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Old 10 Mar 2006, 12:36 (Ref:1542278)   #476
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After some digging by Martin Krejci and myself, we've identified that the "Invader" owned by Lou Infante and driven by Jerry Molnar and Frank Jellinek in 1982 and 1983 was a Chevron B29. The engine is described differently aeach race but it might have had a BMW at first, followed by some sort of Hart/Cosworth/Ford.

I have no idea which B29 of course.

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Old 27 Mar 2006, 19:39 (Ref:1562601)   #477
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In order to confirm the history of a car I am trying to rack down the brothers Chris and Mike Oates who were active in the Formula Atlantic races in 1971 and 1972. The apparently lived in Manchester and often raced under the entrant MEM Consultants.

They also owned a Chevron B19 which they sold in 1973 and a Martin BM9 which they raced in the early 70s.

If you have any information that could lead me to them I would greatly appreciate it.

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Old 6 Apr 2006, 13:43 (Ref:1572274)   #478
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Simon Hadfield told me last night that Jelinek is still active in vintage racing. So should be easy to find.

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Frank Jelinek died in a fiery corporate jet crash in San Diego about 2 months ago. At the time he was driving a Shadow in Historic Grand Prix races, many of these guys were competitive racers early on and might be a good source of information about their cars.
http://www.historicgrandprix.com/
Jelinek I believe was the founder of a pharmaceutical company and early on his historic cars were maintained by David Loring's company.
http://www.davidloringracing.com/
I'd appreciate any contact information for Chris Waddell.
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Old 14 Apr 2006, 10:21 (Ref:1581119)   #479
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f/s AW 30.11.81 p. 37 "ASR Chevron B29, Waterford Hills class record holder, ASR champ, legal for u2L Can Am" Arnold Industriess, 31000 Rear West 8mile Rd, Farmington Hills Mich 48024 photo shows yellow #99 with Arnold lettering

Would this be 29.75.03? It's in the right area

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Old 14 Apr 2006, 10:33 (Ref:1581131)   #480
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Major update on B29 histories
Part one!

29.75.01
Sold to Alo Lawler, destroyed in testing accident in February 1975 before it had raced.

29.75.02]
Described in MN report of John Player Atlantic round at Mallory Park, March 9, 1975 as “the Florida test car rebuilt” A/S, reporting the same meeting says it was “based on the original test car taken to the US for customer evaluation”. James Crawley, later in the season, appears in a car that A/S report of the British Grand Prix support race says is ‘built on one of the original prototype tubs’. Crawley only appears after Crawford has switched to the SDC team’s newer car, suggesting that this is the car used early in 1975 by Crawford. Given that the B29.75.01 was destroyed in testing, and that [29.75.03] was the Racing Car show exhibit, this car is speculatively identified as 02. Probably taken back to the USA by Crawley late 1975 and used at the ARRC. Photos of that meeting show Crawley in a B29 with a very similar paint scheme to that on his car at the 1975 British GP support race [photo MN 24.7.75 p.20], and to that carried on Crawford’s car in early 1975. One candidate for the car of Robert Nelkin in 1976.

29.75.03
Early press reports for this car, when in use by the Opert team, say that it was the one exhibited by Chevron at the London Racing Car show. Chassis number given in MN reports of Hockenheim and Nurburgring races of the 1975 European F2 championship for the car of Hector Rebaque, entered by Fred Opert. The MN report of the Pau round gives the chassis number for this car when it was used by Maxime Bochet.
The car was taken back to North America for the Formula Atlantic series there. Sold to Carl Leibich for 1976. A strong candidate for the car of Ray Schuler, raced in SCCA Cen Div 1978 – 80, and perhaps, subsequently the basis of the Arnold Industries ASR car in 1981.

29.75.04
Chassis number noted on Brett Riley’s by Adam Ferrington at John Player Atlantic round at Oulton Park, May 26, 1975. Both AS and MN record that Riley had bought the car from Tom Wheatcroft, so the car entered by Wheatcroft for Richard Morgan in the early part of the 1975 season before the Wheatcroft R18 was ready. [Confirms Chevron build record.] Sold to Ken Bailey for 1976 season, used in Indyatlantic and G8, retained 1977. Chassis number noted by Chris Townsend at Brands Hatch, 29.8.1977. 1978 to Eddie Jordan for Irish Formula Atlantic championship, retained by Marlboro Team Ireland for Vivian Candy to use 1979. MN 27.9.79 p. 2 says P.J. Fallon’s car at Phoenix Park was Candy’s regular car on loan. Sold to David Ward in northern England, 1980. For sale by Ward November 1980 A/S ‘ex Candy, Irish Championship winner’, but probably retained and the car used by Ward in 1981. Used by Terry Cole in Monoposto racing in 1983, then according to Chevron was returned to works in poor condition and broken for spares with the tub being sold to HM Customs and Excise for a training exercise. Spares subsequently rebuilt around a new tub for Chris Sparks in 2004.

