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Vol VIII, No. 4 St Louis Sports Car Council April 2019

Council News & Notes There’s been a decline in the mid

-month event alerts the past cou-ple of months and for that we apologize. We’ve had a series of events here at StLSCC Central including an auto accident (other driver’s fault; fortunately no inju-ries in either car) so things have been a tad hectic.

BUT, spring has arrived and here’s your April issue of the Gateway Relay. As this issue goes to press, both the Boeing Sports Car Club and Sports Car Club of America autocross sea-sons have started (see featured events), with the Gateway and MisFit Toys series on the way. Cars & Coffee/Westport’s first event is one week away; thanks to the organization’s upgraded web page, you’ll be able to easily track multiple events through the season. And, of course, most of the cruises are now up and run-ning for another year.

As with previous years, we’ll attempt to get the staff photogra-pher out for as many member club events as possible, but we do appreciate photos and brief summaries of club events we can’t make. If you have a driving or competitive event and desire photo coverage, as always, just drop us a line (eLine?).

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Note: Some club events restrict participation to club members only, primarily for na-tional/chapter insurance reasons. If interested in joining in on a drive or other event, we recommend you contact the club’s event coordinator in advance for details.

Up & Coming 12 Apr 19—Misfit Toyz Car, Truck & Bike Cruise, 2nd Friday each month, April through October, 6-10 PM. At Hardees, 2580 Lemay Ferry Rd, St Louis.

12 Apr 19—First Kirkwood Sonic Car Cruise of the season, at Big Bend and S Kirkwood, every Friday night through the end of Sep-

tember. Tends toward muscle cars and rods but foreign vehicles are welcome!

12-14 Apr 19—“Luau in the Lou!” SCCA Midwest Division majors club racing with time trials, hosted by the St Louis Region, SCCA. At Gateway Motorsports Park, details to follow. In the meantime, monitor https://roadracing.stlscca.org.

13 Apr 19—St Louis Triumph Owners Association Missouri Meerschaum 150th

Anniversary Drive. Meet at the I-64/MO 94 commuter lot at 9 AM for a scenic drive to Washington via the Daniel Boone Home, Femme Osage and Dutzow. In Washington, we’ll participate in some of the 150th anniversary activities for the leg-endary pipe manufacturer, followed by lunch at Marquart’s Landing on the river-front. For more information, contact Stephen Paur at (314)308-2564 or Karl Schmitt at (636)797-4203.

13 Apr 19—First Cars & Coffee/Fast Lane Classic Cars, 427 Little Hills Industri-al Blvd, St Charles. Hosted by Fast Lane, C&C St Louis, the Bridge Coffee Nouse and the Dokaj Foundation, 8 AM-10 AM. Info at https://calendar.time.ly/xzi1q8ed/posterboard.

13 Apr 19—Annual Meridian Village Car Show, #27 Auerbach Place, Glen Car-bon, IL. Registration 10 AM-noon, dash plaques to the first 50 cars, trophies voted by the residents. Food sales proceeds and entry fee go to the Lutheran Senior Services Benevolent Fund. For info, email Tammy Williams at tam-my.williams@LSSliving.org.

15 Apr 19—MG Club of St Louis Tech Session, at Brooklands Restoration, 9532 Lackland Rd, Overland, 7 PM. Topic is steering and electrical.

18 Apr 19—MG Club of St Louis monthly RUBCO breakfast, at the Egg & I, 11692 Manchester Rd, 9:30 AM.

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In Print Periodically, the editorial staff of Thoroughbred & Classic Cars write about the cars they’d love to have. In the March issue, their list of multiple vehicles they’d buy if they

had £125K to spend include the Mini Cooper, BMW 135i coupe, BMW 3.0 E3, BMW 3.0 CSL, BMW M635CSi, Jaguar Mk2 3.8, XK120, MGB GT and the Volvo 850 TS-R. Also in the issue, the story of a Land Rover which was retrieved from burial (!) and put back in driv-ing condition and a feature on a “Mini with a trunk,” a Speedwell-modified Riley Elf. April’s T&CC has a cover feature on “V8 Grand

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20 Apr 19—JAGSL Judge’s Training Seminar 2019, hosted by Chief Judge Jim Hendrix and Co-Chief Judge John Testrake. Concours season is coming around and it’s time to update your judging credentials. To do that, you need to attend judge’s training; however, you don’t have to be a judge to attend this session, all are welcome. Starts at 11 AM at Hyman Ltd, 2310 Chaffee Dr, St Louis (http://hymanltd.com). RSVP to John Testrake at jetestrake@aol.com.

