SOLVED: WTH # 386 - 1969 Rawlson CR6 w Holbay-prepared engine

Started by sixtee5cuda, November 23, 2014, 12:49:28 AM

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sixtee5cuda

For car #41 on the right, specify the name, driver, and powerplant

sixtee5cuda

Rookies don't like race cars?

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sixtee5cuda


shamrock

LYDDEN HILL CIRCUIT, CAR IS A RAWLSON ,,DRIVER

serra

Late but I had only the car and powerplant

nicanary

I must be right - that's what it says on Wikipedia

serra

This was that I had, I thought it could be the same car.

sixtee5cuda

Too many answers, and none of them complete.  Also, the information I have is incomplete or contradictory. 

The car is a Rawlson CR6.  For all the information on the internet to be correct (!), more than one of these needs to have existed.  Gerry Marshall's son indicates "the" CR6 was rebodied to become "the" CR7.

My source indicated the engine was called Holbay, although it may simply have been an MAE prepared by Holbay, or equipped with a Holbay head.

A former owner of this car:

http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=29513

indicates that Mike Rawlings bought the Lotus-Rotorvic, rebodied it and changed the engine, creating the Rawlson CR6.  The Rawlson competed for several years.  After retirement, it was eventually re-united with the Rotorvic V12.

One point awarded to nicanary for being close enough.

sixtee5cuda

Also, I discovered my information on the driver was incomplete.  I thought it was Mike Rawlings, but he was not the only driver of the CR6

nicanary

Quote from: sixtee5cuda on December 04, 2014, 02:27:01 PM
Also, I discovered my information on the driver was incomplete.  I thought it was Mike Rawlings, but he was not the only driver of the CR6

The car was driven in the 1971 Motoring News GT Championship by Mike Yeomans. This photo looks awfully like a race from that series. If I could see the decals it would help - the sponsor was Cona Coffee.
I must be right - that's what it says on Wikipedia

shamrock