Castle Combe Special GTs
The Other Special Saloons
The Cars
Boss Mustang
Fred Henderson
Farm Straight Corner June 1992
Fred was one of the folk-heroes of the series in the early 80s with a hand-painted white Mk1 Camaro which he threw around amid flames from the side exhaust and smoke from the rear tyres. He reappeared with the Janglia for a while and then this massive Boss Mustang which had several outings in 91 and 92. The era of such big tin-tops was over but it was a great car to see in action.
Anglia-Jaguar XK
"Janglia"
Fred Henderson
Tower corner May 1989
Fred's straight-six powered Anglia appeared often in the late 80s and I think maybe his son(?) drove it on occasion as well?
Cortina Mk3-Rover V8
Steve Hurd
Tower corner 1990
Like a car from another era, you could imagine Steve Jurd's Cortina in the same field as Mick Hill's Capri and Gerry Marshall in 'Old Nail' during the heyday of SuperSaloons in the early 70s.
The car featured a 3.5 litre Rover V8 with a supercharger sticking out of the bonnet in the fashion of some factional MATCHBOX toy !
It wasn't fast and Mk3's were hardly a car with a competition history but it was great to see.
Talbot Sunbeam
Gary Gunn
Camp corner May 1990
Gary also ran a Fiesta which Max Tyler, who ran a Rover SD1 recalls was so low he lost sight of it under his door mirror on one ocassion!
Capri 3000E
Andy Lee-Cann
Quarry Corner corner Sept 1990
Mini Clubman
Michael Hill
The Mini started off looking quite normal, then sported this radical chopped-top and looked very very odd on the same track as 6R4s and Skoda special saloons...
Westway May 1991
"Bowlby" Suzuki
Mike Brend
Quarry Corner Easter 1992
"Bowlby" Suzuki
Derek Barrett
Chasing John Barnard's Westfield at Tower Corner May 30th 1994
I think Erling Jenson ran this car at some point as well as Paul Brend and Derek Barrett. It was always ridiculously fast for a sub 1 litre car and held the class C lap record for years.
I seem to recall the car was penned by future F1 and Indycar designer Ben Bowlby who came to fame by designing a Clubmans car as part of a University degree course he developed in Racing Car Design. Bowlby's most recent project is the radical Delta Indycar
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October 1992
Capri 2.8i
Don Craig
Forest of Dean-based Don Craig lost an arm in an industrial accident and was one of the very first amuptees to gain an MSA race licence after decades of official resistance to the concept. He ran the fairly standard Capri to get miles under his belt before raceing regularly in the Castle Combe Saloon Car Cup a few years later.
Vauxhall Chevette
Derek Allen
Before the Suzuki, there was the Chevette...
Chasing Harrison's Dutton , Tower corner Aug 31 1992
Fiat 850-BDH
Norman Lackford
The quick Warrior-tuned Fiat gave way to a Saxon prototype in 1996 and later a Radical which Norman is still using in the series this season.
August 29 1994