VRCBC Vantage Spring 2012

VANTAGE Spring-2012

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Well there is great In This Issue: agonizing going on regarding Geezer Central 2 the future of vintage racing President’s Report 3 for the average guy, or any BCHMR News 4 kind of racing for that GVMPS Inductees 5 matter. The big high profile Fairservice on 500 cc FIII 6 events such as the Brian Tate on Goodwood 10 Redman and Monterey seem Jones Lake Hill Climb 14 to be doing OK but the Snell, SFI what is all this? 16 smaller events like our Tom’s photo Page 17 BCHMR are struggling with Photo Contest 18 low entry numbers and in our About VRCBC 18 case, dramatic reduction of entries from the US. The problem is quite simple, money! Initial planning for the Your Editor at Work 2012 BCHMR has begun. You can contact me at [email protected] or by phone at Yours Truly chair once again, 604 922 2722 our original major objectives Thanks for reading were:  At least break even financially  Try to get the best date possible for weather and for entries  Get all the possible Canadian entries to offset reductions in entries from the US.  Expand vehicle eligibility as much as possible without ruining our present REVS racing experience. We have some plans regarding the daily schedules On for August 4 & 5, 2012 to make the event more Check out the event specific web site enjoyable for the racers and more entertaining for the www.bchmr.ca spectators.

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As a result of the President’s eligibility change, we have already had inquiries from Message several racers with classic sports cars, which would now It has been a very busy become eligible. Also, several time since the last edition of new drivers have just Vantage. Our Annual Gala in completed SCCBC Driver November was a lot of fun Training, with the intention and the ‘usual suspects’ were of ‘going Vintage’. We hope President Stan MGB re-elected at the AGM in to see many of these mounted (thanks to Al Reid)" January. We revised our newcomers on our grid REVS Eligibility rules in before the end of the season. the enjoyment of the March, moving the latest After a few false starts, entrants themselves. We are date for production-based and with the invaluable modifying the BCHMR cars from 1974 to 1979. assistance of the SCCBC, we eligibility rules (which are Working together with the have finally been able to always much broader than SCCBC, we have promoted arrange the long-awaited our REVS eligibility) this year road racing at Mission, plus ‘Vintage Double’ for the May to attempt to accommodate the VRCBC and the BCHMR at 12th-13th ‘Mother’s Day more vintage cars. both the Vancouver Special’ weekend. There will This leads me to two International Auto Show and be Vintage races on both the requests of Club members. the BC Custom and Classic Saturday and the Sunday. Every year the vintage racing Car Show. We have also had Our primary objective is to calendar is becoming more our third Annual Dyno Day help out those of our active crowded and the cost of and our first ‘fun meeting’ of racing members who want to racing keeps increasing. We the year with a visit to the enter more frequently, but realize that most VRCBC beautiful Ferrari Maserati of find the cost of fuel and/or racers have event Vancouver showrooms. ferries for them just to get to alternatives and / or face These special events are Mission to be a real problem. budgetary challenges, but always a highlight and we are We really hope there will be please give a high priority to planning more during the a very good turnout of both entering the BCHMR, your rest of the year. our local and our ‘come-from Club’s premiere event. I am writing this right -away’ VRCBC racers for this Secondly, if you have any after our first race weekend weekend. And Al Harvey has influence the marketing of 2012. We had a very good guaranteed sunshine! budget of a business or turnout, the weather was Led by Chairman Tom, organization, please consider excellent and there were we have been doing a lot of our many BCHMR some good scraps in both planning for the BCHMR in sponsorship and advertising races. A couple of our local August. After evaluating opportunities. The relevant regulars couldn’t make it for many options, we think we information can be found on various reasons but said they have designed an excellent the event web site would definitely be ready for event with a realistic budget. ( wwwbchmr.ca ) but we are the next one. But we had two There is still a lot of work to open to discussing any ‘newbie’ (to REVS) veteran do but it is all coming possibility, so please contact racers – Ian Thomas and Ian together well. Of course, the Tom or myself with your Wood join in and really add key component is the ideas. As Tom says, “Every to the show. Many of the number and variety of the little bit helps, but a bigger entrants told me how much racing cars. This is what bit helps even more.” they enjoyed the day and drives the interest of the our I hope you enjoy this that is really what it is all track volunteers, spectators issue of Vantage. See you at about. and sponsors, and of course the track in May. Stanton Guy, President

