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[GTMRacer]

Dear All

I am wondering if anyone can help with a timeline issue I am researching.

I have been involved with a bit of research into a car which is on the verge of being represented as the works lightweight Cox GTM that Mr Heerey drove in 1968

I need some help with dates and entries for this car to establish when it raced and when it stopped as part of the research. So far there is basically no evidence to suggest that this car is what the owner believes it to be, I know it's not a big deal in the world of motorsport history but I don't like to see things misrepresented!

 

Firstly HH raced a Chevron B9 as well that season, mainly in the MCD Lombank series, he had a double decker trailer so would often race the GTM as well if there was a GT race at the same event.

HH crashed the car at Oulton Park late in the season (I think at either the 14/9/68 or 28/9/68 meetings) the entry number was 116 for this event, does anyone have a programme to confirm the date?

HH sold his B9 late in 68 to Harry Stiller (on the F2 register the last race he did was Oulton Park on the 28th Sept) and I assume never raced again, Either in the Cox or anything else, Does anyone have any info or a programme on the later MCD rounds?

Thanks in advance

Simon Grist

[Giraffe]

Oulton Park, 28/9/68......

 

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Howard lives in Oz & is on social media. Coincidentally, I heard from him this morning. Happy to put you in touch or ask him about anything.

[GTMRacer]

Spotted a typo, that race number should be 166 not 116

Thanks again for any help

[GTMRacer]

Great, the ball is rolling, so that rules out 28/9/68 as the race number is 74 not 166...

I have been in touch with Mr Heerey, his memories are understandably somewhat hazy, he has identified the car in question as his racer but there is no part of the car that matches the photos from the time. and he has not looked at the car in the flesh.... This is why I am doing some research.

[David Beard]

Great, the ball is rolling, so that rules out 28/9/68 as the race number is 74 not 166...

I have been in touch with Mr Heerey, his memories are understandably somewhat hazy, he has identified the car in question as his racer but there is no part of the car that matches the photos from the time. and he has not looked at the car in the flesh.... This is why I am doing some research.

 

I remember his son Brian (I think) in gearbox karts at the same time as me in the late 70s. Tried him?

Edited by David Beard, 26 January 2017 - 09:51.

[DUFFY]

This photo may help GTMRacer in his research and also myself in my research.

Written on the back of the photo is Oulton Park, Sept 2nd 1967.

 

 

I think the cars are :-

 

No 27 Porsche 906 driver maybe Tony Dean?

 

No 11 Ginetta G12  driver maybe Paul Bryan

 

No 109 Cox GTM   1967  driver maybe Howard Heerey

 

No 18 Rochdale Olympic 1098cc Ford-Cosworth. Driver John Anstice-Brown correspondent and road tester for “Motor” magazine.

 

a) Does this look like the Start Line/Grid for Oulton Park in the mid-1960s?

 

b) Does anyone please have a programme for Oulton Park, Sept 2nd 1967?

 

c) Does anyone please have a race report from a magazine a week later?

 

Many thanks,  Tony Stanton (Rochdale Olympic History Archive)

[Tim Murray]

From Ian Titchmarsh's Autosport report on the GT race at Oulton Park on 2nd September 1967:

The GT race had a small entry but this made it possible to savour the full glorious song of the Porsche as Dean took it down the Avenue towards Cascades on each lap on the way to his third win. Without any pressure being put on him he equalled the GT record he had set up in the first race, which suggests that the final of the Autosport championship should be well worth seeing. Paul Bryan gave futile chase in the G12, though he won his class and was the only car to stay unlapped. Adrian Kendrick's neat Lotus 11 GT won the small class, taking third position overall having earlier had a fine tear-up with Howard Heerey in the Mini-based GTM.

Results - GT cars up to 1150 cc, 1151 to 1600 cc, 1601 to 2500 cc and over 2500 cc:
1. A. G. Dean (2.0 Porsche 906) 17 m 41.8 s 93.61 mph
2. P Bryan (1.6 Ginetta-Ford G12)
3. A. Kendrick (1.1 Lotus-Climax XI GT)
Fastest lap: Dean, 1 m 43.0 s, 96.50 mph
Class winners: Kendrick, Bryan, Dean and D. Hughes (4.2 Jaguar E).

Dean's earlier wins had come in the combined GT and Sports Car race and the Formule Libre race, all in the Porsche. Howard Heerey also won the Clubmans race driving a 1.5 Chevron Mk 2.

[Bloggsworth]

Doesn't look like the Howard Heerey I knew. Though he did (I think) win the Clubman's Championship in his Chevron. I seem to recall Heerey driving a B8 after Clubmans.

[EDWARD FITZGERALD]

F3 Chevron in 68

[Bloggsworth]

Forgot that.

[bradbury west]

I wonder which Lotus XI Adrian Kendrick drove. Just out of interest
Roger Lund

[GTMRacer]

HH recently posted this and other shots on Facebook, I am interested in the 68 car, the yellow 67 car was the aluminium prototype.