May 14, 2009 1:46:58 PM
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May 14, 2009 3:31:49 PM
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May 14, 2009 4:16:29 PM
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May 14, 2009 4:51:02 PM
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Re: Historical Photos
Spyderidol:
Look Ma! No Hands!
Nuvolari in Italian GP 1946
Ferdinand Porsche called Nuvolari "The greatest driver of the past, the present, and the future.". This photo is from the 1946 Copa Brezzi race in Turin. The steering wheel had come off and Tazio was using a wrench to turn the steering column! :-)
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May 14, 2009 5:00:44 PM
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That fifth picture is Kayalami!
That is the birthplace of my love for motorracing !!
Thank you for that picture.
NB that was the original track layout (main straight) before they castrated the track into a heap of steaming fecal matter that it is today (they actually run on it in the opossite direction)
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Clay Regazzoni.
Saw him racing just once. Saw him a couple of times some years later in the pit lane, but in a wheelchair by then. 
It was then doubly sad to hear in 2006 that he had died in a road car crash.
Is that later German Chancellor Helmuth Kohl in the background?
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May 15, 2009 7:44:35 AM
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May 15, 2009 7:52:34 AM
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It is (was) the Chapparal 2J (built by Jim Hall)
A vehicle project that began in the middle of the 1968 season. The goal was deceptively simple: Find an "outstanding edge" in vehicle design. The "outstanding edge" is a design that will circulate any given race car faster than the competition.
It was the first ground effect vehicle.
May 15, 2009 11:11:18 AM
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May 15, 2009 2:40:04 PM
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fritz:Is that later German Chancellor Helmuth Kohl in the background?
Yes - European Grand Prix at the Nürburgring 1974 (Kohl was Prime Minister of Rheinland-Pfalz)
@ Aviator & Spyderidol: fantastic pics - they're bringing back a lot of great memories 
I'll add some pics later next week (no time at the weekend 
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May 15, 2009 2:52:23 PM
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Super Darius:
Spyderidol:
Suck!
What's this?
a "rocketcar"? a vacuum cleaner?
Dario, you were closer than you may have realized when you wrote vacuum cleaner! The fans reduced the air pressure under the car creating a downforce - and cleaning the track surface at the same time.
Not quite as maneuverable as one of those Dyson "ball" models, but a lot louder. And also bagless!
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May 15, 2009 3:35:57 PM
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May 15, 2009 4:06:24 PM
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Porsche , Hitler and the VW- a real piece of history
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May 15, 2009 4:27:10 PM
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fritz:
Dario, you were closer than you may have realized when you wrote vacuum cleaner! The fans reduced the air pressure under the car creating a downforce - and cleaning the track surface at the same time.
Not quite as maneuverable as one of those Dyson "ball" models, but a lot louder. And also bagless!
Well,i think that fit the bag would be possible...
the only problem i see is that after the mods,more than a vacuum cleaner will resemble a broken air balloon,but sure not a car anymore..
coming back on real, for that times a ground effect like the one of that car would be a huge jump in the future.
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Have just noticed that this article was written by Henry N Manney III, a great motor-sport journalist who really had a way with words.
I still remember him describing a Lotus 11 in one article I read as a kid as being "knee-high to a cowpat". It took me a couple of years to realize what a cowpat was - couldn't find it in a dictionary.
Like so many of the people he wrote about, Manney died relatively young.
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I want to say a big thank you to those who, like Fritz, add personal experience and first-hand information to these photos. I was born in 1970 and I knew not of Henry Manney, nor of Tom Pryce:
"...His helmet was white all over until, in 1970, when Pryce was racing at Castle Combe, his father asked Tom to make his helmet stand out more so that he could identify him in a pack of cars. Pryce added five black vertical lines to his helmet, placed just above his visor.."
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