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I think you could be a little more sympathetic to the restoration. Any race car will be damaged at some point and in this case there are no replacement panels -some variation is going to be inevitable. This should be accepted as its new form.
I hope the car keeps racing, we don't want to lose it to a museum.
GlennB
god help us if a certain member that doesn't like harringtons ever buys a harrington. the new nose is probably better workmanship than the original was. and it is a race car.
Maybe I´m missing something, but this Harrington didn´t win. It came in second in class. All it won was the Thermal Efficiency award. Sounds like a consolation prize to me.
If it were an economy run, I could see it, but this was supposed to be a race.
Jose
It is a lovely looking beastie but it has lost a bit of its special-ness by loosing its original front however well recreated and its post race 'return to original.... ,. Odd that the nose was lost at all. Hmmm.... And why stick a Holbay in for whatever reason except penury when you have the correct historic block and head. Hmmm... I saw pics of the resto and can't say it looked like a 'best of the best' sort of job, a bit casual as far as one could tell. A great project for a purist with the money to play with but at that estimate and with the loss of a lot of originality and some questions over quality I'll watch with mild interest.
Now that nose and a Kamm tail, that would have been one gorgeous 'never was'. Lovlier than the Lister Tiger by a long mile.
Oliver
"It came in second in class. All it won was the Thermal Efficiency award. Sounds like a consolation prize to me."
Guess who won the "Thermal Efficiency Award" back in 1967, the year that the Ford MKIV driven by Foyt/Gurney won the race in record time? The #1 Ford MKIV driven by Foyt/Gurney. Sometimes the award went to the winner of the race and not to some back marker.
Oliver... i do like the kamn tail cars, i do like the Harrington that ran in '61.. but im also partial to the LM Tigers... they are not the most beutiful cars, but they are purposeful and tough, especially on the original Dunlop alloys.
"It came in second in class. All it won was the Thermal Efficiency award. Sounds like a consolation prize to me."
Guess who won the "Thermal Efficiency Award" back in 1967, the year that the Ford MKIV driven by Foyt/Gurney won the race in record time? The #1 Ford MKIV driven by Foyt/Gurney. Sometimes the award went to the winner of the race and not to some back marker.