March 723

[Chris Townsend]

The constant search for more information about cars running in Atlantic keeps leading me to ex F3s that had a BDA put in the back, or even just kept the t/c.

There are a couple of March 723s that are important in Atlantic from 1972 through to 1975 and I wonder if anyone has any record of who might have had which chassis. The cars I am particularly interested in are those of Robin Smythe and Stan Matthews.

The full record of cars appearing, with first dates, looks something like this:

Prototype: Williamson [27.12.71] March: James Hunt [early season 1972]
Robin Smythe [2nd March 723 made its debut' AS 20.1.72 p. 4] So is it chassis 02?
appears Brands FL 6.2 David Powers
appears early March McKechnie for Bob Evans; Roger Keele 1973
appears early March Stan Matthews
ordered mid February, appears mid March Ford Germany for Jochen Mass
appears mid March Wheatcroft: Roger Williamson
appears mid March March: Brendan McInerney, perhaps the Cramer hillclimb car in 73
ordered January, appears 19/3 Patrice Compain
appears 19/3 Eifelland: Hannelore Werner
appears 19/3 Eifelland: Willi Deutsch
ordered mid February, appears 1/4 Russell Wood

Smythe runs his car in Atlantic late 72 and sometimes in 1973, even though he'd also got a GRD by then.
Matthews kits his car as a 73B [almost anything, it seems could be described as a 73B, from a 712M to a Routemaster bus] then sells it to Chris Oates; Oates then passes it on to Val Musetti, and it becomes the basis of one of his two bitsa cars and appears in a great number of races.

Any observations or records gratefully received.

Chris