Thanks for that Peter - by coincidence I've just finished reading Bill
Boddy's history of Montlhery which describes this event - for the record,
the 1 hour distances (miles) were:
Healey 100 (Ron Flockhart driving) 104.32
Riley Pathfinder R C Porter 108.03
MGA (stage II tune) John Gott 112.36
MGA (std tune?) Ken Wharton 102.54
Austin A90 Westminster John Gott 101.99
Wolseley 6/90 John Gott 101.20
The Healey's run was in a gale with pouring rain. The Riley ran with the
driver's wife and another couple on board, not a crash helmet or seat belt
in sight.
The book is a good read despite many typos the result (say publishers
Veloce) of an early attempt at OCR (the book is a reprint) The photo of a
six cylinder Healey as the one involved in this event is not down to a typo
though! I was taken by this bit too:
b An interesting 1951 run was undertaken by H S F Hay, who, having taken part
in the Le Mans twenty-four hour race in his Bentley Continental b Cornicheb
saloon as part of a European holiday with his family, drove to the track
(Montlhery) and put in an hour at cruising rpm. He covered 106.84 miles. The
Bentley had not been touched after the Le Mans race and was carrying fifty
gallons of fuel, five gallons of oil and a complete set of tools and
equipment. Not even the tyres had been changedb
Way to go!
Cheers
Peter
-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Svilans
Sent: Monday, November 29, 2010 7:28 PM
To: healeys@autox.team.net
Subject: [Healeys] Healey 100 at MontlhC)ry
Here's a ten minute film of five BMC cars being taken for a run at the
French
track. Austin-Healey 100, MGA, Pathfinder, Westminster, Wolseley 6/90. And
a
cup of tea at the end, of course.
http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=81585
Peter
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