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4 hours ago, Amishtat said:

Where did you find that? Great picture 

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This 1954 press photograph shows a Rolls-Royce taking part in a stock-car race at Owlerton Stadium in Sheffield. 1925 50-hp Rolls Royce was raced by Joe Proudfoot from the Niagara Service Station in Sheffield.

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1 hour ago, egg said:

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Not sure, but how is the whole bonnet on fire. 

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5 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

The label says only "1925 50-hp Rolls Royce".

A Silver Ghost then? £100k+ in today's money?

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Pat Willis at Brafield in 1957 in his Packard

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15 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

This 1954 press photograph shows a Rolls-Royce taking part in a stock-car race at Owlerton Stadium in Sheffield. The label says only "1925 50-hp Rolls Royce".

It was raced by Joe Proudfoot from the Niagara Service Station in Sheffield.

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Track is still in use & I think that's been I shop since the 70's early 80's

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1928 Bentley 6.5 litre limousine at Bellevue, August 1954

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flat4alfa Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

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56 minutes ago, egg said:

in today's money?

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1958, Montreuil quarry, France.  ~1938 Talbot-Lago T150-C by Figoni et Falaschi

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$4M at Pebble Beach.

 

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1956, Montreuil quarry, France.  ~1939 Delahaye 135M, Coupé Sport Chapron

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Estimate €400,000 - €600,000

 

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1957 Jock Lloyd at Lydden Hill. ~1936 Hudson Terraplane, straight-8

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Graham Hill (the F1 GP Graham Hill) took part in a ~1959 West Ham event, against Michael Taylor, Lotus engineer - in a supercharged 1935 Auburn

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I hadn't realised banger racing big old cars was this old.

Most old banger racing in the UK seemed to be mostly BMC Farinas.

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24 minutes ago, Richard_FM said:

I hadn't realised banger racing big old cars was this old

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The Radio Times noted, "The mediocrity is unrelenting, with the race sequences every bit as hackneyed as the risible melodrama, although Susan Shaw briefly brightens things up as a shameless floozy" [1955]

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