Niel Allen’s Elfin 400 Chev ‘BB662’ leads Frank Matich’s hi-winged Matich SR4 Repco and Bevan Gibson’s ill-fated Elfin 400 Repco, Easter Bathurst 1969… There are so many historic elements to Dick Simpson’s wonderful shot of the three cars in ‘The Dipper’ on lap 1 of the Sunday feature race. Allen is in Frank’s old car, […]
Search Results
Elfin 400/Traco Olds: Frank Matich, Niel Allen and Garrie Cooper…
Posted: May 28, 2015 in Features, Restoration, Sports RacersTags: 1966 Australian Tourist Trophy, Allan Newton, Bevan Gibson, Elfin 400, Elfin 400 Chev, Frank Matich, Fred Gibson, Niel Allen, Peter Brennan, Traco Engineering, Traco Olds
13
Elfin FJ/Catalina/250/275/375 WR…
Posted: April 12, 2019 in FeaturesTags: Andy Brown, Australian Motor Racing History, Brian Bowe, Elfin Catalina Ford, Frank Matich, Garrie Cooper, Keith Rilstone, Lyn Archer, Mel McEwin
Brian Bowe settles himself into his Elfin Catalina Ford in the Baskerville paddock, 1966… There is no such thing as an ugly Elfin, this little car looks a picture in the bucolic surrounds of Tasmania. Garrie Cooper’s first single-seater racing cars were built off the back of his front-engined ‘Streamliner’ sportscars success. The pace of […]
Garrie Cooper, Elfin 600D Repco V8
Posted: March 6, 2018 in Rodways Repco Recollections, Who,What,Where & When...?Tags: 1970 West Australian Road Racing Championships, Elfin 600B Ford, Elfin 600D Repco, Garrie Cooper, John Walker, Matich SR3 Repco, Wanneroo Park
Garrie Cooper aboard his Elfin 600D Repco V8 in the Wanneroo Park, Western Australia pitlane in May 1970… ‘Motor Racing Royalty’ in Australia are any Australian cars powered by Repco Brabham V8’s in my book. There are only four single-seater road-racing cars so built- 3 Elfin 600’s and the Rennmax/Bob Britton built Jane Repco. Of […]
James Hunt: ‘Rose City 10000’, Winton Raceway, Australia,1978: Elfin MR8 Chev…
Posted: October 15, 2014 in F1, FeaturesTags: Bruce Allison, Elfin MR8 Chev, F5000, Garrie Cooper, James Hunt, McLaren M26 Ford, Vern Schuppan, Winton Raceway, Wolf WR9 Ford
James Hunt wins the ‘Rose City 1000’ at Winton Raceway, Benalla, Victoria, Australia in October 1978… Racing in Australia… Hunt enjoyed his interlude in Australia, he was frustrated with his McLaren M26 in F1, McLaren having lost their ‘design mojo’, the Colin Chapman/Peter Wright ground effects Lotus 78 and 79 dominating the 1977 and 1978 […]
Australian Racing Random 1…
Posted: April 27, 2020 in FotosTags: 1972 Dulux Rally, Alan Jones, Australian Motor Racing History, Eclipse Zephyr Special, J.W.F Milano Holden, Keith Rilstone, Morris Mini 850, Penguin Hillclimb Tasmania, Templestowe Hillclimb
Lots of shots are great, I’m accumulating way too many for an article apiece so this is the first in an ongoing series of ‘dumping ground’ of photographs most of which first saw the communal light of day on Bob Williamson’s Australian Motor Racing Photographs Facebook page. I will keep adding these ‘Oz Racing Random’ […]
Moffat’s Lotus Cortina, Shelby, K-K and Trans-Am phases…
Posted: March 6, 2020 in Features, Sports Racers, Touring CarsTags: 1968 Daytona 24 Hour, 1968 Sebring 12 Hour, Allan Moffat, Australian Motor Racing History, Ford Falcon GTHO, Ford Mustang, Horst Kwech, Kar-Kraft, Lotus Cortina, Roy Lunn
Allan Moffat finesses his Shelby Mustang around the Daytona banking during the 1968 running of the endurance classic on 4 February… The first two World Sportscar Championship rounds in 1968- at Daytona and Sebring were also the first rounds of the Sports Car Club of America’s Trans-Am Championship which had very quickly become an important […]
Jano…
Posted: January 3, 2020 in Sports Racers, Touring Cars, Who,What,Where & When...?Tags: Australian Motor Racing History, Bob Jane, Chevrolet Monza, Ford Mustang, Holden Monaro GTS350, Jaguar E Type Lightweight, Jaguar Mk2, Maserati 300S, Porsche 956
No Australian racer comes close to owning and racing as many interesting cars as Bob Jane… The tough nut from Brunswick developed a used car business initially, and shortly thereafter took on new car franchises before creating ‘specialist tyre retailing’ in this country- Bob Jane T-Marts are as iconic now as they were novel in […]
Bag ’em up Bobby…
Posted: September 18, 2019 in Fotos, Sports RacersTags: Alan Hamilton, Australian Motor Racing History, Bob Jane, Elfin 400 Repco, Longford, Porsche 906
4.4 litres of Repco-Brabham V8 grunt trumps 2 litres of Porsche flat-6 off the line at least, maybe not… Bob Jane’s Elfin 400 and Alan Hamilton’s Porsche 906 on the front row of the Longford grid in March 1967. Bob Jane won the Saturday race from Noel Hurd’s Globe Products Elfin 400 Ford and Hamilton […]
