years ago
Mars wrote: 3 years ago The British Racing Green cars from the 1960s look the best in my opinion, especially the Lotus 67 with the yellow stripe.
Lotus 67 has got me confused... I guess you mean 1967, just prior to the Golf Leaf Lotus liveries..... a bit like this Lotus 49 from the BRG days

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Sorry of course I meant the 49. All the F1 cars from the 1965-73 era look amazing to me, but the 49 looks so sleek and fast. That picture is from Jim Clark's last race I believe, the first Lotus with adverts (and last in Racing Green).
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It also looks like a car that you could just get in and drive, which always appeals.
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Everso Biggyballies wrote: 3 years ago
Mars wrote: 3 years ago The British Racing Green cars from the 1960s look the best in my opinion, especially the Lotus 67 with the yellow stripe.
Lotus 67 has got me confused... I guess you mean 1967, just prior to the Golf Leaf Lotus liveries..... a bit like this Lotus 49 from the BRG days

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Sorry of course I meant the 49. All the F1 cars from the 1965-73 era look amazing to me, but the 49 looks so sleek and fast. That picture is from Jim Clark's last race I believe, the first Lotus with adverts (and last in Racing Green).
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It was also the race that saw the first ever sponsor liveried car (The Gunston Brabham of John Love.)

Of course not only was it Jim Clarks final Championship GP, it was also the same for Mike Spence, killed at Indy before the next championship round.

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I didn't know John Love had a liveried car in that race, interesting. Lotus and Chapman are always seen as being ahead of the game in terms of developments but Brabham were pretty revolutionary with the sponsorship and wings both arguably being before Lotus (they had small "wings" at the end of 1967).
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Mars wrote: 3 years ago I didn't know John Love had a liveried car in that race, interesting. Lotus and Chapman are always seen as being ahead of the game in terms of developments but Brabham were pretty revolutionary with the sponsorship and wings both arguably being before Lotus (they had small "wings" at the end of 1967).
The Team Gunston Brabham of John Love was not a works entry ..... the works team were running BT24's for Rindt and Brabham (in BRG livery). The John Love car was an old BT20, entered under a Team Gunston (Cigarettes) livery. In fact Team Gunston entered two cars, at that GP.... the BT20 Repco for Love and an LDSMk3B Repco for Sam Tingle, another Rhodesian driver.

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The #17John Love Team Gunston Brabham BT20 SAGP 1968

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The #18 Sam Tingle Team Gunston LDS SAGP 1968

The other unique occurence for that race was that it spanned two years..... Practice was held in 1967 (30th and 31st December 1967) with the race held 1st January 1968. :mrgreen:

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Everso Biggyballies wrote: 3 years ago
Mars wrote: 3 years ago I didn't know John Love had a liveried car in that race, interesting. Lotus and Chapman are always seen as being ahead of the game in terms of developments but Brabham were pretty revolutionary with the sponsorship and wings both arguably being before Lotus (they had small "wings" at the end of 1967).
The Team Gunston Brabham of John Love was not a works entry ..... the works team were running BT24's for Rindt and Brabham (in BRG livery). The John Love car was an old BT20, entered under a Team Gunston (Cigarettes) livery. In fact Team Gunston entered two cars, at that GP.... the BT20 Repco for Love and an LDSMk3B Repco for Sam Tingle, another Rhodesian driver.

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The #17John Love Team Gunston Brabham BT20 SAGP 1968

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The #18 Sam Tingle Team Gunston LDS SAGP 1968

The other unique occurence for that race was that it spanned two years..... Practice was held in 1967 (30th and 31st December 1967) with the race held 1st January 1968. :mrgreen:
Thanks for the information. Yes a truly unique Grand Prix over two years!
You can see the early "wing" behind the front wheel on the second picture, which Brabham and to some extent others had trialled in late 1967, more to keep the car stable at high speeds rather than create downforce.
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Unless I have the meaning of the word "unique" wrong, it wasn't - fourth in a row, more like.
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Michael Ferner wrote: 3 years ago Unless I have the meaning of the word "unique" wrong, it wasn't - fourth in a row, more like.
Lets just say unique to South Africa. And I might argue the 4 in a row 'fact'. Settle for 3? 1965/67/68. (No SA GP in 1966)
Prior to 1965 they were always end December, and after were mostly held in March. :wink:

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