I'm watching the History Channel about Alcock and Brown flying the Atlantic. Captioned on-screen is Dizzy Addicott, test pilot. I thought I haven't heard that name for some time - not a name you are likely to forget.
Visions of a Lotus 15 with a 3½ litre Buick motor come to mind, a front-engined sports-racer painted yellow if I remember rightly. Described as "a pretty exciting car with 350 bhp and weak brakes." Goodwood mid-sixties.
He drove a Lotus Elite in the Tourist Trophy at Goodwood in 1962 and won at the 1963 Boxing Day Brands meeting in an Elva-Alfa Romeo sports car, built in Sussex. He also raced an Elva 100-DKW in Formula Junior and a DKW 800s in saloon car racing.
Dizzy also announced plans to go after Craig Breedlove's 407mph land speed record in the 60's, using a vehicle based on a Swift fighter. The project was stillborn.
Addicott was also in at the start of the mini special trade with the DART which spawned the mini-marcos and the mini-jem.
A quick check on the web and I learn that Dizzy died in a car accident a short while ago. They don't make them like that anymore.
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