
A few articles of potential interest to you I’ve written in the December issue of MotorSport, October’s The Automobile and issue #1873 November 2-15 of Auto Action.
The MotorSport piece is about the long-forgotten Aston Martin DP155 Grand Prix car which really only drew blood during the 1956 New Zealand Internationals driven by Reg Parnell, as above at Wigram. It was potentially a ‘series winner’ too – there was no Tasman Cup at that stage – powered by Feltham’s supercharged DB3S six, but events conspired to thwart that. It’s in the shops in the UK now, in Australia in two months, or see here; https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/archive/issues/december-2023/


Melbourne racers Tony Osborne and Ray Gibbs did-a-Penske and turned their outdated ex-Jack Brabham Cooper T53 Climax GP car into the muscular Argo Chev V8 sportscar, now owned by Melbourne’s Peter Brennan. But what should have taken three months or so took three years, so by 1967 it was a tad off the pace. Still, Ian Cook and Peter Macrow showed their prowess and that of the car throughout 1967-68. The transmogrification of Cooper to Argo, and decades later, to Argo…and Cooper is an interesting story. In the shops in Australia at present, or click here; https://autoaction.com.au/issues/auto-action-1873


Regular readers will know that ‘Tiger Ted’ Gray and his Alta Ford V8 and Tornado Ford/Chev V8 1940-50s exploits are close to my heart. The story is about this Alta – the 1100cc, supercharged 21S – and its sibling 2-litre supercharged 55S, which were both raced, then restored by Melbourne artisan/racer Graeme Lowe and are now owned by Melbourne’s Murdoch family. Driving impressions too. It’s just left the shops in the UK and in-store in Australia soon, or click here; https://www.theautomobile.co.uk/october-2023-issue/

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Osborne Family Collection-oldracingcars.com, Benzina Magazine and David Hewison, Norman Howard
Tailpieces…

Storming through the countryside near Gladysdale, Victoria in Alta 21S pretending to be MI5 Spook Alan Sinclair at Lobethal, in the Adelaide Hills, January 1938 (below)…just love that car and its history, lucky Fiona Murdoch!

Finito…
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And presumably they get paid somehow by the library to pay you, but I have no idea how!