AH, THE MIeHTY FARRALLAC, synonymous with Tony Bianchi, who’s owned all sorts of weird and wonderful racers over the years, and still maintains a small but eclectic collection of both cars and planes. But the constant thread for almost four decades has been this marvellous old warrior, which almost defines the formula ‘an engine bolted to a chassis’
There’s a little more to it than that. ‘The Farrallac Mk1 was built in the ’50s by Don Farrell, a racing cyclist. He’d owned an Allard J2, then in 1953 or ’54 bought a better one – the car Peter Collins raced before he got the Aston Martin drive – and later rebodied it in a fully enveloping style in the vein of the Le Mans cars. It went much faster, but he…
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Octane (Digital) - 1 Issue, December 2015