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'Ex Pete Knipe DNC, which is the only left hand drive 750 formula car ever built'.
There was a second Left Hand Drive F750 (or maybe it was the first). It was called The Silver Y, which was a morphing of the Maggott F750 cars built in 1976-77 by Chris Elmes. Chris build F750's called Maggotts from 1974 to 76, then in '77 the LHD Silver Y was developed, built LHD to allow the engine to be tilted over at about 80 degress from horizontal, and therefore, as I recall had to be LHD to allow the exhaust system to come upwards. It was also one of the first semi-monocoque cars too, as opposed to the traditional spaceframes. It went quite well too, a few top 3 placings in the '77 F750 Championship plus a win sometime that year on the Silverstone Club Circuit. I guess one of the reasons it was quick was the lower C of G that it had with the laydown engine.
The car was sold at the end of that year to a chap called Trefor Slatter, who raced it in '78 with a few good results too.
The car then sat in a garage in Hemel Hempstead until about 1989, when it was disposed of.
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