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| dalla |
| Posted on: June 8th, 2012, 09:12:28 |
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Hi Guys
I am going to the LM classic next month. And i see that there are two MM mk 1's on the entry list.
This made me think. The 1966 car must obviously have been a mk. 1 car?
But what about the 67 car? Is that a mk. 3? Does anyone know its chassis number?
Am i right in thinking, that the 67 LeMans car was the, car that caused Marcos to homologate 50 cars from chassis 7006 to 7057?
Or is the LM car in fact one of these chassis numbers?
If any of you guys have some additional info and pics of the car, i would love to hear/see them.
BR
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Mini Marcos Mk.II 7012
Dennis Overgaard Nielsen
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| admin |
| Posted on: June 8th, 2012, 10:50:59 |
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| I don't know what the chassis number was, though the car is a Mk.III. It raced at Le Mans as a prototype so homologation wouldn't have been necessary. In any case the completion of 50 cars wasn't reached until 1st January 1968. The LM67 car could of course have been one of the 52 - perhaps the streamlined cars were in that series but not counted for homologation purposes, hence 52 numbers rather than 50. |
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| jimnaylor |
| Posted on: June 8th, 2012, 11:32:04 |
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"caused Marcos to homologate 50 cars from chassis 7006 to 7057?"
All Mk3's were homologated, not just cars 7006 to 7057. To homologate they had to produce a minimum of 50 cars matching the specifications in the homologation papers, the numbers 7006 to 7057 were just the proof that a minimum of 50 cars had been produced. The homologation applied to both those 50 cars and to any others produced to the same spec (before or after).
As to your other points I have no real idea, but Marcos probably homologated the Mk3 because customers asked, or Marcos thought customers would want it. In practical terms only the manufacturer can homologate a car as nobody else is in a position to. As many mini marcos's were being used in competition, having them homologated would make them eligable for more classes/events. It was quite common practice in the 60's and 70's for manufactureres to homologate any cars they thought would be widely used in competition. |
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| dalla |
| Posted on: June 8th, 2012, 12:09:54 |
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| Thanks guys. Jim i was not aware of this. And for these streamlined cars, i have never heard about them, other than the 67 car was obviously one of them, can anyone tell more? Are there pictures of the other? |
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| Posted on: June 8th, 2012, 12:52:49 |
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| Neil KilBane |
| Posted on: June 8th, 2012, 18:25:44 |
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I would suggest that the Garton/McNally car is the LM67 car, and that the news reel footage of the girls is also the 67 car, the second streamlined car is the FLIRT car (55) , the same car that they used in the Nürburgring 500k later in the year.
The newsreel car doesn't have the door lights fitted yet and still has the bare alloy sills and nose so I would suggest that the film is from earlier in the year, I have 2 photos of HHU from the Easter race at Castle Combe in which the alloy is unpainted. |
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