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John, you are absolutely correct. The Griffiths Formula (named after Guy Griffiths) was devised by the Frazer Nash Car Club in 1966. It was to preserve the sports racing cars of the 1950s which the VSCC ironically didn't want to bring under their wing. The mantle was taken on by the newly formed HSCC which in those days wasn't involved in race organisation but was formed to preserve and register the cars
I think races for the Griffiths Formula were fairly few and far between and it was the AMOC who perhaps did more than most to promote it. My father put up a trophy for Griffiths Formula cars in 1967 in memory of his late brother who loved the cars of that era. Happily the right car, an Aston DBR1 won the first running of the race before the Jaguars took a strangehold.
JCB came along in 1970 and organised a championship for both racing and sports cars of the 1950s which we all thought was very odd at the time but proved to be very successful.
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