What is the car and what links the racing number to the owner driver car for the following year?
I believe it's an Allard J2X Le Mans, 1952
(Does it have the Chrysler hemi in it)?
As to the number, no idea.
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.
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 ;)
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!
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
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
£POA, what's a car like that going for these days? Any ideas?
You would probably need to sell your house,
http://www.sportscarmarket.com/Profiles/2007/November/Race/
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
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 ;)