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October 9 was the date of the 2011 Greater Vancouver Motorsport Pioneers Society Induction ceremony. Among the 15 inductees were three pioneer sports car Taisto Heinonen and Tom Burgess both well known and pioneer rallyists as well as the husband and wife team of Leslie and Kevin Skinner, long time stalwarts of the Sports Car Club of British Columbia and the International Conference of Sports Car Clubs.

Taisto Heinonen Taisto at the office

Tom Burgess 1963 Thunderbird Rally

The Skinners

In August 1953 I was taken to Brands Hatch in Kent with a friend by his father. This was my first exposure to a motor race meeting and, apart from a handicapped Vintage race; the entire event consisted of races for Formula Three racing cars. They were fast, and the racing was close. They also made a distinctive noise. I was hooked on motor racing and after getting to a couple of events the next year, I joined the Half Litre Car Club. Pre-war circuit racing had pretty well been confined to the Brooklands banked track, the new Donington road circuit and a sort road track at Crystal Palace in south The streamlined F1 car London. For the ordinary got going. What to race was out of it in motor cycle person who wished to another question, but with racing. participate in motor sport many men having acquired The premise of 500cc most of their activity was at technical skills and racing was that race cars sprints and hill climbs. The knowledge after the war could be economically built only new racing car that one various ideas were kicked around motorcycle engines. could buy in the UK was the around. A group of The "JAP" (J. A. Prestwich) ERA, and not very many of enthusiasts in Bristol decided single cylinder engines were these sold. So, they built to set out some rules for an the most popular. This was “specials” often based upon inexpensive series that would an air cooled push rod unit GN or Austin Seven chassis give many enthusiasts the that was used in Speedway with a variety of engines, chance to race. Thus the racing, but as a motor cycle usually from motor cycles. 500 cc racing car series was unit it came with a gearbox, They were given such names born, and the Half Litre Car although without a reverse as Chatterbox, Djinn, Tiger Club was started. The rules gear. In 1947 the JAP Cat, and would one ever were for single seat racing concern was reluctant to forget John Bolster’s Bloody cars with engines limited to supply their engines to this Mary, and the 500 cc capacity. As there new form of racing, in case Freikaiserwagen! John were no car engines that their speedway customers Bolster’s book, “Specials” small the obvious choice was would not be supplied. details many of these to use motor cycle engines of Remember that this was amazing machines. which there were many to immediately after the war After the war, many choose from, including a flat and there were shortages of started to try actually racing, twin Douglas and a very good skilled labour and and with the large number of promising AJS vertical twin materials. Fortunately they WW 2 airfields motor racing that was getting bugs wrung were persuaded to supply

