Globe Products boss, Dick Bassett, poses in the Mallala paddock on the debut of his new Elfin 400 Ford #BB661, driven by Noel Hurd, on June 13, 1966. Regular readers will know I’ve slugged away at the Elfin 400, a favourite car, ad-nauseum. See here on the Matich 400 and related; https://primotipo.com/2015/05/28/elfin-400traco-olds-frank-matich-niel-allen-and-garrie-cooper/ and Bob Jane’s 400; […]
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Globe Products Elfin 400…
Posted: March 27, 2021 in Sports RacersTags: Australian Motor Racing History, Dick Bassett, Elfin 400 Ford, Elfin 400 Globe-Ford, Keith Rilstone, Kevin Drage, Noel Hurd
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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 […]
Australian Sportscar State of Play 1968…
Posted: April 5, 2019 in Features, Sports RacersTags: Argo Chev, Australian Sportscar Chamionship, Bill Brown, Elfin 400 Chev, Elfin 400 Repco, Ferrari 250LM, Ferrari 350 Can Am, Frank Matich, Ian Cook, Matich SR4 Repco, Niel Allen, Pete Geoghegan, Peter Macrow
Frank Matich ahead of the Australian sportscar pack at Warwick Farm in 1968- the car is his Matich SR3 Repco ‘720’ 4.4 V8, 5 May … The chasing pack comprises the ex-works Scuderia Veloce Ferrari 350 Can-Am driven by Bill Brown- filling Chris Amon’s shoes after he departed back to Europe, Niel Allen’s white Elfin […]
Australian Racing Random 8…
Posted: July 17, 2021 in FotosTags: Alec Mildren, Australian Motor Racing History, Brian Sampson, Centaur Waggott, Cooper T51 Maserati, Dave Walker, John Ampt, John French, Lotus 56B Pratt & Whitney
Dave Walker in the radical Lotus 56B Pratt & Whitney, 4WD gas turbine powered F1 car during practice for the 1971 Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort… It is just over 50 years since the gritty Aussie raced this radical Lotus – developed and raced at the ’68 Indy 500 then adapted by Chapman and his […]
Belle of The Ball…
Posted: April 6, 2018 in Features, Sports RacersTags: Australian Motor Racing History, Bevan Gibson, Bob Jane, Elfin 400 Repco, Ian Cook, John Harvey, Ken Hastings, Spencer Martin
Bob Jane, Elfin 400 Repco, during the Longford Tasman round in 1967. Sweet Repco V8 music @ 7000 rpm flat out in fifth gear… Idle moments in front of the Teev provide a male multi-tasking opportunity, looking for ‘that shot’ which inspires an article. Breathing, lookin’ at the telly and searching for photographic inspiration simultaneously- […]
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’ […]
Or Beach Buggy, more specifically?… The CMS VW buggy of George Geshopoulis in this group of four cars has been rounded up by one of the fastest cars in Australia at the time, Bob Jane’s 4.4 litre Repco-Brabham V8 engined Elfin 400, a racer I wrote about a while back; https://primotipo.com/2018/04/06/belle-of-the-ball/ Its a typically varied […]
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 […]
Lakeside Tasman Meeting, 12 February 1967…
Posted: January 18, 2019 in Fotos, Track testsTags: 1967 Lakeside 99, Australian Motor Racing History, Bob Jane, Brabham BT11a Climax, Brabham BT14 Ford, Brabham BT22 Repco, Brabham BT23A Repco, Denny Hulme, Elfin 400 Repco, Jack Brabham, John Harvey, Spencer Martin
(W Byers) Bob Jane, Elfin 400 Repco ‘620’ 4.4 V8 entering KLG Corner, racer Ross Burbidge tells us, 12 February 1967… It’s a very early race for Bob in his brand new Elfin, this car notable in several ways not least for the fact that it was the first to be fitted with a customer […]
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