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Originally Posted by davyboy
A gaggle of Capris [is that the correct collective description  ] that had been professionally built in the UK were run by Derek Shortall, Brian Tuite and Eddie Regan among others in the early 1980s in Ireland. I believe they may have been built by CC or Marshall... Tuite's was sponsored by BASF at one point, with intricate concentric circles as its livery... another was sponsored by Sanyo IIRC. May help to fill in one or two gaps in the bloodlines of the CC cars [if they were indeed CC machines]. |
Have a sneakling suspicion that one of those was Gerry Marshall's old Triplex prodsaloon. The car is now run by Skid Scarborough in Classic Grp 1.
AFAIK these were all prodsaloons and not ex BTCC cars. Roger Dowson and Richard Asquith built quite a few prodsaloons in the early 80's.