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Vintage Racing Club of British Columbia, 3366 Baird Road, North Vancouver, BC, V7K 2G7 Tel: 604 980 7750, Email: [email protected], Web www.vrcbc.ca VRCBC Vantage Spring-2012 Page 8 fabricated suspension units "special" of their own with Eventually the faster that followed the Fiat streamlined body for record drivers were using the pattern. attempts. In 1952, Cooper successful Pre War single In November 1949 the abandoned box section, cam Norton International FIA announced creation of a ladder frames in favour of engines. The pre-war twin new class of international upper and lower longitudinal cam Manx engine, however, racing which would adopt chassis tubes of 1.5" had been redesigned in 1953 essentially intact the British diameter with perforated with a much shorter stroke of 500cc club's rules. It would sheet metal vertical braces 86.0 × 85.6 mm (3.39 × be called "Formula 3". between tubes. The Mk7 3.37 in) to improve the rev Effective immediately, the model of 1953 featured range The revised engine market for Cooper Car relatively minor updates, was much more suitable for Company's products including improved shock cars but they were even expanded throughout Europe absorbers and a lower- harder to acquire At first and the USA. Cooper mounted steering rack. Norton refused to supply company records show six of For nearly all of the them, so complete their MkV cars were shipped Cooper Car Company’s motorcycles were bought in to U.S.A. in 1951. (Cooper's existence the design order to remove the engine 1952 and 1953 records are drawings from 1948 on were for 500 cc car racing. These largely missing.) SCCA prepared by Owen Maddock. engines were commonly records show Cooper F3 cars He was the son of an known as the “Double competing occasionally in architect but had studied Knocker” engine. The Manx 1952 and 1953. In 1954 engineering and obtained rolling bike chassis were there were enough F3 cars membership of the Institute frequently sold on and paired for the SCCA to award a of Mechanical Engineers. His with Triumph 500 cc twin national championship trophy first title at Coopers was as a engines to create Triton cafe to a Mr. Harry Whitney of fitter, storekeeper, van driver racers. The Norton twin cam Pennsylvania. Alexis duPont and general dogsbody, engine design became the and Rowland Keith tied in unless they needed some basis of the 2 litre Vanwall points for second. All three drawings! engine. Tony Vandervell just drove Coopers. In about 1951 Cyril Kieft happened to be the Chairman At that time all 500 cc produced a car featuring a of the Norton Company! race cars had rear engines, swing axle rear suspension, On the continent a variety but Paul Emery produced and Stirling Moss was a of engines were tried and eight front engine, front frequent winner with his everyone expected a four wheel drive cars, of which Kieft. The springing medium cylinder Gilera engine would four are known to still exist. was a set of aircraft standard be the favoured engine, but These were pretty cars, but rubber bands set across the this never happened. I can could rival the racing Minis chassis. Other only remember one being for under steer! It was manufacturers included entered at Brands Hatch, but fascinating to watch them Arnott a maker of I have no memory of it taking the Druids Hill hairpin superchargers, (I seemed to actually racing. corner at Brands Hatch with remember that a Daphne The JAP engine, however, smoke pouring from their Arnott ran this company), remained the favoured front tires. IOTA, JBS,JP, Mackson, engine for sprints and hill For 1951, body panels Martin, Marwyn, and the climbs. I have always were streamlined and made Staride from which Reg considered that the visible completely detachable, Bicknell developed his difference was that the JAP though upper panels were successful Revis, the first of engine had a simple straight mounted on hinges for which featured a full width exhaust pipe, whereas the convenient access. In 1951, front. Norton usually had a Cooper also created a megaphone exhaust pipe.

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There were 500s in Canada too - Rob Follows Cooper Westwood but they tend to run afoul of continued for a few more noise regulations! In 1953 the top racers years, sports car racing realised that a little Nitro supplanted it in the club Robin Fairservice methane added to the fuel scene. This formula had would greatly increase the served the sport well and Sources: ” Specials” engines power output. As I many leading drivers cut by John Bolster said at the beginning, the their teeth on these little “Cooper Cars” by Doug first car racing that I cars. Stirling Moss, Peter Nye watched was during the Nitro Collins and Stewart Lewis “The 500 cc Racing Car” methane era, and the Evans went on to Formula by Colin Rawlinson characteristic smell of boot One fame, and Les Leston, “500 cc Racing” polish accompanied the cars Ivor Bueb, Trevor Taylor and by Gregor Grant. as they sped past. If you Jim Russell had very Photos from my collection. really wanted to win, then successful careers after their you had to have a Francis 500 cc racing days were Beart, Steve Lancefield tuned over. Jim Russell is known engine, and the few who nowadays for his racing could afford them were at schools. In the UK, the 500 the front of the pack. cc racing class is increasingly 500 cc racing reached its featured in historic racing, peak in 1955, and although it