20 Apr 19—Annual Gateway Healey Association Spring Tune-Up/Cleanup, in advance of the Forest Park Concours. At Keith Bester’s garage, 115 N Sappington; starts at 11 AM, bring a dish to share.

20 Apr 19—Gateway Chapter BMWCCA Season Kick-Off Picnic and Car Show, Broemmelseick Park, Wentzville. So-cialize with BMW fanatics and their families while local chef Brandi Childress whips up an amazing lunch of burgers, brats and pork chops. $5 for adults, $7 if entering the car show, children under 12 eat free. For more information, call up www.stlbmwcca.org/wordpress/2019-annual-picnic-party-party/.

20 Apr 19—Cars & Coffee/Westport returns! 8 AM-11 AM, Westport Plaza.

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Annual Forest Park Easter Concours d’Elegance, hosted by the Horseless Carriage Club of Missouri.

On the Muny upper lot, monitor http://hccmo.com/easter-concours-delegance-2019/. The event includes MG-Triumph Challenge X for the British Leyland Participation Trophy.

27 Apr 19—JAGSL R&R Ranch Tour & Lunch. Come out for a drive to and tour of the R&R Ranch, including the ranch’s mini horse rescue barn and muscle car collection. Afterwards, we’ll drive to Labadie for lunch at the Hawthorne Inn, 123 Front St. Meet at 9 AM at the St Louis BreadCo, 17132 Chesterfield Airport Rd, cars depart at 9:40 AM. Monitor www.jagstl.com and the online Growl.

27 Apr 19—Cars & Coffee/St Louis Motor Cars, 9 Arnage Blvd, Chesterfield, 10 AM-noon. Info at https://calendar.time.ly/xzi1q8ed/posterboard.

27 Apr 19—Caffeine & Chrome, at Gateway Classic Cars, 1237 Central Park Dr, O’Fallon, IL, 8:30 AM-Noon. Complemen-tary coffee, donuts and self tours of the showroom. For info, call (618)271-3000.

28 Apr 19—BSCC autocross #2, Family Arena, St Charles, show about 9:30 AM. To get on the event mailing list or for ad-ditional, contact Racer Steve at sshab@yahoo.com.

3 May 19—8th

Annual Union Methodist Church Car Cruise, 5:30 PM-8:30 M, UUMC rear upper parking lot at 721 E Main St, Belleville. 50/50 drawing, food available, no alcohol or burnouts. For info call (618)235-3959.

3 May 19—Memories Car Club Cruise at Faith Church, aka “The Zoo,” first Friday of each month. Rahning Rd off MO 30/Gravois, 4 PM-9 PM, all vehicles ’79 or older are welcome.

3 May 19—Kirkwood Sonic Car Cruise, at Big Bend and S Kirkwood, every Friday night through the end of September. Tends toward muscle cars and rods but foreign vehicles are welcome!

4 May 19—St Louis Triumph Owners Association Tech Session, at It’s Alive Automotive, 11714 St Charles Rock Rd, 10 AM. Lunch follows at Bus Loop Burgers, “The Best Damn Burgers in Town,” 10462 St Charles Rock Rd. For more info contact Steve Moore at (314)249-4701 or myredtr6@sbcglobal.net.

4 May 19—Rockwood Summit High School Car Show, hosted by the RSHS Biodiesel Club. Registration at 7:30 AM at 1780 Hawkins Rd, Fenton. Dash magnets to the first 100 cars, attendance prizes, 50/50 raffle benefits the Biodiesel Club. Registration forms at http://rshsbiodiesel.weebly.com, or call (314)3060-0289 for info.

4 May 19—Cars & Coffee West/Sunrise Church, 7116 Twin Chimneys Blvd, O’Fallon, MO, 8 AM-10 AM. Info at https://calendar.time.ly/xzi1q8ed/posterboard.

4 May 19—19th

Annual Elsberry Classics on Wheels Car Show, 9 AM-3 PM, Elsberry City Park (4th and Broadway). Dash plaques to the first 75 cars to register; registration $20, 9 AM-Noon, judging Noon-2 PM, awards at 3 PM. For more information, contact Michael Short at mshort17@hotmail.com or (636)577-2514.

4 May 19—57th

Annual Azalea Festival Car Show, Courthouse Square, Fredericktown, MO. For info, contact Peggy Yount (573)631-0692.

