Vintage film of CSX3009

[computerworks]

It is currently being restored, as we speak, to the Essex livery.

[PDHse]

Cool, hope the owner visits Club Cobra.

[chuckbrandt]

I don't think I've posted this here yet, if I have please forgive me. But I visited the McKee Mk4 that came in second in the '65 Pensacola USRRC race. It currently is still in the orange livery of the 2nd owner Dick Clicquennoi who raced it for many years in SCCA. In the movie it's dark blue with a white stripe that goes around the car.

It has a 427 Ford with Medium Riser heads and a single 4V with Le Mans float bowls. Supposedly built by Holman Moody.

Chuck




Original Livery - Photo by Tom Shultz

[Anthony]

Originally Posted by chuckbrandt

But I visited the McKee Mk4 that came in second in the '65 Pensacola USRRC race. It currently is still in the orange livery of the 2nd owner Dick Clicquennoi who raced it for many years in SCCA. In the movie it's dark blue with a white stripe that goes around the car.

It has a 427 Ford with Medium Riser heads and a single 4V with Le Mans float bowls. Supposedly built by Holman Moody.

In the race results, it appears that the engine is listed as a plymouth, which I guessed it to be a hemi, but I guess they got it wrong,

[CSX 4027]

They made one 427 Ford and one 426 Hemi.
I tried to buy the Ford but the owner doesn't want to sell anytime soon.

[63Corvette]

Originally Posted by chuckbrandt

I don't think I've posted this here yet, if I have please forgive me. But I visited the McKee Mk4 that came in second in the '65 Pensacola USRRC race. It currently is still in the orange livery of the 2nd owner Dick Clicquennoi who raced it for many years in SCCA. In the movie it's dark blue with a white stripe that goes around the car.

It has a 427 Ford with Medium Riser heads and a single 4V with Le Mans float bowls. Supposedly built by Holman Moody.

Chuck




Original Livery - Photo by Tom Shultz

Chuck, this car was called the "427 LMD" because it was entered by the Lincoln Mercury Division of the Ford Motor Corp., and the pit crew was ALL LMD professionals. Everyone but henery the Duce was there. It was a VERY professional operation!

[Naumoff]

Originally Posted by computerworks

It is currently being restored, as we speak, to the Essex livery.

Ron,

Are they doing a blog some where during the restoration?

I have been studying pictures and it looks like that Skip Scott's name was on the hood on the passenger side of the car and Dick Thompson's is on the drivers side. can you confirm that?

Also what is the decal behind or in place of the 427 fender emblems?

Thanks for yours or somebody's help,
Tony

[computerworks]

Originally Posted by Naumoff

Ron,
Are they doing a blog some where during the restoration?

uhhhh....nope.

Originally Posted by Naumoff

Ron,
I have been studying pictures and it looks like that Skip Scott's name was on the hood on the passenger side of the car and Dick Thompson's is on the drivers side. can you confirm that?

...looks that way.

Originally Posted by Naumoff

Also what is the decal behind or in place of the 427 fender emblems?

In original Essex livery, it ran a Champion spark plug decal on the pass side and what looks like an Armstrong shock decal on the drivers side

[jmc]

Just saw this thread resurface, and was wondering if any DVD of the vintage film footage ahs been made available. Would love to get a copy.

Thanks,

John

[VRM]

Originally Posted by Naumoff

Ron,

Are they doing a blog some where during the restoration?

I have been studying pictures and it looks like that Skip Scott's name was on the hood on the passenger side of the car and Dick Thompson's is on the drivers side. can you confirm that?

Also what is the decal behind or in place of the 427 fender emblems?

Thanks for yours or somebody's help,
Tony

Tony,
The decal in place of the 427 emblem in the video is a small Champion. Below that is the vent, and then there is a standard size Firestone. All the pics I have seen only have the Skip Scott written on the passenger side, or nothing. I've never seen any pics with Thompsons name on the driver side. Anybody have anything showing that?

I've also seen STP, Shell, Fram, VHT, 76, and the silver/red foil Champion stickers on the car at various races in Essex Wire livery. Shelby American Racing History by Friedman has a handful of pics of the car at various races. The stickers changes from race to race.

The nose also had either an Essex Wire logo, some other ??? logo, or was blank. The ??? logo looks like some kind of reclining cartoon charactor to me, but does anybody have any idea what it is?

Hope that helps.

Steve

[Naumoff]

Thanks guys.

I have a photo on my screen of the driver side on the track. Letters on the hood look like they could spell Dick Thompson.
The video above as the car comes into the pits they lift the hood and although it is not clear it looks like it says Skip Scott.
In one frame you can clearly see FIA wheels on the front and of course Firestone tires.

What is the wire coming out of the body and then attaching to the rollbar?

[computerworks]

Originally Posted by Naumoff

What is the wire coming out of the body and then attaching to the rollbar?

That is, of course, an "essex" wire.

[Naumoff]

I have seen other 427 comp cars with FIA wheels on the front and 427 wheels on the rear. Is this how the Essex car was in the first races it participated in? Ed Lowther sported all 427 style wheels in the photos I saw when he raced CSX3009.

Steve, Is this the logo you have seen on the nose?



In the video the nose does not have anything on the stripe.

Thanks for all the help.

[Danr55]

That is awsome! THanks fellas..