Chevron B48

Tony C · 8 May 2005, 12:21 (Ref:1295635)

Hi Guys and girls

I am trying to track the history of each of the Chevron B48's in particular chassis number 06. Would like to know who drove them when, and the results.

thanks

toshjaky@hotmail.com

David McKinney · 8 May 2005, 13:01 (Ref:1295674)

You have of course seen this:
http://tentenths.com/forum/showthrea...ht=chevron+b48

Tony C · 9 May 2005, 06:36 (Ref:1296279)

Thanks David

I was aware of that thread but there appears to be no definate history on chassis 06.

I had been told that it was used at one stage by Rahal but is unconfirmed.

I want to check it out because my brother has owned the car for probably fifteen years and is now wanting to sell it. It would be good to know the history.

Chris Townsend · 9 May 2005, 09:05 (Ref:1296378)

Tony

The known Rahal cars were chassis 1 and 5.
Chassis 6 is something of a gap: it may have been a Docking Spitzley car, may have been the original de Dryver car, but that begs the question as to why he then got chassis 10, or might indeed have been a third car for the works F2 effort.

Three questions that might help solve the provenance:
What colour is the original gel coat on the bodywork?
Who is the earliest owner you know, and where were they?
Any scrutineer's stickers anywhere?

Chris

Dan Rear · 9 May 2005, 11:07 (Ref:1296465)

Chris, I thought we'd agreed -06 was the RAM car, used once for Bernard de D, and once for Luyendijk. Seems to have disappeared then, perhaps it went downunder. Where do you get chassis 10 from for de Dryver ?

Steve Wilkinson · 12 May 2005, 10:11 (Ref:1299041)

Steve Jewell hillclimbed and sprinted a B48 from 1988 onwards. He actually owned two chassis: a) the ex-Huub Rothengatter car, and b) the ex-Bobby Rahal car. He actually restored the Rothengatter car to the same stae Huub drove it in. Meanwhile the Rahal car had the sidepods removed and was painted a nice shade of blue.
Can anyone furnish the chassis number of the ex-Rahal car that Jewell drove?

THANKS

Dan Rear · 12 May 2005, 11:14 (Ref:1299073)

Steve, at least 1 of the Huub cars, -03 and -07 we think, is apparently still downunder. The Rahal cars were -01 and -05. Both came to England in 1980, with Warren Booth and Roy Baker for Aurora. The 3rd ex works car, -08, was bused by Gaillard, Devaney, Jordan in 79, and in 80 went to Brain Robinson. He later built it into an Esprit GT car.

Which ones Jewell had I don't know, anything in 'Uphill Racers' ? Also are you sure Jewell's were B48s, might they have been a B49, or even B47???

Steve Wilkinson · 12 May 2005, 15:03 (Ref:1299231)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dan Rear

Steve, at least 1 of the Huub cars, -03 and -07 we think, is apparently still downunder. The Rahal cars were -01 and -05. Both came to England in 1980, with Warren Booth and Roy Baker for Aurora. The 3rd ex works car, -08, was bused by Gaillard, Devaney, Jordan in 79, and in 80 went to Brain Robinson. He later built it into an Esprit GT car.

Which ones Jewell had I don't know, anything in 'Uphill Racers' ? Also are you sure Jewell's were B48s, might they have been a B49, or even B47???

Steve Jewell's cars were both B48s - he went on to race in the Derek Bell series with the Rahal car. They came with the Rothengatter and Rahal bodywork. I was able to provide photos of the two drivers at Thruxton (Easter Monday). The idea was that Steve could restore both cars to the state they had appeared in with Rothengatter and Rahal aboard. However having done this with Rothengatter's car he adapted the Rahal car to speed event standards (no sidepods, small radiator, etc).

I'll email a contact who might be able to get me in touch with either Steve or his mechanic!

David McKinney · 12 May 2005, 23:42 (Ref:1299534)

Jewell has (or had) 07 and 08

Steve Wilkinson · 13 May 2005, 10:25 (Ref:1299777)

Quote:

Originally Posted by David McKinney

Jewell has (or had) 07 and 08

According to my contact Steve Jewell still has at least one Chevron (I suspect the ex-Rahal car). I am now awaiting a response to an email sent to Steve's compnay - so fingers crossed.

Dan Rear · 14 Jul 2005, 16:29 (Ref:1355551)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Steve Wilkinson

According to my contact Steve Jewell still has at least one Chevron (I suspect the ex-Rahal car). I am now awaiting a response to an email sent to Steve's compnay - so fingers crossed.

