Another Chevron one

[Chris Townsend]

Dan

There's a pretty good history on this one in period
1973: Space Raciing: Brett Lunger/John Watson [Lunger ran a half season F2]
1974: Nick May [British F.Atlantic]
1975: Gerry Kinnane: Pollock
1976-77 Bill Gowdy

I lose track after that but hope that others can fill the gaps. The number is given by F1R and MN in 1973 and identity is traceable from there to Gowdy through press reports.

Chris

[allenbrown]

Originally Posted by Steve Wilkinson's email to me

Allen, in the ubiquitous Chevron B29 thread on Ten Tenths you mention that you don't need information about Hillclimb Chevron B48s and B49s. Does this mean you can help with the following?

1) 1988 Steve Jewell's B48 - believed ex Bobby Rahal (I understand he owned the ex-Huub Rothengatter chassis as well).
2) 1993 Roger Kilty/John Roberts' B49 then running a 1.6 BDA

All the best,

Steve

I do?!

I may be referring to the fact that Adam gave me a list of hillclimb chassis plate observations and that those include:

Norman Galbraith (1981) B48-79-10 ex-De Dryver/RAM
Ray Rowan (1982) B48-79-04 ex-Terry Fisher
Richard Brown (1983) B49-79-02
Chris Knapman (1984) B49-79-02 ex-Brown
Stuart Ridge (1987) B48-79-04 ex-Fisher, Rowan
Dave Whitehead (1987) B49-79-02 ex-Brown

Allen

[Steve Wilkinson]

Somewhere in this thread I noticed a query about B47 F3s. Well there is one out there still sprinting.

Sue Griffiths has B47-79-08 which I believe started life as one of the Eddie Jordan Plastic Padding 'works' cars. It is now fitted with a Millington 2 litre and Sue has been very successful being the Top Lady Driver in the Sprint Championship in 1996, 2000, 2001 and 2002.

[Jeremy Jackson]

And prior to that, that chassis was raced in Monoposto, Toyota F3 / Classic F3 by a variety of owners between 85 and 91 (at least), by Brian Turner, Bernie Toleman & Malcolm Rickard (Christian names from memory, apologies if I've boobed!)

[keith h]

wot ho! I run a B25 on the hills,mainly shelsley walsh,where the tvra run the chevron bar,free beer for all chevron owners!!!!

[Steve Wilkinson]

B45-78-04 is last acredited with being with Ray Rowan in one of the previous replies. Further to that the car was sold to Stuart Ridge in mid 1984.
At the start of 1985 Ridge had the car upgraded and it ran as a B45/48 (mainly bodywork) Ridge then ran the car until the end of the 1987 season when it went off the Sprint/Hillclimb map.
During all this time it ran the FAtlantic 1.6 Ford BDA engine.

[Chris Townsend]

Keith

Could you tell us more about your B25, as relatively few stayed in the UK it should be fairly easy to track a history [famous last words] assuming you don't know it already.

Was this one of the B25s hillclimbed all the way back in the 70s by Reg Phillips?

Chris

[Dan Rear]

Chris, I recall the Phillips car, wasn't a nice shade of lime green ? Did he have it from new, or was it an ex-circuit car?

[Chris Townsend]

Dan
I have the Phillips car as ex Gethin, so maybe chassis 7 if F1R to be believed.
Richard Shardlow had the ex Crawford development car as well. Think these were the only two unless David Peck used the ex Reeves car there after 1976
The only B25 that went straight on the hills was on the mountains! A car in April 73 delivered to Pierre Maublanc

[Dan Rear]

To re-start, hopefully, this one, does anyone recall Andy Barton in a B35 early in 1977, before he got the Sana, and converted it to a Barton ? Which B35 was that ? Also, given the Chevron festival at the Gold Cup, how many F2/F3/FAts/5000s are we likely to be able to drool over !! Any guesses as to which ones will be out ?

[allenbrown]

Just spotted B27-74-02 advrtised in Vintage Motorsport Jul/Aug 1993 p92 "was Freeman's car". Does that help anyone?

