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Originally Posted by KA
The red Hodgetts Corolla seemed to vary between #67 and #69 depending on who was racing it- As you say, #69 here with Moss, and I think for Tony Dron at Donington later in the year, but #67 at the Oulton 2-driver race with Needell/Hodgetts (with a clearly different-sized 6 & 7 on a pic I've seen).The car was also used at a couple of ETCC/WTCC races, so the team must have spent a fair amount of time peeling race numbers off and replacing them...
Other than Hodgetts being in the white Toyota GB car with #66, I'm still not sure which driver raced which CHMS Corolla with which number for a fair part of the '87 BTCC season...
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A bit more light on which CHMS Corolla ran with which race number for the various drivers over the season.
So far we've established that the red car ran as
#69 at Brands (R7) for Alex Moss,
possibly again at Donington (R9) for Tony Dron (not sure of any proof for Dron having #69 on the red car- can't find pic or programme reference at the moment) and as
#67 for Hodgetts/Needell at the Oulton 1-hour race (R10- source is a pic posted by Gregor Marshall in the Corolla thread).
Looking through the 14 May 1987 issue of Autosport, there's an advertising feature in the Classified ads for suspension and brake specialists- illustrated with a pic of a CHMS Corolla, in characteristic 2-wheels-off-the-ground pose....It's one of the white cars, carrying 'Toyota GB' and 'Mineral Improvements' signwriting, and
#67.
Given the date of the magazine, it
has to be one of the early rounds, Silverstone, Oulton or Thruxton in April, so driver presumbly either Paul Longfield, Alan Minshaw, Alex Moss or Chuck Nicholson who appeared in one of those early races.
According to Autosport, Longfield drove the red car at Silverstone, and
possibly again at Thruxton, which narrows it down a little....