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henrik,
homologation is something to look carefully at:
old period international homologation was for international world-championship events like for example 1000km nürburgring, where Ginattas were often raced as GT cars. So small factories with limited budget homologated only one car internationally (so did Marcos , Diva , Lotus , Elva ...etc ), and 1000cc engines were often chosen, as the cheapest class went up to 1000/(1100 )cc (further classes were/1300/1600/2000 and more cc limit in those days).
If a car had a different engine/equipment as int.homologation papers tells, it was immediately a prototype in the prototype class with very hairy competitors, esp. the mighty Abarth and Alpine racers!!!
This historic fact you must not mix up with national events in uk in those days, where all sorts of engines were eligible.
At the cars provided with Ford engines , you had the luck of a big range of different capacities.
As Goodwood had no international status in those days, club racing was very common, so you could enter cars with not urgently international homologated equipment. And this is the sense of this years Fordwater trophy, to revive this old club-racing atmosphere at this wonderfull event.
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