Not many of my Longgridge programmes survive, but I have checked what I have.
At two meetings in early 1976, T Dootson was entered for Longridge Libre races in a Piper F3 car, with 1.6 engine. It is listed as blue in one programme, but yellow in another. He qualified fifth on April 25, eighth on May 23. None of the Libre cars bore the number 47, however.
f3history.co.uk lists the Piper and has two snaps of a prototype chassis, although it adds that there is no record of any F3 cars being made. If it is the Piper, I guess it could be the original chassis with some later, bitsa bodywork added in a Preston lock-up.
The only other oddball I found was John R Poole's 3.0 JR Special, also in blue, from the May event. Warren Booth's Lotus 69 was on pole at both meetings, but I didn't log the result of the first. John Walker won the second in his March 742.
I shall later delve into a box to see whether I can find smudgy photos of either car, to prove or disprove any connection with the above. First, though, toast, Marmite and Goodwood beckon.
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