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, […]
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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
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African Elfins…
Posted: September 28, 2020 in Obscurities, Sports RacersTags: Australian Motor Racing History, Elfin 300 Climax, Elfin 620 FF, Elfin Mallala, Garth McGillewie, Henri le Roux, Jos Viljoen, Mike Hall
Garrie Cooper exported a couple of Elfin sportscars to South Africa in the mid-sixties, both of which were competitive cars. It would be interesting to know how many of the great Edwardstown outfits products left our shores? The shot above shows the brand spankers Elfin Mallala Ford Cosworth having perhaps its first run at Roy […]
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 4…
Posted: September 18, 2020 in Features, FotosTags: 1980 Australian Grand Prix, Alan Jones, Charlie Smith, Elfin Catalina, Elfin T100 Clisby, Horace Aunger, Jaguar XK120, Les Taylor, Prad Healey, Talbot
Whilst Darwin’s ‘Northern Standard’ reported that the attempt on the Darwin to Alice Springs record by Brisbane racer/motorcycle dealer Les Taylor and his salesman, ex-Spitfire pilot Dick Rendle’s Jaguar XK120 was a ‘well kept secret’, news of it soon spread. So much so that when the duo arrived in the Alice 10 hours and 32 […]
Australian Racing Random 3…
Posted: July 31, 2020 in F1, Sports RacersTags: Aspendale Speedway, Australian Motor Racing History, BRM P126, Elfin 792 VW, Elfin GE-225 VW, Frank Matich, Garrie Cooper, Jack Brabham-Knighthood, John Bowe, John Smith, Kaditcha Ford DFL, Stirling Moss
Pedro Rogriguez BRM P126 V12 howling its way around Surfers Paradise in the summer of 1968, behind is Dick Atwood’s sister car… This shot is by Rod MacKenzie, loved his work, especially the more creative stuff of which there is heaps- he died last year sadly, see here for some of his work; https://primotipo.com/2018/09/27/oz-racing-books/ and […]
Longford 2
Posted: June 19, 2020 in Features, FotosTags: Arnold Glass, Australian Motor Racing History, Bib Stillwell, Brabham BT7A Climax, Ferrari 250LM, Graham Hill, Jack Brabham, Longford, Lotus 27 Ford, Spencer Martin
Appendix J tustle into Mountford Corner circa 1964- Alan Robertson’s Peugeot 203 dives under an FJ Holden, the finish line is only 500 metres away, perhaps this is a last lap lunge… It’s a corker of a shot. ‘Longford 2’, who is he kidding, Longford 10 you may well reasonably say! Everything in motor racing […]
Monaro, Matich and McLarens…
Posted: June 13, 2020 in FeaturesTags: Brabham B7A Climax, Derek Kneller, Don O'Sullivan, Frank Matich, Lady Wigram Trophy, McLaren M0A Chev, McLaren M10B Repco Holden, Peter Maybey
‘Yerd reckon Matich would be able to blow it off wouldn’t you?… A GTS sure, powered by the little ‘253’ V8 maybe, steel wheels with Belmont/Kingswood hubcaps, lordy. Not to forget the ultimate ‘woggerisation accessory’, without putting too fine a point on it- a black vinyl roof. Yuck, vomitous yuck in fact. I threatened to […]
