At Brands Hatch, 1964, 5 or 1966? Photo from Robert B in France, published by 'Sterling49' at forums.autosport.com. 'Sterling49' said most of R.B. photos are from 1964, maybe a few from '65. Brabham F3 wheels - quite a few Impers used them.
At Brands Hatch, 1964, 5 or 1966? Photo from Robert B in France, published by 'Sterling49' at forums.autosport.com. 'Sterling49' said most of R.B. photos are from 1964, maybe a few from '65. Brabham F3 wheels - quite a few Impers used them. |
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 Ginger Payne, Ray Calcutt, Ian McDougall, Harry Martin, Peter Brown, Roger Nathan, Tony Taylor, Nick Brittan and Nick Cave (Brands Hatch, Oct. 24, 1965) photographer? 'One-litre saloons rounding Clearways' - magazine or newspaper clipping supplied by Peter Brown |
In the Brands Hatch 1965 programme the Hartwell Imp was listed as Black & white, driven by A.D. Taylor.
The rain began to fall in earnest just before the start of The Ilford Films saloon car race. Ginger Payne's A40 was in pole position, flanked by the Imps of Ray Calcutt and Roger Nathan. At the drop of the flag, Payne went into the lead, followed by Calcutt, while Nathan grappled with the gear lever and dropped back. Harry Martin, in Bob Burnard's Mini-Cooper, forged through from row 5 of the grid with ridiculous ease and took the lead on lap two, leaving Payne and Calcutt dicing for second.
Payne retired with engine bothers on lap 4, leaving Calcutt 2nd, but Nathan was closing rapidly and on lap 6 took him.
The rain was taking its toll: Nick Brittan in his Anglia had done a spectacular loop-the-loop at Paddock; then the dicing trio of Ian McDougall (Mini), Peter Brown (Imp) and Mike Cave (A40) came to a crunching, banging stop at the bottom of Paddock, but they all resumed at varying speeds. That crunch elevated Taylor's Imp to 4th, which he held to the end. The race ran out with Harry Martin a comfortable winner, followed by the three Imps of Nathan, Calcutt and Taylor.
Ilford Films Trophy 'A'
Saloon car up-to-1,000 c.c.
The rains came for the 1,000 c.c. Ilford Films saloon race, leaving the track in a treacherously slippery state. And with this class of race so hotly contested, it seemed that something would happen.
Ginger Payne in the Baldyne A40 took the initial lead, followed by Ray Calcutt (Imp) and - up from the fifth row of the grid - Harry Martin (Mini-Cooper). Roger Nathan (Imp) and Nick Brittan (Anglia) both made poor starts and were sixth and eigth respectively at the end of the opening lap. [...]
By lap four Payne had retired, Calcutt had taken over second place, Nathan was hot on his tail and Brittan, Ian McDougall (Mini), Peter Brown (Imp), Tony Taylor (Imp) and Mike Cave (A40) were close behind. On the next tour Cave had taken Taylor and was after Brown; on lap six Brittan did a spectacular roll; two tours, on lap 8 later McDougall, Brown and Cave played ring-a-ring-a-roses at Paddock, so Taylor moved into 4th spot with Minidrivers Parkinson and Trigg dicing for 5th position. McDougall resumed competition just behind these two, while Brown continued much later and Cave gave up.
Martin's team-mate Paul Watson had just moved into 8th from a back-row position when his Mini went all sideways out of Paddock and smote the bank and rolled at Pilgrim's Rise, slightly injuring two journalists.
Harry Martin won by 7.4 secs. from Nathan, who had moved by Calcutt on the 6th tour. Taylor fourth.
[source: Autosport or Motoring News]
Tony Hartwell was part of the Hartwell team that finished 2nd overall in 1965:
Hartwell Imps (AD Taylor, AR Hartwell, R Payne, RW Wickson – Hillman Imps) - 295 laps
Silverstone, autumn 1966
Rosemary Smith in a Fraser Imp shook everyone by posting fastest time in morning practice with a lap of 74.4 m.p.h. to take pole position on the grid for the race.
For 3 laps she led from a great challenge by Imp-man Tony Taylor and then her 3rd gear broke. With only second and top as useable gears she dropped back a couple of seconds a lap, leaving Taylor to win.
Rosemary finished a good second despite the missing gear and we were all very impressed afterwards when she told us it was her first-ever ride at Silverstone.
[source: Modern Motoring and Travel, December 1966]
Icy Boxing day 1966 at Brands Hatch, British Special Saloon Car Championship
1) Ray Calcutt - Fraser Imp; 2) Ian McDougal - Broadspeed Cooper S; 3) Alan Harvey - Autocadia Cooper S; 4. Roger Nathan - Nathan IMPudence II; 5) Capt Ken's car; 6) Mac Ross - MAC10 Cooper; 7) Tony Taylor - Hartwell Imp; 8) Bill McGovern - Paul Emery Imp; 9) Peter Brown - Frazer Imp; 10) Martin Maudling - Ford Anglia.
photo taken from: Capt. Ken's Mini Cooper racing days
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RAC Rally, 8th-? November 1964
97 A.D. Taylor/ J C Billett - Ford Cortina