Andrews AFB, 1954

Very cool color racing footage from the 1954 Andrews AFB races. You'll see a number of Allards including Fred Wacker and his  8 Ball.

Now that's an oval track...

We love it when Allard owners tell us what they are doing with their cars...the other day we found a letter from Alain Rueede showing us his latest exploits...here's his email...

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Dear Colin,

 

I hope you are well. I saw that you posted our Youtube Onboard-Clip from last years Klausenrennen on your website – thank you. It’s always very interesting to visit your site – excellent work!

 

Our Allard is going well and we just had another exiting moment with the J2.

 

We send you below a link of a very unique event we just participated with our Allard J2 last week in Zürich-Oerlikon. It’s named “Indianapolis at Oerlikon”. It’s Switzerland’s oldest sporting arena – 102 years old. It’s an oval track of only 333m length and with 44.5° banking! It is normally used for bicycle races...but one time a year for historic cars and bikes. At the best bicycle event they have 1,500 spectators – with the cars and [motor] bikes 4,500 to 6,000!

I don’t know how many Allard’s raced in an oval track till today – but in this type of small oval it could be the first!

-Alain

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Thanks for sharing Alain!

Now that's a hill climb...

It's great to see Cordell Bahn's old J2 seeing action with its new owner in Switzerland...rather than sitting static in a wharehouse with a bunch of other pretty cars (forgive us, we're opinionated on the subject). New owner Alain Ruede placed 2nd in class at the KlausenRace Memorial in Switzerland. Congrats!

Video: 1952 Watkins Glen

Here's some cool color video from the infamous 1952 Watkins Glen race. The main event footage starts at the 3:00 mark...oh and you might want to turn the volume down.

Video: 1950 Santa Ana Sports Car Races

The 1950 sports car races at the Santa Ana Blimp Base, was one of the first major west coast sports car races. The race featured many future stars of international racing. For the winner Roy Richter, this would be his first and last sports car race. Roy owned Bell Auto Parts and had a license to sell Allard J2's on the west coast, much to the frustration who had the license to sell all other Allards in the west. Anyway, Roy's wife was out of town, so he decided the best way to get the word out on his new business venture was to do some racing. Roy won the race and gave the J2 one of its first race wins. Unfortunately Roy had to give up racing once his wife returned home. Incidentally, this video features what is probably some of the first in car (color) footage. Enjoy!

On track in Monterey

Special thanks  to Steve Schuler for sharing this in car video of his race to 2nd place in Group 5B at the 2012 RMMR at Laguna Seca this past August. And yes...Steve is aware his speedo isn't working...

A few walk arounds of old #65

Seeing that video the other day of that poor guy attempting to drive Bob Lylte's J2X inspired me to dig through my Monterey archives. I put together the footage you see here of Bob getting ready to practice at Monterey in 2006...and of Bob's car just before it was auctioned at RM. Seeing this footage was bittersweet and brought back a lot of fond memories. In the next week I'll post a gallery that shows off the guts of J2X 3162...I doubt you've ever seen a J2X like it. Cheers!

Video: Best Cake Ever.

It must be nice being Jay Leno. Not only does he have a long running hit TV show and an amazing car collection...but his freinds got him this amazing cake for his birthday. The detail is absolutely amazing! The cake is modeled after Roger Allard's J2X MkII that was featured on his program last year. Bon Apetit!

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Video: Racing in Monaco!

Here's some great video of Patrick Watt's showing us mortals how to get around the streets of Monaco in his amaznigly fast J2. Enjoy!

Racing Videos...

A special thanks goes out to Cliff Reuter of www.Etceterini.com for aquiring the video collection of the late Suzy Dietrich and digitizing it for us all to enjoy. In this video you'll see a bunch of Allards...bonus points to anyone that will do the research and tell us who is driving what Allard. In this video, we get to see:
-1952 SCCA Giants Despair
-1952 Grand Island
-1953 Chanute AFB

Enjoy!