29.75.05
Chassis number given in an advertisement for a car described as ‘ex Albert Poon’ on www.race-cars.com, which confirms Chevron build record. Raced by Poon in South-East Asia through to 1976, and then sold to Chong Boon Seng, who kept the car to 1985, then to Leif Norberg [Sweden]. 1989 to Tony Armstrong [Australia]. 1998 to Geoff Weiland [Australia] then to Peter Addison [Australia]. This provenance was confirmed by Peter Addison, and then the current owner in 2005.

29.75.06
Chassis number noted on Alo Lawler’s car by Adam Ferrington at John Player Atlantic round at Oulton Park, May 26, 1975. [Confirms Chevron build record, in which B29.75.01, which was originally consigned to Lawler, but written off in February test session, was replaced by this car.] MN 17.3.77 p. 8 says that the car of John Eastwood for the 1977 season is ex Lawler. AS 27.4.78 pp. 24 – 25 describes the car of Joey Greenan as ‘ex Lawler’. To Ken Fildes 1979, retained 1980. Used by Bob Howlings in 1981 British Atlantic series. Owned 1985/86 by hill-climber Stuart Harte.

29.75.0
Chassis number noted on Patsy McGarrity’s car by Adam Ferrington at John Player Atlantic round at Silverstone, July 19, 1975. [Confirms Chevron build record.] MN 24.2.77 p. 15 says that McGarrity’s car has been sold to Derek Shortall. John Smith has for sale AS: 9.11.78 p. 67 a B29 described as ‘ex Patsy McGarrity’, so it is presumed that this was also his early 1979 car, having bought it from Shortall in 1978. However, in late May 1979 the car is sold to Dave Rackham to use in the British series, see [AS 12.7.79 p. 40]. Rackham damaged the car badly at Oulton Park 30th June, in its second race. It was replaced by an ex-Rosberg Chevron B42 and judging by appeals for parts by Rackham in adverts in A/S throughout the year seems to have remained un-repaired in his workshop for the rest of the season. A strong candidate for the car used by Will Arif in 1981.

29.75.08
Provenance partially worked out with the assistance of current owner Bill Murray. The earliest known owner was Andy Falbo, of Detroit, who used the car in SCCA in 1979/80. The tub carried a scrutineer’s label from Trois Rivieres, 1978. This suggests it was the car used there, but non-started, by the Canadian driver Pierre Gadoury, who also practiced, but did not race at Quebec City. [No other B29 than Gadoury’s appeared at either meeting.] Under a multitude of paint layers the original gel coat was found to be light blue, suggesting that this was an Opert team car in 1975 – which bears out the Chevron build record. If Rebaque regularly used [29.75.03] then this was the car either of Juan Cochesa or Bobby Dennett, but we don’t know which.
A very strong candidate, given its subsequent history in Montréal, for the 1976 car of Marcel Talbot. Now being restored by Bill Murray in UK.

29.75.09
Fred Opert Racing for either Bobby Dennett or Juan Cochesa.

29.75.10
Racing Organisation Corse for Xavier Lapeyre with Chrysler engine for European F2 championship. Retained 1976

29.75.12
Racing Organisation Corse for Christian Ethuin with Chrysler engine for European F2 championship.

29.75.14
Bruce Jensen for Canadian F. Atlantic championship. Retained 1976.
Last seen at Palm Beach at the beginning of 1977, and perhaps sold in Florida.

