Topic: Allan L 69: G type ERA driven by Stirling Moss

[Allan L]

I find it hard to believe we've not had this, but it is not easy to search for (although I tried).
Anyway a point each for car (make/model/date) and its driver:

[billtorrance9999]

Type G ERA (ugliest GP car ever?) with Sir Stirling Moss at the wheel

[Allan L]

Type G ERA (ugliest GP car ever?) with Sir Stirling Moss at the wheel

That's right, of course, except
a) date?
b) technically not a GP car, one might say
c) SCM was plain Mr Moss at the time (and for a long time thereafter) but that's a point for you

There'll be a another point when you've given the date.

[Allan L]

How about a further puzzle question for another point:
what became of these cars?

[billtorrance9999]

It was 1952.

ERA withdrew and sold the cars to the Bristol company who used them as the basis of their weird Le Mans cars

[Allan L]

It was 1952.

ERA withdrew and sold the cars to the Bristol company who used them as the basis of their weird Le Mans cars

Quite so and the points have been added.

[D-type]

Type G ERA (ugliest GP car ever?) with Sir Stirling Moss at the wheel

That's right, of course, except
a) date?
b) technically not a GP car, one might say
c) SCM was plain Mr Moss at the time (and for a long time thereafter) but that's a point for you

There'll be a another point when you've given the date.

Let's get this straight.  The G-Type was a Formula 2 car and not a Formula 1 car.  But in 1952 and 1953 the World Championship grands prix and the major non-championship races were held for Formula 2 cars.  So it was a GP car, as were the Ferrari 500, Maserati A6GCM, Cooper-Bristol, Connaught, Gordini and the obscure ones that appear on here.

[Allan L]

Yes, Duncan, that's why I put it as I did ("technically not a GP car, one might say") and of course it, like most of the cars that competed in the Grands Prix of 1952, was not built for anything as exalted.