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SOLVED: Djetset #554 - LDS Climax Mk III
« on: October 05, 2011, 06:45:51 PM »
Full details for a point please.
« Last Edit: October 10, 2011, 05:15:37 AM by Djetset »
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Re: Djetset #554
« Reply #1 on: October 06, 2011, 03:58:34 AM »
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Re: Djetset #554 - Note New Photo
« Reply #2 on: October 06, 2011, 04:49:23 AM »
Otto pointed out that the previous car was a re-post (a Lyle 4600 V8), so above is a new image and new mystery!
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Re: Djetset #554
« Reply #3 on: October 19, 2011, 04:31:15 PM »
Expertise required.
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Re: Djetset #554
« Reply #4 on: October 24, 2011, 05:07:45 PM »
Professionalise required.
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Re: Djetset #554
« Reply #5 on: October 24, 2011, 05:34:27 PM »
From Australia?
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Re: Djetset #554
« Reply #6 on: October 25, 2011, 02:35:01 AM »
No, not Australian.
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Re: Djetset #554
« Reply #7 on: October 26, 2011, 06:40:59 AM »
Could it be one of South African specials?

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Re: Djetset #554
« Reply #8 on: October 26, 2011, 08:17:39 AM »
Is it a Formula 2 car of some type?
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Re: Djetset #554
« Reply #9 on: October 26, 2011, 08:21:24 AM »
It is African, and I believe it is an F2 car of sone type.
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Re: Djetset #554
« Reply #10 on: October 26, 2011, 09:47:41 AM »
Guess it's gonna be an LDS Mk3 - Climax, shot probably in 1967. Sam Tingle at the wheel?
Should be an F1 car, though.
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Re: Djetset #554
« Reply #11 on: October 26, 2011, 03:01:55 PM »
Correct on every count, including the fact this is the F1 car (oophs, should have double-checked my facts) from Rhodesia.
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Re: Djetset #554
« Reply #12 on: October 26, 2011, 03:42:12 PM »
...including the fact this is the F1 car...

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Re: SOLVED: Djetset #554 - LDS Climax Mk III
« Reply #13 on: October 28, 2011, 04:44:07 PM »
Ahem!

The description of the LDS in David Hodges's A-Z of Grand Prix Cars states "L D 'Doug' Serrurier was the leading South African single-seater constructor ..."

Sam Tingle was Rhodesian which is probably the cause of the confusion.
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Re: SOLVED: Djetset #554 - LDS Climax Mk III
« Reply #14 on: November 30, 2013, 06:20:53 PM »
One of these cars, the Mk2, had a Giulietta engine.

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Re: SOLVED: Djetset #554 - LDS Climax Mk III
« Reply #15 on: December 01, 2013, 05:57:42 AM »
Reconstruction of the history of these South African F1 cars seems not so easy.
I'm still trying to complete the puzzle of Giulietta powered F1 cars...
but anyway, in case of LDS, the story is a tad more complex than 'the MK2 had a Giulietta engine'.