Topic: Ten racers by Ray B. - Solved, with a speed ticket for metalshapes, geology and D-type

[Ray B.]

Ten drivers, ten cars.
You have to identifiy the pilot and the car, and match them two by two. Each pair will get you one point.
I must say that I don't know what make is car 7.
You can make guesses about just the pilots or the cars but it can help others to steal your point.

Another point can be earned by telling us precisely why, when or where the pilot and the car can be matched.

And, last detail, there is a connection to be made beetween all these pairings. Once found, you may find the task easier.
Now the pilots...

Racer 1     Racer 2 
                                                                                     
Racer 3     Racer 4 

Racer 5     Racer 6 

Racer 7     Racer 8 

Racer 9     Racer 10 

[Ray B.]

Now the cars...

Car 1    

Car 2  
                                                                                     
Car 3 (N°22)     

Car 4    

Car 5        

Car 6   

Car 7 (N°50)     

Car 8      

Car 9      

Car 10      

[knightfan26917]

Well... crap!

I KNOW Car #1 is Bobby Allison's #12 NASCAR "Coke Machine" Monte Carlo ... because Kevin (of the first generation MC Club) created a replica:
http://www.chevyasylum.com/cort/200711/RT11260702_CMrear_JPG.html

But which driver is actually Bobby, I'm not exactly sure.  I think it is either between Racer 1 and Racer 6, and I'm leaning towards Racer #6.

BUT ... I suspect I've just helped somebody steal my POINT.  ARG.  Ah, well.  Hey ... at least I can say I was helpful .



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[Ray B.]

You're may be right I believe, but in this case the car is not driven by Bobby Allison.
So it's someone else you have to look for in the pilots' pictures.

[Ray B.]

Knightfan, I did my checking and you're perfectly right, this is Bobby Allison's car.
But if it's not him at the wheel, who is driving it?

I leave this puzzle in the rookie section for 2 more days, then the experts will have a chance.

[Ray B.]

And... here it is, experts!

[geology]

Car #7 1930 Belanger Indy Special (also called 1949 Belanger Special), began life in 1930 and raced up until 1950

Driver #5 Clarke Gable; drives the car in the 1950 Film 'To Please a Lady'

In 2009 it was sold for around $200k

[geology]

Driver #4 Fred Astaire with car #2 Ferrari 750 monza from film On the Beach (1959)

[geology]

Driver #6 and car #6

John Ireland, Jaguar XK120 in the film Fast & Furious (1955)

[metalshapes]

I think car #9 was driven by Jeff Bridges #9 in The Last American Hero.

[metalshapes]

I have car #7 as a Offy Kurtis  from the Mickey Rooney movie( #3)  The big wheel.

[metalshapes]

Which could make car#3 the Belanger Indy Special.

[Ray B.]

 You guys are real good, and didn't fall into the trap.
An avalanche of answers, some true, some false. I'll reply after dinner.

[metalshapes]

AC Cobra car #8  John Cassavetes #2 from the movie The killers.

[metalshapes]

Racer #1 William Campbell, car #4  lotus 24 movie the young racers

[D-type]

Car #10 is a 1950 offset HWM which would make it the car driven by Kirk Douglas in sports car trim in the Racers (aka Such men are dangerous) but I don't recognise him among the drivers - I'll guess at no 8.

Not the answers you are looking for:
Car #6 is NUB 120 the works lightweight XK120 that was rallied very successfully by Ian and Pat Appleyard
Car #4 is the Lotus 24 of Trevor Taylor rounding the Karussell during the 1962 German GP

[Ray B.]

Car #7 1930 Belanger Indy Special (also called 1949 Belanger Special), began life in 1930 and raced up until 1950

I have to trust you on that

Driver #5 Clarke Gable; drives the car in the 1950 Film 'To Please a Lady'

Gable, OK, the connection (the film) OK. Buit not this car.

Which could make car#3 the Belanger Indy Special.

I have it as a Ewing-Offenhauser, but my source is often wrong

Here is Gable in car N°22

[Ray B.]

Driver #4 Fred Astaire with car #2 Ferrari 750 monza from film On the Beach (1959)

The film...

[Ray B.]

Driver #6 and car #6

John Ireland, Jaguar XK120 in the film Fast & Furious (1955)

Have a fuzzy picture.

[Ray B.]

I think car #9 was driven by Jeff Bridges #9 in The Last American Hero.

Jeff Bridges Racer #9  
The Last American Hero

But no connection with car #9.

[Ray B.]

AC Cobra car #8  John Cassavetes #2 from the movie The killers.

[Ray B.]

I have car #7 as a Offy Kurtis  from the Mickey Rooney movie( #3)  The big wheel.

As I said, I didn't know what car 7 was. The points are yours anyhow.

Here is Rooney in car N°50.

[metalshapes]

I think car #9 was driven by Jeff Bridges #9 in The Last American Hero.

Jeff Bridges Racer #9  
The Last American Hero

But no connection with car #9.

Then its the Monte Carlo. ( #1)

[Ray B.]

That's right. I'll post pictures to prove some of this later.
And knightfan was right, this is Bobby Allison's car, and he drove it in the racing sequences.
Bridges plays Junior "Jackson" (inspired by the career of Junior Johnson) and "Junior Jackson" was painted on the car's roof for the close-ups.

[Ray B.]

Racer #1 William Campbell, car #4  lotus 24 movie the young racers

Right again.
I see that you know your movies and actors as well as your cars.

Here is Campell's (supposedly) in the film's Lotus.