Amilcar at 1928 Inter Varsity Hill Climb

Amilcar at 1928 Inter Varsity Hill Climb
Amilcar at 1928 Inter Varsity Hill Climb

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Comments (8)

  • Guest R.J.Lane
    Monday, September 21, 2009

    A.S. Llewellyn in a C6 Amilcar.

  • Guest
    Tuesday, September 22, 2009

    Amilcars entered by Cambridge men swept all before them at this event, Llewellyn winning the 1100, 1500 and unlimited classes, A A Arnold being second in all three classes and G M Miller third in the 1100 and 1500 classes.

  • S. Axelrod
    Wednesday, June 18, 2014

    Reg. no. YU-12

  • Guest
    Saturday, May 21, 2016

    From Motor Sport April 1928: "Particular comment was forthcoming - chiefly from the ladies - regarding the colour scheme adopted by Mr Llewellyn, who rejoices in the soubriquet of 'Ginger'. This gentleman howled up the hill in his blue 6-cylinder Amilcar, clad in boiler suiting of light blue, the whole surmounted by a brilliant shock of, shall we say, very auburn hair."

  • Thornley Kelham
    Friday, August 18, 2017

    We are currently restoring this Amilcar C6 which belonged to Mr Llewellyn and are trying to get exact historical information. On looking at a copy of the article from Motor Sport April 1928 entitled 'The Inter-University Hill Climb', we cannot see the reference to the blue colour of the car you mention in your comment. Would you kindly advise where exactly you saw this quote so that we can reference it? Many thanks.

  • austin
    Wednesday, August 30, 2017

    <a href="http://www.motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/april-1928/9/inter-university-hill-climb">Report for this event is here</a>. No mention of ginger hair and blue car / boiler suit combination.

  • Guest
    Wednesday, August 30, 2017

    This comment appears in 'Rumblings' on p256 of the April 1928 edition of Motor Sport.

  • austin
    Thursday, August 31, 2017

    Which can be read <a href="http://www.motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/april-1928/26/rumblings-exhaust-notes">here on the excellent MotorSport archive.</a>