mysterious formula ford

Hi .i try to do a formula ford register for myself .so far theres no intention to publish (too much trouble for the pay with the new photo copyright religion). and yes i have already the very good book from steve Nickless so as many other books on the subject plus zillion docs and mags. but theres a couple of cars that i still not have any good pictures like the canadian Chinook for exemple. but right now whats bugging me is that pictures that i saw at a formula ford site from holland www.racehistorie.nl .the caption say "garith rees" sic .i know theres a garEth rees but that was much later. one thing the driver seem to be british ( an occasional drive of geof Lees??). the car look a bit like a MRE or TIGA or even a swiss LCR but not one fit exactly

Try contacting the guys at Ferret Industries - they were building the Ferret at about the same time.

A beautiful Ferret... and while we are on rare... a Bowman... and living proof that different can be beautiful; the Hayrshi.

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Originally Posted by R. Pare

Try contacting the guys at Ferret Industries - they were building the Ferret at about the same time.

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Jon Hirst (Ferret historian etc) reads this forum - he'll be replying I'm sure.

is it possible that its HAYASHI a japanese FF (base on the Nickless book imprted by jacques Couture for a while) ,great i. didnt had any pic of that one too. to come back to the picture upthere a gent at 10/tenths solve the mysterie its a Royale RP-29 (circa 1982) a car(the rp-29 in general ,not this specific car) who at first was with flat nose and side radiators and then modified cause of his uncompetitivness

sometime its a good thing to take a break in the search or its my lucky week ;it look that a cooper-chinook did a comeback in historic FF in the UK last summer its maybe the only one left

I'm not sure about the cooper-chinook, but that certainly isn't the last Chinook around. An Apex member has a couple, and I know of another one that went to Denver.

Gary

Sorry, don't mean to take over the thread. Great pic of the Chinook in the UK. We have 2 Chinooks. 1 that has run actively for the past 10 years with RMVR in Colorado and another which is about 75% through a restoration.

If anyone might have contact info for the party running the car in the UK. Might you kindly share.

There is a 4th car I know of in the Pacific NW.

Thanks

every Chinook i ever drove had a red leather covered steering wheel

just wondering if that was true for these cars?

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Sorry, don't mean to take over the thread. Great pic of the Chinook in the UK. We have 2 Chinooks. 1 that has run actively for the past 10 years with RMVR in Colorado and another which is about 75% through a restoration.

If anyone might have contact info for the party running the car in the UK. Might you kindly share.

There is a 4th car I know of in the Pacific NW.

Thanks

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theres many pictures of the same car taken at brands, croft ,oulton mallory and so on right now on flickr and other place. its always written 1970 cooper -chinook but no other details not even the driver/owner name

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Originally Posted by provamo

every Chinook i ever drove had a red leather covered steering wheel

just wondering if that was true for these cars?

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im curious about the badge/logo look like a red maple leaf

finnaly found an entrants list of croft aug 2010 with all the names .the name is Stuart Dix

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Originally Posted by philippe C

im curious about the badge/logo look like a red maple leaf

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the Chinook builders, the Fejer brothers were out of Torontoland as i recall hence the red maple leaf and probably the red steering wheels