Maybe Seagrave's 1926 Sunbeam. I think everything is original in that apart from the blower casing.f1steveuk wrote:I can't think of one under heading 3 at all!!
In fact Its as fast now as it was in 26. It sounds wonderful as well.
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Maybe Seagrave's 1926 Sunbeam. I think everything is original in that apart from the blower casing.f1steveuk wrote:I can't think of one under heading 3 at all!!
Isn't that a bit like asking: "why bother running K7 because the best you could do is run it with an 800 series Orpheus" ?f1steveuk wrote:There can't be a lot needed to be done to the '35 Blue Bird, but the best you could do is run it with a Type 65 Griffon, so why bother.
You're probably correct Steve, I think it was much modified post Segrave's 1926 outing at Southport. It makes a lovely noise though.f1steveuk wrote: Is that Segrave's Tiger? I thought that had had a major restoration in the 60s?
The trouble with these types of machine is the "grandmother's broom" scenario, because by their nature, thy are constantly changed anyway.
It is indeed DC. A section of Carl Rogerson's excellent image from the 11th December 66Stuart Baker wrote:Hey Neil,
Just spotted the reflection in the vertical stabiliser on your profile picture. Is that who I think it is?
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Makes sense. If a Griffon would drop straight in or only require easily reversible mods then I couldn't see the harm but I quite agree that you wouldn't want to go b*ggering about with original material only to finish up with something even less authentic.f1steveuk wrote: we decided that as we had a Meteor we'd put the thing in. The installation Ken Pope did had a wooden sub assembly that can be removed, so once running, we'd get sponsorship and that would finance a tool kit and rebuild for R37.
To put a Griffin in the '35 car would meaning making changes to the actual car, and my point was, why mess with original material
According to Wikipedia (that unimpeachable source of all knowledge ), it was R11 that was de-rated and named "Griffon". It seems, however, that this was not developed further and that the later Griffon was an entirely separate design, so there would be even less claim to authenticity in the hypothetical event of one being fitted to "Bluebird"f1steveuk wrote:Most people will tell you, "don't get Holter started on the R Type"!!!!
I know the very first prototype Griffin was actually R41 (the last unit built from memory), but I suspect by the time it went into production, it had little in common with the R, although maybe Mike from his aero' interests knows better?