Originally Posted by
Warninglight
The way I understand it is that the car was built to run in Shellsport but due to new rule changes/interpretations the car was deemed ineligible and did not or ever race in the Shellsport Championship which was 0-2000cc with weight limits for various engine sizes ( from memory ).These changes came about prior to the season start in 1977 - which is when/because I bought it. Obviously with the 13b (1298cc) it would have cleaned up quite easily. The Shellsport season of 77/78 was the first of this series and ran through to approximately 1987 and then became Sport Sedans ( Thundersport Championship ) with totally different classes/rules. Others on this site may be more aware of the finite details than I. The car would have had a large number of OSCA races during it's career. Probably most of them would have been in DIC colors (approx 40 race meetings 3 races at each over 2.5 seasons) followed by Grindley Tyres ( 2 seasons ? ). I do not know what happened to it after Grindley.