Solved : DAR 183 : BRP 2/64 with Ford V8 engine 1969

[D-type]

Please can I have the builder of the original chassis, the engine (non-original) and the year.  It would be too painful to also ask for the driver.

[D-type]

Experts?

[D-type]

Not a flicker!  Canth pros come upwith any ideas?

[nicanary]

I'm embarrassed - I can't think what it can be. Was it a Brabham chassis ?

[D-type]

Not a Brabham chassis.

[nicanary]

Is the engine a small-block Chevy ?

[D-type]

Not a Chevy

[nicanary]

Hepworth ?

[D-type]

Not Hepworth

[nicanary]

Is it a former Formula One car that has been re-engined ?

[D-type]

Yes it is

[neilshouse]

A Lotus 25, Oldsmobile engine?

[nicanary]

BRP ? More specifically, the BRP2 of Geoff Lomas with a 302 Ford V8. Chassis built 1964.

[D-type]

That's close enough.  It's  BRP-Ford 2/64, driven by Kaye Griffiths in the Guards F5000 Championship round at Zandvoort, 10th August 1969.
Here's another picture of the car in the 1970 Tasman Championship.
With a chassis dating from 1964, the car was far from competitive in Formula 5000

[nicanary]

I was floundering a bit, with nothing much on my search engine, and then I belated realised that I owned a copy of Tony Robinson's autobiography. The weird story is all in there - Geoff Lomas drove the car at Oulton Park in 1969, but Kaye Griffiths was the owner and optimistically took the car Down Under for the Tasman championship which was for FA/F5000 cars. The car was a shambles, and the organisers only accepted the entry because the "owner" was Sir Charles Napier. As it happens this august gentleman was a pub frequented by Griffiths and his mates. The car was totally uncompetitive, the team ran out of money, scarpered and left the car behind.

The Tasman organisers loaned the car to Peter Hughes (as in your photo) but it failed again, was left to rot, and was found by Ferris de Joux ( a familiar name on AP) who rebuilt it as an F1 car with a BRM engine, and later on built some more replicas.

PS did I get a point ?