1950 FRAZER NASH LE MANS REPLICA - BRIAN CLASSIC & CO Cheshire

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1950 FRAZER NASH LE MANS REPLICA

The 1950 Turin Motor Show Car.

This is one of three similar Le Mans Replicas built-in 1950 for public display and this car was used at the 1950 Turin Motor Show, as confirmed by Denis Jenkinson’s factory record and as shown in photographs in James Trigwell’s book.

After the show, the car was sold to Italian agents ‘Italcarco’ in Milan who eventually sold it to one Emilio Vincentini who had the car re-bodied by carrozzeria Rocco Motto in Turin and it was registered MI 250995. The body was a fixed head coupe typical of the Italian style at the time, along the lines of a Ferrari 166MM, Cisitalia and so on.

In 1976 the car was purchased in Italy by Colin Crabbe who brought it back to England and had the car restored, retaining the coupe body so that it could be used by his wife Fiona on the school run! He sold the car at the end of 1979 to David Penney who commissioned Crossthwaite & Gardner to return it to its original form. The coupe body was removed and a correct Le Mans Replica body was made by Peels of Surbiton. It was at this time that the car gained its current XOU3 registration. From 1982 the car was displayed at the Midland Motor Museum. The Motto body still exists as part of a special.

In July 1989 Sotheby’s sold the car to Michael Fisher who sold it in turn to Aston Martin chairman Victor Gauntlett and in November 1990 he sold it to Bill Clark in New Zealand.

Clark kept the car for 18 years, racing it extensively and having it maintained by the renowned Auto Restorations and Dave Silcock of Christchurch. He sold the car in 2008 to fellow racer and collector Peter Giddings in California who continued to race the car with success in the USA. The car is now in fabulous condition throughout, retaining a nice level of patina, and performs wonderfully on the road possessing all of the verve and sharp handling one would expect from one of the world’s most acclaimed collector’s cars.

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1934 TALBOT 75/AV105 ALPINE TEAM CAR REPLICA TOURER -ROBERT GLOVER LTD The Motor Bays Unit 129 Bicester Heritage, Buckingham Road Oxfordshire OX27 8AL

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1934 TALBOT 75/AV105 ALPINE TEAM CAR

REPLICA TOURER

Registration No: AML 789

Chassis No: 34215

For anyone with even half an eye on the pre-war motoring scene, the Talbot AV105 Alpine Team cars won’t have gone unnoticed and thus will require little introduction. Designed by Georges Roesch, the works Talbot AV 105 Fox & Nicholl run team cars were hugely successful in both alpine road events and on the circuit. This success continues today with regular victories in both retrospective rally events as well as circuit events such as the Le Mans Classic and Goodwood Revival where not only do they regularly better much more exotic contemporary machinery but often pip a lot of post-war classics in the results tables.

Powered by a robust and lively 3-litre six-cylinder engine they produced over 100bhp at 3500rpm in the period and can be made to produce a lot more than this at higher revs now with the use of stronger engine internals. Mated to excellent handling, good brakes and easily operable pre-selector gearbox the combination both did and now does prove to be regularly unbeatable. One need only read Georges Roesch and the Invincible Talbot Anthony Blight to comprehend the level of success they enjoyed and also the unbelievable amount of Alpine testing carried out by Roesch to perfect his designs. As with the Bentleys and Lagondas of the period, many more standard road cars have been adapted to offer the experience of the racing cars on the same platform without the seven-figure price tags associated with the genuine team cars and we offer one such example here.

‘AML 789’ is well-known in historic circles and was rebuilt as a replica team car by Ian Polson for his son John to race. Using an original chassis and components sourced over many years by Ian Polson the rebuild was completed in 2009.  The Talbot was fitted with the first of the re-production aluminium block engines by Polson. This engine had been completed in 2006 and had the previous form having been fitted to one of the genuine team cars for a period of time. At this stage that genuine team car was raced successfully by the author and John Polson at Donington Park and even more successfully by John Polson and Patrick Blakeney-Edwards at the Le Mans Classic that year. When said team car was sold it was re-fitted with its original engine and thus the aluminium racing engine was spare and the ideal candidate for this rapid team car re-creation.

Once completed John Polson raced ‘AML 789’ with some considerable verve, picking up many strong results in historic racing over three seasons, with most of the results contained within the history file offered with the car. From Polson, the car went to a VSCC member who competed with the club until a leg injury forced him to purchase a different motor, and it was purchased by the current owner. A keen rally competitor and former winner of the Alpine Trial, the Talbot was purchased with rallies in mind and whilst outright victory has eluded his results have been strong and again photographs and results are included in the history file. During his ownership, the car has been back to Polson to be fitted with “calmer” shock absorbers for the road as well as a full windscreen and hood set up for long distance rally use. Recently the car has been with Dr Jonathan Rose who has done a lot of work on the brakes to ensure the car stops, as well as a 105, should.

The name Polson has been associated with Talbots for many decades and the Suffolk based concern have been responsible, at least to some degree, for the restoration and preparation of almost all the genuine team cars at some time or another.  To this end, this car comes from one of, if not, the most renowned Talbot racing stables in the world and performs accordingly. It is offered with a useful history file containing details of the work, photographs and results from events as well as FIA HTP Papers. It is well proven on both road and track and is the ideal race and rally weapon for those wanting to compete at the front.

 

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1886 BENZ PATENT MOTORWAGEN REPLICA - Cotswold Collectors Cars Ltd By Appointment Gloucestershire

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1886 BENZ PATENT MOTORWAGEN REPLICA

A stunning recreation of this iconic motor vehicle

Built to the highest standards

Presented in new unused condition

“This engine – velocipede will make a strong appeal to a large circle, as it should prove itself quite practical and useful to doctors, travellers, and lovers of sport.”

In such vein did the German Press report the first faltering run of Carl Benz’s fragile three-wheeler Motorwagen, little appreciating at the time that they had witnessed the first successful run of the internal combustion-engined motor car – a device which was to change the pattern of history.

The three-wheeler featured a rear-mounted horizontal engine with the vertical crankshaft, belt primary drive and final transmission to the rear wheels by side chains, all mounted in a tubular chassis. The 984cc internal combustion engine developed a then spectacular 0.9hp, giving a top speed of approximately 8mph, midst a veritable cacophony of sound, smells and not a little vibration. Today the Motorwagen may be considered primitive in the extreme but Benz’s Patent of 29th January 1886 was indeed ‘state of the art’.

The original car was donated to the Deutsches Museum in Munich by ‘Papa’ Benz in 1906. This has enabled a limited series of working replicas to be manufactured with considerable accuracy. This is one such, built in Yorkshire, England, it has never been used.

Attractively presented with dark green framing and ironwork, varnished wood platform and wooden toolbox and a plethora of brass fittings, this is more than just a fabulous exhibition piece but is capable of being made to run, with care. Operating instructions offered with the vehicle should be carefully read and adhered to before emulating Benz’s first faltering run in 1886.

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