10 May 19—Misfit Toyz Car, Truck & Bike Cruise, 2nd Friday each month, April through October, 6-10 PM. At Hardees, 2580 Lemay Ferry Rd, St Louis.

11 May 19—Gateway Chapter BMWCCA Tour of the Frank Lloyd Wright home, in Ebsworth Park, Kirkwood. Arrive at 12:45 for a 1 PM tour, $10, advanced purchase required. For details or to register, call up www.stlbmwcca.org/wordpress/frank-lloyd-wright-home-tour/.

11 May 19—Cars & Coffee/Fast Lane Classic Cars, 427 Little Hills Industrial Blvd, St Charles. Hosted by Fast Lane, C&C St Louis, the Bridge Coffee Nouse and the Dokaj Foundation, 8 AM-10 AM. Info at https://calendar.time.ly/xzi1q8ed/posterboard.

18 May 19—Cars & Coffee/Westport, 8 AM-11 AM.

18 May 19—50th

Anniversary of Backstoppers “Backstoppalooza” Car Show, in support of police, fire and first re-sponder families. At Premium Outlet in Chesterfield, next to the old Rombach’s Pumpkin Farm. Registration at 10:30 AM, pre-registration $20, day of $25. Awards at 4 PM. For more info, call up https://backstoppers.org/events/backstoppalooza-car-show/. Thanks for your support.

25 May 19—JAGSL Garage Tour & Driving Event: Horses, Horses and More Horses! Start at the McDonalds at 2144 W Terra Lane, O’Fallon, Missouri, then head to Kelly’s place for bagels and coffee and a tour of horse-powered trans-portation, of the wheeled and four-legged varieties. Then to Steve’s place for more horsepower. Lunch $13 per person, drinks included; RSVP to Kelly Waite at kellywaite@att.net. Monitor www.jagstl.com and the online Growl.

St Louis Car Shows and Cruises: http://clubs.hemmings.com/lakerscarclub

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In and around the legendary status and connotation of the term, “British Racing Green” (aka “BRG”), is a little-known fact: one of the most successful Brit racing teams of the 1950s was Scottish. The team was Ecurie Ecosse, which celebrated its status by painting its Jaguars and other cars in a dark me-tallic blue, known as “flag metallic blue.” For several years, Ecurie Ecosse did a proud job of boosting Jaguar’s racing fortunes, including several occasions where it bested the fac-tory team.

Accountant and former racing drive W. David Mur-ray of Edinburgh founded the team in November 1951, with mechanic Walter E. “Wilkie” Wilkinson. Mur-ray selected the French name for his new operation (literally, “Stable Scotland”); according to the Ecurie

Ecosse web page, Murray was a Francophone and even operated a wine store in Edinburgh which specialized in French wines.

Murray had a racing background. He entered the 1937 24 Heures du Mans in a BMW 328, co-driving with Pat Fairfield. Tragically, Fairfield died in a six-car accident on the eighth lap which also killed Bugatti driver Jean Kippeurt. On 16 July 1938,

in another 328, he managed a fifth place finish in the 3 hour race at Brooklands. Post-World War II, Murray resumed com-petition in an MG. Over time, he met well-known English driver Reg Parnell and bought his Maserati 4CLT/48; on 18 April 1949, he took the car to a fifth place finish at Goodwood in the Formula Libre Handicap Race.

The first race under the guise of Ecurie Ecosse took place at the former Royal Air Force airfield at Charterhall on 6 April 1952, where Ian Stewart placed second in a team XK120. Next came a 29 May run at Douglas for the British Empire Trophy, where the team entered three Jaguars; in a unique turn, the drivers ran their own cars, with Murray concentrating on team management and Wilkinson handling the preparation side. Murray did co-drive with Bill Dobson in the latter’s XK120, but they DNF’d due to a loss of brakes while team-mate Ian Stewart’s Jaguar went out due to a broken fuel pump. Sir James Scott-Douglas finished 6th in the third XK120.

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At the 11 October 1952 Sports Unlimited Race at Charterhall, Stewart took first place in an C-Type (XK120C), beating Stirling Moss in a similar mount; teammate Bill Dobson drove one of the XK120s. Motorsport magazine took notice of Stewart’s victory:

Clearly "Wilkie" Wilkinson has laid an expert hand on Ian Stewart's Ecurie Ecosse XK120C Jaguar, because, try as Moss did in Wisdom's XK120C, Ian won—a pop-ular win—by 15.6 sec., averaging 77.5 m.p.h. and set-ting fastest lap, at 79.4 m.p.h.

