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Old 12 Jun 2007, 11:03 (Ref:1934914)   #15
Dan Rear
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Dan Rear should be qualifying in the top 10 on the grid
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Chris, agreed re the Riley 80 car, it looked like a 783 with pods, but then again so did the '793s'...

When Kim M rebuilt his 772P after his mate David Ward smashed it up in a July Libre meet, it looked more like a 79B than a 782. He told me at the time that the pods he put on it were ex-Unipart/Price F3 ones.
From Kim's post on another thread, he rebuilt his 772P around a 783 tub, that Price had apparently abandoned due to flexing. So it looks like the Unipart team started 1979 with updated 783s, then switched to 793s mid-season. One 783 tub went to Kim, I suppose the other could have been the one Riley used in early 1980.
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