Ginetta G15 identity

Ginetta G15 identity

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Stakhanov

Original Poster:

10 posts

152 months

Saturday 28th December 2013
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Can anyone identify the green G15 in the photo attached. Looks modsports and 70s - is it the works car??

h4887

278 posts

247 months

Sunday 29th December 2013
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Rhoddy, I took a pic of Barry Wood's car which was then red, but that wheel arch looks just the same. I've just found a rather fuzzy pic here http://www.ten-tenths.com/forum/showthread.php?p=2... which purports to be BW in a green car.

Geoff

Stakhanov

Original Poster:

10 posts

152 months

Sunday 29th December 2013
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Thanks Geoff
Andy Clegg tells me he has an Oulton park programme from July 1975 confirming its Barry Wood in the works G15, it's green, as shown in the photo later in the same thread you refer to.

Cheers

S

SimonV8ster

12,700 posts

235 months

Tuesday 22nd July 2014
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Thats really spooky but it looks like my brother in the back ground !!

My dad use to be a mechanic for Pat Longhurst who raced Davrians in Modsports, could be a little early though as i would have only been 7 and probably didn't start going around the tracks until 2/3 years later.

Ron Woods was the guy who had a twin brother was he not ?

Rob Knox

9 posts

183 months

Friday 17th October 2014
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Yes Ronnie Woods had a twin brother John who is in the process of building a spaceframe G15

Barry Wood was the works driver.

dandarez

13,439 posts

290 months

Saturday 18th October 2014
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SimonV8ster said:
Thats really spooky but it looks like my brother in the back ground !!

My dad use to be a mechanic for Pat Longhurst who raced Davrians in Modsports, could be a little early though as i would have only been 7 and probably didn't start going around the tracks until 2/3 years later.

Ron Woods was the guy who had a twin brother was he not ?
Missed that bit about your dad when previously looking at this thread Simon.

'Little' Pat (lovely pic of him getting silver platter for 'man of the meeting' at Croft in 74 in a certain book on the marque) began racing Davrians in that same year in a Mk 5 called 'Dinky'. But it was in a Mk 7 that he took off and started winning. Now this Mk 7 wasn't apparently built by Davrian but in a Shepherd's Bush garage. That doesn't ring any bells does it ie your dad? Pat died the year before the book appeared.

SimonV8ster

12,700 posts

235 months

Sunday 26th October 2014
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No doesn't ring any bells, probably just a few years too early. I probably actually know the car but in a different paint scheme as i remember lots of Davrians and Davrian drivers.

Pat certainly was a character !! He was the stereo typical 2nd hand car dealer !! A bit scruffy, all the talk, didn't like spending money, although very generous to some especially if they were getting into racing.

He died very suddenly but he did smoke like a chimney, his diet was also boiled sweets and kit kats so can't have helped !

dandarez

13,439 posts

290 months

Wednesday 29th October 2014
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Pat Longhurst came up in conversation last night with an Imp friend so I thought I'd dig that picture out of him. Couldn't find it so here's a copy from the book. Certainly a little guy who could not hide even in a crowd!

But was a fantastic Davrian driver.


SimonV8ster

12,700 posts

235 months

Wednesday 12th November 2014
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If he wasn't going to be a racing driver - he could have been a jockey !!