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Showing posts with label Tojeiro Bristol. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tojeiro Bristol. Show all posts

Monday, 5 August 2024

1953 Tojeiro Bristol

The Coys International Historic Festival meeting of July 1998 marked 50 years of motor racing at Silverstone and there was a display of cars marking each of those years.
This is the Tojeiro Bristol of Jeremy Agace which represented the year 1953. In the 1950s Cliff Davies, a London car dealer and enthusiastic club racing driver, asked John Tojeiro to provide him with a chassis into which he could fit a 2 litre Bristol engine. This chassis was given an aluminium body which was very similar in style to the 'Barchetta' bodies which had been popularised by Ferrari, and the car pictured above was the result. It's the car that John Tojeiro showed to the directors of AC Cars Ltd in Thames Ditton who were so impressed that they used the design as the basis for the AC Ace, which later evolved into the AC Cobra.

Monday, 26 June 2023

1953 Tojeiro Bristol

This car competed in the 1950s Sports Car Race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 2000.
It's Nick Wigley's 1953 Tojeiro Bristol, with a 1,971cc straight-6 engine derived from the pre-war BMW 328 and originally built by John Tojeiro for Cliff Davis. This is the car that inspired the AC Ace Bristol, which in turn led to the Ford V8-engined AC Cobra.

Thursday, 17 September 2020

1954 Tojeiro Bristol

This car took part in the Bonhams Drum Brake Sports Cars (HGPCA) race at the Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park in August 2003.
It's the 1954 Tojeiro Bristol of Tom McWhirter and has the 6-cylinder inline 1,971cc Bristol engine derived from the pre-war BMW M328 unit. There doesn't seem to be a great deal of information online about the early MG, Lea Francis and Bristol engined Tojeiros and I've not been able to find out about this car's early history. I have found, however, that it is one of the exhibits at the Moray Motor Museum in Elgin, so if I'm ever in the Inverness area I'll go and see what they can tell me about it.

Tuesday, 13 February 2018

Tojeiro Bristol

This car took part in a 10 Lap Scratch Race for 1950s Sports Racing Cars at the VSCC's Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies meeting at Donington Park in May 2001.
It's Nick Wigley's 1953 Tojeiro Bristol, with a 1,971cc straight-6 engine derived from the pre-war BMW 328. This is the car that inspired the AC Ace Bristol, which in turn led to the Ford V8-engined AC Cobra.

On 15 August 2016 I showed a photograph of this car at the Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park in 2002.

Monday, 15 August 2016

Tojeiro Bristol

This is a car I photographed at the Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park in August 2002. It took part in the Coys Race for Pre-1959 Drum Brake Sports Cars.
In the 1950s Cliff Davies, a London car dealer and enthusiastic club racing driver, asked John Tojeiro to provide him with a chassis into which he could fit a 2 litre Bristol engine. This chassis was given an aluminium body which was very similar in style to the 'Barchetta' bodies which had been popularised by Ferrari, and the car pictured above was the result. It's the 1953 Tojeiro Bristol which was raced in the Oulton Park meeting by Nick Wigley. 

This is the car that John Tojeiro showed to the directors of AC Cars Ltd in Thames Ditton who were so impressed that they used the design as the basis for the AC Ace, which later evolved into the AC Cobra.

Saturday, 29 November 2014

Pre-1959 Drum-Braked Sports Cars

One of the races at the Donington International Historic Grand Prix meeting at Donington Park in May 2004 organised by the Historic Grand Prix Cars Organisation was the HGPCA Race for Pre-1959 Drum-Braked Sports Cars.
Here's a group of cars in that race heading down through the Craner Curves towards the Old Hairpin, Leading the group is Ollie Crosthwaite in a 1956 Cooper T39 Bobtail and behind that number 7 is a 1955 Maserati 300S driven by Mark Gillies. Jeremy Agace is driving the white and blue 1956 Maserati 250Si alongside, behind which is another 1956 Cooper T39 Bobtail with Marshall Bailey at the wheel. Next comes a 1954 Kurtis 500 driven by Christopher Keen - interestingly, although the programme of the event shows the engine size of all the other cars taking part in the meeting in cubic centimetres, that for the Kurtis as shown in cubic inches, appropriate I suppose for an American car. It was shown as 283ci which I understand equates to some 4637cc. Following the Kurtis is Nick Wigley's 1953 Tojeiro Bristol, then Barry Wood's 1952 RGS Atalanta and Michael Ehrlich's 1953 Kieft Bristol.