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6 Oct 2009, 13:00 (Ref:2555166) | #276 | |
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ok can u advise name car etc will try tracing thru some of my west country hillclimbers who contribute to my pension fund now n then !
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7 Oct 2009, 06:47 (Ref:2555630) | #277 | ||
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David Cuff was the one competing this year (Force HC Suzuki) and listed in the programme as from Frome. A certain S W would have been useful in this context.
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8 Oct 2009, 11:51 (Ref:2556567) | #278 | ||
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Agree chaps, but what about Robin Smith's FAt 792?
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2 May 2010, 14:45 (Ref:2683223) | #279 | ||
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march pix.....
A fair number of the cars discussed here can be found in my Formula Atlantic set....
http://www.flickr.com/photos/4668198...7623186773769/ I started scanning my images in Jan of this year and still have a lot to get through. There will be more Atlantic images uploaded in the future. |
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30 Jan 2011, 19:33 (Ref:2822869) | #280 | ||
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update....
This thread showed up in my flickr stats today, so I checked it and found I did add more Atlantic pics to my set since the post above. A fair number of the cars discussed above were added.
My Atlantic set...... http://www.flickr.com/photos/4668198...7623186773769/ All of my sets...... http://www.flickr.com/photos/46681980@N03/sets/ |
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18 Mar 2011, 22:39 (Ref:2848528) | #281 | |
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Hi folks. First post here. There seems to be some lively discussion surrounding the 75B cars and I have enjoyed the reading. My uncle raced in the FA series from 1975 through 1980 or 1981 and he is mentioned here a few times - Cliff Hansen. I was especially interested in this thread as I am on the hunt for Cliff's old race cars 75B, 76B, 77B, 78B, and 79B. Two of your senior members have graciously offered to help me do just that. Thank you gents!
Worldwide enthusiast discussion forums are fantastic sources of information! Heres to hoping I am successful! Marc S., I have prints of Cliff racing back then that I have had for years. I bet they are from your camera lens. |
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21 Apr 2011, 21:28 (Ref:2867800) | #282 | |
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75B-10
I'm the proud owner of chassis 75B-10, the ex Bertil Roos car and the one shown on P4 of the flickr set in the Scweppes livery.
Would be interested if anyone can shed some light on its history before 2009. |
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22 Apr 2011, 03:09 (Ref:2867925) | #283 | ||
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Bertil's school is still in business so you can probably get in touch with him directly. He's an amusing fellow and can probably tell a story or two about the car too.
http://www.racenow.com/home.htm These are the snaps I have of the car on flickr...... http://www.flickr.com/photos/4668198...57623186773769 http://www.flickr.com/photos/4668198...7623186773769/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/4668198...7623186773769/ |
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18 Feb 2012, 02:31 (Ref:3027410) | #284 | ||
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new additions.....
Had a request for snaps of Price Cobb in his 76B so there's roughly three dozen new additions at the bottom of my Atlantic set...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/4668198...7623186773769/ |
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29 Feb 2012, 23:42 (Ref:3033335) | #285 | ||
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March 76B-16
I'm looking for any history I can find on a March 76B, chassis# 16.
Thank you in advance for any help you can provide. |
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1 Mar 2012, 22:09 (Ref:3033756) | #286 | ||
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10 May 2012, 21:30 (Ref:3072428) | #287 | |
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Not so long ago I saw a photo in an ad in a magazine for a Formula Atlantic. Possibly a March 76B? in blue and white colors with Elf and First National City sponsorship, somewhat like the 1978 F1 Tyrrell 008. Looked kinda nice. Anyone know who raced this car back in the day?
