When this picture was taken, I had sold the race Imp to my good friend Clive Cohen and gone blue water sailing to Brasil, this was around 1977. Clive was and is no stranger to the circuit and was soon driving the car himself.
This picture has as far as I am aware, has never been published before. The 998cc Imp is being driven by Clive Cohen, the year is around 1977, that looks like a Renault Gordini 1300cc on the outside, with a 1200cc Toyota behind the Imp? The place is Killarney outside Cape Town, Clive supplied the picture, I have no idea who took it.
Imps racing were and still are an uncommon sight in South Africa, the first was Bob Kelsey, who won the SA Saloon Car Championship in 1966, that car was later driven by a guy named Koenraad Spammer. I have met the man as he came to visit me some years back. Next was myself and in 1972, the car was a basic Mk1 Imp with 998cc parts from the Rootes Competitions Department. I drove that car to a forth postition over all in the local Argus Saloon Car Championships before the race committee banned the car for having twin Weber dcoe 40 carbs. This is the car in the picture and in a club event driven by Clive Cohen at Killarney.
The other two drivers are Gavin (doc) Ritchie, he drove his own 875cc engined car at Zwartkops in 2007/8 and Terence Tracey, who again has an 875cc engine with plus 30 thou pistons and also at Zwartkops, Terence finished second in his class last year.
So thats six drivers in four cars since 1966!
Roy
The same car and when driven by myself, an Eric Wells photgraph and taken at the corner before the picture above.
Imps racing were and still are an uncommon sight in South Africa, the first was Bob Kelsey, who won the SA Saloon Car Championship in 1966, that car was later driven by a guy named Koenraad Spammer. I have met the man as he came to visit me some years back. Next was myself and in 1972, the car was a basic Mk1 Imp with 998cc parts from the Rootes Competitions Department. I drove that car to a forth postition over all in the local Argus Saloon Car Championships before the race committee banned the car for having twin Weber dcoe 40 carbs. This is the car in the picture and in a club event driven by Clive Cohen at Killarney.
The other two drivers are Gavin (doc) Ritchie, he drove his own 875cc engined car at Zwartkops in 2007/8 and Terence Tracey, who again has an 875cc engine with plus 30 thou pistons and also at Zwartkops, Terence finished second in his class last year.
So thats six drivers in four cars since 1966!
Roy
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