Name the driver

[PhergAthor]

Looking for help to name this driver:

[rx-guru]

The ads and colours of that 911 point to John Greasley, but for this pic I’m not 100% certain if Greasley is the pictured driver…

[chunder]

Didnt someone hire a Greasley spec car for teh GP one year? That look like Chessons though!! Maybe a hire car when Johnw as running the Turbo?

[furby]

John clark also had those colours for a time, i think it may be him.

[richp175]

morning gents, i would go with it being a Greasley car definitely. the number may well indicate that its Colin Howard behind the wheel. in the dim grey depths of my memory i seem to recall him running a Porsche. not 100% sure though

[WJM]

As for context, I think this is in Valkenswaard?

[rx-guru]

Originally Posted by WJM

As for context, I think this is in Valkenswaard?

At least the 911 has a Bose Hifi starting number, as used for many a year at Valkenswaard.

[Barrie]

John Clark, I think 1983, Greasley always ran number 123, Rolf Nilsson used Greasleys 4x4 bi-turbo 935 in 1984 GP if I remember rightly Chunder.

[Stephen H]

Originally Posted by Barrie

John Clark, I think 1983, Greasley always ran number 123, Rolf Nilsson used Greasleys 4x4 bi-turbo 935 in 1984 GP if I remember rightly Chunder.

Quite right, the car went of the line, missed the turning for tumbledown and coasted to a halt at the bottom of paddock hill bend....................

[GM!]

Sorry folks, your all way off the mark.

The number 69 was used by Colin Richards. I didn't think it would be Colin Howard as I used to see Colin a lot and never remember him having a Porsche, so I have just rung him. Colin H confirms it's Richards, he built the car himself so it's not from the Greasley stable, and the reason it has a white bonnet is because at some point Howard had been leading Richards coming off Chessons and in the chalk dust Richards enbedded the front of the Porsche in the door of Howards Escort - something Colin H remembers well! To make matters worse, as they sorted themselves out and still going at speed the first thing Richards sees as they emerge from the dust and hit the tarmac is the banking apporaching at a high rate of knots - something Colin R remembers well!

[rx-guru]

Bill, the rear wheel-arch is from a Greasley Porsche and the Dage sticker shows some cooperation anyway. Therefore, I think that 911 had at least some Greasley stuff used.
Do I remember correctly that Colin Richards went to Florida later, before Jeeta and John Smith did so?

[rx-guru]

Originally Posted by Barrie

Rolf Nilsson used Greasleys 4x4 bi-turbo 935 in 1984 GP if I remember rightly Chunder.

And in February 1985 Rolf "Myggan" Nilsson together with Paris-Dakar winner René Metge used Greasley’s 4WD Porsche to do the 24h of Chamonix ice race in France.

[richp175]

apologies for being slightly misleading gents. unfortunately due to variuos moves and a fair bit of time spent away from RX a lot of my reference material has gone missing and the 'old grey matter' aint what it used to be. one thing i do remember though is seeing JG taking off like a scalded cat at Wimbledon during a RX vs Super Rods team event, on the shale. the porsche got away a hell of a lot better than the capris that he was up against. the capris used to run there on a fairly regular basis.

didnt J Clark usually run in the green and yellow of Weatons? thats all i remember he running in - maybe wrong - again ha ha ha

[GM!]

Originally Posted by rx-guru

Bill, the rear wheel-arch is from a Greasley Porsche and the Dage sticker shows some cooperation anyway. Therefore, I think that 911 had at least some Greasley stuff used.
Do I remember correctly that Colin Richards went to Florida later, before Jeeta and John Smith did so?

Yes, it does look very Greasleyish so it may well have started life as a Dage car but CH insisted that Richards had built the car himself. Maybe he aquired the shell from JG and prepared the rest himself?

I think your are right about CR going to Florida at some point - rings a bell somewhere.

[GM!]

Originally Posted by richp175

apologies for being slightly misleading gents. unfortunately due to variuos moves and a fair bit of time spent away from RX a lot of my reference material has gone missing and the 'old grey matter' aint what it used to be. one thing i do remember though is seeing JG taking off like a scalded cat at Wimbledon during a RX vs Super Rods team event, on the shale. the porsche got away a hell of a lot better than the capris that he was up against. the capris used to run there on a fairly regular basis.

didnt J Clark usually run in the green and yellow of Weatons? thats all i remember he running in - maybe wrong - again ha ha ha

Yes, JC ran in the Weatons colours. I was lucky enough to be invited to try out his Porsche at Brafield Stadium. It was one of the first to be turbocharged in British rallycross and proved quite a handful on the mud - for me anyway! John had just taken over running the oval circuit and was busy adding an extension to it so they could run rallycross events. Page 104 of my Drive It! book has a good photo of the car taken that day - me driving, sorry John!

[Barrie]

[chunder]

Must be Mr Greasley??

[struggie]

Originally Posted by GM!

Sorry folks, your all way off the mark.

The number 69 was used by Colin Richards. I didn't think it would be Colin Howard as I used to see Colin a lot and never remember him having a Porsche, so I have just rung him. Colin H confirms it's Richards, he built the car himself so it's not from the Greasley stable, and the reason it has a white bonnet is because at some point Howard had been leading Richards coming off Chessons and in the chalk dust Richards enbedded the front of the Porsche in the door of Howards Escort - something Colin H remembers well! To make matters worse, as they sorted themselves out and still going at speed the first thing Richards sees as they emerge from the dust and hit the tarmac is the banking apporaching at a high rate of knots - something Colin R remembers well!

Just poking around on here and yes its Colin richards i did a lot of the finishing work brakes suspension prop shaft for the front diff, internal paneling At my house and later too the car to brands for a test/press day

[rx-guru]

Struggie, was the front diff of this 911 also an LSD from a BMW 2002? If so, was it mounted upside down?

BTW, I still have the feeling the pic was taken at the 'Daytonabocht' to 'Tarzanbocht' section of the Eurocircuit at Valkenswaard.

[struggie]

Originally Posted by rx-guru

Struggie, was the front diff of this 911 also an LSD from a BMW 2002? If so, was it mounted upside down?

BTW, I still have the feeling the pic was taken at the 'Daytonabocht' to 'Tarzanbocht' section of the Eurocircuit at Valkenswaard.

The picture was at the bottom of hairy hill at Lydden (?) or coming off of the top circuit on to the bottom straight at brands,
i believe the diff was from a renault along with the brakes.The drive from the rear gearbox was just a direct take off the front on the box (EG another pinion(done by Quaife i believe)

[schanche]

Just watched a video with John Clark in no70 Porsche exactly same colour at Lydden 82 as Colin Richards

[struggie]

Colin Richards is alive and well living in the states. Racing jet skis and doing well at it winning a couple of age group championships.I'm in contact with him most weeks via the net and he's OK.

[rx-guru]

IIRC John & Jeeta told me some years ago that he lives in Florida too…

[struggie]

John Smith and jeeta indeed went to florida and promptly dissapeared (as far as I am aware). 7-8 years ago when I was an instructor at the Brands hatch rally school his Son john was a client and he said he hadent heard from him for years !

[rx-guru]

John and Jeeta live in Kissimmee, just a stone throw away from Disney World Florida.

They came sometimes to Germany to visit us, but for the last couple of years I did not see them anymore.

However, found Jeeta (as well as their daughter Dolly, who lives in Chicago now) back via Facebook about half a year ago:

http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/...?id=1647392490

http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/dolly.singhabraham