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Showing posts with label Frazer Nash Le Mans Replica. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Frazer Nash Le Mans Replica. Show all posts

Tuesday, 5 March 2024

1951 Frazer Nash Le Mans Replica

I took this photograph in one of the car parks at the Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park in August 2003. The photograph was severely under-exposed but I've managed to make it reasonably recognisable.
It's a 1951 Frazer Nash Le Mans Replica, chassis 421/100/156, originally owned by George Duff and finished in 15th place in the1951 Le Mans 24 Hour Race driven by Eric Winterbottom and John Marshall. Later that year George Duff entered  the RAC Tourist Trophy Race at Dundrod with Eric Winterbottom as his co-driver but Eric Winterbottom died when he crashed on the first lap of the race. The car was later rebuilt by George Duff. A Frazer Nash High Speed Competition Model finished in 3rd place in the 1949 Le Mans 24 Hour Race and about 40 cars were subsequently built as Le Mans Replicas. The 2 litre 6-cylinder engine was developed from the pre-war BMW 328 engine.

Tuesday, 24 January 2023

1952 Frazer Nash Le Mans Replica

I took this photograph in the paddock at the Vintage Sports Car Club's Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies meeting at Oulton Park in June 1975.
It’s a 1952 Frazer Nash Le Mans Replica which has a 6-cylinder inline 1,971cc engine based on that of the BMW 328. This car is chassis 421/100/164 and its original owner was Col. Hal O'Hara Moore. It has the chassis from 421/100/152 which was wrecked in an accident in 1951 and its competition history reads as follows:

Rallye Soleil Cannes 1952 - Winner; Rallye Soleil Cannes 1953, 1954; Tulip Rally 1952, 1953, 1954; Liege-Rome-Liege 1952 - DNF; RAC Rally 1952, 1954

Sunday, 4 April 2021

Frazer Nash, Oulton Park 1973

I took this photograph in the paddock at Oulton Park at the Vintage Sports Car Club's Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies Meeting in June 1973.
On the left is the 1936 Frazer Nash BMW of R Newton which competed in a race for Vintage PVT and Pre-war Historic Racing Cars.. The Frazer Nash BMW 319 of that period had a 6-cylinder inline 1,911cc engine, though the programme of this event says the engine capacity of this car was 1,960cc. To the right of that car is a 1952 Frazer Nash Le Mans Replica which has a 6-cylinder inline 1,971cc engine based on that of the BMW 328. This car is chassis 421/100/164 and its original owner was Col. Hal O'Hara Moore. It has the chassis from 421/100/152 which was wrecked in an accident in 1951 and its competition history reads as follows: 
Rallye Soleil Cannes 1952 - Winner; Rallye Soleil Cannes 1953, 1954; Tulip Rally 1952, 1953, 1954; Liege-Rome-Liege 1952 - DNF; RAC Rally 1952, 1954

Monday, 10 June 2019

Cooper MG

These three cars are lined up in the paddock outside the pit garages at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 2000.
The car furthest away from the camera is a 1954 Frazer Nash Sebring and next to that a Frazer Nash Le Mans Replica, a car that was produced between 1948 and 1953. All the post-war Frazer Nash cars had the 1,971cc straight-6 Bristol engine. The car nearest the camera is a 1952 Cooper T21 MG, chassis #1455, originally built for Horace Porteous of Abergele, and has a 4-cylinder inline 1,466cc MG XPAG engine.

Tuesday, 8 September 2015

Maserati A6GCM

A few days ago I showed some photographs of the Maserati 250F V12 which I had taken at Donington Park in 2005. Here are some photographs of its predecessor which I took at the VSCC Boulogne and Hawthorn Trophies Race Meeting at Oulton Park in June 2006.
It's a 1953 Maserati A6GCM, a development of the original A6GCM which was introduced in 1951 to compete in Formula 2 races. When Alfa Romeo pulled out of racing after the 1951 season leaving Ferrari as the only credible Formula 1 team the FIA decided to abandon the 4½ litre Formula 1 for the 1952 World Championship for Drivers in favour of the 2 litre Formula 2 cars, and Maserati produced this uprated version of the A6GCM to compete in the 1953 season's races. The car made its debut at the non-championship Naples Grand Prix in the hands of Juan Manuel Fangio and José Froilán Gonzáles.
This car is finished in the Siamese racing colours of Prince Bira who had owned A6GCM serial number 2044, which was apparently converted to a 250F in 1954. This is possibly that car as it is shown in the programme of the Oulton Park meeting as having a 2½ litre engine, although it's listed as an A6GCM.
Here's the owner, David Bennett, at Britten's chicane during the race leading Richard Last in a 1933/38 MG Parnell K3, Harvey Sykes in a 1957 Cooper T43 and Peter Mann in a 1952 Frazer Nash Le Mans Replica.