John Maguire Racing

[driftwood]

1 Jeff Ward had a space frame Imp I do not think this is a Maguire Imp maybe tended by JMR
2 the 2 850 Minis of Ward & Bernstein i think are Maguire built Minis
3 yes peter day in the 850 cc Fiat 500 it was half a BDA engine in the car YES 2 cylinders
4 I cannot recall the 1 litre Chrade Imp of Adrian Gamble i do recall the 850 Chris Roberts car
5 Nick Birch is in a Mason Stilleto ricky gauld possibly too or a davrian Imp I would need to see photos of the cars
6 Mike Luck built is own spaceframe Imp

[haggispeed]

Originally Posted by WOCCOWAYCER

Is that the Peter Day Fiat on the front of the programme ? whoever it was he was a brave boy !!

Certainly looks like it, and it's still competing as well in sprints in the NW
Now has a Mini engine I think intead of the half a BDA
Mike Luck is still around, his last project was a Clubmans Cup car, very nice too

[Angus Theape]

Originally Posted by driftwood

ricky gauld possibly too or a davrian Imp

Ricky Gauld ran a Maguire Imp in at least 79, but possibly a Davrian Imp in 78.

[WOCCOWAYCER]

Originally Posted by driftwood

1 Jeff Ward had a space frame Imp I do not think this is a Maguire Imp maybe tended by JMR
2 the 2 850 Minis of Ward & Bernstein i think are Maguire built Minis
3 yes peter day in the 850 cc Fiat 500 it was half a BDA engine in the car YES 2 cylinders
4 I cannot recall the 1 litre Chrade Imp of Adrian Gamble i do recall the 850 Chris Roberts car
5 Nick Birch is in a Mason Stilleto ricky gauld possibly too or a davrian Imp I would need to see photos of the cars
6 Mike Luck built is own spaceframe Imp

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The 850 Mini of Reg Ward was his own build, earlier than the Maguire cars, I think JM did source his body panels from Reg or possibly bought the moulds off him.

I do remember the 2 cylinder BDA, I think it was in a conventional Mini body originally.

Found another Mini ! Anyone know the history of this Chris Judge hillclimb car ?

[Andrew Kitson]

You'll find John Maguire at any BTCC meeting. He is Peter Riches' right hand man in the scrutineering bay. Lovely bloke.

[driftwood]

who Riches or Maguire??!!!!!

[WOCCOWAYCER]

Originally Posted by Andrew Kitson

You'll find John Maguire at any BTCC meeting. He is Peter Riches' right hand man in the scrutineering bay. Lovely bloke.

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I thought he went off to run a hotel on the south coast some years ago ?

[WOCCOWAYCER]

Originally Posted by driftwood

Im sure later John Flack fitted 1300 bda to the Mini

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Found a bit more info on the John Flack Mini, He did have a BDA, but not in the Maguire chassis, he actually bought the Peter Baldwin Mega Mini complete with Allen BDA and had it painted in identical colours to the Maguire car.

Peter bought it off Reg Ward in 1977 who had been running it in the 850 class, Peter then fitting his 225 bhp power plant from his conventional Mini, producing the weapon we all know and love.

John Flack then bought it off Peter circa '91

[driftwood]

aha very interesting to see Peter took 850 Mini and fitted BDA i think that made it Baby B4?

I was sure Flack had 1300 bda in the 80`s we where gone from Special saloon Don GT racing by end of 1989 had 15 years in it

[WOCCOWAYCER]

Originally Posted by driftwood

aha very interesting to see Peter took 850 Mini and fitted BDA i think that made it Baby B4?

I was sure Flack had 1300 bda in the 80`s we where gone from Special saloon Don GT racing by end of 1989 had 15 years in it

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According to my notes it was Baby B7 !! That's a lot of babies.

I am now wondering what happened to John Flack's Maguire car ?

Excuse my ignorance, but what did you run in Donington GT's ?
I have some photo's of Don GT's circa '82/'83.

[driftwood]

my father raced maguire Imp in 82/3 ish then maguire esprit 84 champ

[WOCCOWAYCER]

Originally Posted by driftwood

my father raced maguire Imp in 82/3 ish then maguire esprit 84 champ

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Have only got a photo of David Smith's Imp from that period.

I'm not sure who built that one ? I know it had got a 1300 BDA in it.

My brother raced with David in '76 and '77 in Special saloon conventional Minis.

[WOCCOWAYCER]

Originally Posted by driftwood

my father raced maguire Imp in 82/3 ish then maguire esprit 84 champ

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What happened to your Fathers cars, are they still around ?

[driftwood]

sorta
Imp was maguires first customer car
esprit was sold 3 times last 2 years it was in scotland just heard some one has bought it
i was "tempted" to buy the esprit back but it was less Ft200 brakes engine and common sense prevailed

[WOCCOWAYCER]

Back on the Maguire theme, I thought I would post another Maguire run car, that of my brother Dave Carvell, this time a Metro Challenge car from 1984.

Although not a brilliant season they did get some good results, winning a few times and got a one/two with Vic Covey in the sister car at Thruxton.

Dave was also in line for winning the European Championship that year, leading by miles at the final round at Spa when the normally reliable Longman engine 'let go' in the biggest possible way with just over a lap to go !

