Subject: RE: Streamlined 100-Sixz
Not much is published on these cars. Per Geoff's book, they are not the
same car as the Bonneville car, just same styling.
The sn 3804 is probably a mistake as that is Fred Hunter's 100S and I am
pretty sure it didn't run Sebring that year and certainly never had body
work like those pictures.
Per Geoff's book, one of the Sebring cars received the Ferrari F1 bits and
raced at Nassau in 1957 with the Ferrari engine driven by Peter Collins.
There is a picture somewhere so the paint scheme matches the Sebring car
number 23 or 25. Then the Ferrari engine was replaced by a AH 6 again and
raced at Nassau 1958 by Roy Salvadori.
That experiment was called X224.
I would like to see a picture of the 1958 grid as I am a bit confused on if
the team cars had standard bodies or the streamlined bodies. I have seen
published quotes both ways. I believe Bill Kincheloe got one of the 58 team
cars to race in America.
Another nice couple of pictures is in Chris Harvey's book, Healey the
Handsome Brute. It shows number 23 at the Cape, I believe. It has a wrap
around windscreen and a 4 inch windscreen wiper and other 100S type cockpit
details. Also a fishtail exhaust tip!
The Dipstick Digest #24 shows a streamline car leaping into the air at
Sebring after hitting a hay bale. No lasting damage done. The photo was
originally in Autosport.
Ken Freese
65 BJ8
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