Brabham BT8 Race car

 The Brabham BT8 was a sports racing car built in from 1964 to 1966 by Brabham.

Most Brabham’s were single-seaters, but as sports-racing cars were popular in Britain and North America in the mid-1960s, Jack Brabham and Ron Tauranac now followed the examples such as from Lotus.

Jack Brabham drove the BT8 with BRM engine on its debut at Goodwood, and now built derivatives of single-seater designs with full-width bodywork. The transmission was the Hewland Mk 5-speed gearbox and the BT8 was intended to be powered by the Coventry-Climax FPF 2-litre unit or the BRM V-8. of similar concept to the previous BT5 with multi-tubular space-frame chassis, front suspension by unequal-length wish-bones and coil spring/damper units and rear suspension by lower wishbones, radius arms and coil spring/damper units. The wheelbase was 3 in longer than previous models. Two 12-gallon alloy fuel tanks were installed, one on each side.
The first was BT5. based on the BT2 Formula Junior, built a multi-tubular chassis but forced to abandon it by new regulations for Indianapolis and Formula I with independent suspension and fibre bodywork. It was intended for Coventry Climax 2 litre engines, although larger conversions to a 2.5 and a 3.5 litre Oldsmobile V8 fitted still with Hewland gearboxes were used. The dozen or so cars built were successful in the now 2 litre classes.
The BT8 remained available until 1966 in total around 12 were built up until 1966.