29.75.15
Chassis number noted on Jim Crawford’s car by Adam Ferrington at John Player Atlantic round at Oulton Park, May 26, 1975. [Confirms Chevron build record.] A/S report for that race says that this is a new car, suggesting that to this point Crawford had used the earlier works car [29.75.2A] which then reappears a week later with James Crawley. MN report of Southern Organs Atlantic round at Silverstone, August 3, 1975 says that Derek Cook 'had an outing in Jim Crawford's usual Chevron as his own car is not yet ready' [MN 7.8.75 p.11]. The car was probably run for the works by SDC rather than owned by them, because A/S and MN report that Richard Morgan runs the ex Crawford car, ‘hired from the works’ beginning with the Southern Organs Atlantic round at Oulton Park, October 4, 1975. Sold to Len Booysen in South Africa for the 1976 season there [A/S 15.2.76 says Booysen’s car is ‘ex Crawford works development chassis’] – however Ian Hebblewhite reports that this was chassis 15, rather than 2A, by then probably in the USA - then passed on to Dorino Trocani, who used the car in 1977 – 78 in South Africa. [Described as ‘ex Booysen’ A/S 16.2.78 p.6]. This local history confirmed by the current owner, Doug Clark.


29.75.16
Chassis number given in an advert for a car on www.race-cars.com in 2004, described as ‘ex Bill Brack’ – which confirms the Chevron build record. The subsequent provenance, confirmed by the car’s logbook, says that it went to Brad Abbott, used in SCCA. For sale by Abbott, Formula, March 1977 p.46 ‘ex Brack’, 2 races in 1976. Sold to John Galson who used the car in SCCA 1977 – 78.
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Old 14 Apr 2006, 10:34 (Ref:1581132)   #481
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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.

29.75.18
Sold to Rapid Movements for Matt Spitzley. Badly damaged early in season and replaced by chassis 25.

29.75.19
Chassis number noted on Stephen Choularton’s car by Adam Ferrington at John Player Atlantic round at Oulton Park, May 26, 1975. [Confirms Chevron build record.] Car sold to Phil Dowsett for the 1976 Indyatlantic series [AS 1.4.76, p. 60]. Car sold to John Ledlie for Atlantic races in Ireland [AS]. Almost certainly the car run by Nelson Todd in 1979 – there are no other cars available in the UK which it could be, unless one of the ROC cars was brought back from France, which seems unlikely for a four year old car.

29.75.20
Sold to Fred Opert for Joe Sposato and used in SCCA and Canadian F. Atlantic. Retained 1976. Sold to John Higgins for 1977 season and used in SCCA races in NE USA. Retained by Higgins until late 1990s.

29.75.21
Sold to Bobby Brown. It is most likely this car that was run by Roger Chalk Racing for Dave Morgan in selected early British F. Atlantic races then shipped to USA. [Brown’s other car, 23, seems to have been delivered later.] The car used by Brown in Canadian F. Atlantic in 1975. Bobby Brown says that one car was returned to the works in early 1976 in p/x for a B34 [email correspondence with Allen Brown], and according to correspondence between Tony Carpanzano and Roger Andreasson of Chevron it seems to have been this car. Sold by Chevron to Lyle Heck who ran the car in SCCA NE region from mid ’76 to mid 1979. Then to Mike Rand, who ran the car once in 1979. Subsequently to Lanny Drevitch [1980 SCCA] and Nick Leonard. For sale by Leonard, OT 22.4.82 p.37 “Rebuilt, fresh BDD, car in New York”, Nick Leonard Racing, Pipe Creek TX 78063. Then sold to Chris Perotti for RCCA Formula American series. Owned by Tony Carpanzano since 1988 and restored to Atlantic spec.


29.75.22
A rarity in the Chevron build record in that a multiple of 11 was built. Sold via Fred Opert, and, based on appearance date, probably the car of Peter Ferguson, which appears at Westwood 1975. Ferguson retained the car until 1977.

29.75.23
Sold to Bobby Brown. Either this or, more probably, chassis 21 run by Roger Chalk Racing for Dave Morgan in selected early British F. Atlantic races then shipped to USA. The car used by Syd Demovsky in Canadian F. Atlantic in 1975, and again in 1976. For sale by Brown, Formula, August 1977, p. 61. Owned by Peter Gates in 1990.


29.75.24
Sold via Fred Opert, probably, on appearance date, the car of Isola Racing. Debuted by Seb Barone at Edmonton, then used later in season by Herman Gugliotta, both entered by Isola.


29.75.25
Chassis number noted on Matt Spitzley’s Rapid Movements car by Adam Ferrington at John Player Atlantic round at Oulton Park, May 26, 1975. [Contradicts Chevron build record, which shows B29.75.18 as consigned to Rapid Movements, and 25 as blank.] This suggests that 25 may be a replacement chassis built up after a testing accident. Spitzley replaced by Gunnar Nilsson towards the end of the 1975 season. Sold to John Gibb in South Africa for the 1976 Atlantic series there. [A/S 22.1.76 p. 5]. In 1976 initially entered by Gibbs’s sponsors for Trevor van Rooyen, but does not appear. Since there are no other available B29s in South Africa later in 1977 [29.75.15 being owned by Trochanni] this was probably the car of Rhodesian driver Geoff Frizell. Still in South Africa.

