Tricks that old racers get up to after retirement

[jackiewilson]

...don't know why the name bill brown was attached to this photo. have no idea. who was bill brown anyways? someone in those racing circles then? any idea?...

Bill brown was one of the three people that started „“COSWORTH ENGINEERING“ . KEITH DUCKWORTH and MIKE COSTAIN were the other two.
Bill and i put together the first Cosworth 2 litre BDG Miles Tunnel with an ALPHA 1 leg.
Was supposed to be a 50/50 arrangement both cost and seat time . This fell apart at the seams when Bill got the CARLSBERG sponsorship deal and promptly dumped me .
It was a somewhat strained relationship after that— especially when he ran over the top of me at Windermere .
He had long since left Cosworths , when Keith Duckworth and Mike COSTAIN put together the Cosworth DFV 3litre Project.
Bill lost the Carlesberg deal to Bob Spalding —— when Bob went to Mercury USA — Roger Jenkins then picked up the deal.
Bill built an alloy boat with changeable sponsons — leaked like a sieve — DIDNT run worth a lick.
He went into obscurity after that !

[jackiewilson]

...yes, can see the rust coming through from the gold plated steel hardware, now that you mention it...

Managed to get out of the deal by the skin of my teeth ——— swopped them for a huge trunkful of O guage Hornby railway gear —- did have to cross the mans palm with i big bag of gold as well.

[jackiewilson]

Everyone has gone electric . This is Jaguar‘s latest electric offering .
See Mercury is shouting its coming out with an all electric 200 hip.

[FUJIMO]

[jackiewilson]

Boats really are feckin ugly these days —- not like the beautiful works of art we used to throw around .

[techteam]

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Have no idea who shot this footage of the Windermere record run.

I know......

[jackiewilson]

I know......

It‘s Pathe News that own the copyright. — doesn’t tell me wh o shot it !!!!!
Ok smartypants —enlighten me!!

[jackiewilson]

It‘s Pathe News that own the copyright. — doesn’t tell me wh o shot it !!!!!
Ok smartypants —enlighten me!!

Wasn‘t meaning to be rude TT , i was under a lot of pressure yesterday.
decided to bin one the Merts yesterday and was cross with the world —- original two of „“A MAN CALLED MERT „“ have now been binned !!!!! Seems i am never satisfied with my own efforts anymore.

[jackiewilson]

This is the one that never was . Three stacker . Replaces the one i binned . Whole project is basically a week behind. Damn thing is a bit like TOPSY‘S DOLL .

[jackiewilson]

Ah well the best laid plans of mice and men an all that Jazz.
This is THE HILTON in my little village. Where i was going to have my 90th birthday bash. Buggers have put it up for sale.
No wonder really. They are building a new A27 bypass around arundel and have nicked half the estate .
Golf course is going and they sold off part of the old course to developers .
It‘s an ill wind and all that.

[FUJIMO]

[FUJIMO]

[jackiewilson]

You know when you work on something —but it doesn’t seem to be working . Happened to me with the first two MERTS. Never seemed to shape up the way i wanted . Afraid i had to bin the first two attempts . Here‘s the last effort . It just clicked from the word go — felt right . Lot less effort went into it , but i was able to put my idea into practice .
Ok, so its the one that never was , the three piper , doesn’t matter i can do the single pipe as the number one „“A MAN CALLED MERT“—-other two can be just MERT‘S.
was going to be just a weeks work—- but what you think and reality are uneasy bedmates !!! So its taken a month up to now—— what the hell else would i be doing???????
have a few days free— going nowhere and nobody expected . All things being equal i should get all three concepts done — whether or not that happens or not remains to be seen . I‘ll let you know .

[jackiewilson]

Other side of the coin is our garden—- i do like to see some colour and variation in the small garden we have. These geraniums are outside the front door .
SUPERSHED has blended into the garden well—- even though it‘s only three months since we bought the place —- looks like we‘ve ben here for years already.

[jackiewilson]

this one i liked —took a lot of time and trouble with that one . Never did sell it — was far too outrageous to be commercial. End of the day, most folk are conventional and conservative —- very few can accept „“different.“