Topic: SAC#917 : Car built at Technical College Hatfield for London-Paris race in 1959

[nicanary]

So will we get half a point each ? 

No. You found it. I was getting nowhere - I'd forgotten about that race.

[Allan L]

How did I miss that one!
I was at Hatfield Tech (and de Havillands) at the time, too!
The aeroplane was Druine Turbi G-AOTK, built by a group of de Havilland students, the TK Flying Group, as a successor to the series of "TK" aeroplanes designed and built at the de Havilland Technical School. If I remember correctly there was another home-made car in Paris, so they competed in a home made aeroplane and two home made cars.
Brian Hart was at DH and must have had some involvement with the engine(s) of the car(s). 1959 Hart teamed up with Len Terry to drive his Terrier Mk2 in the 1172 formula championship and won the Chapman Trophy

[nicanary]

How did I miss that one!
I was at Hatfield Tech (and de Havillands) at the time, too!
The aeroplane was Druine Turbi G-AOTK, built by a group of de Havilland students, the TK Flying Group, as a successor to the series of "TK" aeroplanes designed and built at the de Havilland Technical School. If I remember correctly there was another home-made car in Paris, so they competed in a home made aeroplane and two home made cars.
Brian Hart was at DH and must have had some involvement with the engine(s) of the car(s). 1959 Hart teamed up with Len Terry to drive his Terrier Mk2 in the 1172 formula championship and won the Chapman Trophy

It was your own post on another well-known forum which gave me the Brian Hart lead! You mentioned the plane and two homebuilt cars, and thought that one of them could have been Hart's Terrier. Well the man in the photo is definitely Hart, but the car doesn't look like his Terrier, unless it was rebodied just for this event. I think 1172-Formula cars were often road-legal, even if that wasn't in the regulations.

I can't find anything to confirm or deny exactly what this car is.

[SACO]

Well, I don't know about it more !
Car built at Technical College Hatfield for London-Paris race in 1959 !
1 point for oko94 !