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Yes we combine shipping for most multiple item purchases. Add multiple items to your cart and the combined shipping total will automatically be calculated. 1958 Le Mans The Races & The Cars - 7-Page Vintage Automobile Article Original, Vintage Magazine article Page Size: Approx. 8" x 11" (21 cm x 28 cm) each page Condition: Good The Races Except for the first hours and for a brief lime on Sunday, it was a typically wet and soggy Le Mans, the rain coming in sudden vicious cloudbursts, completely inundating the track in certain areas. At one lime vision was so restricted that the big cars reduced speed almost.50 percent, drivers peering over the windscreens straining to catch sight of slower cars out in front. Coming up behind small displacement machinery on the Mulsannc straight in a charging 3 liter under such conditions, provided drivers with exciting moments, for the small cars would be completely obscured by blinding sheets of spray. All the driver of a Ferrari could sec in front of him would be a cloud of white billow- ing vapor, making it very difficu(t to over- take a group of small cars, even in daylight: what it was like at night beggars the imag- ■ ination. So much for the weather. The race itself evolved into a duel between the Hamilton/ Bueb Jaguar and the Hill/Gendebien 3 liter Testa Rossa Ferrari after six hours of the race had elapsed. By then not only had the two Scottish Jags gone out with piston trouble, but Stirling Moss, having led for a bit more than two hours was forced to retire at Mulsannc with engine failure of unknown cause. He had cer- tainly not over-revved the Aston during his two hour stint, (keeping the revs at 6000) he had merely gotten through the corners much faster than the rest, as well as doing some superb “traffic, driving". Lewis-Evans was al the wheel of the second DBR1 when he spun al Dunlop in an avoiding action, clouting the bank suffici- ently hard to damage the front end. This forced him to retire. The third Aston, Brooks/Trinlignant driving, dropped out at 6 a.m. Sunday morning with transmis- sion failure. Bent machinery and wreckage littered the side of the road for the entire cight- mile distance. Under Dunlop bridge lay Chamberlain’s Lotus; close by was Picard's Ferrari, farther on up the hill before the rush down into the esses lay "Mary’s” Jaguar and on the opposite side was the Gurney/Kessler Ferrari. Sadly, “Mary" (a pseudo-name for a Belgian driver) lost his life in the accident which occurred at night in the heaviest of the downpours when vision was down to practically nil. The Hill/Gendebien Ferrari led after the third hour till ‘1 pan. the following afternoon, except for a short period at... The Cars SPEAKING TECHNICALLY. this year’s Le Mans was outstanding— outstanding in that there were very lew notable new designs. Understandably, manufacturers and owners tended to fall back on machinery that had already proved itself capable of enduring the 24 Hours, though thanks to a multiplicity of prangs this foresight was not reflected in the proportion of finishers to starters. 'The most, successful first effort was with- out. question the AC Prototype. There was no doubt about the ability of its Bristol engine and gearbox to last the race, but its chassis and bodywork were new to AC and thus worth testing. Le Mans not being very hard on chassis components, this as- pect is inconclusive, but the AC’s shallow space frame looks very light indeed in rela- tion to its apparent strength. As before. John Tojiero and his shop had a great deal to do with design and construction of the prototype, the front suspension (parrallel wishbones and coils) and frame, as well as the upward tilt of the tail being obviously related to his Climax-powered Le Mans car. AC’s interest lay mainly in the new angled-axis (about 20 degrees to the longitudinal axis) and low-pivot swing-axle rear suspension. Also, with long coil springs, this arrangement is light and neat and well worth following up. Hand- some in light green and somewhat after the style of the second-series Lister-Bristols. the new AC’s bodywork was tested ade- quately by this year’s rains. Since Lc Mans is not a chassis test and since we already know the Triumph engine will run fast for 24 hours, there isn’t much to be learned from the sixteenth- place finish of the new Peerless. The two works cars (one didn’t start) were equip- ped with oil coolers below the main radia- tor, these not being standard equipment. The cars were also bedecked with racing- style equipment like big back-window filler caps and plexiglas vents which provided hairy though rough appearance in con- trast to modest performance by Lc Mans two-liter standards. Cornering with the de Dion rear end appeared flat and steady, and though -Jopp and Crabb were natur- ally going easy to ensure a finish, the fact that the Peerless stayed on the road during the rain sets it apart from some other marques in this respect... 13778-AL-5810-62