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The Ex-Archie Scott Brown 1957 'Offset' Lister-Climax Formula 2 Racing Single-Seater

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The Ex-Archie Scott Brown 1957 'Offset' Lister-Climax Formula 2 Racing Single-Seater

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15.000 $
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This remarkable survivor is offered here in dismantled form, having been preserved for many years in a private American collection, and it is perhaps the rarest of all products of the famous British racing car manufacturer, Brian Lister (Light Engineering) Ltd, from the world-renowned university city of Cambridge, England. Brian Lister’s company built its reputation with production of supremely competitive sports-racing cars, powered initially by MG engines, and later by Bristol and Jaguar in-line 6-cylinder power units, and by Chevrolet and even Maserati V8s. But while the long series of Lister-Bristols, Lister-Jaguars and Lister-Chevrolets raced to prominence on both sides of the Atlantic during the 1950s, Brian Lister also launched a project to put his great friend, the Lister works driver Archie Scott Brown “in to bat” in the newly-launched single-seater, open-wheeler series of International Formula 2 racing. This series was launched officially in 1957 after a few experimental races for the unsupercharged, pump-grade gasoline-burning 1500cc cars had been run in England during the latter half of the 1956 season. The first single-seat Formula 2 Lister was constructed for Scott Brown to use in 1957, this being a simple, lightly constructed cigar-shaped car with conventional centrally-aligned drive line, powered by one of the new Coventry Climax 4-cylinder engines developed from a Civil Defence fire-pump unit which combined all-aluminium construction and light weight with strong torque and power output. After testing the single-seat Lister prototype it was abandoned and scrapped without ever starting a race, but at the end of the 1957 season this second single-seat Formula 2 Lister was completed around the well-made square-section tubular spaceframe chassis with double-wishbone and coil-spring front suspension following Lister sports-racing car practise. The latest twin-overhead camshaft Coventry Climax FPF engine was mounted left of centre, and inclined to the right at 30 degrees in order to lower overall height, centre of gravity level and to place the propeller shaft to the left of the driver’s seat, powering a Bristol gearbox rear mounted in unit with the final-drive and differential casing. The final-drive assembly was bolted rigidly to the frame, contributing considerably to the chassis’ torsional rigidity. De Dion rear suspension was adopted, coil-sprung and located by single radius rods each side plus a third longitudinal link in line with the offset propeller-shaft. Lateral location was by a sliding block in a vertical guide on the rear of the chassis frame, the de Dion tube itself forming the rearmost extremity of the car. Girling disc brakes were used, inboard at the rear and hub-mounted at the front. The offset driveline enabled the driver to be seated extremely low, and Brian Lister took great pains to concentrate mass within the wheelbase following low polar moment of inertia principles, nothing other than the radiator being mounted ahead of the front axle line, while fuel was carried in shallow pannier tanks slung outboard each side of the chassis frame. Initially both the dry-sump oil tank and the radiator header tank were scuttle-mounted, though the oil tank was later moved to just behind the driver’s seat. The bodywork was exceptionally sleek and shapely – and it survives today as a distinctively ‘different’ looking front-engined Historic racing car. Special Lister/Dunlop cast-alloy road wheels were used and this exceedingly low-slung, low frontal-area Formula 2 classic ran in Scott Brown’s hands at Goodwood that September, sadly retiring with a broken oil pipe. Little Archie Scott Brown, however – a great hero figure to British fans for his diminutive size, short legs, only one hand and shatteringly fast sideways-on driving style – was very uncomfortable in the car and for 1958 Brian Lister shelved his Formula 2 hopes and concentrated instead upon the supreme ‘Knobbly’ Lister-Jaguar sports cars of the type i

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 1028•
Auktion:
Datum:
19.08.2005
Auktionshaus:
Bonhams London
San Francisco 220 San Bruno Avenue San Francisco CA 94103 Tel: +1 415 861 7500 Fax : +1 415 861 8951 info.us@bonhams.com
Beschreibung:

This remarkable survivor is offered here in dismantled form, having been preserved for many years in a private American collection, and it is perhaps the rarest of all products of the famous British racing car manufacturer, Brian Lister (Light Engineering) Ltd, from the world-renowned university city of Cambridge, England. Brian Lister’s company built its reputation with production of supremely competitive sports-racing cars, powered initially by MG engines, and later by Bristol and Jaguar in-line 6-cylinder power units, and by Chevrolet and even Maserati V8s. But while the long series of Lister-Bristols, Lister-Jaguars and Lister-Chevrolets raced to prominence on both sides of the Atlantic during the 1950s, Brian Lister also launched a project to put his great friend, the Lister works driver Archie Scott Brown “in to bat” in the newly-launched single-seater, open-wheeler series of International Formula 2 racing. This series was launched officially in 1957 after a few experimental races for the unsupercharged, pump-grade gasoline-burning 1500cc cars had been run in England during the latter half of the 1956 season. The first single-seat Formula 2 Lister was constructed for Scott Brown to use in 1957, this being a simple, lightly constructed cigar-shaped car with conventional centrally-aligned drive line, powered by one of the new Coventry Climax 4-cylinder engines developed from a Civil Defence fire-pump unit which combined all-aluminium construction and light weight with strong torque and power output. After testing the single-seat Lister prototype it was abandoned and scrapped without ever starting a race, but at the end of the 1957 season this second single-seat Formula 2 Lister was completed around the well-made square-section tubular spaceframe chassis with double-wishbone and coil-spring front suspension following Lister sports-racing car practise. The latest twin-overhead camshaft Coventry Climax FPF engine was mounted left of centre, and inclined to the right at 30 degrees in order to lower overall height, centre of gravity level and to place the propeller shaft to the left of the driver’s seat, powering a Bristol gearbox rear mounted in unit with the final-drive and differential casing. The final-drive assembly was bolted rigidly to the frame, contributing considerably to the chassis’ torsional rigidity. De Dion rear suspension was adopted, coil-sprung and located by single radius rods each side plus a third longitudinal link in line with the offset propeller-shaft. Lateral location was by a sliding block in a vertical guide on the rear of the chassis frame, the de Dion tube itself forming the rearmost extremity of the car. Girling disc brakes were used, inboard at the rear and hub-mounted at the front. The offset driveline enabled the driver to be seated extremely low, and Brian Lister took great pains to concentrate mass within the wheelbase following low polar moment of inertia principles, nothing other than the radiator being mounted ahead of the front axle line, while fuel was carried in shallow pannier tanks slung outboard each side of the chassis frame. Initially both the dry-sump oil tank and the radiator header tank were scuttle-mounted, though the oil tank was later moved to just behind the driver’s seat. The bodywork was exceptionally sleek and shapely – and it survives today as a distinctively ‘different’ looking front-engined Historic racing car. Special Lister/Dunlop cast-alloy road wheels were used and this exceedingly low-slung, low frontal-area Formula 2 classic ran in Scott Brown’s hands at Goodwood that September, sadly retiring with a broken oil pipe. Little Archie Scott Brown, however – a great hero figure to British fans for his diminutive size, short legs, only one hand and shatteringly fast sideways-on driving style – was very uncomfortable in the car and for 1958 Brian Lister shelved his Formula 2 hopes and concentrated instead upon the supreme ‘Knobbly’ Lister-Jaguar sports cars of the type i

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 1028•
Auktion:
Datum:
19.08.2005
Auktionshaus:
Bonhams London
San Francisco 220 San Bruno Avenue San Francisco CA 94103 Tel: +1 415 861 7500 Fax : +1 415 861 8951 info.us@bonhams.com
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