By this point the team’s cars were becoming well-known at various circuits. Notably, while a team based in the British isles, Ecurie Ecosse’s Jaguars didn’t wear the standard British Racing Green. Instead, they bore the dark metallic blue representing Scotland. Ian Stewart came up with the color, as well as the Ecurie Ecosse logo.

Over the following three years, the team took a stab at For-mula 1 racing, starting with the British Grand Prix Silverstone on 19 July 1952. Murray drove a Cooper T20-Bristol but didn’t finish; Alberto Ascari won in a Ferrari 500, followed by Piero Taruffi in a similar car and Mike Hawthorn in another T20. The following year, Ecu-rie Ecosse ran two cars: a Cooper driv-en by Jimmy Stew-art, plus a Con-naught A-Type, run by Ian Stewart. Both DNF’d and the event marked Ian’s single F1 appearance (his younger brother, Jackie, went on to some fame in For-mula 1). The 1954 British Grand Prix, held on 17 July, saw Leslie Thorne run the Connaught to 14th place. It marked the best finish in the team’s brief foray in F1.

However, through this period, Le Mans remained the main target for Ecurie Ecosse. In 1951, Peter Walker and Peter Whitehead scored a win in the 24-hour race in Walker’s XK120C, marking the first Le Mans win for a British car since Johnny Hindmarsh and Luis Fontes’ 1935 victory in a Lagonda M45R Rapide. The Jaguar team showed up for the 1952 event with three C-Types, driven by Tony Rolt/Duncan Hamilton, Stirling Moss/Peter Walker and Peter Whitehead/Ian Stewart. All three failed due to overheating resulting from head gasket failures; still, after the event Hamilton acquired the first custom-er C-Type, followed by Ian Stewart.

In the 5 July 1953 12 Hours of Reims, France, Ecurie Ecosse’s C-Type, driven by Douglas and Ninian Sanderson, finished 4th. At the 25-26 July race at Spa Francorchamps, Belgium, Sir James Scott-Douglas and Guy Gale finished 2nd in a team C-Type, besting the Herman Roosdorp/Toni Ulmen C-Type. At August’s Nürburgring 1000 Kilometers, Douglas and Sanderson finished 10th in an XK120.

At Le Mans in 1955, Jaguar’s Mike Hawthorn and Ivor Bueb won in a brand new D-Type, crossing the line in front of Mike Collins and Paul Frère in an Aston Martin DB3S and Johnny Claes/Jacques Swaters in the Ecurie Francorchamps D-Type. Needless to say, the race finished under somber circumstanc-es, the result of Pierre Levegh’s third hour accident in a Mer-cedes-Benz 300SLR which killed 83 spectators and injured over 100 others.

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Murray, left, with Sir James Douglas Scott and Ian Stewart (Ecurie Ecosse photo). Below, “Wilkie” Wilkinson, right, with Billy Cotton at Brooklands (photo via Simon Lewis)

Ninian Sanderson in one of the team XK120s (photo via Simon Lewis)

One of the former team T20s at Goodwood, 2007 (photo by Wouter Melissen)

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Ecurie Ecosse sat out the 1955 24-hour event, but – fortu-nately for Jaguar’s fortunes – arrived with a single D-Type for the 28-29 July event…and won. Ron Flockhart and Ninian Sanderson completed 300 laps at an average speed of 104.47 mph, beating Stirling Moss and Peter Collins in a factory Aston Martin DB3S. Swaters and “Freddy” Rousselle finished 4th in the Equipe National Belge D-Type while Mike Hawthorn/Ivor Bueb placed 6th in the factory D-Type. Otherwise, the Jaguar team had a rough time. According to British automotive writer Gregor Grant,

…the entire Jaguar team met with misfortune. Early on, Paul Frere overcooked it at Tertre Rouge, and Fair-man, following closely behind, narrowly missed crash-ing into the spinning car. However, he in turn, was rammed by the late De Portago’s Ferrari. Fairman managed to crawl back to the pits, but the car was too badly damaged to continue…the Jaguar works team was completely out of the running. However, “Ecurie Ecosse” came to the rescue, and, after a race-long duel with Moss and Collins in a DB3S Aston Martin, Ron Flockhart and Ninian Sanderson finished first.