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3 Jul 2012, 03:48 (Ref:3101147) | #288 | |||
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I owned the ex-Riley/Donovan 77B for a short time. I swapped it for a Reynard Formula Holden with a chap who lived in NZ. The March was fitted with a YBM Cosworth. I drove it at King Edward Park at Newcastle at one meeting and, from memory, broke the under 2 litre class record (Tom Donovan later took this with his kart-based device much to his delight). It was Tom who confirmed that this car was formerly his. I fitted a "cooking" Pinto motor and ran the March in my racing drivers school at Wakefield Park on one occasion. The car was then sold to Brian Miller's brother. The YBM went into the March 77B numbered C2 which was an ex-James King tub Stuyvesant series spare which had been refurbished by Garry Clare for Ian Grob. It was then owned by Paul Hamilton and Max Preen and another chap in Australia. Darren Baker and I ran it in the NSW and Australian Hillclimb Championships circa 2000-2002. We installed a Lysholm screw supercharger and Motec ECU. It made a lot of noise but was rather too heavy. The chassis had been damaged by Max Preen at Bathurst Hillcllimb when the March had been fitted with a Pinto 2 litre SOHC. After I sold the car to a fellow in Queensland the car was crashed and I understand that it has been re-tubbed, this time at the correct length and fitted with a BDA. |
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29 Sep 2012, 20:19 (Ref:3143888) | #289 | ||
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Please could someone tell me the difference between the 76B and 77B.
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30 Jun 2013, 20:30 (Ref:3272090) | #290 | ||
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Howard Rose's '76B', anyone know anything?
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5 Oct 2013, 00:08 (Ref:3312973) | #291 | ||
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Buying chassis 75B-3 soon. Tub only along with 722-38 rotary powered CanAm car. Written off at Olympia Airport (Washington State) 1986.
Any info available on this? Lawrence |
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5 Oct 2013, 21:31 (Ref:3313280) | #292 | |||
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75B-3 is "interesting". Do you know who the person was who wrote it off at Olympia, and doing what? (As I don't think there were any races there in '86) Chris |
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6 Oct 2013, 14:33 (Ref:3313553) | #293 | ||
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Lawrence, it's important to secure any SCCA log books on the 722 and the 75B. I think I know about the 722 but its history before 1981, unless Chris knows different, is still unknown. The vendor should have the SCCA log book for it somewhere and that will tell you much more. Bug him for that - it's really important.
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17 Dec 2013, 02:08 (Ref:3344826) | #294 | ||
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-I'll have to get after him pretty soon, we're thinking of getting these chassis in January and would want all this stuff...
Let you know what I can and what he has as far as log books and race records. -I raced at "Oly" in 89' (and maybe the year before as well), they had races there several years prior to that so it's possible he was there. The race was "Dueling Race Cars at Oly 198?" presented by Team Continental of Portland, Oregon. -I've seen both data plates and the numbers are correct, or at least as good as my memory The -38 is the number on the 722, corrected number on other tub is 74B-3... -Driver was Bill Hill, racing in ASR I suppose as ICSCC has no CanAm classification. His story was he hit a dirt embankment at over 100 straight on, fractured both his neck and back, kinked the tub in the mid-section, smashed everything forward of the front bulkhead flat against it. Not pretty... Thanks for your help, Lawrence |
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17 Dec 2013, 02:16 (Ref:3344831) | #295 | ||
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17 Dec 2013, 10:40 (Ref:3344932) | #296 | ||
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Bill's crash in the "Marzda" or "Banana Crate" was at the SCCA Regional (NW Region) at Olympia Airport in September 1986. The history of 722-38 before Bill bought it from Chuck Willis in 1981 is a bit of a mystery and the SCCA log book could clear that up. Bill was led to believe that it had been raced by Ron Dykes and by Kevin Cogan but that must have been in as-yet undiscovered SCCA Nationals and Regionals as neither appeared in a 722 in Pro racing. One possibility is that it was the Wilbur Bunce team's "75B" as that was driven by Dykes and the car was clearly older than its 75B bodywork.
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17 Dec 2013, 22:05 (Ref:3345181) | #297 | ||
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I've sent an email to Bill about the log books so should know more soon.
Found this today: http://www.racingsportscars.com/make/photo/Marzda.html |
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11 Feb 2018, 12:22 (Ref:3800483) | #298 | ||
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Excuse me, if it's an off topic, but are there any books or magazines (issues) with some drawings, detailed pictures of chassis, suspensions and engines of Marches raced in F-Atlantic 1974-1978?
Please, PM me, if there're any - I've searched at ebay and found nothing, unfortunately. Need this info badly. Thanks in advance! |
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12 Jul 2019, 18:21 (Ref:3917207) | #299 | ||
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Anyone still around here?
Any way of tying a chassis (under the roll hoop) number to an original car identity for a 75B? |
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12 Jul 2019, 22:22 (Ref:3917244) | #300 | ||
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