Topic: Solved NIC#1187 - 1964 AD-Climax (Sportive)

[nicanary]

What is this?

[nicanary]

Experts?

[Edgardosomoza]

DeTomaso?

[nicanary]

DeTomaso?

No.

[shamrock]

Is it a car that ran in The Burnett 6 hours in Silverstone in the mid 60s

[nicanary]

Is it a car that ran in The Burnett 6 hours in Silverstone in the mid 60s

I'm afraid I can't tell you one way or the other. I don't know a full history of the car. It may have done.

[nicanary]

Pros?

[Djetset]

The Paddock looks like Snetterton or Brands Hatch, although I'd opt for the former at a push, c.1963-ish judging by the other cars in the background. Am I on the right track, so to speak?

[nicanary]

The Paddock looks like Snetterton or Brands Hatch, although I'd opt for the former at a push, c.1963-ish judging by the other cars in the background. Am I on the right track, so to speak?

Yes, It's windy city, the recipient of all the weather from Siberia which travelled in across the North Sea.  Snetterton 1964 to be precise.

[Djetset]

Ah, thought so, and thanks for the year. This will now give me a distraction from Wendax's tricky but fascinating Rust Never Sleeps puzzle to do some research on something else  . Back to you soon, hopefully...

[Djetset]

Assuming it competed in the 1964 BRSCC race at Snetterton, it seems car number 66 was an AD Climax, which I can't pretend to know very much more about!

[nicanary]

Assuming it competed in the 1964 BRSCC race at Snetterton, it seems car number 66 was an AD Climax, which I can't pretend to know very much more about!

Your investigation has paid off. The point is yours.

I too knew nothing about the car, and posted the image on TNF and received all that i now know- it was sometimes known as the AD Sportive Climax and was built by Arvin Developments with a 1098cc Climax unit.  It was entered by E Crocker and G F White. I would imagine that by 1964 the old Climax unit was uncompetitive against MAE Ford motors.