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One thing I should point out about Peter Grant's letter which started this thread is that Tim Colman of Chevron Cars Ltd (the new company that had acquired Chevron's assets from Robin Smith) wrote into the next edition of the newsletter saying that it wasn't quite that simple. Firstly, although gaps appear in Chevron's records, that doesn't necessarily mean that the car wasn't built. Some cars were sold without all the paperwork being completed and that may explain a few of the gaps. Secondly, B16s were converted to B19 and even B21 or B23 spec and may have been given new chassis plates at that time. When B16 values increased, these cars may have been converted back to B16 spec in some way.
The problem at the time seems to be that B19s and B21s were being converted 'back' to B16 spec.
There were five B16s entered in the HSCC series for 1985. More of them later.
Allen
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