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Today was an interesting day... I received another package of Rootes documentation I hadn't seen before. Unique stuff including the waiver Don Sesslar had signed to race for Sports Car Forum.
Also, a Baugh Axle brochure - Baugh made the LSD for Bob Kime's race car. Apparently, there was a relationship with Sports Car Forum, too.
Even more interesting is the mimiograph copy of the "1965 Sunbeam Alpine Production Car Specifications". This was the document submitted by Rootes to the SCCA for competition approval.
Here's what's unique... on one page they show the Lat 9 Pie wheels as well as the LAT fender flairs but next to those is a carb setup which I think is a pair of twin choke downdraft Solex on a manifold that would mate to the Alpine.
The photo is so hard to see since it is on mimiograph paper but it looks like SOLEX 40's similar to those on a 356/912. A pair of them and the manifold turns up.... Very strange - I don't think the setup would fit under the hood. Not to mention WHY? And why aren't they mentioned on any of the typed forms?
There is also a nice letter from Shorty Miller, well known Turner racer, who tells Don that he was almost DQ'd at Meadowdale due to fuel being spilt out the tank filler neck on hard left handers. Don didn't realize it was a problem with the Alpine but apparently this happened in the following race, too, which is why Shorty wrote.
STeve
Also, a Baugh Axle brochure - Baugh made the LSD for Bob Kime's race car. Apparently, there was a relationship with Sports Car Forum, too.
Even more interesting is the mimiograph copy of the "1965 Sunbeam Alpine Production Car Specifications". This was the document submitted by Rootes to the SCCA for competition approval.
Here's what's unique... on one page they show the Lat 9 Pie wheels as well as the LAT fender flairs but next to those is a carb setup which I think is a pair of twin choke downdraft Solex on a manifold that would mate to the Alpine.
The photo is so hard to see since it is on mimiograph paper but it looks like SOLEX 40's similar to those on a 356/912. A pair of them and the manifold turns up.... Very strange - I don't think the setup would fit under the hood. Not to mention WHY? And why aren't they mentioned on any of the typed forms?
There is also a nice letter from Shorty Miller, well known Turner racer, who tells Don that he was almost DQ'd at Meadowdale due to fuel being spilt out the tank filler neck on hard left handers. Don didn't realize it was a problem with the Alpine but apparently this happened in the following race, too, which is why Shorty wrote.
STeve