Jaguar’s Managing Director, Sir William Lyons, subsequent-ly announced the company’s withdrawal from motorsports competition, in favor of production cars. That left Ecurie Ecosse and a couple of other privateers to carry the flag at the 1957 24-hour race and they did just fine, with Ron Flockhart/Ivor Bueb finishing in first and John Lawrence/Ninian Sander-son in second, eight laps down. The winner ran with an en-gine bored out to 3.8 litres with Lucas fuel injection installed; the second place car was a stock D-Type. Again, per Grant, “The race was a triumph for David Murray and his men, and owed more than a lot to the careful tuning of ‘Wilkie” Wil-kinson.”

Regrettably, the race also effectively served as the high-water mark for Ecurie Ecosse. In 1958, both of the team’s DNF’d; the en-gine of the Mas-ten Gregory/Jack Fairman

car let go on the 7th lap, followed by the Sanderson/Lawrence D-Type with similar ills. Ivor Bueb and Duncan Hamilton, in the latter’s D-Type, left the race on their 251st lap due to an accident. Olivier Gendebien and Phil Hill took first place in a Ferrari 250 TR58, followed by the Aston Martin DB3S of Peter and Graham Whitehead.

Ecurie Ecosse (Continued from page 3) For 1959, Ecurie Ecosse entered a single D-Type and a Tojeiro-Jaguar; both failed to finish the race due to engine failures. Innes Ireland and Masten Gregory in the D-Type departed on lap 70 while the Tojeiro, driven by Tim Flockhart and John Lawrence, went out with on Lap 137. The team ran a D-Type for the last time in 1960; the car, driven by Flockhart and Bruce Halford, sustained a crankshaft failure on lap 157. Elsewhere, Dan Gurney and Walt Hansgen in the Briggs Cun-ningham Jaguar E2A (the E-Type prototype) went out on the 89th lap due to a failed head gasket.

Ecurie Ecosse made two more attempts at the legendary 24-hour race, running a Cooper T57 Monaco-Climax driven by Halford and Tommy Dickson and Sanderson and Alan McKay in an Austin-Healey Sebring Sprite. Both cars crashed out, on the 32nd and 40th laps respectively. A year later, the Jack Fair-man/Tommy Dickson Tojeiro EE Coupe-Climax left the com-petition early due to a failed gearbox.

The 1962 Le Mans race pretty much marked the end of ma-jor competition for Ecurie Ecosse. Still, it rang up quite a rec-ord, with 68 victories over 10 seasons, including periodic ap-pearances by drivers such as Jim Clark, Jack Brabham, Stir-ling Moss and John Cleland. Faced with financial problems, David Murray became a tax exile, departing the United King-dom. His team soldiered on, including participation in Formula 2 racing between 1969 and 1971 with Graham Birrell and Richard Atwood. The 1971 featured a new driver, Tom Walkinshaw, driving a March 721M.

Ecurie Ecosse shut down and disbanded in 1972. David Murray passed on 5 April 1973 at age 63, following an auto accident in the Canary Islands. Wilkinson, who left Ecurie Ecosse following the Le Mans wins and later worked for BRM, passed at age 98 in Warwickshire on 20 August 2001.

Remarkably, the team made a comeback in 1982, under the leadership of former Murray associate Hugh McCaig. The team won the C2 class of the World Sportscar Championship in 1986, with drivers Ray Mallock, Marc Duez and David Leslie running an Ecosse C286-Rover. Ecurie Ecosse raced Vauxhall Cavaliers in the 1992 and 1993 British Touring Car Championship, took a break and returned to the track in 2011. Partnered with Nielsen Racing, the team now competes in the LMP3 class with a Ligier JS P3 with drivers Alisdair McCaig and Colin Noble.

Vehicles of the original Ecurie Ecosse still exist, including the famous team transporter, built by Alexander of Falkirk, Scotland. The truck features a Commer chassis with power provided by a Commer TS3 three-cylinder, horizontally-opposed two-stroke diesel engine.

In late 2013, the truck – along with several former team cars from the Skipworth Collection – sold for £8.8 million (about $11.6 million) in a Bonhams. The cars included the team’s 1952 XK120, 1952 C-Type, 1956 D-Type, 1959 Tojeiro-Jaguar, 1960 Cooper-Monaco, 1961 Austin-Healey Sebring Sprite and a 1962 Tojeiro-Buick coupe.

