Topic: Solved - MJW #1130 - Oulton Park Int'l Gold Cup 1967 - Ickx, Hill & Elford

[woodinsight]

Ah!.... those were the days when motor racing was exciting!

Name the three cars and drivers for one point and also name the year and the circuit for a second point.

Only a full answer will gain the points on offer.

[woodinsight]

Experts?

[Hiawatha]

Jacky Ickx leading Graham Hill on Ford Cortina Lotus MK II, in third position Vic Elford on Porsche 911.
Circuit is Oulton Park in England.
Date is 16 September 1967 and the event is the International Gold Cup Race Meeting

[nicanary]

B***er! I'd been waiting for that one, but had to go get my daughter's car fixed after she had an argument with a petrol pump last night.

[woodinsight]

Jacky Ickx leading Graham Hill on Ford Cortina Lotus MK II, in third position Vic Elford on Porsche 911.
Circuit is Oulton Park in England.
Date is 16 September 1967 and the event is the International Gold Cup Race Meeting

That's it! - you've just earned the two points.

Sorry to hear about your daughter's car nicanary - hope it's not too expensive to repair.

[nicanary]

Luckily just a new tyre and wheel realignment. I thought it would need a new alloy. Had to change the wheel last night by the light of a mobile phone - I was not amused. Quite why she thought the pedestal of a petrol pump looked like the road is quite beyond me. I've paid her back by fitting a Kumho "ditchfinder" - that'll teach her.

I think the Cortinas were entered in MkII guise as Ford Lotus Cortina, whereas the MkI was strictly speaking a Ford Cortina Lotus. In '68 they were a quasi-works team run by Alan Mann in his red and gold colours. I could never understand how the Porsche 911 counted as a saloon car (just like the Walkinshaw XJS in later years), but it was always a pleasure to see the criminally underrated Vic Elford in action.

[RayTheRat]

Amazing!  Hill's Cortina is lifting the left rear wheel under braking and Ickx's is lifting the left front under power.      

I'm always blown away by the performance of those Cortinas.  I drove one back in the day (just a few hot laps on an oval track) and it was easily as fast as some of the V8 sedans.

Kool photo!

Hope the daughter's car doesn't have any further damage.  In the "same kind of problem" department, I'd just finished converting a 1980 El Camino to a Monte Carlo SS nose, replaced the anemic 231 inch V6 with a mild 406 V8 and had an acceptable torch red paint job applied to it.  It looked pretty sharp and drove very nicely.  My wife (now my ex-wife) wanted to drive it to a friend's house, then go shopping.  I have no idea why she thought she could make a U-turn across a center divider, but the metal sign posts (L-shaped) made pretty effective tire spikes.  She got 3 of the BFG T/A tires shredded and put a gash in the 4th one.  She wondered why I never let her drive it again.  LOL!  

There are photos of the Elky (that was the name on the "Vanity plate") in the Previous Projects section of the website listed in my profile (ChevyAsylum.)  I miss that old beast and its stablemate, a 64 Chevy C10 rat rod pickup.  They we both a lotta fun.