History of a Lola T492 Sports 2000 chassis?

[911thillclimber]

Just spoken to the ever helpful Paul Wilkins.

Getting the body front on friday.

This will allow getting under the dark red and seeing the gel colour.
It should have the race number on it for that '82 race with Caribbean Airlines sponsorship.

Memories can be foggy sometimes:

Paul said he thinks Bernie Garwood bought it in 80/1 and Bernie lived in Seyers Common.

The car had the dark red tatty body front but the base car was in good condition and came with side pods off a Lola 592 (new). These were too long for the car so new ones were made and fitted, so the originals must have been tatty?

HU 62 has a date of 28 Dec 1978, so if Peter Sadler raced a 492 in 78, then it was NOT this car!! Unless he raced in someone else's, loved it so much he bought a new one...

So;

HU 62, bought by J Sadler (maybe it is actually J Sadler and not Peter Sadler) at Xmas 78 for the 79 season.

Raced/kept it for a year and sold it to Bernie Garwood of Seyers Common.
Hated a Kermit Green car so painted it dark red and entered for the Caribbean sponsored race , but did not race (Steve's account above).

Paul gets the car and refurbs the body and tunes the engine outside of S2000 rules for Thundersports but does not make it and sells to Len and Dennis (etc)

Is Peter Sadler a red herring and there really is a 'John' Sadler or Joe, or Josh or James etc lurking who is unknown and maybe never raced at all??

Still a bit murky to say the least.

Peter S is dead in 2000, he was a very useful driver at Le Mans etc, Bernie is dead, killed in a Healey race/test car, only the one race entered so far as we know, but a Bernie Garwood Memorial Trophy exists for formula Junior cars. I've emailed them for info.

The car is not giving in easily!