Did you get anywhere with this Steve ? If Jewell still has 07 & 08, I wonder which were the 2 that Alain de Wagter had/had. At least one was reputedly ex-Huub. Is this the same car ?

Steve Wilkinson · 14 Jul 2005, 18:16 (Ref:1355606)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dan Rear

Did you get anywhere with this Steve ? If Jewell still has 07 & 08, I wonder which were the 2 that Alain de Wagter had/had. At least one was reputedly ex-Huub. Is this the same car ?

Dan, I'll punt off another email! Had no response but suspect things have changed recently at Steve Jewell's work place.

On the question of ex-Rahal & ex-Rothengatter - these were the cars that Steve Jewell said they were and I provided photos to Steve of both cars at Thruxton in their original trim.

Fingers crossed for a result!

Steve Wilkinson · 26 Sep 2005, 10:47 (Ref:1416729)

My spies were in contact with Steve Jewell at Prescott on Sunday. The two cars that Steve ran were:

48-79-01 - ex-Rahal

and

48-79-03 - ex-Rothengatter

According to my spies he still has both cars!

Dan Rear · 26 Sep 2005, 14:01 (Ref:1416920)

Steve, the -01 car went to Roy Baker for Aurora/FAt in 1980-81, don't know after that. The ex Huub car, -03, no idea after 1979. Anyone know ?

Steve Wilkinson · 26 Sep 2005, 14:07 (Ref:1416925)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dan Rear

Steve, the -01 car went to Roy Baker for Aurora/FAt in 1980-81, don't know after that. The ex Huub car, -03, no idea after 1979. Anyone know ?

Steve Jewell was sprinting B48-79-01 in 1988, possibly also in 1987(?). It was in the 90s when I found out (a) whose car it had been and (b) that Steve also had the Rothengatter car.

Chris Townsend · 26 Sep 2005, 17:36 (Ref:1417147)

Dan

I think that one of the Rothengatter cars went to Ireland and the other to NZ, so I guess that 03 is the one from the Emerald Isle.

Steve Wilkinson · 26 Sep 2005, 19:00 (Ref:1417228)

When Steve Jewell took delivery of the Rothengatter car there were loads of oddball body bits. One of which was a sidepod 'painted all sorts of colours, like a test piece' I was able to provide Steve with photos of the car at Thruxton repleat with said side pods to prove that the rainbow effect was intentional.

Dan Rear · 28 Sep 2005, 12:13 (Ref:1418861)

Wasn't the 'rainbow effect' on the works/Rahal Ampex car, ie B48-79-01. IIRC the Docking/Huub car was all white.

Steve Wilkinson · 28 Sep 2005, 14:00 (Ref:1418998)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dan Rear

Wasn't the 'rainbow effect' on the works/Rahal Ampex car, ie B48-79-01. IIRC the Docking/Huub car was all white.

NO

driftwood · 28 Sep 2005, 23:45 (Ref:1419495)

steve did sell 1 b48 car to alan de wagter
alan now has 2 b48 cars 1 with 1600 bda reputed ex rahal car other has 420r in it

Steve Wilkinson · 29 Sep 2005, 11:18 (Ref:1419830)

Quote:

Originally Posted by driftwood

steve did sell 1 b48 car to alan de wagter
alan now has 2 b48 cars 1 with 1600 bda reputed ex rahal car other has 420r in it

Steve was running B48-79-01 at Prescott so -03 must be the one sold to de Wagter.

Jeremy Jackson · 4 Oct 2005, 20:48 (Ref:1423948)

There is currently an advert on the EuropeanF2 website by de Wagter for chassis 03 & 07, with a pic of car minus sidepods. Contact details are for Steve & Alain, but don't know how long the ad has actually been there.

Dan Rear · 5 Oct 2005, 10:33 (Ref:1424305)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jeremy Jackson

There is currently an advert on the EuropeanF2 website by de Wagter for chassis 03 & 07, with a pic of car minus sidepods. Contact details are for Steve & Alain, but don't know how long the ad has actually been there.

Thats odd, I thought we'd confirmed one of the Huub cars was downunder ??

driftwood · 4 Oct 2005, 22:47 (Ref:1424034)

its about 6 -12 months old de wagter bought f1 car and was looking to out the f2 cars

allenbrown · 5 Oct 2005, 11:27 (Ref:1424342)

Anyone feel like putting together a summary of what we've discovered so far. THe main Chevron thread has got to an unwieldy length.

Allen

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