Special Saloon/Super Saloon Register

[Dan Rear]

OK, here's some chaps, only 1300cc+ cars listed, by no. in prog.

Mallory 26-8-73 FordSport Speed Day

1. Mick Hill Capri 6000cc
2. Bill Cox Capri 5700
3. John Wales Berpop 4700
4. Tony Strawson Capri 4700
5. Tony Ward Escort 1650
6. Dennis Nott Escort 5000
7. Roy Yates Zodiac 6300
9. Chris Meek Escort BDA 1850
10. Jeff Mann Anglia 1700

Funny how they're all Fords ain't it! Hill won from Meek and Strawson

14-10-73 MCD Special Saloon race

1. Meek As above
2. Tony Sugden Escort TC 1890
3. Nott As above
4. Bill Cox (?) Berpop
5. Dennis Welch Anglia 1600
6. Mann As above

All beaten by 2 1300 Minis, Sugden won the class from Mann and Welch

27-5-74 Special Saloon Race

1. Welch As above
2. Chris Field Avenger 1500
3. John Myerscough Escort TC 1600
4. Malcolm Stevens Falcon 4727
5. Alec Poole Escort BDA 1940 (entered by Robert Ryan)
6. Mike Berman Berpop Olds 3568cc
7. Tony Rosen Mustang 7000
8. John Pope Magnum 5400

Poole won from Welch, and Pope

FordSport Speed Day 25-8-74

1. Geoff Wood Escort Hart 1850
2. Nick Whiting Escort Cosw. 1900
3. Bill Cox Capri 7600
4. Steve Phillips Escort TC 1600
5. Peter Miller Anglia 1600
6. Dennis Welch As above
7. R.F. Curzon Escort TC 1300
8. Brian Thackray Escort 1850
9. John Calvert Escort 1850
10. Alec Poole As above
11. Jim Evans 'Ford Turbo RS2000'
12. Tony Strawson Capri 4700
30. Malcolm Stevens As above
31. Dennis Nott Capri 5000

Poole won again from Nick W, Calvert and Welch

Mallory 29-9-74 Simoniz Special Saloon Car Race

1. Ian Richardson Corvair 7600
2. Albert Peacock Camaro 5780
3. John Turner Skoda 5000
4. Gerry Marshall Firenza 2300
5. Tony Sugden As above
6. Nick Whiting As above
7. Geoff Wood As above
8. Brian Thackray As above
9. John Calvert As above

Most non-started, Turner won from Gerry M then Suggy.

Hope thats useful !!

[driftwood]

before we go galloping away need to Id the cars
Meeks car i think was broadspeed or Mann Gp2 car need to read the 73 AS race reports adverts for sale pit n paddock to gen up
im only talking off top of my head as im now into 75 season and recall some info bits n bobs

[Alan Brown]

I told you that there many Anglias. Here is an edited list for 1967; probably the last year of Anglia domination in the over 1300 class as Escorts came into prominence in 1968.

1967

Norman Abbott 1800 purple.
Brian Cutting 1900 Martin 12-valve metallic flake blue (MN 18-5-67) – to John Burbidge by late 1967.
Team Anglia had two cars, one for Brian Peacock and Dave Garrett (and occasionally Rod Mansfield) 1798cc twin cam, and the other for Rod Mansfield 1650cc twin cam. For sale by John Field/Team Anglia, Hornchurch, Rod Mansfield’s 1650 twin cam £680. (MN 27-7-67). Probably to Keith Payne.
P Hawthorne (Castle Service Station Racing) 1594 (new shell needed after crash at Mallory Park in March).
Lawrence (Laurie) Hickman 1000 Superspeed-tuned.
Brian Keen and John Cummins (East Anglian Racing Cars) 1298 twin cam.
Mike Lacey ex-Paul Webb ` 1300.
Pat Mannion 1650.
Stanley Matthews (John Bond-Smith) 1600 or 1650.
R M (Martin) Maudling and Richard Sandilands 1650.
Ian McDougall and Gerry Edmonds 1000 MAE (Broadspeed-tuned).
Terry J McNally 1650 twin cam
(badly damaged at Brands Hatch in January) (“which must now be on at least its third body shell” MN 11-5-67). For sale £695 Kirby Muxloe, Leics – (MN 22-6-67).
John E Miles and David Brodie 1300 (sold to an “Irishman” MN 22-2-68).
John Myerscough 1650 pushrod or twin cam.
Les Nash 1298.
Alan Peer (East Anglian Racing Cars) was to contest the British Saloon Car Championship with a new Group 5 car with a 1300 downdraught port engine, but this would conflict with Ford’s official programme so it was fitted with a 997 MAE for club racing. Also raced by John Fitzpatrick and Roger Taylor. Silver (and burgundy?). Raced in Group 5 specification as well.
Zekia Redjep 1594 twin cam.
Tony Roberts - called Spottie 1600 twin cam spotted (black on white) paintwork. (caught fire at Lydden in August but repaired).
David Smith and Bob Smith 1820 twin cam (ex Alan Peer MN 26-1-67).
Roger Taylor (East Anglian Racing Cars) 1820 twin cam.
Dave Willars (also raced by Derek Bennett) 1650 (sold to Brian Classick, first raced in October).

