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Chevron B26
I have noted all the other Chevron threads but am unable to find detailed info on B26. Can anyone help?
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5 Oct 2004, 16:04
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Probably, John, what do you need to know?
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5 Oct 2004, 17:33
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Chevron lists in various places say 9 were built.
The works car that ran in 1974 became the infamous Imp super saloon/GT "Chimp", before being restored back.
In terms of chassis numbers, I think Lepp raced 01, works 02, but not 100% sure if that's right.
Steve Farthing raced 04 in HSCC & other events in the early 1970, said to be ex Vito Veninata (sometime Griup C Tiga driver)
Eris Tondelli raced 05, this car race in the 1990s by John Burton
The car that PC Automotive ran in Thundersports in the 1980s was 08, but don't know it's prior history.
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The idea is to race one of these next season but I know nothing about them.Chocolate Drop is presumably the works car that was rebuilt and a very quick car is raced in the Orwell series.That is my total knowledge so anything new would be appreciated'
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6 Oct 2004, 08:26
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Jeremy, are you sure re the Chimp, I thought it was based on a B19 or maybe B21? It first came out at the end of 75, so I think a B26 would have been too modern/valuable then to have been turned into the Chimp.
Wasn't Chocolate Drop turned into a Skoda GT car at one point in the 80s, don't recall which one off-hand. I thought it, ie Chocolate Drop, was one of the later B26s, possibly the last built in mid-74.
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Thats the bit I do know.it was the Skoda and subsequently returned to original
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6 Oct 2004, 11:40
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chocolate drop was for sale last year with hart 420R fitted
re 9 original factory B26 cars built i guess all 15 are still running today !! 
i think the chimp was b19 car ive put that AS mag away now wher it was featured
its about time Mr Brown started sports car listing as well as single seater car- cant have him off line for too long 
with the dark winter nights coming he will need something to keep him occupied!! 
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6 Oct 2004, 13:49
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Whoops,, soory chaps.
The Chimp was indeed a B19, and the "Chocolate Drop" B26 went to a Skoda, used by Jim Price in 1980, and Walter Robertson in 1981.
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6 Oct 2004, 14:25
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cant be right all the time must leave room for others to shine
i remember the skoda racing then choclate drop was restored mid 80`s for historic racing and was the "best car ever" to drive according to 2 drivers 
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6 Oct 2004, 15:34
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Didn't Richard Piper have a DFV B26/36 in T'Sports in the 80s? I recall Tiff N shared one with him, described as such. Was it Chocolate Drop that Iain McLaren had in about '76.
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Dan,
Piper's is the PC Automotive chassis 08 I mentioned above.
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6 Oct 2004, 17:21
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PC car now in USA was in ireland for a few yrs
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6 Oct 2004, 18:47
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My notes give the following no’s:
01 Lepp
02 works (at least in the Springbok Series)
03 Anastasio (Italy)
04 Venematta Racing (Italy) - and Farthing in the early 1990s surely?
05 Tondelli (Italy)
06 nothing known
07 works/Lepp
08 nothing known until Piper
09 nothing known
10 works/Gethin etc > Skoda > Chocolate Drop
11 nothing known
12 racing a couple of years ago - a ‘new’ one?
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6 Oct 2004, 19:28
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Sorry David, Farthing dates was a typo, yes early 90s! I saw it in 1992.
Richard Evans raced 74-02 between 1993-96 at least
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6 Oct 2004, 20:41
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do u mean Jim evans?- Richard father 
re nos 10- 12 i rest my case of 9 built all 15 still racing
u do realise my sarcastic cynical comment was not far from the truth
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