Allen

[Chris Townsend]

Allen.
It confirms the build record. Sold via Opert to Freeman Racing in Ohio and used by Chip Mead in 1974. Where Mead might have used it is a moot point as the only pro race I have him appearing at is Watkins Glen, and there he runs the team's spare B20. My Canadian records for 1974 are now almost complete and he doesn't crop up there. Maybe he ran in SCCA and having bent the car there resorted to the B20 for the Glen.

Chris

[Dan Rear]

Originally Posted by Dan Rear

To re-start, hopefully, this one, does anyone recall Andy Barton in a B35 early in 1977, before he got the Sana, and converted it to a Barton ? Which B35 was that ? Also, given the Chevron festival at the Gold Cup, how many F2/F3/FAts/5000s are we likely to be able to drool over !! Any guesses as to which ones will be out ?

See my post on Motul M1s, I've also cleared up, I think, the Barton B35 mystery (well to me at least !). Its reported as being the ex-Trivellato car, I presume the Marazzi one, and Andy B had a very big crash in it at Ingliston in Spring 77. I gather it may well have been written off then.

[Dan Rear]

At our Northern TNF meet last week, Speedy Norm had a 1980 Ingliston brochure that had some good stuff in it on Robin Smith, Norman Dickson, Colin Bennett amongst others. It was a sort of promotional thing. On the front was a good pic of the Jeffery/Hope Scott B49, with wide nose. Have we ever worked out where it went after the 79 FAt season here ?

[Chris Townsend]

Jeffrey's principal car [49-01] is sold to Stu Lawson for 1980. [See MN 24.1.80 p.18]
I'm told Peter Oxley had this car in 1985

For the Ingliston race only, after a big shunt at Donington Triple Crown race, Chevron lent Jeffrey a spare car [MN records this]
I believe this to be [49-02] which Adam saw on the Richard Brown/Knapman/Whitehead car in the 1980s, and which was described as ex Jeffrey. 02 does not appear on the Chevron B49 record [only 01 and 04 [Lawrence] do, though we know at least one more car was built for Pierre Phillips. 02 may also have been the 'old Chevron' used briefly by Masanori Sekiva in 1982 [he can't have any of the others]

Chris

[driftwood]

FYI
mr Knapman told me he had b47 dressed up as b49 as a hillclimb car does this confuse the issue and i should get my coat and leave the room quietly?

[Dan Rear]

Chris, I concur with Oxley having the ex Jeffrey car, it looked very similar when I saw it at Mallory in about 84-85. Was the Pierre Phillips car the one you said 'Monte Tolama' had in the US ? The Sekiya car, I saw at Mall in 1982, looked v different to the B47-50 range. It was called a B56, and looked quite new, so I wonder whether it was a new Robin Smith design, or an updated body on a B49 tub ?

[driftwood]

b56 was the last single seater? made for atlantic? maybe im 1 model out and b60 was last model

[Dan Rear]

DW, I think the B53 was a one-off Atlantic for Gary Gibson in '81, the B56, another one-off FAt for 82. The B52 was the first S2000 in 80-81, the B54 an update for 82, and the B60 for 83. B61 was an uprated 83 T'Sports car, B62 the Group C2/IMSA chassis, for 1984-85.

[Chris Townsend]

Dan

I was wrong about Tolama having a B49. Opert kept a B45 and a B39 as spare for
Tolama in 1979, but also bought a March 79B which Derek Daly used at Trois Rivieres

In the USA the only person to buy a B49 was Pierre Phillips who bought one [or maybe two] for the Atlantic series, but mainly it ran SCCA.
The Chevron records for B49s are apparently more gaps than entries - by then the company was in a real mess.

Chris

[driftwood]

the piere phillps b49 now for sale on race cars.com just listed
b56 car was sold to redman in 2002 now for sale again

[Dan Rear]

DW, if Redman has the B56, is this the car he's bringing to the Gold Cup. M/Sport reported he's fetching a B42 over with him, know which one ???

[driftwood]

all i know is the redman kid was advertising the last FA chevron ever built last year and brian bought it at auction in 2000 or 01
its poss he is borrowing b42 only 8 or 9 cars built

[Dan Rear]

No, no, dw, many more than 8-9 B42s built, nearer 20 I think.

[Chris Townsend]

21 by rumour - though that might be the last build number and Chevron never
built 11 or 13.
Last number I know is 19 sold originally to Briggs and then on to Dean and Robinson