The 6.25-litre Rolls-Royce V8 racer you’ve never heard of
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- Опубліковано 23 бер 2023
- Racing cars aren't the first thing you think of when you hear the name Rolls-Royce. You'll probably struggle to even think of a competitive Rolls-Royce at all other than their famous rally car. Well, let us change that for you with the Marina Andrews Rolls-Royce Special.
We sat down with the driver, who happens to be the father of the owner, to find out all about this unique little car.
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This video needs for tags if the car running so we can see and HEAR it running. This is not meant with any disrespect to the chap explaining the car to us, that was interesting and historically informative - thank you.
He's not right in saying there were no other British V8s in the early-'60s, except R-R's. Daimler made two: 4.5 litres and 2.5 litres.
My 61 Silver Cloud had a Rolls V8
In racing cars?
@@dwchester Probably not, but he said: ". . . the only British V8 engine that was around" without mentioning racing.
@@dwchester IIRC, Cooper built *one* Hillclimb Car with the Daimler 250 motor for Martin Brain.
I knew it was around but couldn't find it in searches
The only British V-8 engine in the early 1960s - what about the Daimler V-8 engines, 2.5 litre in 250, and the 4.5 litre Majestic Major?
Saw an SP250 tip upside down during a race in the 60s (Teretonga International meeting). As a young pup I remember the driver crawled out from underneath it after landing in the scrub. No roll bar either as I recollect.
@@morris2450 no seat belts either...
@@pashakdescilly7517 Forgot about that
@@morris2450 When I posted, I was trying to remember what Daimler sold the Dart as - and it was the SP. i couldn't remember and didn't get round to looking it up. I still think it looks hideous. It was based on a bodged Triumph TR chassis - I wonder if a Daimler V-8 will go into one of those...
@@pashakdescilly7517 SP250.
Can we get to hear it running?
As far as it being the only ever Rolls-Royce race car, there was featured in a magazine not too long ago a single-seater based on I think a Silver Shadow engine and chassis that was I think semi-officially endorsed by the factory.
I don't think it was factory-backed, and another sort of racer, but the Paris-Dakar Rolls Royce ran in 1981.
You never know what you'll find at Goodwood.
It's beautiful
Agreed! It's smaller than I expected.
What a wonderful machine! Love hearing back-story, like this.
This is one of those cars that looks great from some angles and not so great from others. I find it interesting that they put in 3 cooling ducts in the nose that identically match the Ferrari 250 GTO.
Sounding like the car's finally got the caretakers it neds.
Fantastic car, cheers Fabrizio
Very cool and unique classic race car!
Odd coincenence, I was just re-reading the Alan Mann biography last week which mentions his brief involvement with this very car !!!
So who manufactured the engine that is in it now?
Still a Rolls-Royce unit, just built up for racing.
All British, and they didn't paint it green? There must be another story there.
If it didn't race in an international league, there wouldn't be any reason to go with a BRG colour scheme. Ecurie Ecosse used a dark blue, Saloon cars used whatever they felt like and Brabham used BRG and gold (even though they weren't a British team).
They must know how much this looks like a Ferrari GTO from the front. And old man Ferrari didn't make a stink about this.
The there is Rolls Royce acting like they have the right to literally "crush" someones car because their own engine is in it. And
they willingly gave this group the engine for that very purpose. Rolls Royce was run by some serious snobs.
"They must know how much this looks like a Ferrari GTO from the front. And old man Ferrari didn't make a stink about this. " How old are you?
"The there is Rolls Royce acting like they have the right to literally "crush" someones car because their own engine is in it." Using a trade mark engine without permission for racing or commercial enterprise is an infringement of laws. Making an amalgam circuit racer doesn't ruffle anybody's feathers.
"Rolls Royce was run by some serious snobs." Perhaps. But they weren't idiots. And the internet is full of them.
@@McLarenMercedes Rolls Royce supplied the engine knowing what it would be used for. They used the engine exactly as stated, and then Rolls management throw a wobbly and demand to crush the car. Nothing legal there.
I remember an RR V8 engined sports racer in the 1960s called the Gwyniad, which is a type of fish found only in Lake Bala. I remember seeing it race at Aintree and Oulton Park. It was equally unsuccessful but added some interest. Anyone know any more about it?
in the jimmy blumer day,think the car was billed as 'marina'
I've heard of it.
Why didn’t hot rodders get their hands on these engines when they first came out? Sydney Allard would have made a killing if he made a Rolls Royce Big Block conversion kit for the Ford Pilot and Zephyr.
Because the Bridgnorth Big Block is a massive lump! 4.75" bore spacing compared to the 4.38" of the Ford small-blocks that commonly go in those. The deck height is huge too, over ten inches compared to the 8.2" of a Ford 289/302 - even a Ford 351 Windsor is only 9.48" and those barely fit in a Zephyr. Also, the Rolls-Royce/Bentley unit made only about 180bhp in period, it did have a lot of torque but it really wasn't a great racing engine, and the head design isn't overly conducive to hot-rodding.
Also, I imagine that Grainger & Worrall would have had an exclusivity clause imposed on them in the contract under which they produced the engine for Rolls-Royce, so the only way of getting engines would have been from crashed Rolls-Royces and spending a fortune tuning them - no point when Ford, GM and Chrysler were only too happy to supply engines by the boat-load, complete with big valves, hogged-out ports and lumpy cams, and even offered credit, buy now, pay later from the proceeds of sales or racing prize cash...
Please someone tell me that there is an asetto corsa mod of this.
Oh aye I remember that bag of bolloks ssheet machine where did you find it? A cereal box?
Daimler SP250 V8 British from 1959 onward...so RR not the only British V8 of the period
this information is incorrect as far as the history of RR V8's. In the late 50's RR bought all the tooling from Studebaker-Packard for the Packard V8. It was shipped to England and modified to build the 6.3 Rolls V8 out of aluminum. That V8 was installed in the majority of the 61 Rolls Royce Silver Cloud II's AND the Bentley Continental II's. There were still some 6's built in 61 too but only by special order. 99% of all of the Roll's and Bentley's built in 62 were the 6.3 liter V8's. So your contention that Rolls had no vehicle V8's in the early 60's is incorrect. Further, as noted Daimler and a couple of other manufacturers had V8's too in the early 60's. Personally, my 61 Silver Cloud ll DID have a V8 with a GM THM transmission.
Did they have Ukrainian pilot, or they put sticker as a support?
Hello, here’s a unique vintage racer with a unique engine. Would you like to hear it start and run? Well, too bad! Here’s 4 minutes of a chap meandering about it instead.
BMW FOREVER their engines in RR now is way better wish to see 6.75 litre V12 in this kind of machine
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@@McLarenMercedes yeah the best car of McLaren is with BMW engine
RR have very poor performance due to the automatic box.
Poor car , bullied by society
Ukraine flag?... Really???...
Exactly. Who cares I love putin.
I wonder why UA-camrs keep accusing us of what we may know or not? To use pronouns in titles is not only bad grammar but insulting. Please, stop using pronouns in titles. Thanks
Poor you. Waste of O2.
@@LightBranches funnily enough, it annoys me too, and my father was ranting at me about this very point a couple of days ago...
@@richardharrold9736 see reply above.