There has been racing at and simply reflecting the way ~ George’s elder brother ~ the Goodwood Motor Circuit we were. Nothing wrong with announced his abdication and in England on and off for nostalgia, it is a womb, a intention of marrying the over sixty years now and it is cradle, a comfort as the divorced American Mrs. still a viable, popular and world moves onto ‘greener’ Wallis Simpson. At the challenging motor racing pastures, cellular telephones ensuing coronation of King circuit. The grounds also and instant connectivity! George VI and Queen enjoy enough room for a first The 9th Duke of Elizabeth (‘The Queen rate speed hill-climb venue. Richmond & Gordon, simply Mother' as she became after Horse racing too is still a ‘Freddie’ to his friends was a the accession of Queen major attraction on the total car nut equally at home Elizabeth II) it was race Goodwood estate, near with a spanner in his hand, driver, Bentley salesman, Chichester in England. perhaps even more so, as he owner of Hordern-Richmond On the motoring side of was talking to his Royal Aircraft Ltd., March Models things the annual The Highness King George VI, and partner in Kevill-Davis & Goodwood Festival of Speed who was a close confidant March automobile dealers and its younger debutant and friend. In fact, he was plus the subsequent creator sister The Goodwood Revival dining with the king to be of the Goodwood Motor are the jewels in the crown and his bride Elizabeth on Circuit in1948 that carried for those of us who love that fateful December 10th the sceptre for his good things fast, loud, traditional 1936 when King Edward VIII friend the king. For those of

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Mike gawks at Olivier Gendebien’s Shark Nose Ferrari you interested in history rent Mission hiatus in British Lancaster bombers still flying the DVD ‘The King’s Speech’ Columbia seem like a drop in today made a fly-past. for a feel of the times and a the bucket. The March family The event isn’t only an wonderful evening’s movie have also been closely on-track affair but a 50s and entertainment. Sadly, associated with the aircraft 60s dress up crowd really get ‘disillusioned by bureaucracy industry and the RAF having into the action and create a and officialdom’ ~ does that made propellers and wonderfully nostalgic effect ring a bell! ~ He closed the designed aircraft and part of on the whole estate. Almost circuit in 1966 leaving his ten the Goodwood estate was everything, the people, the year old grandson Charles requisitioned during World cars, the shops, the aircraft March literally heartbroken War Two and a part of this and the buildings all become as he too had caught the estate requisition became period pieces that one motor racing bug from his RAF Westhampnett. This RAF wanders through at will and father and those early days aerodrome was home to a sometimes one has to at Goodwood. number of Spitfire and literally pinch oneself to Moving forward two Hurricane squadrons make sure that one hasn’t generations it was that self- including one led by the walked through a time warp! same grandson Charles famous Douglas Robert In the paddock the March who became the Steuart Bader the pilot with ordinary folks like me end up creator and driving force two artificial legs! This meeting and even conversing behind the two magnificent association with flying is well with the motor racing heroes historical classic motoring portrayed at the Goodwood of yesteryear, the kind of events The Goodwood Revival by the inclusion of a folks that one only expected Festival of Speed ~ now ten first rate airshow and ground to meet in books on coffee years old and The Goodwood display. During the tables or in magazines in Revival which he launched in Goodwood Revival last year a doctors’ waiting rooms! The 1966. Motor racing had been full squadron of Spitfires took greats go because, as I was lost to Goodwood for more to the air which was amazing told many times, they simply than thirty years which to behold and not only that enjoy it and for them the era makes our Westwood to but one of the few Avro the revival represents was

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Charles March chats with one of the restorers of the prototype Spitfire K5054 the toughest and at times the You won’t come back with photos: Mike Tate & most tragic but also the much change in your pockets Associates. finest time of their lives. but what the hell . . . Some admitted that they felt You can’t take it with you it was a pay-back to the fans anyway! that had supported them and enabled them to enjoy the finer things in life! . . .I liked that. On the Goodwood race track, competing wheel to wheel with little quarter asked for or given, are some of the finest and most famous race cars of the golden era of motor sport. There simply aren’t words adequate to describe what you witness . . . perhaps you should all put it on your ‘Bucket List’, (You know the things you must do before you die!). They say “See Venice and Die” I say, See Goodwood Before You Die! That’s another fine mess you’ve got me into

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The Spitfire’s genesis R J Mitchell’s Schneider Trophy winning S6B

