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in the 60`s there where 2 types of saloon cars racing
Group 2 and later Group 5 with more mods than Gp 2
In club racing the previous years cars would often race in a sollon car race
come the 70`2 Group 2 was strong with factory supported teams group 1 crept in for standard road spec cars and club sloons allowed more modified cars
Its these cars that evloved into the sepcail saloon format where the wheelbase had to be +/_1 inch from standard but retain the silhouette shape
As time went buy lighter panels where added and wider arches covered wider wheels & engine transplants took place ie Imp engines into Minis -V8 into lotus cortinas etc
by the mid 70`s the cars had evolved with space frame front or rear ends attached to the steel shell and the next step was a full space frame car covered with glassfibre replica shell and some cars had formula car suspension wishbone/uprights added
it wasnt long before the super saloon came along these where the big engined cars and some had sports car chassis with glass bodies fitted or heavily modified steel shell cars with 4-8 litre v8 fitted ( see super saloon thread)
As time went by the special saloon format merged with the modsports to create the Donington GT series in the 1980`s and soon we had single seater chassis with europa & esprit- AC3000 lancia stratos/037 BMW M1 bodies fitted over F2 F5000 cars
we also had special chassis made for this series By Maguire for some body shapes ie Mini Imp skoda and lotus esprit
Some of the racers with the steel chassis cars wanted to run with their own type of production based car chassis and the Modified sloons came about and Thundersoloons was a another series for large engines saloon cars
Come the 1990s most of these series dwindled away
Some of the cars are now "classic" cars like Baby Bertha and do demo runs at tracks
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