[Chris Townsend]

Part Two!
29.75.17
Chassis number given in MN for the car of Peter Williams at the 1975 European F2 championship round at Thruxton. [Confirms Chevron build record.] The car was badly damaged in that race when Williams, being lapped, spun at the chicane and was collected by several of the front runners. However, rebuilt in less than two weeks. Hardly used by Williams after that, however. The car loaned by Williams to Jim Crawford for early races in the 1976 Indyatlantic series – although it is sometimes then described as a B34. Advertised for sale AS 15.4.76 p. 62 as ‘only three races old’ which confirms Williams’s limited appearances with this car in 1975. The car is sold mid season 1976 to Martin Birrane who uses it in both Atlantic and the ShellSport G8 series. MN 20.1.77. p. 20 reports that Birrane 'took the ex-Crawford B29 to 6th place at Brands'. [As Crawford’s two 1975 cars are by this time in South Africa and the USA, this has to refer to chassis 17.] Birrane retains the car through 1977. In 1978 the car is sold to Laurence Jacobsen who runs it for Bryce Wilson in Formula Libre and Donington Triple Crown Atlantic races. AS 27.4.78 pp. 24 – 25 says Wilson’s car is ex Peter Williams/Martin Birrane 16.3.78 p. 29. Jacobsen has the car for sale AS 2.11.78 p. 56, but appears in a B29 himself in 1979, as does Wilson, suggesting that the car was retained. It seems as though this chassis subsequently became the basis for Eric Munnoch’s super-saloon in Scotland in the mid 1980s.

29.75.18
Sold to Rapid Movements for Matt Spitzley. Badly damaged early in season and replaced by chassis 25.

29.75.19
Chassis number noted on Stephen Choularton’s car by Adam Ferrington at John Player Atlantic round at Oulton Park, May 26, 1975. [Confirms Chevron build record.] Car sold to Phil Dowsett for the 1976 Indyatlantic series [AS 1.4.76, p. 60]. Car sold to John Ledlie for Atlantic races in Ireland [AS]. Almost certainly the car run by Nelson Todd in 1979 – there are no other cars available in the UK which it could be, unless one of the ROC cars was brought back from France, which seems unlikely for a four year old car.

29.75.20
Sold to Fred Opert for Joe Sposato and used in SCCA and Canadian F. Atlantic. Retained 1976. Sold to John Higgins for 1977 season and used in SCCA races in NE USA. Retained by Higgins until late 1990s.

29.75.21
Sold to Bobby Brown. It is most likely this car that was run by Roger Chalk Racing for Dave Morgan in selected early British F. Atlantic races then shipped to USA. [Brown’s other car, 23, seems to have been delivered later.] The car used by Brown in Canadian F. Atlantic in 1975. Bobby Brown says that one car was returned to the works in early 1976 in p/x for a B34 [email correspondence with Allen Brown], and according to correspondence between Tony Carpanzano and Roger Andreasson of Chevron it seems to have been this car. Sold by Chevron to Lyle Heck who ran the car in SCCA NE region from mid ’76 to mid 1979. Then to Mike Rand, who ran the car once in 1979. Subsequently to Lanny Drevitch [1980 SCCA] and Nick Leonard. For sale by Leonard, OT 22.4.82 p.37 “Rebuilt, fresh BDD, car in New York”, Nick Leonard Racing, Pipe Creek TX 78063. Then sold to Chris Perotti for RCCA Formula American series. Owned by Tony Carpanzano since 1988 and restored to Atlantic spec.


29.75.22
A rarity in the Chevron build record in that a multiple of 11 was built. Sold via Fred Opert, and, based on appearance date, probably the car of Peter Ferguson, which appears at Westwood 1975. Ferguson retained the car until 1977.

29.75.23
Sold to Bobby Brown. Either this or, more probably, chassis 21 run by Roger Chalk Racing for Dave Morgan in selected early British F. Atlantic races then shipped to USA. The car used by Syd Demovsky in Canadian F. Atlantic in 1975, and again in 1976. For sale by Brown, Formula, August 1977, p. 61. Owned by Peter Gates in 1990.


