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[Rick]

Iain sent this question over, does anyone here know the answer?? (lowdrag maybe??)

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Hi,

I have had no success in discovering the reason for the white stripe
on the trailing edge of the fin which appeared at some stage during
the event and I am sending out as many feelers as I can in order to
find out. Photos, in Andrew whyte's book show the car at a night pit
stop, clearly with no stripe but photos at the end of the event and
on its return to England show a 3" wide white stripe.

Do you have any idea why this was applied during the race?

Regards,

Iain
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[Rick]

update: seems Iain has already found out the answer!

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I discovered yesterday that the photo without the stripe
was wrongly captioned as being during the race - it was actually
taken during practice.
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[P3steve]

I allways thought it was so that the pit crews could tell the the team cars apart as they went passed the pits at night

[lowdrag]

Just found this thread. I have hundreds of photos of this car, this one being the latest:-



Not sure what race we are referring to here, but he seems to have found the answer anyway. This photo was taken at Mulsanne bend during the Legends race the Saturday of Le Mans. They had no luck with the owner's cars - the D blew and engine in practice, they flew another out and fitted it for the race and then that blew too. Then his E type blew spectacularly spinning out and leaving abig oil slick.

[Rick]

A few years back 774 RW was owned by someone in this neck of the woods, and I nearly fell out of my car when I saw it on my commute to work one day, waiting to pull out of a junction in a queue of repmobiles

Even weirder was that at the exact same spot, on a commute a few months later, another original D Type was spotted waiting to take the same turn.

R
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[lowdrag]

Since 2001 it has resided in Sussex Rick. One of the strangest stories is the number plate which, being red, is obviously a trade plate. However, the owner was driving along one day and saw a spridget with the same number plate, stopped the guy and bought it off him. Now, while it appears as in the day, it actually owns that plate!