Scottish Hill Climb Championship round

Kinkell, 6 Oct 1974

Notes on the cars:

1. Palliser WDH1 [AM70/61] (David Fyfe): Built for Mike MacDowel (Godalming, Surrey) and fitted with a Repco 740 V8 Formula 1 engine. Raced by MacDowel in British hillclimbs in 1971, winning both the Doune rounds of the RAC championship, in June and in September. For a part of the season the engine capacity was enlarged to 4.2 litres by fitting the crank and rods from the 5-litre version of the engine. MacDowel acquired a new Brabham BT36X for 1972 and the Palliser was sold to Peter Voigt (Haywards Heath, Sussex), who continued to use it in hillclimbs with the 4.2-litre Repco. Voigt advertised the car at the end of 1972, but it was not seen again until the start of the 1974 season, when it had moved to Scotland and was being shared by David Fyfe and Alex Brown, both from Edinburgh. Raced by them in 1974 and 1975. For 1976, the car was acquired by veteran Bryan Eccles (Solihull, Warwickshire), who was returning to the sport ofter quite a few years. He raced it at Wiscombe Park in April 1976, the opening round of the RAC championship, but crashed heavily, severely injuring his legs. The wrecked Palliser chassis was acquired by Tim Cameron and repaired by cutting off the damaged front section and welding on a Formula Ford Palliser. He then ran the car in hillclimbs, still with the Repco engine, until an accident at Shelsley Walsh. He then sold the Repco engine to Dave Bishop, but could not recall who bought the chassis from his advert in Exchange & Mart. A later German HVIF stated that this car was owned by Roger Hurst ("Hourst") and later by "K,Heinz Wagner, Eppelborn-Dirmingen". The car was registered as a "WDA/1" by Helmut Reuscher in December 1999.
2. Palliser WDH1 [AM70/61] (Alex Brown): Built for Mike MacDowel (Godalming, Surrey) and fitted with a Repco 740 V8 Formula 1 engine. Raced by MacDowel in British hillclimbs in 1971, winning both the Doune rounds of the RAC championship, in June and in September. For a part of the season the engine capacity was enlarged to 4.2 litres by fitting the crank and rods from the 5-litre version of the engine. MacDowel acquired a new Brabham BT36X for 1972 and the Palliser was sold to Peter Voigt (Haywards Heath, Sussex), who continued to use it in hillclimbs with the 4.2-litre Repco. Voigt advertised the car at the end of 1972, but it was not seen again until the start of the 1974 season, when it had moved to Scotland and was being shared by David Fyfe and Alex Brown, both from Edinburgh. Raced by them in 1974 and 1975. For 1976, the car was acquired by veteran Bryan Eccles (Solihull, Warwickshire), who was returning to the sport ofter quite a few years. He raced it at Wiscombe Park in April 1976, the opening round of the RAC championship, but crashed heavily, severely injuring his legs. The wrecked Palliser chassis was acquired by Tim Cameron and repaired by cutting off the damaged front section and welding on a Formula Ford Palliser. He then ran the car in hillclimbs, still with the Repco engine, until an accident at Shelsley Walsh. He then sold the Repco engine to Dave Bishop, but could not recall who bought the chassis from his advert in Exchange & Mart. A later German HVIF stated that this car was owned by Roger Hurst ("Hourst") and later by "K,Heinz Wagner, Eppelborn-Dirmingen". The car was registered as a "WDA/1" by Helmut Reuscher in December 1999.
3. Brabham BT35 [44] (Jim Campbell): Husband-and-wife hillclimbers Gray and Agnes Mickel (Glasgow, Scotland) bought a new Brabham BT35 for hillclimbs in 1972. It was fitted with a Hart twin-cam and first appeared at the Kinkell Braes hill climb in March 1972. Retained by the Mickels for 1973 and used in British and Scottish championship hillclimbs, acquiring a Hart BDA engine some time during that year. The car was advertised by the Mickels in November 1973 and was bought by Jim Campbell (Bothwell, Scotland) 1974 who raced it until 1978. It was then used by Chris Dowson (Pershore, Worcestershire) in hillclimbs in 1979 and 1980. Fred Edwards (Warboys, Cambridgeshire) bought it in 1985 and used it in Monoposto and HSCC events until 1991 but it was then unused until bought by David Irwin (Evergreen, Colorado) in 2001. Irwin still had it in 2004. It was restored by J&L restorations and had moved to Don Roose (Bainbridge Island, Washington) by 2005. Advertised by Roose in 2007. Sold to Allen Nicholas (California) in December 2009 and used in west coast historic events. Sold by Nicholas to Peter McLaughlin (New Hampshire) in December 2014 but not raced. Sold to David Smoker (South Australia) in April 2016.

Sources

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