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British Racing Motors - The Reawakening

Discussion in 'Everything Else Heritage' started by brmp201, Sep 14, 2021.

  1. brmp201

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    My other passion (hence my avatar):

    From my home town (Bourne, Lincolnshire), Hall & Hall have built a completely new chassis and engine of the original 1950's BRM v16 (that's a supercharged 1.5 litre v16), to be launched at the Goodwood Revival, next weekend.

    Way too complex a design, so massively unreliable at the time, but always regarded as one of the best sounding F1 engines ever. I always wondered if, with modern materials and engineering, it could be made more reliable without impacting the essence of the original.

    Homepage - British Racing Motors

    This video features Dick Salmon, who happens to be my mother's next door neighbour (and mine, before I left home in 1993!).

     
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    When historic F1 and railway infrastructure come together!

     
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    At 2.16 you can see Raymond Mays' house, which still stands. That house backs onto the former BRM workshops, now the home of Golding, Young and Mawer, a Lincolnshire firm of auctioneers. It is also adjacent to the home of the Delaine Buses depot and heritage collection.
     
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    I was living in Liverpool in the early 50s and saw the original car racing there, and yes it was noisy and could be heard for many miles aound.
     
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