G10/11 feature in current Motor Sport mag

G10/11 feature in current Motor Sport mag

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dandarez

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290 months

Saturday 2nd July 2011
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Excellent 'tells it as it was' feature on G10.

(With some G11 mention) and piece on current LNT Ginetta company, all in latest issue of Motor Sport.

Chris Meek driving the recently restored G10 in which he wiped the floor against the low-drag ex-Protheroe E-type in 1965.

h4887

278 posts

247 months

Saturday 2nd July 2011
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Has it been raced yet this season?

dandarez

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Saturday 2nd July 2011
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h4887 said:
Has it been raced yet this season?
Not sure if it was entered in a recent 'gentlemans' race. Didn't notice it in the placings anyway.


G10 MotorSport mag bit, scroll down about halfway.

http://www.motorsportmagazine.co.uk/2011/06/30/lat...

Can't make my mind up about the hardtop, doesn't look right imo. Think he has one of the front screens made by Spadge, thanks to the loan of mine. Wonder why they didn't keep 'original' with the soft top?

Edited by dandarez on Saturday 2nd July 23:19

h4887

278 posts

247 months

Sunday 3rd July 2011
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Possibly the hardtop being black makes it look different, but it would have been nice if they'd put it back into original roadster form.

Shaynee Taylor

28 posts

164 months

Tuesday 12th July 2011
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Great article by Motorsport Mag... a road going Ginetta featuring a V8. Imagine that in a new Ginetta.... (watch this space!)

geeeman

1,311 posts

262 months

Wednesday 21st March 2012
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0PMo9D4Ais

1:45 on the vid, G10 at the recent Melbourne GP !

so was the G10 sold to Oz??


lmasarati

91 posts

171 months

Wednesday 21st March 2012
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And look at these photos also... photo 7 to 11.

It's also on video at this link.

In the entrants list the driver is listed as Andrew Newall.

Edited by lmasarati on Wednesday 21st March 07:45

geeeman

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262 months

Tuesday 27th March 2012
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from the pics above you can make out the JCB logo on the G10.. So it was restored for Mr Bamford, the same one thats in the papers?

h4887

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247 months

Tuesday 27th March 2012
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What's he done?

geeeman

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262 months

Tuesday 27th March 2012
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duno, something about donations to the conservative party..

Is he related to the Bamford who drove G16 ?(worcester racing association)

dandarez

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Wednesday 28th March 2012
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Bloody hell! (that's the second time I've said that on these threads in a few days!).
It was using my G11 screen that allowed that car to be finished... I didn't get a 'donation'!!
If I'd known it was the same Bamford I might have asked for one. A new screen seems to pale away now.

As for related to John Bamford (WRA) could be I suppose. 'Filthy Rich' Ginetta owners... there's a new one.

Davyde

54 posts

218 months

Friday 23rd November 2012
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Having recently wacthced the two G10's racing at the Goodwood Revival, I decided to get myself a "proper roof" and abandon the MG hard top which has been on the car since it was built.

As you can see, Ivor, Mark, Tom and the team at DARE are doing a great job, thanks to the loan of an original roof from a fellow G10 owner (champagne on it's way sir!).

The car hasn't been out racing since the Ginetta anniversary bash at Mallory Park a few years ago, where it was attacked by a G4 driven by a dentist (all forgiven) and the engine subsequently lost a cylinder.

The engine has now been rebuilt and is pushing out 435 BHP - more than my limited driving ability can control.

So, the aim is to get the car completed and out on the track for next season.

dandarez

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Friday 23rd November 2012
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What're you putting in the rear screen gap - Perspex I suppose?

I'd like a 'proper' glass screen for my eleven, which is what should be there instead of the scratchy flappy plastic that needs replacing again.

There must be enough 'hardtops' around now to warrant some being made, but I suppose for racing nobody is interested in glass, apart from me.

Oh, and if you are wondering why mine never had a glass rear screen, previous owner sat on it and cracked it.

Edited by dandarez on Friday 23 November 22:33

h4887

278 posts

247 months

Saturday 24th November 2012
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So they used three rear screens which look the same at a first glance, but aren't!

lmasarati

91 posts

171 months

Monday 26th November 2012
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Davyde said:
As you can see, Ivor, Mark, Tom and the team at DARE are doing a great job, thanks to the loan of an original roof from a fellow G10 owner (champagne on it's way sir!).
So that's why they're always busy... I'm a bit jealous :-)
Nice work as usual.

Jellinek

274 posts

282 months

Monday 26th November 2012
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Shaynee Taylor said:
..a road going Ginetta featuring a V8. Imagine that in a new Ginetta.... (watch this space!)
I hope for Ginetta's sake this is not a road car....

GTRene

17,739 posts

231 months

Monday 26th November 2012
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nice car David, the hardtop looks good.

dandarez

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Tuesday 27th November 2012
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h4887 said:
So they used three rear screens which look the same at a first glance, but aren't!
You've lost me there Geoff?
Or must I get more shuteye? I'm half asleep now!

Funny now I think back that I could have had the cracked rear original screen (why on earth would I want that I thought at the time).
Now there isn't one in existence (unless NWA survives and still has its original, or one sits alone among a stack somewhere. There was moons ago a G11 front screen at Charles Pugh Glass but somebody had it, or it was dumped).

I seem to remember the 10/11 Coupe rear screen being described as like the G21 rear, albeit deeper (or was it wider?) ...or was it the G15 rear? Oh, I give up.

The Birmingham outfit will make me one I've no doubt, but it would have been so nice to have had the correct screen as a template to get that slight curvature just right.

h4887

278 posts

247 months

Tuesday 27th November 2012
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dandarez said:
You've lost me there Geoff?
Or must I get more shuteye? I'm half asleep now!


I seem to remember the 10/11 Coupe rear screen being described as like the G21 rear, albeit deeper (or was it wider?) ...or was it the G15 rear? Oh, I give up
Exactly!

dandarez

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Wednesday 28th November 2012
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h4887 said:
dandarez said:
You've lost me there Geoff?
Or must I get more shuteye? I'm half asleep now!


I seem to remember the 10/11 Coupe rear screen being described as like the G21 rear, albeit deeper (or was it wider?) ...or was it the G15 rear? Oh, I give up
Exactly!
Just testing you Geoff...
I was expecting you to reply:

Wake up at the 'rear'! hehe