Pit Stops

Press, Volume CV, Issue 30952, 7 January 1966, Page 7

Pit Stops

R. R. C. Walker will enter a 3-litre Cooper Maserati for J. Siffert in formula one events during the coming season.

Detuned road versions of the Ford GT 40 are now on sale in Britain for £6647. The 4.7 litre V 8 engine gives a top speed of about 164 m.ph., and the seats for the two occupants are especially made to suit each buyer. Two heat-resis-tant lockers are positioned behind the engine to provide limited luggage space.

B.M.C. cars scored a record number of successes in races and rallies all over the world last season. In the 12 years of the European rally championship, B.M.C. cars have amassed

more wins than that of any other manufacturer, and more than all the other British manufacturers put together. In 1965 B.M.C. cars won 14 international rallies. In international races the corporation’s cars had two outright wins and 40 class wins. The next major event is the Monte Carlo rally on January 14, when the B.M.C. rally team will attempt to score a hattrick by winning for the third successive time.

The Rothmans Cooper, which D. Marwood drove into second place in the main race at Pukekohe recently, has a new fibreglass nose built by a North Island fibreglass expert, Ferris de Joux. The nose was added after the original was damaged when the car left the circuit at Renwick. and is similar to a Brabham design at the front end of the cowl.

A North Island driver has fitted a Fiat 500 with an Anglia engine. The 998 c.c. unit is fitted with twin Webers and has other modifications. The car’s top speed is said to be more than 100 m.p.h. The suspension also has been modified.