Copied from post 53 for completeness:

John Hewitt Anglia Climax 2.5 blue.
Reg Gubbins Anglia-Buick now fuel-injected and quoted as 4.3.
Richard Scantlebury Ford Anglia-Jaguar. 4.0.
Maurice Winch Anglia 1.6 or 1.8 twin cam (Wanglia) – modified by putting a 6 inch wide strip down the centre (the whole car except the roof was widened) (MN 25-5-67).


Group 5 (British Saloon Car Championship)
Chris Craft (Superspeed) 1300.
Nick Brittan (Superspeed) 1300 (on carbs at the start of the season).
Mike Young (Superspeed) 1300 Tecalemit-Jackson fuel injection.
John Fitzpatrick (Broadspeed) 1000 Tecalemit-Jackson fuel injection – second overall and class winner.
Anita Taylor and Trevor Taylor (Broadspeed) 1000 Tecalemit-Jackson fuel injection (also practised by Roger Taylor). Sold to Leonard Ward Racing for racing in 1968 by Ken Costello in the European Challenge and John Bischoff in the RAC (British) Saloon Car Championship – raced by John Bischoff at Boxing Day Brands Hatch.
Chris Lambert (McKechnie Racing Org) 1000 Holbay on side-draught Webers
(may also have been raced by Barrie Williams).
Ron Fry ex-Broadspeed (1966 car) 1000 fuel injection.
Mike Davies (Knocker Hill Racing Team) 1000.

[allenbrown]

Thanks Dan, thanks Alan. Great posts.

The list is growing nicely:
http://www.oldracingcars.info/specia...list-1964-1993

[GBRM]

Originally Posted by Dan Rear

OK, here's some chaps, only 1300cc+ cars listed, by no. in prog.

Mallory 26-8-73 FordSport Speed Day

1. Mick Hill Capri 6000cc
2. Bill Cox Capri 5700
3. John Wales Berpop 4700
4. Tony Strawson Capri 4700
5. Tony Ward Escort 1650
6. Dennis Nott Escort 5000
7. Roy Yates Zodiac 6300
9. Chris Meek Escort BDA 1850
10. Jeff Mann Anglia 1700

Funny how they're all Fords ain't it! Hill won from Meek and Strawson

Funnily enough Baby Bertha made her debut on the 25th May 1975 at Brand Hatch in the FordSport Super Saloon Day in the BRSCC Super Saloon Championship but retired with driveshagt failure.

Just some Vauxhall history:-

Old Nail started as a flat fronted Firenza and debuted in 1971 and was maily raced by Dad but Bill Dryden won the Scottish championship in her and also drove her a few times supporting Big and Baby Bertha.
Old Nail's career is important as the two DTV Vivas were crashed at Lydden in 1971. Old Nail was raced until 1976 by DTV and last used by Gerry Marshall in 1978 - now owned by me and on load at Donington.

The DTV Vivas - One became John Pope's Viva which then became John's white turbo-charged Magnum (Dad drove both of these versions for John) and is still owned by John and I think still used on the road.

The second Viva was bought by Gerry Johnstone and Stan Burge who both raced her and Dad raced this car several times too. The car was then sold to Dave Millington in 1972 (he had a huge accident in at Oulton Park in 1973 http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=bosTNtfjai0) and he then in 1976 he sold it to Mervyn Dornford of Porto Rico but to be shipped to Guyana (the dealer brokered by Phillip DeFreitas) and Mervyn then took the car to Florida - he still has and races the car today in SCAA regional events, winning the ASR class championship in 1988.

Big Bertha was raced by Gerry Marshall in 1974 only and was built into;
Baby Bertha was raced by Gerry Marshall in 1975, 1976, 1977 and then again in 1983 and 1984 (Paul Haywood-Halfpenny and Phil Barak had her in the intervening years) before Joe Ward bought (and still owns) Baby Bertha.

Mega Bertha was started in 1976 and was never finished or raced (Vauxhall took the project away from DTV and never finished it!!) but is still existence today and should be on the tracks this year and I don't know if the owner is that public about it so I won't post his name.

Right, that's some of the DTV Vauxhalls but there were a lot of customer cars, not to mention Tony Davies Transpeed Firenza that Gerry raced with Tony a few times and Tony still racers to this day, very original car and the Vauxhall Chevette built for Mike Smith (also raced by Gerry) and was sold on ebay last year and also the Stars and Stripes Manta built by Gerry Johnstone (and again raced by Gerry!!).

[driftwood]

Fienzas where there around 5 cars racing?
i recall Tony Whibley having a car not sure if that is the car Tony Davies has today
who had Drake & Fletcher on their car?
was Bill Dryden in the SMMT car?

[Dan Rear]

Jeff Allam and John Wright (??) had Allam Motor Co. 2.3 Vivas as well didn't they in about 1973-74.

