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Old 20 Mar 2009, 17:41 (Ref:2420382)   #126
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one can assume he did not sell the car in 68 or 69 and raced the car in 70 or where there 2 Jag powered anglias around then??
in 71 Mick has the Capri running
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Old 23 Mar 2009, 07:12 (Ref:2422457)   #127
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one can assume he did not sell the car in 68 or 69 and raced the car in 70 or where there 2 Jag powered anglias around then??
in 71 Mick has the Capri running
I have not found anything to indicate that he had two Anglias.
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Old 25 Mar 2009, 10:05 (Ref:2424313)   #128
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HI Guys ,new to this but does anybody remember an HA Viva racing in special saloons in th middle to late 70,s
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Old 26 Mar 2009, 14:06 (Ref:2425283)   #129
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1964

Bob Raynor LMB-Popular supercharged. Last race as he was to build another Pop. with a Zephyr engine (MN 3-9-64). Did he?


1965

Peter Clarke ex Gammon, ex-Rivers-Fletcher LMB-Popular supercharged.
David Gill Viva-Ford 1.5.


1966

Brian Bolton was sprinting the ex-Merfield car in September.


1967

Barry Downer – Austin A40 Ford 1650 – ex John Calvert/Martin Mulcrone.
Ron Saunders – Ford Popular (called late model in MN 11-5-67) – 1650 twin cam
Gerry Birrell – Chamois for Claud Hamilton (Motors) Ltd – 1150 Climax.


1968

Gerry Birrell – Chamois for Claud Hamilton (Motors) Ltd – MN 18-4-68 reports it was now 1300 (presumably 1216/1220) – sold by the end of 1968 (believed to Campbell Graham).
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Old 26 Mar 2009, 17:57 (Ref:2425422)   #130
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i did see in 72 AS advert for escort glass fibre body car fitted to lotus elan chassis for sale from ooop norf- who was this?[/QUOTE]

I know john myerscough bought this and did some races with it. Not sure if Geoff wood (if my memory is correct) was involved originally ??

Last i new about it was when on holiday i met a farmer from near snetterton who had bought it . Never knew if he raced it .
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Old 27 Mar 2009, 09:27 (Ref:2425972)   #131
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Peter duggan--I recall the HA Viva running at Brands

Escort on lotus chassis
any more info on when you met the norflok farmer
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Old 27 Mar 2009, 20:10 (Ref:2426388)   #132
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What I can tell you about the Plastic Escort on an Elan chassis is that it went to the great Special Saloon paddock in the sky about twenty years ago when I purchased it for all its 26R running gear.......and on a similar subject I got the DAF as a roller from the Higgins brothers and relieved it of the March 761 front end parts (to Geoff Davey - goodness knows what he might have done with them) - and the rear end which was all correct March 712 which was used to complete the rebuild of Dave Abbott's black 712 and I then sold all that was left back to the Higgins. The DAF has now been rebuilt itself I hear.
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Old 27 Mar 2009, 21:18 (Ref:2426440)   #133
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Escort/Elans

In about 1970 Gerry Dobbins put an Elan Chassis under a Mk1 Escort bodyshell, but not plastic. It used the Lotus twin cam engine. He didn't have the funds to get all the bits working at the same time and took a contract maintaining police radios in the Middle East. Slightly ironic given his domestic relationships with his local Police Inspector. Shortly after that the helicopter he was in fell out of the sky so I assume that his wife Meg sold the car in the early '70s.
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Old 28 Mar 2009, 12:35 (Ref:2427069)   #134
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I fear many special saloon GT cars will have been broken up by these selfish race car dealers and car restorers to rebuild old single seater/sports cars to race again
I wonder if there should be a law against such sacrelidge- maybe putting them in the stocks is too good for them?