I have also added a poster which was circulated in the paddock by one of the Canon team members

[WOCCOWAYCER]

Originally Posted by driftwood

sorta
Imp was maguires first customer car
esprit was sold 3 times last 2 years it was in scotland just heard some one has bought it
i was "tempted" to buy the esprit back but it was less Ft200 brakes engine and common sense prevailed

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Welcome back Driftwood

My wife says common sense does'nt exist in men when anything with wheels is involved, so why don't they understand when we do something stupid ? (Based on experience)

[WOCCOWAYCER]

[QUOTE=driftwood;2650429]1 Jeff Ward had a space frame Imp I do not think this is a Maguire Imp maybe tended by JMR
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I think I may have an answer to this, I think Jeff Ward had a guest drive in the 'works' Maguire car normally driven by Tom, (now owned by Keith Scott).

Is anyone in touch with Jeff so he could confirm ?

[driftwood]

so did you miss me?
you could be right about Jeff guest drive in Maguires car i do not recall him ever owning a maguire car

[maguire imp chassis no1]

I was told jeff ward drove my car by someone,i did ask john maguire at one point but he told me he never raced it,he could of course have driven it,jeffs address was in humberstone road leicester,if its spelt right that is,i have never met him,but do have alot of pictures of his cars,hope this may help,i will ask tom sheppard he may be able to help

Keith scott

[Malcolm Smith]

Originally Posted by Malcolm Smith

No, I think that the Richard Matossian car was previously campaigned by Dave and Sandy Robertson. See car 259 below, picture taken when the Robertsons contested the Doune Hillclimb in June 1994.

Last year, I heard that Duncan Laing still had the Sprintex supercharged A series powered car which he and Donald Laing competed in for many years.I could only find one (poor) photo of it, from Doune in April 1990, number 66.

The third image is of Donnie and Calum MacKillop's Lotus twin cam powered version, number 115, from an August 1993 event at Kames (Muirkirk) . This car was later sold to Japan.

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Contrary to my earlier suggestion, the Richard Matossian car is not that previously campaigned by the Robertson brothers. I spoke to Dave Robertson in May and he advised that he and his brother still have their car.

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Another Mini -photo taken at British Sprint Championship, Kames, 1st August 2010 (apologies if this is a car mentioned earlier in this thread).

[airhorns]

Originally Posted by WOCCOWAYCER

To continue on the JM theme, have found a couple more pictures,one of the Vic Covey Metro Challenge car of 1985 and the other of the Vic Covey Commodore that ran in 1987 TT with John Clark as co-pilot.

I'm not sure that JM had anything to do with that one ?
anyone recognize any of the people with the car ?

bought off edenbridge racing,this was the ex brooke bond/durex surtees truck that we upgraded to carry 2 metro,s inside and one "on the hook",later to carry 2 formula 2's inside.

[bmws r us]

Just to set the record straight , Jeff ward didn't own a maguire imp but he did do the first race in the first car courtesy of Andy Chesman loaning an engine for the project.
If you check out gts motorsport on facebook you will find some early pics of the maguire cars

[Keith M Taylor]

Hi guys
A bit more info on John Maguire space frames....i had a quick look and found no mention of a Bernie Saunders (Used to do a lot of development work with David Vizard) in this thread so... who ran a yellow Maguire from the Cotswold's, Based workshop near Stow-on-the-Wold, Huntsmans Quarries, we took all the measurements from Bernie`s car, with Johns permission and built the main frame myself. Bought all the F/G panels & Front/rear coil springs from John, this was at the old workshop in Stony some thing Rd in Coventry, Roof, doors, front, rear panels boot ect..and got it all in and on a mini van, and back to Cheltenham in one go!!
Ran the car at Prescott Hill climb Champs and local sprints...in the 80`s Charles Barter, Nick Man, John Meredith were doing there thing at this time, I think the first outing was Weston Speed Trials and i striped 1st gear off the line, oh well.
The car was in a light Blue for the first year, sponsor was Cotswold Plumbing.
The next year the car was black with a red waste line.
This car was then sold to some one from up north. I only have one picture of the car, that is just as i sold it sat on its trailer...i`l do a scan and post asp.
Also in my neck of the woods (Cheltenham) was Dave Harris who ran an Original John Maguire Car in Hill Climbs and sprints and i seem to remember it was a two car team..perhaps a Davrian Imp as well, Sponsor was Royalist Hotel Stow on the Wold (Paul Prancard) Dave wrote this car off at the isle of man Sprint....he hit a wall at Creg ne bar (SP) i bought some spares from this car.
If i remember any thing else i`ll post but i`m getting old so i only remember the good bits.

[megapin]

Don't think it's been mentioned on this thread yet but there were at least a couple of Maguire Metros. Bill Richards had two I think and still owns one which runs with a BDA in it. I owned Bill's first car (I think ?) which I raced in the late 90's before selling on to buy a single seater. Wished I had kept in now ! I have a magazine article somewhere with a pic of both Maguire Metros together. I'll see if I can dig it out.

[chunterer]

Belated welcome to airhorns bmws r us and Keith, thanks for the informative posts.

Thanks also for to megapin for your latest post.

I think the Metro's have been mentioned back in the thread (try the search option if you can) but any more info you have can only be a good thing. I remember the Bill Richards car from Wendy Wools and Viv Wallace also ran a smaller engined version around the same time IIRC, was that also a Maguire shell?