29.75.26
Consigned via Fred Opert and described as ‘SCCA California’ on build sheet. Opert sold a car to San Francisco driver Gordon Strom, who retained the car into 1977. This car was involved in a violent accident at Laguna Seca in an SCCA race in which Strom was critically injured. It seems possible that 26 was Strom’s car, but it may, speculatively, have been used first by Jean-Pierre Jarier at Trois Rivieres in 1975, where Jarier is described as having a new car. [There is, seemingly, no other car available unless one was built hors series, and there is no record of Strom using a B29 before early 1976.] Owned by Peter Gates in 1990.

29.75.27
To Gustav Hoeker for Harald Ertl in European F2 championship. 1976 Helmut Bross in early F2 races, then run by Bross for Manfred Schurti.

29.75.28
To Opert: on the basis of appearance date most likely the car for Hugh Cree, who retained it to at least 1977. f/s Formula, 1977.

29.75.29
Chassis number given in advertisement for Chevron B29 by Jeremy Rossiter in A/S 24.6.76 p. 66, so presumably the chassis used by him throughout 1976. This car is described by A/S 1.4.76 p.7 as ‘ex Cook’ with a photo. MN report for Southern Organs Atlantic round at Snetterton August 10, 1975 says that Derek Cook’s B29 is being debuted, so presumably this car was Cook’s late season chassis in 1975. [Confirming the Chevron build record.] The car remained un-raced in early 1977, when Rossiter drove in FF2000 and was sold to John Pollock to use in the latter stages of the Irish Atlantic series. [A/S] A/S 12.1.78 p. 41 says that the Pollock car has been sold to Tom O’Leary, so O’Leary’s car throughout the 1978 Irish season, and presumably the car used occasionally by him in 1979.

29.75.30
Observed by Dave McKinney on Dave Oxton’s car at Bay Park, Jan 2, 1977 and published NZMA 28.1.77 p.5. Described by Motoring News as “the ex Redman Tasman car” 10.2.77 p.7. This indicates it is the car taken by Brian Redman to the 1975-6 Tasman series, with a 2.0 BMW engine, which was itself a works car from the European F2 series of 1975, raced by Hans Binder at Vallelunga. [Confirmed in Chevron’s build record, though MN reports describe this car as chassis number 31, which does not appear in the B29 build record.] The car stayed in New Zealand and was purchased by Oxton for the Peter Stuyvesant series. Oxton sold the car to Eric Morgan for the 1977-78 Union Travel Gold Star Series and subsequent races in New Zealand. Chassis number noted on Morgan’s car by McKinney at Bay Park, Jan 2, 1978, and published NZMA 20.1.78 p. 3. Retained by Morgan to end 1981, then sold to Chris Read. [NZMA]. Then via Brendan Jones [1985] to Peter Whelan.

I've now got period photos of virtually all cars in Canada and South Africa.
I don't have a single photo of a British B29 to accompany these records!

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Old 14 Apr 2006, 10:34 (Ref:1581133)   #482
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Thanks , could be , but nobody in the USA that we have contacted has replied as yet , why am I not surprised .
Different subject , check email.
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I have now split the B29 posts off and put them in the chassis archive here:-

http://tentenths.com/forum/showthread.php?t=82095

Since so much of this thread is not about B29s, I'm amending the title!
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Major update on B29 histories
Part one!

29.75.06
Chassis number noted on Alo Lawler’s car by Adam Ferrington at John Player Atlantic round at Oulton Park, May 26, 1975. [Confirms Chevron build record, in which B29.75.01, which was originally consigned to Lawler, but written off in February test session, was replaced by this car.] MN 17.3.77 p. 8 says that the car of John Eastwood for the 1977 season is ex Lawler. AS 27.4.78 pp. 24 – 25 describes the car of Joey Greenan as ‘ex Lawler’. To Ken Fildes 1979, retained 1980. Used by Bob Howlings in 1981 British Atlantic series. Owned 1985/86 by hill-climber Stuart Harte.
29-75-06 was still being used by Stuart Harte in 1987. I know it isn't much but it does stretch the coverage a little.

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