Vantage cartoonist Craig Ainscough just has to make a comment

BC Hydro has a hydro power station beside Highway 1 about 3 km west of the town of Hope in the Fraser Valley. The water for the station comes from Wahleach Lake (formerly called Jones Lake) in a basin in the mountains above and to the south. There is a road from the lake down to the highway following Wahleach Creek (also formerly and sometimes still called Jones). This road was presumably developed for the construction of the dam that forms Wahleach Lake must have been built in the early 1950s when the dam was completed. The Sports Car Club of BC held an organised 0.50 mile hill climb on this road several times. Known dates are; November 14, 1954, and October 24 1955 Fastest Time recorded was 1.04.8 by G. MacDonald in a TR2 with cleated tires in 1955

Locator map

Hill Climb road today Highway exit sign today

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Footnote: The Snell Foundation I came across this nugget on a forum about Lotus 23s recently What is SPI? “Just to add to the debate I spent some time in discussion with HANS a few years back Recently there has been when the racing helmet he when designing a new Hans quite a bit of conversation wore failed to protect his compliant seat for the 2-Eleven. about our ASN Canada FIA head. A group of friends, At the time I also briefly requirement FIA certification scientists, physicians, and discussed with them the of head and neck restraint others joined together to potential use of a HANS device when driving my 23. It's not as and some other safety create a group that would straight forward as it might at equipment in racing events promote research and first seem. The HANS was under their jurisdiction. Much education as well as test and specifically designed to lessen of the discussion has develop standards to the risk of a basal skull fracture revolved around whether improve the effectiveness of in a high g deceleration. It devices other than the helmets. www,smf.org clearly achieves this very well. “Hans”( a registered The problem is not with the trademark) would be It would seem that while HANS but with our cars; they acceptable. Proponents of Snell has been accepted as a don't have the extremely rigid chassis structures seen on alternative devices argued world standard for helmet modern race cars and won't in that SCCA and other standards and testing (not most circumstances generate governing bodies are just for motor racing but the sort of frontal deceleration accepted any bearing SPI many other sports as well) that is associated with injuries certification. In the end the SPI remains pretty much an such as basal skull fractures. SPI devices were accepted. American standard, As our The chassis will normally After all that I wondered Canadian ASN is affiliated collapse relatively early in a what it this SPI outfit?, is it with the FIA, it is not severe frontal accident and your somehow related to the Snell surprising that they ally with legs and thorax will tend to suffer the worst injuries, which Foundation that sets the FIA regulations. the HANS cannot help to standard for helmets? Well prevent. Assuming the HANS is no it is not. SPI was originally correctly specified and is used in a part of the Speciality conjunction with suitable Equipment Market harnesses with correct Association (SEMA), later installation and the HANS is spinning off to become an sufficiently clear from any rigid independent foundation. SPI structure such as the roll over sets standard for all kinds of bar so it doesn't push on the back of your neck then it cannot racing equipment with a make your situation any worse, decidedly American and drag but it may not offer the same racing bent. increased level of protection that www.sfifoundation.com it would in a more modern race car. I believe this is one reason The Snell Memorial that many historic race Foundation (SMF) is a not-for authorities have decided against -profit organization created mandating their use in older to provide a high quality cars. No reason not to use one if you want, but something to bear standard of safety for in mind if you will have to chop helmets. Founded in 1957, great lumps out of your car to SMF is named after William install one correctly”. "Pete" Snell, a popular sports The writer is a design engineer car racer who died in 1956 of with Lotus head injuries he received

Racing Transmissions

Brabham F3 with DAF McKee Transaxle

Hewland FT200 Tremec TR 6060 Hewland DF200

Laystall in LolaMk1 Lotus “Queerbox” Ferrari F1

Hewland MK8 BRM 1.5 litre F1 Staffs Atlantic

ZF 5D Hewland DG300 Hewland VGC

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Well there were a few guesses, but no one was even close. It is the locally built Patterson Formula Ford at Westwood in 1975.

Photo Contest Important victory at Westwood

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