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News as at 29th October 2002-10-29
The G10/11 is coming on well with several large hurdles overcome, not least the roll bar and the hood. We have a G32 in for a new fuel tank, cooling pipes and headlamp work - all to be expected in an everyday, high mileage example. There is a queue of G15s waiting for paint, next year's G4 is coming on…………… But most importantly; We've been racing! the owner, Mark was 6th fastest of the day ahead of all the Evos and Cosworths. He was fastest in class, fastest Ginetta and won the Trevers Walklett Memorial Trophy. Good work Mark! News as at 3rd October 2002-10-03
One of the absolute highlights of the entire year, including racing was the Goodwood Revival. Spadge was lucky enough to get a job with Julius Thurgood’s team of helpers who were running all the period vehicles. He actually ended up being the only full time mechanic. It got to the stage where people were bringing him things to mend that hadn’t worked for years! Julius’ own race car, a lovely Peugeot 203 freshly restored by Micky Bolton had a couple of minor niggles so Spadge helped with that and got to rub shoulders with Rowan Atkinson, Stirling Moss, Barry Sheene etc. Julius’ co-driver was Jason Plato who was a good laugh and not slow either!
Next year we hope to be there with our F.I.A. G4. In the workshop we have finished two lovely G15 restorations, both of which are still in the hands of their original owners. Although both white, the cars are surprisingly different; both smashing little cars in their own individual way.
We will be out racing with The Top Hat/ Cloth Cap racers on 19th October at Snetterton. Howard Jones in his G4, Mark Faulkner in his G12 and us in the Sprite. Peter Bornhausers G15 is coming for repair having been attacked by an Elan. We have just put a new front on the G15 chassis of Mark Shadforth. Our new G15 chassis jig came in very handy to put right the damage inflicted by an aggressive gate post. Tony Pollock’s G15 is ready for paint now, Tony Gaskin’s G15 shell is nearly done, Robin Burt D’Arcy’s G15 is on it’s wheels with a new chassis, the Alfa G15 is only a few hours from being finished……………and there’s been plenty more besides. USA ties strengthened. Previous visitors to our site may remember how we harp on about Steve Smith and his company Twin Cam Sports Cars in Sarasota, Florida who races a G15 and Tony Ingram's company GB Components who look after a number of G4s and G12s in Santa Barbara, California. We are pleased to announce a third tie in with the company "GoGinetta" who primarily deal with new Dare G4s and G12s in the USA. With regular shipments of cars into America we hope to make our selection of classic Ginettas and spares more accessible to the U.S. market. It is also envisaged that we will be actively involved in their proposed Ginetta race series. Their site is www.GOGINETTA.com.
The G4R 25 URO has left us for final fettling in the hands of Bob Sands the owner. We will bring you progress reports of his racing exploits as they occur. G12 number 31 is headed for Steve Smith’s emporium: Twin Cam Sports Cars in sunny Florida. Not content with beating most things with his G15 he has bought the G12 with the intention of finishing it off and campaigning it on the east coast. This will naturally involve a vital liaison trip by Spadge; who hopes to cash in a long standing debt and take the G15 for several laps around, if not a race at, Sebring. It’s a tough job but someone has to do it. Chris’ HSCC G4 is in for pre-season tweaks. We have just done the front end of an Elise, some jobs on a Marcos 1500 GT and some parts for G12 number 1; which incidentally Mark will be racing with the Julius Thurgood Cloth Cap races and various others.
The Graham Hill road test G4 that was converted to G4R specification by the factory and subsequently raced internationally is now in full FIA trim. We have fitted the original hardtop (the factory prototype incidentally) repainted the car in it’s original colour and restored the period features that it had lost over the years.
Spadge’s lack of organisation and Fos’s hectic social life mean that we will not be racing on 16th March at Silverstone in the Spridget but we hope to be there spectating. WE 26/1/02 There has been so much going on since Christmas that we have not had time to write about it.
G15S Banned by the HSCC! We were sweating for a couple of weeks after receiving a letter from an HSCC official who informed us that the G15S was not a production model so we therefore had to race with 875cc in the up to 1300cc class! We think that the situation is now sorted although there are still more letters to write and unpaid work to do. It’s happened before of the history of Ginetta racing and it’s the price paid for being such competitive cars! The G10 is coming on apace as are the two white G15 restorations. The ex John Absolom G4 is back for a roll hoop and hardtop. The Alfa G15 is nearly done. We have another G15 in for wiring work and other bits.A G33 awaits attention and the list goes on …………… |
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Peter Bornhauser's G15 is in for a repair after being
cruelly "T - boned" by an Elan.
As
anyone waiting for parts at the moment will realise, things have been hectic
here for the last couple of months to say the least.
Incidentally, if the car shown was an
A40 rather than an A35, I think the axle may have mysteriously disappeared for
use on our G4!
The G10/11 is very nearly ready for
paint. Since this was taken the doors and hood have been fitted.
News week ending April 12th
We are hoping to import a beautiful G12 back from Japan.
With a virtually unused Lotus twin-cam engine and Hewland transaxle it is an
absolute beauty …
