Author Topic: SOLVED: Djetset 712 - Costin-Walker Imp F4 monocoque 1967-68, tuned by Willie Griffiths (Read 2964 times)

nicanary · « **Reply #25 on:** May 25, 2015, 05:14:00 AM »

You may as well UNLOCK this, I'm getting nowhere. Since the image is not taken from the internet, there won't be many takers anyway - ain't no-one here but us chickens.

Is this by any chance one of Geoff Rumble's creations? A Dastle?

Djetset · « **Reply #26 on:** May 26, 2015, 03:36:27 PM »

Quote from: nicanary on May 25, 2015, 05:14:00 AM

You may as well UNLOCK this, I'm getting nowhere. Since the image is not taken from the internet, there won't be many takers anyway - ain't no-one here but us chickens.

Is this by any chance one of Geoff Rumble's creations? A Dastle?

Sorry Nicanary but it's not a Dastle.

nicanary · « **Reply #27 on:** May 26, 2015, 06:52:50 PM »

I've looked at the background. hat looks like late 1980s architecture on the parked cars - the plastic cladding on the sills.

Is this car British?

Djetset · « **Reply #28 on:** May 28, 2015, 03:44:06 PM »

Quote from: nicanary on May 26, 2015, 06:52:50 PM

I've looked at the background. hat looks like late 1980s architecture on the parked cars - the plastic cladding on the sills.

Is this car British?

Yes the car is British, but earlier than the 1980s.

nicanary · « **Reply #29 on:** May 29, 2015, 08:21:28 AM »

I assume that this is a one-off ??

Djetset · « **Reply #30 on:** May 29, 2015, 09:05:57 PM »

Quote from: nicanary on May 29, 2015, 08:21:28 AM

I assume that this is a one-off ??

Yes, AFAIK.

nicanary · « **Reply #31 on:** May 31, 2015, 06:17:33 AM »

My mind has wandered towards people who used to race Imps - I can't imagine why Hartwell would have painted their cars red, but it could be something to do with George Bevan, and those wheels are exactly like those fitted to his Imp supersaloon.

George Bevan?

Djetset · « **Reply #32 on:** May 31, 2015, 12:59:49 PM »

Sorry, but no George Bevan here.

nicanary · « **Reply #33 on:** November 10, 2015, 06:28:41 AM »

Jim Ward's GEM ?

Djetset · « **Reply #34 on:** November 10, 2015, 06:42:58 AM »

Quote from: nicanary on November 10, 2015, 06:28:41 AM

Jim Ward's GEM ?

Sorry, it's not that one.

D-type · « **Reply #35 on:** November 10, 2015, 03:34:48 PM »

A Formula 4 car?

Djetset · « **Reply #36 on:** November 11, 2015, 04:04:34 AM »

Quote from: D-type on November 10, 2015, 03:34:48 PM

A Formula 4 car?

Yes

nicanary · « **Reply #37 on:** November 11, 2015, 07:04:05 AM »

Bob Davis and one of his eponymous cars?

Djetset · « **Reply #38 on:** November 11, 2015, 08:36:52 AM »

Quote from: nicanary on November 11, 2015, 07:04:05 AM

Bob Davis and one of his eponymous cars?

Sorry, but not Bob Davis.

Djetset · « **Reply #39 on:** March 26, 2016, 05:50:16 AM »

The BH beckons...

nicanary · « **Reply #40 on:** April 26, 2016, 04:14:54 AM »

I've found another name which means nothing to me, but may be the answer. Eagle?

Djetset · « **Reply #41 on:** January 24, 2017, 06:18:04 PM »

Apologies Nicanary, I've only just realised that I didn't reply to your last post on this mystery F4 last April! Sorry, but it's not an Eagle.

nicanary · « **Reply #42 on:** January 25, 2017, 04:14:07 AM »

Quote from: Djetset on January 24, 2017, 06:18:04 PM

Apologies Nicanary, I've only just realised that I didn't reply to your last post on this mystery F4 last April! Sorry, but it's not an Eagle.

What's time between friends? I'd forgotten all about it. There was a thread about former F4 cars on another well-known website, and I trawled through that looking for suitable candidates, but came up with nothing. The formula was so short of entrants that it eventually became the home of old FF and F3 cars, as far as I can make out, but this looks like a neat and reasonably well-engineered car of a type built with F4 intentions in mind. Almost a copy of a Vixen. Maybe one of these days it'll crop up on some motorsport forum or other.

Djetset · « **Reply #43 on:** January 25, 2017, 05:21:21 AM »

Thanks Nicanary. If it helps, I took this photo from an old magazine rather than the internet, and at some stage the Hillman Imp engine was swapped for a different motor.

gte4289 · « **Reply #44 on:** February 09, 2020, 08:25:46 PM »

1967/68 Costin-Walker F4

nicanary · « **Reply #45 on:** February 10, 2020, 05:18:25 AM »

In my post #5 I claimed it wasn't a JW! I have absolutely no idea why I dismissed the idea.............

Djetset · « **Reply #46 on:** February 10, 2020, 04:04:10 PM »

Quote from: gte4289 on February 09, 2020, 08:25:46 PM

1967/68 Costin-Walker F4

Gosh, do you ever get any sleep?! Very well found, and I know Nicanary will be relieved to see this one finally solved after five years! Two more points to you.

gte4289 · « **Reply #47 on:** February 10, 2020, 05:22:43 PM »

Quote from: Djetset on February 10, 2020, 04:04:10 PM

Quote from: gte4289 on February 09, 2020, 08:25:46 PM
1967/68 Costin-Walker F4
Gosh, do you ever get any sleep?! Very well found, and I know Nicanary will be relieved to see this one finally solved after five years! Two more points to you.

Chipping away at the BH.

Thanks for the points!

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Author Topic: SOLVED: Djetset 712 - Costin-Walker Imp F4 monocoque 1967-68, tuned by Willie Griffiths (Read 2964 times)