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#1 Bosanova

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Posted 05 April 2011 - 18:31

Hi! :wave:

I am looking for Homologation papers for a 1962 ChevyII Nova .
This type of car was raced in the British Saloon Car Championship by Peter Sachs and Charles Kelsey in 1962 and was homologated with the 327 Fuel injection corvette.

If anyone have the papers or a copy , or can give me some pointers as to where to get them it would be great.

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#2 Tim Murray

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Posted 05 April 2011 - 18:47

Peter Sachs posts here as 'klemcoll'. In the Gurney's 1961 Impala thread he posted the following:

I see a mention in this thread about Charlie Kelsey. In 1962 Charlie and I had arranged for Chevrolet to build us a pair of special Chevy II's, these with 327 Corvette spec motors, 4-speed boxes and other goodies. Everything was what was called a "Dealer Installed Option." The Gurney situation being known, these cars were in fact fully homologated. Charlie and I raced them a few times in the UK in 1962. Chevrolet was very helpful -- out the back door so to speak -- but neither of us was very experienced and the whole project was run on a shoestring and a half out of Michael Christie's old Alexander Engineering place. Charlie beat Roy Salvadori's Jag 3.8 at Brands and he and I each won a race at Crystal Palace where our power got us in front and that was it.

I clearly remember John Coombs coming up to me in the Brands paddock, screaming that he had been up to the Chevrolet showroom in London and that they did not know anything about our cars. In those days, John could display a bit of temper now and then. My only reply as to say, "Well, John, would you like to see the homolgation papers? They're right here in my bag…" It was an amusing season, with a lot of lessons for the future.

Charlie has passed on. He was very much into handguns, quite a craftsman in that field in fact. That is also a passion with some questionable participants. A few years ago he was down on his luck and someone killed him, probably for one of his guns.

Peter Sachs

It might be worth contacting him to see if he still has the homologation papers.

Edited by Tim Murray, 05 April 2011 - 18:51.


#3 Bosanova

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Posted 05 April 2011 - 18:55

Peter Sachs posts here as 'klemcoll' In the Gurney's 1961 Impala thread he posted the following:



It might be worth contacting him to see if he still has the homologation papers.



I have been in contact with Peter Sachs and he was very helpful with info but did not have the Homologation papers. I also tried ACCUS and GM Archives but no luck.

#4 Red Socks

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Posted 05 April 2011 - 18:56

Peter Sachs posts here as 'klemcoll'. In the Gurney's 1961 Impala thread he posted the following:


It might be worth contacting him to see if he still has the homologation papers.


As I'm sure you know neither the FIA nor ACCUS has a copy.

#5 Frank S

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Posted 06 April 2011 - 04:05

Seems to me I got my copy of the Chevrolet Vega homologation papers from SCCA, back in the (1972) day.

#6 Red Socks

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Posted 06 April 2011 - 09:23

Seems to me I got my copy of the Chevrolet Vega homologation papers from SCCA, back in the (1972) day.


This is a very interesting reply which may lead somewhere.
I understand we need to be aware that whilst running TransAm, SCCA and the competiors decided after a couple of years, ?1968, that the restrictions of FIA Appendix J Group 2 in period were too restrictive for the series.To that end, as I understand it,SCCA then introduced a homologation process of their own for cars running in TransAm. These ''homologations'' which I understand were model specific rather than general were closer to Group 5 mods than Group 2.
There is a possibilty that the SCCA papers referred to above may be domestic rather than International. Certainly I have seen -indeed have a copy of-the SCCA homologation of the Lotus 26 ® which was quite different from the FIA homologation 127.
I am looking for a deeper understanding of this process so anyone casting light on this would help.