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Above, the winning Bueb/ Flockhart/D-Type at the 1957 Le Mans 24-Hour (photo via ShoreyNet). Below, Ecurie Ecosse’s one-two victory (photo via Primotipo)

Back to Le Mans! The team’s C285-Ford DFL V8 at the 1986 event, driven by Les Delano, Andy Petery and John Hotchkis. The car finished 15th (Photo by Jeremy Banks via Racing Sports Cars)

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The individual who successfully bid on the truck also came away with two of the team sports cars. Said James Knight, Bonham’s motoring direc-tor, “The Jaguars were exceptionally popular, and I am delighted that the transport will still be carrying two of its original Ecurie Ecosse racing cars.”

More recently, Sotheby’s auctioned XKD501 the team’s 1956 Le Mans winner, driven by Flockhart and Sanderson; the car went for a somewhat reasonable £16,655,600 / $21,715,581. Thanks to individuals like these who acquire and preserve the cars and those brave souls who occasional-ly get them out for excursions and vintage racing at tracks like Silverstone and Goodwood, we should be seeing these proud representatives of Scotland for some time to come.

Sources: Ecurie Ecosse, www.ecurieecosse.com; Racing Sports Cars, www.racingsportscars.com/; David McLean, “Lost Edinburgh: Ecurie Ecosse,” The Scotsman, 8 July 2014; “History of Ecurie Ecosse,” Nielsen Racing, n.d.; Graham Gauld, “Graham Gauld, Edinburgh and Nostalgia,” Velocity Today, 15 September 2015; “Jersey International Road Race,” The Island Wiki, n.d.; “Gerard’s old E.R.A. wins an epic Charterhall Inter-national Trophy Race, beating B.R.M.,” Motorsport, November 1952, p 21; Gregor Grant, British Sports Cars, 5th ed. London: G.T. Foulis & Co Ltd, 1958; Paul Hudson, “Ecurie Ecosse collection fetches £8.8 million,” The (London) Telegraph, 2 December 2013.

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Above, the Ecurie Ecosse collection, including the famous transporter (photo via Bonhams). Below, XD501, the 1956 Le Mans winner (photo via Sotheby)

Photos by Jim Reiter/GHA

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MG Club of St Louis Tech Session

It’s Alive Automotive—18 Mar 19

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Jaguar Association of Greater St Louis Elephant Rocks Drive

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MG Club of St Louis 11th Annual Terry Fanning Rally

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Tourers;” the group of six cars evaluated includes an MGB V8. The same issue has an article on the recovery and restoration of an MG Maestro Turbo which had been stolen and burned.

Classic & Sports Car for March starts off with a bang: a cover article on the “Greatest ‘50s sports cars.” The presented vehicles include an AC Ace, Austin-Healey 100M, Jaguar XK120, MGA Twin Cam and Triumph TR3A. Later in the issue, a comparison between two saloons/sedans which used the same basic engine design, the Triumph Dolomite and Saab 99. April’s Car & Driver features a look at Volvo’s “Tesla fighter,” the an all-electric SUV developed by the company’s performance branch, Polestar. Over at May’s Classic Motorsports, the restoration of an MG TD.

Finally, while not a magazine we regularly review, March’s Motor Trend contained several articles of interest, starting with a cover feature on the 2020 Toyota Supra. The write-up includes a comparison of the Supra with the new BMW Z4, which shares engineering. In addition, articles on the latest 3-series BMW (specifically the 330i M Sport; the story incorporates a quick sum-mary of the previous six generations of 3-series cars), the M850i and long-term updates on the magazine’s X3 M40i, Volvo XC60 and Jaguar F-Pace.

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More Mini... Speaking of Minis (last issue), on 8 April Bring a Trailer posted this photo of a Mini-Moke dueling with a Ferrari 250LM (!) during the 1966 Rothman’s 12 Hour race at the original Surfers Paradise course in Queensland, Australia. Notably, Jackie Stewart and Andy Buchanan shared the driving chores in the Ferrari; they won the event, beating Pete Sutcliffe and Frank Matich in a Ford GT40. The Moke, driven by CG Smith and Barry Seaton, DNF on lap 311.

Surfers Paradise International Raceway op-erated from 1963 until its replacement by a street circuit in 1988 or thereabouts. The track served as a regular stop in the Tasman Series, the Rothmans International Series and the Aus-tralian Touring Car Championship.

Photos by Glenn Owens

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St Louis Region SCCA Autocross No. 1

Gateway Motorsports Park—31 Mar 19

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