Regarding the escort /e lan where there 2 cars 1 with glass fiber body and 1 with steel shell?
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Old 30 Mar 2009, 12:25 (Ref:2428948)   #135
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Special saloon Autosport adverts for info that will be needed later in this thread
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Oct 16 Berpop for sale
Harry Phillips Modsport Stingray as well

Nov 6 Doug Niven offeres ex Colin Hawker Boss Capri
Brooke Hire Firenza Norman Ducan For sale

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ACE ( all car equipe) Mk2 Escort Divina Galcia £3500

This car was the first Mk2 escort special saloon built replacing the Mk1 car she crashed first time out earlier in the year
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Old 31 Mar 2009, 16:21 (Ref:2429861)   #136
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Anglias in 1969

Another edited list of Anglias (about half of those recorded):-

Graham Bean –1598 twin cam – black and blue – also borrowed a car from Willie Green from September, fitted with his own 1598 engine
Trevor Clapton – 1865 twin cam or 1900 Martin-headed – white/green
Nigel Clarkson – 1600 twin cam
D Coleman – 1300 – for sale: Lightweight racing Anglia, 1300 Holbay downdraught, £695, Dave Coleman, Norwich (MN 16-10-69)
Don Copus – rolled/written-off at Brands Hatch in June
Terry Croker (A& J Motors, Chadwell Heath) ex-Superspeed 1760 £775 ono (MN 13-3-69) – to Freddie Jacks.
Ken Dawes – 1600 twin cam – red/yellow
Frank Didsbury – 1600 twin cam – yellow
Len Dixon (Chelmsford Auto Accessories) –1594 twin cam
Reg Gubbins – Buick 3.6
M Harte – 1650
Mick Hill – Jaguar 3800
Andy Le Provost or Prevost – 1930
John Littler – ex-Broadspeed – 1000
John MacDonald (Compact Car Conversions) –1600 – white/blue
S Matthews – 1800 twin cam
S McCrudden – 1600 twin cam
Terry McNally – 1000 MAE sidedraught and 1800 twin cam – (presumably different cars as in 1968)
John Myerscough (Westune) – 1600 twin cam
Doug Niven – 1600 twin cam
Dave Rogers – 1865 – purple/white
Baillie Russell (Geoffrey Nicklen) – 1600 twin cam or 1650 – blue
Richard Scantlebury – 1800 or 1600
Barrie or Barry Swann – 1000 Holbay F3
Mick Tamplin – 1500 or 1600 or 1650
Donald Tavendale (Mastertune Racing) – 1650 twin cam
Bill Taylor – ex-Alan Mussard – 1650/1685 pushrod – sprints, but mainly for autocross – for sale (MN 26-3-70) £500, 01-898 5377
George Whitehead (WRA Engineering) – 1760 or 1860 pushrod – purple (REDeX champion and over 1300 class winner Osram-GEC championship) – sold
Roger Williamson – 1000 Holbay downdraught – red

RAC British Saloon Car Championship
Lawrie Hickman (Leonard Ward Racing) ex-Broadspeed – 1000 MAE – (damaged Brands Hatch in March)
Gerry Edmonds – 1000
Liane Engeman (D J Bond Racing) ex-Alan Peer – 1000
Les Nash (ex-Superspeed) – 1000
Ian McDougall (ex-Broadspeed) – 1000


Ireland
Gerry Hanlon – registered MIZ 773 – Fiat 125-engined – raced at Mondello Park in December
Mattie McNamara (also raced by Conor Linehan) – 1900 twin cam or 1600 twin cam or 2000
Vinnie Moy – 1650 or 1600 or 1800 twin cam
L Mulligan – 1598
Robert Ward – 1600 twin cam
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Old 31 Mar 2009, 18:40 (Ref:2429956)   #137
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Old 2 Apr 2009, 10:54 (Ref:2431250)   #138
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An advert for an Anglia in 1969

1760 Anglia, £600, Gerry Taylor, Lichfield (MN 30-10-69)
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Old 2 Apr 2009, 13:30 (Ref:2431388)   #139
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who is that guy??

did you watch the Ford programme on Beeb 2 last night Anita Taylor racing the anglia and an interview plus the car rolling at Brands circa 67?
im sure if you go onto BBC i Player you can watch it
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Old 2 Apr 2009, 13:50 (Ref:2431411)   #140
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It's on tape for future viewing.
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Old 2 Apr 2009, 14:51 (Ref:2431480)   #141
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the crash she had was a wierd 1
not sure if she drove broad speed anglia im sure it was maroon in colour silver roof
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Old 8 Apr 2009, 07:58 (Ref:2436469)   #142
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Broken half-shaft

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the crash she had was a wierd 1
not sure if she drove broad speed anglia im sure it was maroon in colour silver roof
Have now watched it and done some follow up.

