You were there: '60s touring cars & more
Chris Mitchell
A round of the European Touring Car Challenge at Mallory Park? The 1960s were ripe with possibilities that would nowadays be unthinkable, as these photos from Chris Mitchell confirm
![Mini Cooper at Copse Corner during the 1965 British Grand Prix meeting at Silverstone](https://msm.tjlabs.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Mini-Cooper-at-Copse-Corner-during-the-1965-British-Grand-Prix-meeting-at-Silverstone-1-800x450.jpg)
Warwick Banks’ Mini Cooper smokes its way through Copse during the 1965 British GP meeting at Silverstone
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![Barnato-Hassan Bentley special](https://msm.tjlabs.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Barnato-Hassan-Bentley-special-2-800x1003.jpg)
![Cars line up for a 1960s Formula Junior race at Silverstone](https://msm.tjlabs.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Cars-line-up-for-a-1960s-Formula-Junior-race-at-Silverstone-1-800x1003.jpg)
Anticipation: drivers and cars line up for a Formula Junior race at Silverstone
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![Saab 96 leads at Mallory Park during the 1964 Motor National Three Hours](https://msm.tjlabs.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Saab-96-leads-at-Mallory-Park-during-the-1964-Motor-National-Three-Hours-1-800x450.jpg)
Class-winning Saab 96 leads Minis and BMW 700s round Mallory Park hairpin in the 1964 Motor National Three Hours, second round of that year’s European Touring Car Challenge
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![Syd Fox in Neal Davis Racing Lotus 23B at the 1964 Brands Hatch British Grand Prix meeting](https://msm.tjlabs.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Syd-Fox-in-NEal-Davis-Racing-Lotus-23B-at-the-1964-Brands-Hatch-British-Grand-Prix-meeting-1-800x450.jpg)
Syd Fox in Neal Davis Racing’s Lotus 23B, 1964 British GP meeting at Brands Hatch
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![Lotus 25 at the 1964 BRDC International Trophy](https://msm.tjlabs.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Lotus-25-at-the-1964-BRDC-International-Trophy-1-800x450.jpg)
Lotus 25 receives some tweaking; probably Peter Arundell’s car at 1964 BRDC international Trophy
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![Graham Hill in the Maranello Concessionaires truck at Goodwood for the 1964 Sussex Trophy](https://msm.tjlabs.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Graham-Hill-in-the-Maranello-Concessionaires-truck-at-Goodwood-for-the-1964-Sussex-Trophy-1-800x450.jpg)
Graham Hill takes a break in the Maranello Concessionaires truck, Goodwood 1964; he won the Sussex Trophy in the team’s Ferrari 250 GTO
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![Ecurie Ecosse Tojeiro Coupe](https://msm.tjlabs.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Ecurie-Ecosse-Tojeiro-Coupe-1-800x450.jpg)
The Ecurie Ecosse team was an early convert to the big American V8 concept, replacing Climax FPFs with 3.5-litre alloy Buick units in its pair of Tojeiro coupés
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![Maranello Concessionaires privateer Ford GT40 is unloaded](https://msm.tjlabs.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Maranello-Concessionaires-privateer-Ford-GT40-is-unloaded-1-800x450.jpg)
Col Ronnie Hoare of Maranello Concessionaires ran the first privateer GT40 for various drivers – including Roy Salvadori, Innes Ireland, Chris Amon and Richard Attwood – in 1965-66
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![Ford Cortina and Mini in the Brands Hatch paddock during the 1964 British Grand Prix meeting](https://msm.tjlabs.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Ford-Cortina-and-Mini-in-the-Brands-Hatch-paddock-during-the-1964-British-Grand-Prix-meeting-1-800x450.jpg)
Cortina of Chris Craft and works Mini of John Fitzpatrick under the distinctive Brands Hatch paddock canopies at the 1964 British GP meeting
Chris Mitchell