david roxburgh
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1 KUE and 151 FLK together for the first time since the Circuit of Ireland Retro in 1998.
Kop Hill September 22nd
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A few photos here:
http://s1209.photobucket.com/albums/cc3 ... 201%20KUE/
http://s1209.photobucket.com/albums/cc3 ... 201%20KUE/
david roxburgh
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Ref more pictures - I'll see what I can do.
david roxburgh
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More pictures added.
david roxburgh
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Here's some good information from Ken Edwards who owns 151 FLK about its history, which, as you can see, is rather interesting:
Some years ago, I reunited Toney Cox with the P6, 151FLK, with which he came second in the Motoring News Championship in 1966(?). Toney was the Development Foreman at Rover during gestation of the P6. As a very keen and good rally driver, he arranged with Rovers that he could rally ‘his’ development car with company support, so long as he never competed head on with the works rally team.
According to Toney the car was re-bodied at least 12 times during development, so 151FLK resembles the woodman’s axe in that its functionality has outlived its components. Rob Lyall is, I’m sure, correct in his view that the car that was rallied was actually one of the pre-production batch, rather than the earlier development batch, and just one of the 12 lives to which Toney referred. Sadly, Toney is no longer with us to confirm that.
He was a mine of information about the car, and followed up with a series of photos of it in competition which are now in my files. After exclaiming that he had done 1M miles testing the suspension during development, he asked me what I thought might remain of the original car and went on to say, just possibly the ash tray.
He explained that when they wanted to do some early press photos the pressings for the ash tray had not been received from manufacture. He hurriedly had 22 machined, 2 each for the Talagos and the development cars, but he couldn’t remember whether there 5 Talagos and 6 development cars, or vice versa.
On Page 14 of October’s issue of the magazine the fascinating line-up clearly 5 Talagos is accompanied by the caption ‘There were 6 Talagos’. So the mystery remains – were there 5 or was it 6 Talagos? Does anyone have a machined ash tray?
You will doubtless be amused that, after researching the original colour of the car with Clive Annabel’s assistance, I decided I didn’t like the early colours anyway. It is now resplendent, I think, in a slightly later red which has less brown in it – after all if not even the ash tray survived, 151FLK’s DNA would show more or less continuous evolution.
To my knowledge, in all her many years and lives, 151FLK has never turned a wheel other than rallying. The attached photo shows her alongside David Roxburgh’s famous ex-works team car, 1 KUE, at the Kop hill climb in September this year. The day after the photo was taken she was out again. Thanks to her reliability and the skills of her habitual navigator, Paul Richardson, she achieved lowest penalties of the day (one) in the Classic Harvest Tour of very wet Berkshire and Hampshire lanes.
Ken Edwards
Some years ago, I reunited Toney Cox with the P6, 151FLK, with which he came second in the Motoring News Championship in 1966(?). Toney was the Development Foreman at Rover during gestation of the P6. As a very keen and good rally driver, he arranged with Rovers that he could rally ‘his’ development car with company support, so long as he never competed head on with the works rally team.
According to Toney the car was re-bodied at least 12 times during development, so 151FLK resembles the woodman’s axe in that its functionality has outlived its components. Rob Lyall is, I’m sure, correct in his view that the car that was rallied was actually one of the pre-production batch, rather than the earlier development batch, and just one of the 12 lives to which Toney referred. Sadly, Toney is no longer with us to confirm that.
He was a mine of information about the car, and followed up with a series of photos of it in competition which are now in my files. After exclaiming that he had done 1M miles testing the suspension during development, he asked me what I thought might remain of the original car and went on to say, just possibly the ash tray.
He explained that when they wanted to do some early press photos the pressings for the ash tray had not been received from manufacture. He hurriedly had 22 machined, 2 each for the Talagos and the development cars, but he couldn’t remember whether there 5 Talagos and 6 development cars, or vice versa.
On Page 14 of October’s issue of the magazine the fascinating line-up clearly 5 Talagos is accompanied by the caption ‘There were 6 Talagos’. So the mystery remains – were there 5 or was it 6 Talagos? Does anyone have a machined ash tray?
You will doubtless be amused that, after researching the original colour of the car with Clive Annabel’s assistance, I decided I didn’t like the early colours anyway. It is now resplendent, I think, in a slightly later red which has less brown in it – after all if not even the ash tray survived, 151FLK’s DNA would show more or less continuous evolution.
To my knowledge, in all her many years and lives, 151FLK has never turned a wheel other than rallying. The attached photo shows her alongside David Roxburgh’s famous ex-works team car, 1 KUE, at the Kop hill climb in September this year. The day after the photo was taken she was out again. Thanks to her reliability and the skills of her habitual navigator, Paul Richardson, she achieved lowest penalties of the day (one) in the Classic Harvest Tour of very wet Berkshire and Hampshire lanes.
Ken Edwards