Name the make and model designation please!
Ah, bus-racing!
moved!
Is it the Allard-based Halseylac?
No, it's not!
It wouldn't be Jaguar-based? Like D-Type based...?
It's not Jaguar based.
It is british, isn't it?
Yes Sir!
Maybe Aston Martin-based?
No!
Was it built by a widelly known company or just a private endeavour on external mechanic basis?
not widelely known builders as far as I know, but the technical stuff is ..
The mechanical base is british at all?
Definetely!
Lister?
Not one of those
HWM? (although think they might all have been Jaguar-based...)
nope..
Allard?
neither
It's quite large - how about Bentley?
Yes a Bentley indeed! (and back to bed...)
Is this the Bentley MkVI Special Aluminium-Sports, created in the early 1970s by Alan Padgett from a 1948 Bentley MkVI saloon?
Quote from: Carnut on January 15, 2010, 10:54:53 AM
Is this the Bentley MkVI Special Aluminium-Sports, created in the early 1970s by Alan Padgett from a 1948 Bentley MkVI saloon?
It is! :thumbsup:
But it wears a certain nickname! Locked for your till your next reply!
Is 'Victor' the name you are looking for?
It doesn't seem to have been called that when Alan Padgett built it, nor when it was raced by Martin Trentham, for whom it was built, but it later belonged to Victor Gauntlet (one-time owner of Aston-Martin) for his wife to race in France. Perhaps it gained the name then?
It has a varied history, having also raced in the Carrera Panamericana!
The car was sold at Bonhams auction at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in 2009.
Yes it's the Victor!
Quote from: Carnut on January 16, 2010, 08:46:45 AM
Is 'Victor' the name you are looking for?
It doesn't seem to have been called that when Alan Padgett built it, nor when it was raced by Martin Trentham, for whom it was built, but it later belonged to Victor Gauntlet (one-time owner of Aston-Martin) for his wife to race in France. Perhaps it gained the name then?
It has a varied history, having also raced in the Carrera Panamericana!
The car was sold at Bonhams auction at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in 2009.
Martin Trentham wrote this in the VSCC Forum:
Well I'll be... now they call it "Victor"!! ? I don't think Victor G ever drove it, and in my incapable hands it was only victorious once - in the Birkett 6 hour relay race. You can see that I did once overtake a double-decker bus
I think the well-known German dealer has an interesting attitude to history . . . ???
A-ha! Now your opening comment makes sense.
I've to admit that I didn't check other sources but that from the German dealer. Additional facts are always welcome
Quote from: Allemano on January 17, 2010, 04:57:11 AM
I've to admit that I didn't check other sources but that from the German dealer. Additional facts are always welcome
His site is the only one to mention the name!
I think he did a bit of christening himself.. As said it might be based on Victor Gauntlet's name? Maybe his wife called it that because it reminded her of him!
Interisting theory, but I leave it like that.
Another photo of this special (the source is an early 1990s book and it does not speak of "Victor"...):
front / rear views -
Wow, great pics! Where did you get that from??
Quote from: Joao Gois on November 06, 2013, 09:10:42 AM
Wow, great pics! Where did you get that from??
The photos by Bonhams Auction (I used Prt Sc + Paint ;D)
Too bad it's no longer on its original form, don't like those aditional vents...
Maybe they are simply needed due to potential thermic problems of the engine...
Yes, of course, I understand. In adition to that, they've changed the windshield too, making it more "road worthy".