29.75.24
Sold via Fred Opert, probably, on appearance date, the car of Isola Racing. Debuted by Seb Barone at Edmonton, then used later in season by Herman Gugliotta, both entered by Isola.


29.75.25
Chassis number noted on Matt Spitzley’s Rapid Movements car by Adam Ferrington at John Player Atlantic round at Oulton Park, May 26, 1975. [Contradicts Chevron build record, which shows B29.75.18 as consigned to Rapid Movements, and 25 as blank.] This suggests that 25 may be a replacement chassis built up after a testing accident. Spitzley replaced by Gunnar Nilsson towards the end of the 1975 season. Sold to John Gibb in South Africa for the 1976 Atlantic series there. [A/S 22.1.76 p. 5]. In 1976 initially entered by Gibbs’s sponsors for Trevor van Rooyen, but does not appear. Since there are no other available B29s in South Africa later in 1977 [29.75.15 being owned by Trochanni] this was probably the car of Rhodesian driver Geoff Frizell. Still in South Africa.

29.75.26
Consigned via Fred Opert and described as ‘SCCA California’ on build sheet. Opert sold a car to San Francisco driver Gordon Strom, who retained the car into 1977. This car was involved in a violent accident at Laguna Seca in an SCCA race in which Strom was critically injured. It seems possible that 26 was Strom’s car, but it may, speculatively, have been used first by Jean-Pierre Jarier at Trois Rivieres in 1975, where Jarier is described as having a new car. [There is, seemingly, no other car available unless one was built hors series, and there is no record of Strom using a B29 before early 1976.] Owned by Peter Gates in 1990.

29.75.27
To Gustav Hoeker for Harald Ertl in European F2 championship. 1976 Helmut Bross in early F2 races, then run by Bross for Manfred Schurti.

29.75.28
To Opert: on the basis of appearance date most likely the car for Hugh Cree, who retained it to at least 1977. f/s Formula, 1977.

29.75.29
Chassis number given in advertisement for Chevron B29 by Jeremy Rossiter in A/S 24.6.76 p. 66, so presumably the chassis used by him throughout 1976. This car is described by A/S 1.4.76 p.7 as ‘ex Cook’ with a photo. MN report for Southern Organs Atlantic round at Snetterton August 10, 1975 says that Derek Cook’s B29 is being debuted, so presumably this car was Cook’s late season chassis in 1975. [Confirming the Chevron build record.] The car remained un-raced in early 1977, when Rossiter drove in FF2000 and was sold to John Pollock to use in the latter stages of the Irish Atlantic series. [A/S] A/S 12.1.78 p. 41 says that the Pollock car has been sold to Tom O’Leary, so O’Leary’s car throughout the 1978 Irish season, and presumably the car used occasionally by him in 1979.

29.75.30
Observed by Dave McKinney on Dave Oxton’s car at Bay Park, Jan 2, 1977 and published NZMA 28.1.77 p.5. Described by Motoring News as “the ex Redman Tasman car” 10.2.77 p.7. This indicates it is the car taken by Brian Redman to the 1975-6 Tasman series, with a 2.0 BMW engine, which was itself a works car from the European F2 series of 1975, raced by Hans Binder at Vallelunga. [Confirmed in Chevron’s build record, though MN reports describe this car as chassis number 31, which does not appear in the B29 build record.] The car stayed in New Zealand and was purchased by Oxton for the Peter Stuyvesant series. Oxton sold the car to Eric Morgan for the 1977-78 Union Travel Gold Star Series and subsequent races in New Zealand. Chassis number noted on Morgan’s car by McKinney at Bay Park, Jan 2, 1978, and published NZMA 20.1.78 p. 3. Retained by Morgan to end 1981, then sold to Chris Read. [NZMA]. Then via Brendan Jones [1985] to Peter Whelan.

I've now got period photos of virtually all cars in Canada and South Africa.
I don't have a single photo of a British B29 to accompany these records!

Chris