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Originally Posted by Andy Clegg
Same meeting at Longridge. Any ideas of the car and who drove it please?
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I'm fairly sure the blue car 47 was described in the '70s as a Piper F3. I know it was purchased in the mid '70s from a farmer in the Swindon area by a Rob Morgan from Leominster (who kindly supplied me with a photograph from his period of ownership which appears identical to car 47 -albeit minus the LDMC lettering on the nose) and tells me it came to him with an F3 restricted Vegantune TC 1600 engine & a spare Crossflow. Morgan never used it & sold it after about 9 mths to 'two guys from Liverpool' who he believed subsequently severely damaged it at Aintree. I would assume T. Dootson was the 'Liverpool' purchaser (though i suspect he may have been from Clitheroe) & may be the Tom Dootson who earlier raced a Huffaker FJ on a few outings in 1975. The car looks rather different from the part completed mallite monocoque Piper F3 car shown in the late 60s at the Race Car Show - so may already be a 'bitsa' - but there are basic similarities. My interest in this arises from the fact i have a mallite Piper F3 (previously owned by Richard Brown & Norman Parkinson) and every so often get excited about delving into its origins....only to be become very confused very quickly!