Funny thing happened on the way to Monaco

Another note concerning my friend Duncan Cameron.  In either 1963 or 64 one of the Birell brothers of Glasgow motor sports fame asked Duncan for a favor.  That was to paint a helmet for Jackie Stewart for his F-3 Monaco race.  He wanted his family tartan which Duncan did. The day before leaving we discovered that he had not painted the detachable white visor which covered some of the tartan.  In order to have it dry in time we put it in his grill of his stove.  After a few EcEwan's, sniff, sniff, what was that? It was the melted visor.  Luckily there was a black visor with the helmet.  The attached picture, may or may not be that helmet, I didn't take it, but I do have a nice autograph from Jackie and Graham.

I found a picture online of this helmet.

And the Scots have a history in Motor Sports

 

Charterhall was the major circuit in Scotland in 1the early 1960's.  Ecurie Ecosse dominated sports car racing in the 50's with a "semi" work Jaguar team which won Le Mans two times with a D-Type Jag.  These are a few pictures of their Tojeiro and Transporter at Charterhall in 1963.  The person painting the number was my friend Duncan Cameron , artist/signpainter.  I believe Jimmy Stewart, Jackie's brother, was driving this car.

Aintree 1964

Jim Clark

Aintree International 200 Meeting

18^th April 1964

The feature race the “200” was won by Jack Brabham driving his Brabham Climax, second was Graham Hill in a BRM and third Peter Arundel in a Lotus.  Although Jim Clark crashed, he did set fastest lap of 96.26 mph in his lotus.  Brabham team mate was Dan Gurney and Graham Hill was teamed with Richie Ginther.  Other well known names were Bruce McLaren and Phil Hill in Cooper Climax’s, Innes Irelend and Trevor Taylor in BRP/BRMs.  Reg Parnell entered Lotus BRMs for Chris Amon and Mike Hailwood. Other drivers of note were Giancarlo Baghetti, Teddy Pilette, Jo Bonnier, Denny Hulme, and David Hobbs to name a few.  Jackie Stewart was driving a f-3 Cooper for Tyrrell Racing.  Prize money was ₤200 for the first finisher irrespective of class, the Aintree 200 trophy and the Daily Mirror Trophy, class wins ranged from ₤150 for first to ₤25 for sixth.  Bruce McLaren won the sports car race in a Cooper Climax and a prize of  ₤30.  The F-3 race was won by Jackie Stewart with a prize of  ₤50 and Jack Sears in a Ford Galaxie won the Saloon Car race and ₤15, Jim Clark was third for ₤5. When Jack Brabham mounted the podium, he tossed his helmet to his son Geoff,saying to go throw it in the car. There was no real separation between fans and drivers then as you can see from my picture of Jack.  I obtained my first autograph on the program from him, which was the start of a small collection of F-1 driver autographs.