The Lombank Trophy for Group 5 saloon cars (final round of the 1966 BRSCC Saloon Car Championship i.e. the British saloon car championship) held at the Motor Show 200 meeting at Brands Hatch on 30 October was run in two parts. In the first part “Paddock Bend saw its fair number of shunts with no less than five cars coming to grief against the bank. Gordon Spice started it when he spun his Cooper into the bank and retired, then Steve Neal lost his Cooper going down the hill and collected Jacky Ickx, who was driving the third works Lotus-Cortina, both cars retiring on the spot. Finally Anita Taylor, running in 19th place in her Cosworth-engined Broadspeed Anglia had a half-shaft let go and did a series of rolls and loops down the hill, the Anglia landing on the bonnet of Roger Heavens’ Cooper S as he tried to dodge the Anglia. Naturally enough this eliminated both cars.” [MN 3-11-66] John Fitzpatrick in another Broadspeed Anglia won the 1000 cc class and thus became the overall champion. Broadspeed cars were normally dark red with silver roofs, the TV pictures suggest this was so.

PS Nice segment with Barry Lee. Also a reminder of a tour of Dagenham in late 60s and the appreciation of the workers' desire to have a "down tools and walk out" break to relieve the boredom and monotony of the production line.
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Old 8 Apr 2009, 08:08 (Ref:2436479)   #143
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good post Alan
i did say to my beloved when i was watching the programme Anita was in a Broadspeed Anglia ( even though it was B & W footage!) she looked at me with that look that said "your a boring bar steward!"
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Old 8 Apr 2009, 09:37 (Ref:2436542)   #144
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I did study the driver very carefully!
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Old 8 Apr 2009, 10:17 (Ref:2436576)   #145
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I could not admit to that part whilst she sat with me but did comment that anita is still a good looking women but i did pass comment that i did not notice!
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Old 8 Apr 2009, 12:14 (Ref:2436657)   #146
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My thoughts were the same.
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Old 14 Apr 2009, 10:38 (Ref:2440339)   #147
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An Australian Austin A30

Off the central theme I know, but interesting nonetheless. Browsing the Murray Walker Scrapbook I found an item in which he referred to a drive that he had around Bathurst by Peter Brock in the latter's 3.0 Holden-engined A30. This was in the late 1990s.
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Old 14 Apr 2009, 12:41 (Ref:2440426)   #148
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Peter Brock book tells you about this car he built in his early days of racing was a successful Ozzie car
not sure if he drove a replica or his original car at Bathurst
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Old 21 Apr 2009, 12:59 (Ref:2446296)   #149
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1970

