You were there: '60s touring cars & more
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A round of the European Touring Car Challenge at Mallory Park? The 1960s were ripe with possibilities that would nowadays be unthinkable, as these photos from Chris Mitchell confirm
Warwick Banks’ Mini Cooper smokes its way through Copse during the 1965 British GP meeting at Silverstone
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Anticipation: drivers and cars line up for a Formula Junior race at Silverstone
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Class-winning Saab 96 leads Minis and BMW 700s round Mallory Park hairpin in the 1964 Motor National Three Hours, second round of that year’s European Touring Car Challenge
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Syd Fox in Neal Davis Racing’s Lotus 23B, 1964 British GP meeting at Brands Hatch
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Lotus 25 receives some tweaking; probably Peter Arundell’s car at 1964 BRDC international Trophy
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Graham Hill takes a break in the Maranello Concessionaires truck, Goodwood 1964; he won the Sussex Trophy in the team’s Ferrari 250 GTO
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The Ecurie Ecosse team was an early convert to the big American V8 concept, replacing Climax FPFs with 3.5-litre alloy Buick units in its pair of Tojeiro coupés
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Col Ronnie Hoare of Maranello Concessionaires ran the first privateer GT40 for various drivers – including Roy Salvadori, Innes Ireland, Chris Amon and Richard Attwood – in 1965-66
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Cortina of Chris Craft and works Mini of John Fitzpatrick under the distinctive Brands Hatch paddock canopies at the 1964 British GP meeting
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