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Originally Posted by morninggents
If it is John Robinson that may answer the question of who last built/rebuilt the Hart BDA engine.
I always thought that John Robinson (from Northampton if it's the JR that I'm thinking of) was more a chassis man than an engine man but I suppose that he was probably both!
John Robinson built and raced a 1300cc BDA Escort in the early 1970s and it used a space frame which he also built, but more in the Clubman's/ Mallock style. It may well be that the JR Escort predated Geoff Wood's car - I shall look out some old results sheets.
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In the famed October 1974 issue of CCC John Robinson’s Escort 1.3 BDA is described (spaceframe with a glassfibre body, claimed to be under 10 cwt, the engine giving 185 bhp at 10 250 rpm). The car was sold to Jamaica.
In 1970-72 he had raced a lightweight Escort, first with a 1300 twin cam and then a 1300 BDA; this was probably not the same car.
In later years John Robinson was involved in the build of George Potter's 7-litr Esprit Chevy and of course the Magnum F3 cars of the 1980s.