Roger Austin – Ford Pop V6 3.0 – hill climbs
Mike Berman was said to be building “a more sophisticated version of the beast (Berpop) using a 4.2 version of the Rover V8” MN 24-9-70
Jenny Birrell – said to be ex-Mann ex-Mikkola circuit car, but Mikkola was racing a BVRT-entered Boreham car in 1969 (BEV 781G) – Escort Twin Cam 1820 or 1860 twin cam, later 1970.
John Bloomfield (Dagenham Motors) – Escort Twin Cam 1.6 (WGC 274G) and eventually (August 1970) David Wood BDA 1790
Keith Bowmaker (Perdal Development) – Escort 1760
Dave Brodie – Escort Twin Cam 2105 (description in MN 22-1-70) – entered for the first time by Frank Williams at Brands Hatch 2-8-70 – “Run Baby Run”
Roy Bushell – Escort-FVA
Glen Campbell – Escort V6 3.0 – also raced by Peter Warren
Martin Carroll – Viva-BMW 2.0
Eric Chappell – Escort Twin Cam 2105
Mike Chittenden – Morris Minor 1000 Ford 1650 pushrod
Will Cole – longstroke Cooper S 1555 (sprints)
D Cox – Hillman Imp 1500
W (Bill) Cox – WRC Capri Chrysler 6.8 (according to MN 2-4-70) or Chevrolet 6.2 (MN 30-4-70), Chrysler 6.2 (MN 16-7-70) or Chrysler 7.0 (MN 7-5-70) – “built largely from parts used in his sports car special, the Capri shell is completely gutted and mounted on the special’s tubular space frame chassis … Cox reckons never to pay more than £15 for an engine and the standard Chrysler mill, mounted well back in the frame was no exception to his rule … gearbox, much of the front suspension, rear axle and braking is all taken care of by Jaguar XK140 parts” – gold paint [‘WRC 2’]
Brian Cutting – Escort Martin V8 3.0 – new Thruxton October (MN 15-10-70)
Philip Danby – Escort Martin V8 2846 – Lawrencetune-prepared – orange (not the same car as Brian Cutting)
A Davis – Anglia-Jaguar
Phil de Banks – Escort Twin Cam 1670
Ian Forrester – Capri V8 289 Mustang engine producing 350 bhp (MN 23-4-70)
Phil Gazeley – Anglia-Buick 3.5 (also sprints)
Doug Griffiths – Mini Clubman (engine built by Bill Lacey mating a Cosworth MAE head to a Climax block, fuel injected – MN 20-8-70)
Colin Hawker (sponsored by Toleman’s Delivery Services) – an employee of Superspeed – Escort V6 3000 – orange – article in MN 15-10-70
Mick Hill – Anglia-Jaguar 3800 – beige (ex Scantlebury MN 4-2-71)
Norman Hodgson – Janglia 4.0 (recently acquired MN 1-10-70)
Stuart Jackson – Cortina-Jaguar 3.8
John Kirmond – Cortina-Jaguar
Martin Kent – Sunbeam Rapier-Chevy 5.4
R Kent – Sunbeam Rapier Ford V8 4.7
(a mistake for Martin Kent?)
Gerry Marshall (Shaw & Kilburn) [built by Bill Blydenstein] Viva GT 2300 (track tested in MN 11-12-69).
Richard Martin-Hurst – Escort-Rover V8 3.5 (mainly for rallying, but won a race at Lydden) (CHK 1G) – yellow and black – 214 bhp, ZF 5-speed gearbox (full description MN 6-8-70)
K McCormick – A40-Ford 1.4
John Minty – Mini Ford 1650 – sprints
John Morris – Escort Twin Cam – 1865 engine from Graham Eden’s Chevron B10 (before the FVA) – purple
Douglas Niven ex Graham Birrell – Escort 1820 – still blue and white
Andy O’Keeffe – Escort Twin Cam 1760 twin cam (or 1600?) – also raced once by John Bloomfield
Roy Pierpoint (Bill Shaw Racing) – Rover 3500 V8 4.3 Mathwall-prepared Traco-Olds/Rover, 345 bhp claimed – red and white – debut Mallory Park April 1970 – built from a car rallycrossed by Geoff Mabbs at Croft (MN 16-4-70 and 7-5-70).
Arthur Preou – Escort FVA 1.6 – yellow
Peter Shelton – Cortina GT 1.8
Brian Tarrant – A40 Chevy 5.0?
Roger Taylor – Escort Twin Cam 1.8 or 1.6
Stuart Turner – Escort Twin Cam 1.9
Jimmy Veitch ex-Alan Brodie – Viva-Chevy (reported by MN 17-9-70 as Ford V8 and “sporting a very jazzy blue, white and yellow colour scheme”)
Nick Whiting – Escort Twin Cam 1.8


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• Imp Climax, fully race prepared with Stage 5 1220 engine, Birmingham (MN 29-10-70)
• Anglia hill climb and sprint car, Daimler Dart V8 2.5, “always draws a crowd in the pits”, £500, Todmorden (MN 19-11-70)

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Des Donnelly – Viva GT 2.0
Alec Poole – Complan Mini Cooper S 1.3 turbocharged (reputedly 180 bhp) – “conceived by Syd Enever at Abingdon … rides high on 13 inch Brabham F3 wheels” MN 17-9-70 – also raced in Britain by Alec Poole – Roger Enever had a one-off and victorious race at Silverstone in October
Robert Ward – Escort Twin Cam 1.8
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