The Numbers Game

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WPA said:

Fiat 509 (1927)

A contemporary of the Fiat - although it looks like something from a decade earlier, the 510cc Mauser Monotrace. Early disc brake technology evident there ?!?

Edited by moffspeed on Tuesday 23 January 11:01

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Yet another lightweight E replica, sorry - can't help myself…

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Our 2nd "Kei" car - the 1976 Suzuki Jimny SJ10.

3 cylinder, 2-stroke engine displacing 539ccs.

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After all the agricultural/heavy plant stuff - something plus petite.

1935 Simca 5 Gordini. A class winner at Le Mans that year (OK it was the only car in its class). More significantly the smallest capacity car to ever run at LM - 568cc.

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Take a crashed 1961 BRM P57 F1 car (chassis 571). Cut it in half, add a tube-frame 2 seater mid-section and a Rover gas turbine as motivation.

The 1963 Rover BRM. Not the prettiest car to grace La Sarthe but it plodded along for 24 hours and proved a point.

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Ecurie Belgique D-Type, chassis XKD 573.

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Motor sport magic.

One of those forgotten outings. Gilles Villeneuve in the 1979 Giro d' Italia. Lancia Beta Monte Carlo, co-driven by Walter Rohrl.

That would have been worth seeing…

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One of the most iconic engines of all time, the BMW boxer twin. Powering motorcycles for 8 decades.

This is the latest - still at 1170cc - which happens to be 585cc per cylinder…




…a bit of a struggle with some of these numbers - I'm looking forward to the 700's when March Engineering Ltd will take us in a blink from 701 to 793.

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Cooper Bristol…

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With a wheelbase equivalent to the length of 3 football pitches the 1937 Duesenberg J 587.

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Jaguar XJR-9 chassis no. TWR-12C-588.

Won 5 Gp. C races in 1988 including the 1000Kms at Monza, Silverstone & Brands Hatch. A DNF at Le Mans though..

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The greatest LSR car of all time - John Cobb's 1939 Railton Mobil Special. Twin Napier Lion W12 aero engines, a proper motor car. 592 Km/h over a timed mile.

The 2nd photo shows the extensive safety features including the deformable structures - Cobbs' legs.

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Another Matchless - the G11 from 1957, twin pot 593cc. Also sold as an AJS, so badge engineering was alive and well even then and the Matchless wasn't necessarily Matchless.

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The original Fiat Abarth 595 SS which, obviously, had a 594cc engine.

SS or otherwise known as an Eseeesee which, for a simple old man like me, is also confusing.

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600 up, lets go for the magnificent Lola T600. Another proper motor car.

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It's a Group 6 car and looks like a Lola - but it is the very rare and very neat Swiss-built Cheetah G601.

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Cheetah-ing, the 601 was updated to become the 602.

In which case we're on to 603 and perhaps a shy retiring Tatra…

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Directeur de la course car for a lesser-known French endurance race :

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I'm not the greatest fan of post 80's Peugeots but this one-off 605 Ute floats the boat quite nicely..

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As good as it gets. XKD 606.