[GBRM]

There were loads of Firenzas and Vivas out there as you could get the bits from your local Sportparts Vauxhall dealer (85% of Old Nail was standard anyway) plus DTV would build customer cars.

There were also people like Phil De Freitas, Piggy Thompson, Mike Newman, Jackie Patterson, Gabriel Konig to name just a few.

[driftwood]

im punting on mike newman possibly having ex Whibley car if Tony D did not have it
how many of the names above owned the same cars

[big andy]

the smt car was sold to bob claxton which he broke for spares the hewland and engine are in the back of is skoda 110r which he still races in the n/w sports saloons

[Alan Brown]

With the opening (or re-opening) of Thruxton in 1968 I can supplemebnt MN reports with Thruxton programme information.

Mike Berman Ford Popular “Berpop” 1650 – also driven by John Wales
John Blankley A40 1800
Brian Bolton Cortina V8 4727 yellow/green – overall winner of the Osram-GEC Championship
Alan Brodie Viva Chevrolet 5.6 red – for sale A/S 4-10-68, offers around £1650.
Peter Calderwood Cortina-Zodiac V6 (an ex-Safari Rally car MN 30-5-68)
Mike Davies Viva GT 2.0s/c
Trevor Davis Mini BMC 1800-engined – destroyed in a fire (MN 13-3-69)
Gerry Dobbins Cortina Daimler (Majestic ) 4561 maroon and Piers Townsend (Was Ben Townsend in one report the same person?)
John Hewitt Anglia Climax 2698 blue/black
Don Howes (newly purchased MN 23-5-68) Tasman Anglia
Repurchased by John Hewitt (MN 12-9-68)
Mick Hill Anglia-Jaguar 3.8
Dennis King Imp Californian Lotus-Ford twin cam 2010 red (Twin Camifornian). Engine based on a special block prepared by Norman Abbott. Hewland gearbox and F3-type suspension all round. Won on his debut at Silverstone in September. “Flimp”. (A/S 4-10-68). Two reports in MN 3-10-68 say “one of the most exciting saloon car specials this year …. a car which puzzles on first sight as the rear wheels are about half a foot further back than those of the normal Imp” and “wishbone/coil spring suspension, rear wheels nine inches back from standard, the big engine cradled centrally in front of the rear axle line”.
Gerry Marshall and Tony Lanfranchi (Shaw & Kilburn) Viva GT 2000 (T-J injected) (“Slap and Tickle Special” MN 28-11-68). To be reshelled in 1969 (MN 30-1-69).
Jon Mowatt Corsair 7.0 – non-started due to scrutineering problems at Boxing Day Brands Hatch
Harry O’Brien Cortina V8 ex Sanger – debut Aintree May - and John Scott-Davies
Ex-Sanger Cortina 4.7 V8 for sale MN 18-7-78 [tel 051]
John Scott-Davies to sell the car MN 12-9-68
Laurence E D Parsons Lotus-Cortina Daimler V8
Alan Peer (Steve Peer) Corsair Ford V8 – to Martin Maudling
David Render (hillclimbing) Fiat 600 Lotus twin- cam
Brian Tarrant A40 Chevrolet 4638 blue
Sid Taylor Cortina V8 4.7 (ex-Terry Drury, ex-Sanger)
Lewis Wickham Morris Minor Ford 1600 or 1650 pushrod

Escorts began to dominate the larger capacity classes in 1968, the leading big-engined ones and FVA-engined ones were:
Graham Birrell (Wylies) Escort 1790 white/blue
Roger Taylor (Dagenham Motors) Escort Twin Cam 1820 blue
John Blackburn (Calypso Racing) Escort FVA 1600 orange/white
Brian Robinson (built by Byker Hill Garage) Escort FVA 1600
Mike Crabtree (Willment) Escort Twin Cam 1594 white/red


For sale (A/S 4-10-68) V Jag Anglia (3.8 E-type), now fitted Lotus suspension, £575, Long Eaton. Is this Mick Hill’s?

Ireland
D W Mitchell Anglia V8 Chevy

[driftwood]

1 Mick Hill is from the Donington area
2 I vaguely recall Shaw & Kilburn sponsoring later viva/firenza in the 70`s
3 the escorts for 69 are mostly Gp2/5 ex Broadspeed alan mann team cars or cars built to these specs

Dennis King Imp
does anyone have fotos?

[allenbrown]

Great post Alan!

[GBRM]

Originally Posted by driftwood

2 I vaguely recall Shaw & Kilburn sponsoring later viva/firenza in the 70`s

Not sure if they sponsored a Special/Super Saloon in the late '70s but they did sponsor a Chevette in the late '70s for Trevor Scarbrough, Skid's brother.

[driftwood]

It was not a fancy car a run of the mill vauxhall viva firenza ish car cant recall the driver
somehwere i have some B& W fotos of some cars at Brands im sure 1 is a Firenza ( not the usual suspects) maybe tony whibley?
shaw n kilburn are near the Oval cricket ground