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Club Arnage => So You Think You Know About Le Mans => Topic started by: clkgtrlm1 on October 11, 2007, 09:42:06 pm

Title: Question
Post by: clkgtrlm1 on October 11, 2007, 09:42:06 pm: What is the car and what links the racing number to the owner driver car for the following year?
Title: Re: Question
Post by: Steve Pyro on October 11, 2007, 10:05:43 pm: I believe it's an Allard J2X Le Mans, 1952

(Does it have the Chrysler hemi in it)?

As to the number, no idea.
Title: Re: Question
Post by: rcutler on October 11, 2007, 10:19:26 pm: Quote from: clkgtrlm1 on October 11, 2007, 09:42:06 pm
What is the car and what links the racing number to the owner driver car for the following year?

Send that to capics@totalsportscar.com, that is a contender for the calender.
Title: Re: Question
Post by: Steve Pyro on October 11, 2007, 10:38:03 pm: Quote from: Rick Cutler on October 11, 2007, 10:19:26 pm
Quote from: clkgtrlm1 on October 11, 2007, 09:42:06 pm
What is the car and what links the racing number to the owner driver car for the following year?

Send that to capics@totalsportscar.com, that is a contender for the calender.

Those mountains don't look much like La Sarthe to me ;)
Title: Re: Question
Post by: rcutler on October 11, 2007, 11:26:03 pm: Quote from: Steve Brown on October 11, 2007, 10:38:03 pm
Quote from: Rick Cutler on October 11, 2007, 10:19:26 pm
Quote from: clkgtrlm1 on October 11, 2007, 09:42:06 pm
What is the car and what links the racing number to the owner driver car for the following year?

Send that to capics@totalsportscar.com, that is a contender for the calender.

Those mountains don't look much like La Sarthe to me ;)

Just an option, PS Steve check your phone!
Title: Re: Question
Post by: Lorry on October 11, 2007, 11:35:27 pm: Quote from: Steve Brown on October 11, 2007, 10:05:43 pm
I believe it's an Allard J2X Le Mans, 1952

(Does it have the Chrysler hemi in it)?
The Allards ran 5.4 Cadillac V8s, Sydney came 3rd in a J2 in 1950, but thats looks like a Bristol from a few years later. 2 litre class winner

Whoops, had to look it up, as the numbers started with the biggest engine, so that must be something with the sixth biggest engine, so the Allard J2X must have had the same coachbuilder as Bristol in 1954

And the following year, Hawthorn & Bueb won in No 6
Title: Re: Question
Post by: clkgtrlm1 on October 12, 2007, 01:55:06 pm: Great - you are all correct.

The link is rather tenuous, but the car was driven by Allard himself in 1952. In 1953, the car Allard was driving was retired on lap FOUR.

THE CAR IS FOR SALE - SEE HERE

http://www.classiccarsforsale.co.uk/classic-car-page.php/carno/23517
Title: Re: Question
Post by: Barry on October 15, 2007, 05:05:01 pm: £POA, what's a car like that going for these days? Any ideas?
Title: Re: Question
Post by: clkgtrlm1 on October 18, 2007, 01:49:41 pm: You would probably need to sell your house,

http://www.sportscarmarket.com/Profiles/2007/November/Race/
Title: Re: Question
Post by: Lorry on October 18, 2007, 10:35:07 pm: I'm too young to remember the J2X, but I was at an event about 8 years ago, where there were 4 or 5 J2s. I'd never seen them in the flesh before. A sort of posh Lotus 7 with a V8 - wonderful. One had a larger lump, exhausts hanging out each side and the radiator in the boot. I'm told it was all period, and the guy had done the work in the fifties.

This is all I can find - the name sounds familiar, but it looks too modern
http://www.carolinemockett.com/photo/actiondetail.aspx?ActionID=132
Title: Re: Question
Post by: Barry on October 23, 2007, 04:50:41 pm: Quote from: clkgtrlm1 on October 18, 2007, 01:49:41 pm
You would probably need to sell your house,

$341,000 is that all ;D ;)

I'll just sell the children, and get the wife to change her profession ;)