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Post by administrator on Aug 16, 2009 19:52:07 GMT 1
This was Dave Hughes Skirrow in 2004. It went for sale at auction.
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Post by youtubefiend on Aug 18, 2009 9:47:50 GMT 1
This Skirrow car was bought at auction by a chap from the Oxford area a few years ago. His surname is Dutton but I don't have more details. He has a collection of similar track cars - possibly also a sprint car. Besides the Skirrow I understand he owns the USA driver Ronny Householder's Elto midget, first raced in the USA in 1936, then brought to England and copied by Les Hulme in Manchester for the Belle Vue National League team.
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Post by haflinger121 on Aug 18, 2009 20:34:31 GMT 1
Ivan Dutton is the man who bought the Dave Hughes # 66 car at auction. Ivan is an old friend of mine, who used to live almost on top of the site of the Greenford track many years ago. At the time he was racing highly successfully in the British Saloon Car Championship, but has since gone on to become one of the world's leading restorers of Bugattis. Now officially 'retired', he is free to indulge himself in other car related interests, such as collecting machinery that takes his fancy, and he does indeed own the ex-Ez Walker ELTO. The only problem is, I'm almost 100% sure that the car shown in the above photo is not the Skirrow Ivan bought! It may well be A Dave Hughes car (i.e. one of the travelling circus he put together), but I do not believe it is THE Dave Hughes car. Check out the interesting website www.bsafwdc.co.uk/page21.phpThis bit of a ruin of a car was apparently owned by somebody called John Abraham, but if you look at that website, it gives chapter and verse about both this car (featuring the same photo as above) and also Ivan's purchase of the Hughes machine.
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Post by rodpashley on Aug 18, 2009 23:43:08 GMT 1
Ivan Dutton bought one of Belle Vue's Elto Midgets, there is currently no way of knowing if it was Ronnie housholders car, the odds are around 10 to 1 against!
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Post by rodpashley on Aug 18, 2009 23:47:22 GMT 1
The photo of a Skirrow looks like one that at one time had an engine at the rear.....
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