First Macau GP. Dinger Bell in Betsy giving a thumbs up to his team in the pits

Dick Worrall
Thu, 10/12/2023 - 12:14
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First Macau GP. Dinger Bell in Betsy giving a thumbs up to his team in the pits 0

First Macau GP. Dinger Bell in Betsy giving a thumbs up to his team in the pits at the start of the disastrous fifth lap. At that point he was well out in front having led the race from the start, set the fastest lap time and had already started to lap some of the stragglers.

Date picture taken
1958
Shows person / people
Gordon John BELL (aka Dinger) [1923-1981]

Comments

My cousins owned the only Morgan three wheeler in Hong Kong and sold it back and forth between them .After they had left the colony I was walking past a scrapyard down a narrow lane near Causeway bay and I was surprised and saddened to see it on top of a pile of scrap cars. Even back then it would have been a quite valuable classic car.

 

My father Tom Reynolds raced in the early Macau GPs. Unfortunately he passed away in 2011. I will have to find his pictures and see if I can see your Morgan.

Hello Derek and Martin 

Thank you both for your postings.
A Morgan 3 wheeler in HK, incredible! Am Interested in any pics which either of you might be able to dig up.
Martin, was your father in the  Police, if so did he drive that beautifully modified Triumph Spitfire at one of the later GP’s …….and were you sometimes called “Tink”?

Regards

Dick

Hi Dick

Dad was in the police and then government.

I think you have wrong guy as he didn’t have a Spitfire and I have been called a lot of things but not Tink! I think he drove Jaguars.

thanks

Martin