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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote WesternRed Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: Mar/27/2013 at 7:44am
Pinched this one from the National Motoring Racing Museum (Bathurst) website.

1937 Hudson Terraplane, this classic car first raced at Bathurst in 1950 and was built by Stan Carpenter and Ron Reid. It has a six Cylinder engine and a Humber gear box. It last raced at historic car meetings in 1989.This vehicle is kindly on loan to the National Motor Racing Museum by Mr John Herman.



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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Ray Bell Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: Mar/27/2013 at 5:41pm
Did I hear somewhere that Ron Reid took his wife on their honeymoon in the Carpenter Terraplane?

Good to see that some of Clive's shots got up there on the Brian Darby site, too.

With reference to Les Burrows (father of Alan Burrows, who raced in the sixties and seventies, grandfather of Alan's son whose name I've forgotten, but who ran in Sports Sedans into the eighties), the '36 model shown is a straight 8 whereas he normally ran a six.

His cars had Kleinig modifications, in particular the little external oil pump that put a little pressure into a copper pipe inside the crankcase, this being perforated in just the right spots to squirt oil into the dippers on the end of the conrods and thus keep in the big ends at revs.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Ray Bell Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: Mar/27/2013 at 5:42pm
Oh yeah... don't forget that Kleinig also ran a 203 in a RedEx event...
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote 74gremx Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: Mar/28/2013 at 4:24pm
Found this in an old (1993) Restored Cars magazine



1970 Javelin 360/727
1974 Levis Gremlin X 304/904
1964 American Convertible
1974 Matador wagon (parts)
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote WesternRed Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: Mar/28/2013 at 5:30pm
That is such a cool looking machine, now I wan't one.
 
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Ray Bell Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: Mar/28/2013 at 7:12pm
Heh...

If he was 70 in 1993, and lived at Gumeracha when he was a kid, he'd have seen Kleinig in action at the fabled, beautiful and unsurpassable Lobethal circuit.

He'd have been at an impressionable age when the Australian Grand Prix was held there, when The Maestro, Alf Barrett set the lap record in his 1932 Alfa Romeo Monza and Kleinig near-equalled it.

It's said that 60,000 people turned out that day and stood in the hot sun to watch the race. On the greatest circuit this country has ever seen... or will ever see. Ten times as good as Bathurst.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote WesternRed Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: Mar/28/2013 at 7:52pm
Found another photo of the 88 Terraplane in action at Amaroo Raceway



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Numbers can change each race meeting, and often do...

This is the Carpenter Terraplane.

I wonder how Ronnie Reid felt running his little Sulman Singer against this car?
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote WesternRed Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: Mar/29/2013 at 3:40am
Thought it was the same as the car at the Bathurst museum posted before the red one?
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Yes, it is the same one...

It's called the Carpenter Terraplane after its builder.
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