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Old 13 Mar 2006, 20:43 (Ref:1547486)   #19
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Barry Sheene's Car

"All I can add is that whatever the car is, it won't be the Barry Sheene one. That one was left bent banana-shaped after an incident at Thruxton which Barry was frankly lucky to get out of. There was very, very little left of it after it took (I think) an RS1600i Escort hard in the door."

No, my car was never driven by Barry. As far as I am aware, my car is the first one. It was raced by Win Percy, Tony Dron and Gordon Spice at various times in England from early 83 till about Jun 84. It was then replaced by the second car, which is the one that Win Percy did well in during the latter half of 84, and which became Barry's car for 85. This is the car you are refering to I believe. This car was written off, and was replaced by another which Barry, in his biography, states they never sorted out, and he lost interest in it. I believe this car may still exist, I heard rumours of it being up in Scotland many years ago. So at least 3 circuit racing cars from Hughes, but without proper documentation it is all hard to verify. And I don't know if the last car ended up as one of the rally cars either. I wouldn't have thought they would have built any more that the 3 for circuit racing, as 1985/6 and the advent of the turbo cars made them redundant.

John
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