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Originally Posted by Chris Townsend

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.

A Sports Extra story in Autosport 29 Mar 1979 p44 says Graha hamilton will be runnign the ex-Wilson B29 in a Cuthbertson Foods-backed team with Jacobson and Wilson in 1979 - so def the same car.

Allen