Raced for just one year, 1964, under number 49. In the second, Mervyn is in all the action. Graham Fitzhugh, is swapping engines in July 1964 in the Brafield The mid sixties, Mervyn Payton's car was serious the engine hadīeen tested and balanced by Jack Brabham's garage, and used 'stack'Įxhausts like Graham Hill's BRM. Mervyn Payton #637 from Brixworth and Northampton High jinks at Brafield in 1966 with Dave Chisholm 552, Keith Barber's rear end, Alan Young 693, and 650.Vic performs a complete roll at Brafield.Here's Vic at Brafield with the chequers beside his tidy Fiat, in 1966."Oh no, not again!" was roughly what his wife said -) The urge never went away, and 35 years after hanging up his helmet, Vic was back on an oval with Roy Clark's heritage car at Belle Vue in 2004. Vic did well in his racing, earning a blue roof. Park, Hednesford, and holidays in the South West gave the opportunity to race at Plymouth, St. Harringay, Kings Lynn, Ringwood, Swindon, Crayford, Cadwell Vic's local track was Brafield, where as a kid he'd watched the very early 50's midgets race, but he also raced at Walthamstow, (A 1999 reunion group photo I've seen shows that these guys, especially Vic, kept their Harvey #445 and his girlfriend, Roy Reeves, Eric Gill, and Paul His mates, left to right: Barry Sawford #151, Bernard Bywater, MalcolmĪtkins Dick Motor was serious: Aquaplane head and cam, lightened flywheel,Ĭlose-ratio Wooler gearbox, etc. Cook had two Y Types and three other Fords wearing Fiat bodies.
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