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[tomtecno]

I'm researching Chris's racing career. Does anyone know if he's still around or have contact details for him?

[Mallory Dan]

Originally posted by tomtecno
I'm researching Chris's racing career. Does anyone know if he's still around or have contact details for him?

Bit of a nasty reputation as I recall, been discussed on here before....

[tomtecno]

Yes, so I understand although I don't know any details. In any case, it's his racing I'm interested in not what he got up to in private.

[Giraffe]

My most prominent memories of Chris where of him coming out of Deer Leap during a support race for the Gold Cup at Oulton in his Chevron B6 or B8, upside down, on it's roof!
I recall he had a penchant for cowboy attire; fringed jackets, boots etc, and he had some success also in F3.
I'm not sure where his nasty reputation came from, as he always seemed perfectly civil when I saw him about the paddock.

[tomtecno]

Yes, I have heard he was good at crashing things.................Can you remember what colour his Chevron was as I'm building a B6/B8 model at the moment and it may be good to replicate Chris's car.

[Giraffe]

Yes, it was a B6 updated to B8 spec, and it was Sky Blue.

[Giraffe]

Can you tell me are you building the model from scratch? I've never been able to get hold of a model of a B6 or B8, apart from a tiny Piccolino model.

[tomtecno]

This actually is a Piccolino I'm doing, I have a few of these now. I did manage to pick up a very nice 1:43 Axel'R kit for a JCB liveried B8 just recently and Grand Prix Models do 1:43 B8's in kit or built form. What I would REALLY like is to get hold of a B20 model but I've never seen one and have my doubts as to whether or not one has ever been done.

[Giraffe]

Nobody can get the lines of the B6/B8 right, particularily the nose. They all look more like the original B3GT!

[Stephen W]

Chris Skeaping in the Chevron B20 at Brands Hatch 1970

[tomtecno]

Cheers Steve.

[Cirrus]

Tom Powell, who races his ex-Skeaping B20 in Classic F3 (in wide nose form), has it painted up in original colours. It looks great!

There's a period picture of it on the F3 History site, in the maufacturers section.

http://www.f3history.co.uk/

[MCS]

Originally posted by Stephen W

Chris Skeaping in the Chevron B20 at Brands Hatch 1970

Ooh, interesting picture. 1970 - surely 1972? Look at the Iberia Ensign (von Opel I think) and the green March 723 (Bob Evans). I'm guessing the Lotus is Geddes Yeates.

Steve, great picture - please post more.............

[alansart]

Originally posted by MCS


Ooh, interesting picture. 1970 - surely 1972? Look at the Iberia Ensign (von Opel I think) and the green March 723 (Bob Evans). I'm guessing the Lotus is Geddes Yeates.

Steve, great picture - please post more.............

Agree with 72.

I have a vague recollection that the F3 Chevron ran a front wing, a little like the March 711, but Chevron shaped....

[Cirrus]

That was the B18 F2 car. I'm not sure if the F3 ever ran that sort of wing.

[alansart]

Originally posted by Cirrus
That was the B18 F2 car. I'm not sure if the F3 ever ran that sort of wing.

I went to nearly all the Crystal Palace meetings from 1969 until it closed at the end of 1972 and when the name Chris Skeaping came up the first thing I thought of was the F3 Chevron and that wing. It's strange the things one's memory retains, but I could be getting confused with the F2 car.

[Stephen W]

Originally posted by MCS


Ooh, interesting picture. 1970 - surely 1972? Look at the Iberia Ensign (von Opel I think) and the green March 723 (Bob Evans). I'm guessing the Lotus is Geddes Yeates.

Steve, great picture - please post more.............

Ooops! Yes correct year was 1972. The Ensign is Rickky Von Opel. The Lotus is Roger Keele according to the programme whilst the March was entered by Fiddlers Three resturant for David Powers.


Again it's 1972, this time Mallory Park and Roger Knight (Martini) is just ahead of Chris Skeaping whilst Willie Deutsch in a rebodied March trails.

[richie]

I'm researching Chris's racing career. Does anyone know if he's still around or have contact details for him?

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Tomtecno

"The season ended when I got the car stuck in the sand at Weston-Super-Mare and the tide came in".- Chris Skeaping.

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