Author Topic: SOLVED: WTH # 378 - WEV 750 (Worm's Eye View) by Stan Goldthorpe w Peter St Barbe driving  (Read 562 times)

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For one point, specify the year, name, builder, and driver of this race car

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Re: WTH # 378
« Reply #1 on: November 27, 2014, 09:26:57 AM »
Rookies don't like race cars?

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Re: WTH # 378
« Reply #2 on: December 04, 2014, 09:24:45 AM »
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Re: WTH # 378
« Reply #3 on: December 04, 2014, 10:34:40 AM »
Well that's competitor in a 750MC Six-hour Relay Race at Silverstone in about 1980.
Hard to say if it's a Formula 1300 or 750 Formula car but I'd guess F1300.
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Re: WTH # 378
« Reply #4 on: December 04, 2014, 11:21:56 AM »
Well that's competitor in a 750MC Six-hour Relay Race at Silverstone in about 1980.
Hard to say if it's a Formula 1300 or 750 Formula car but I'd guess F1300.

And AL is the man who was there (probably).
I must be right - that's what it says on Wikipedia

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Re: WTH # 378
« Reply #5 on: December 04, 2014, 02:43:57 PM »
750 is part of the name I am looking for.  Image is older than 1980.

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Re: WTH # 378
« Reply #6 on: December 05, 2014, 04:42:03 AM »
Well as you left the logo for all to see it won't be 750MC that is part of the name but 750 Formula (or just 750 Special).

As NIC says, I was probably there, but all the race programmes from the 1970/80 period I used to have seem to have gone to the waste paper collection, so I can't look up car A of team 35.
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Re: WTH # 378
« Reply #7 on: December 06, 2014, 01:59:52 PM »
Are the builder and the driver the same person?

Finaly I get the info It was not easy but I think I have all you ask. It is the WEV750 (maybe the first WEV) built by Stan Golldthorpe in 1964 originaly built with an Austin 750 engine. I think the photo is taken in 1967 at Silverstone with Peter St Barbe at wheel,  probably with a Delboy reliant 600cc engine, As many of F750 had a reliant engine this was the clue to find it.
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Re: WTH # 378
« Reply #8 on: December 06, 2014, 04:06:32 PM »
One point to Serra for the complete answer.

When I saw a previous puzzle on here with a WEV car, I didn't think that was right, because it wasn't nearly as low as the first.  So I decided to post WEV750.