BROOKLANDS CARS IN CALIFORNIA
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1938 Peugeot 402 Darl’Mat
(Allan Winn).
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fascinating Brooklands-related lot in Gooding & Co’s annual Pebble Beach auction in August was this 1938 Peugeot 402 Darl’Mat Special Sports roadster. This car was owned from new by Miss Dorothy Patten and was entered by her in the ‘Fastest Sports Car Race’ at the BARC Whitsun meeting here in 1939 when, driven by Baron Rainer Dorndorf, it came last of the seven entries in both the Campbell Circuit and Mountain Circuit heats of that two-part race. After brisk bidding it achieved a very healthy final sale price, including premiums, of $742,500.
Sluggard
‘The Sluggard’ (Allan Winn).
On display at ‘The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering’ in California in August was this extremely well-executed replica of the Rolls-Royce 40/50hp Silver Ghost single-seater nick-named ‘The Sluggard’ which recorded a flying half-mile speed of 101mph at Brooklands in 1911. The original car, chassis 1701, was the Silver Ghost which famously ran from London to Edinburgh and back using only top gear, earlier in 1911. It was modified to single-seater form for Brooklands and then turned back into a touring car. The replica was built on a 1919 Silver Ghost chassis by David
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The outright ‘Best of Show’ winner at this year’s Pebble Beach concours in California in August was the Mercedes-Benz 36/220S XV 3314, one of two Mercedes run at Brooklands in period by Earl Howe. XV 3314 is now owned by Bruce McCaw (who also owns the famous Bentley Speed Six ‘Old No 1’) and its recently-completed restoration was aided by investigations in the Museum’s archives. That work included confirming the provenance of the startling blue and polished- aluminium colour scheme which the car again wears on its English coachwork by Barker.
Allan Winn
One of the smart side lockers on the winning Mercedes (Allan Winn).
Morrison to the exact specification of the record car – even down to details such as a streamlined fairing on the back axle casing.
Mercedes ‘Best of Show’ winner (Allan Winn).
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