[DeTomaso] fuel cells, now race car

adin at frontier.net adin at frontier.net
Mon May 28 20:08:51 EDT 2007


thanks for the recap - follows are links to some images of the Tiger  
shot in 2004 @ Park City Tigers United.

http://images104.fotki.com/v471/photos/4/43175/147329/t01-vi.jpg?1089518649

http://images104.fotki.com/v471/photos/4/43175/147329/t02-vi.jpg?1089518687

http://images6.fotki.com/v91/photos/4/43175/147329/t12-vi.jpg?1089519402

Its a beautiful car . . . .

Thanks again Darrell!


Quoting Mountjoy <mtjoy at telis.org>:

> Dave and others,
>
> Thanks for the invitation to share a little on my race car.  I'll try to be
> succinct and not to put anyone to sleep as there are literally volumes on
> the car.
>
> The car is known as a Sunbeam Lister Tiger, or more commonly as a Le Mans
> Tiger.  It is one of two coupé bodied cars, commissioned by Rootes Group and
> built by Brian Lister of Cambridge (plus a development mule), to compete in
> the 1964 24-Hours of Le Mans.  The motors (260 CIDs) were supplied by Shelby
> American.  My car ran as Nº 9 (the sister car ran as Nº 8).  Nº 9's drivers
> were Peter Procter with Jimmy Blumer co-driving.  Nº 8's driver is a
> familiar name to Pantera people, Claude Dubois, with Keith Ballastat
> co-driving.  Unfortunately my car broke a crankshaft in the tenth hour, at
> full chat on the pit straight.  Earlier it had been clocked at 162+ mph on
> the Mulsanne straight.
>
> After Le Mans the car was lent to one of the development engineers from the
> Le Mans effort who changed the suspension, putting a 5-link in back.  He put
> in a proper 289 motor with Weber 48 IDAs and made the car very successful in
> the 1965 Championship series.  The car was then sold to Alan Fraser Racing
> in Scotland (close ties to Rootes Group) where it was cannibalized to create
> what was known as the Monster Tiger.  In the early '70s the remains,
> basically the unibody shell, were discovered literally in a chicken coupe
> and retrieved.  It was  then cobbled together using Jaguar bits and vintage
> raced in the UK.
>
> In the late '70s it was offered for sale.  A man from California ended
> purchasing it, found the Monster Tiger in the Canary Islands, bought it and
> brought the two cars to the USA.  He returned the original bits from the
> Monster back to my car and had the car restored.  That is when it was
> photographed for Automobile Quarterly, Vol. 22, No 1.  Eventually it was
> sold to a man on the east coast and vintage raced in SVRA.  In '01 it was
> offered for auction at Monterey and I was the winning bidder.  Shortly after
> collecting the car a friend took it for an off-road excursion (don't ask).
> Rather than put yet another bandage on a car that had "evolved" over time I
> decided to do a full restoration, bringing the car back to its post-Le Mans
> period in time.  It was an eight-month nut-and-bolt project with sometimes
> five people working on the was up to 15 hour days.  What pushed the project
> was that the car had been invited to the Goodwood Revival and accepted for
> the inaugural Le Mans Classic.  For the not too faint-of-heart or those I
> haven't put asleep yet there is a pictorial exposé on the car's adventures
> at Goodwood and Le Mans.  It can be found at:
> http://www.tigersunited.com/articles/dm-lister/MountjoyLemans.asp
>
> Since then the car has been running mostly at the Monterey Historic and at
> Coronado Speed Festival with General Racing Ltd.  It is also at some of the
> Concours events.  The car is a blast to drive, right-hand drive, big ol'
> tall, skinny bias tires and all.  Get the corner set up just right, turn in,
> feel the tires begin to drift, play with the pedal and wheel, squeeze in the
> power and exit, kissing the far side of the track.  What a rush.
>
> It has been featured in or mentioned in various books and periodicals, most
> recently the June issue of OCTANE magazine.
>
> Thanks for letting me share a little.  Proud Papa?  You bet !
>
> Darrell
>
>
>
>
> Original Mesage:
>> Message: 12
>> Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 20:47:36 -0600
>> From: adin at frontier.net
>> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] fuel cells
>> To: detomaso at list.realbig.com
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>>
>> D,
>> Why don't you tell the folks a little more about your car?  I may even
>> have a picture I can link to (the list strips attachements) so folks
>> can see it.
>>
>> David in Durangp
>>
>> Quoting Mad Dog Antenucci <teampantera at yahoo.com>:
>>
>>> Darryll,
>>>
>>>   Most excellent 'real-world' feedback. When you can make it out
>>> here Darryll, Team Pantera Racing will pick up your food, lodging
>>> and bar tab...in fact try and make it to Silver State in Sept.
>>>
>>>   Thanks mate!
>>>
>>>
>>>   Mad Dawg Antenucci
>>>   Teampantera Racing
>>>   "if it was easy you'd do it"
>
>
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