CC Racing Developments Group 1 Ford Capri Mk III's

[chunterer]

As a life long racing Capri fan, I would like to discuss the most successful (arguably) series of Mk3 Capris built for competition, in numbers at least.

CC Racing (latterly CC Motorsport) run by Dave Cook and the late Pete Clark built and ran a lot of the Capris for customers that competed in British and European Grp 1 touring car racing from 1977-82, cars which then went onto various club racing series like Mod saloons in the UK.

There is some debate as to how many were actually built and I would like to identify how many are actually still in existence and their chassis numbers if possible.

Dave Cook believes around 25 were originally built (although the last car is thought to be number 20.) The later ones being sold to Belgium and France possibly off the back of their Spa 24 hours successes.

Some are still competing today:
David Thomas has an ex Gordon Spice CC car that Brian Chatfield may have later owned.
Ric Wood runs a modified 4 litre car, (not sure of origins)
There is an ex Vince Woodman CC Esso car CC20, that Brian Chatfield definitely later owned that was restored by Ric Wood but the current owner is not currently competing it.
Stuart Graham's Faberge car which Terry Nicholls later ran as a modified Gartrac GA 3.4 car in Thundersaloons. This is either in a museum somewhere back in original black green and red colours, or is in bits awaiting a strip down and rebuild (one of them must be right!!)
There is also an ex Jeff Allam shell somewhere which was latterly run in modsaloons and northern sports saloons.

There was also Group A BMWs and a Group C Lamborghini project (see separate thread) that never really got going so there's plenty to discuss!

So can we start to unravel what else is still out there and the respective histories - hope this sparks off a lot of memories and interesting histories!