Clubmans Cars from the 1970's
	Car: Beagle Mk IV Constructor/Driver: Jim Yardley Date taken: October 1977
The Beagle had an enclosed rear end with a distinctive long tail design. Viewed from the top, this car was similar in looks to sports racers and featured parallel sides, with cutouts for the front wheels, from the nose cone to the rear. The full race engine, featuring a Cosworth crankshaft and camshaft, and twin 44 IDF Webers was situated beside the driver. A magnesium gearbox with 2000E ratios fed the power to a VW transaxle that was part of a fabricated, tubular beam axle with magnesium uprights. Axle location was taken care of by parallel radius arms and a panhard rod. The front suspension was a double wishbone set-up with Shadow DN1 F1 uprights.
	Car: Gryphon C74A Engine: Swindon Ford 1600cc Driver: Chris McNab Date taken: August 1975
	Car: Magnum C75A Configuration: front engine, rear-wheel drive Driver: Tim Wood Date taken: September 1975
Tim Wood raced a Magnum C74A during the 74 season, which was followed in 1975 by the Magnum C75A. It featured a slightly rounded cross section compared to other designs. It is evident how low to the ground the spaceframe chassis is, if you look above the racing numbers to see the intake trumpets for the two, twin choke Weber carburettors of the Holbay prepared motor.
	Car: Norton Mk 6 Engine: Ford 1600cc Constructor/Driver: Tony Norton Date taken: May 1978
This strange, wedge-shaped car, completed a year earlier by its driver, incorporated some good ideas. The clean, uncluttered lines reduced wind resistance and produced good straight-line speed without sacrificing cornering speed. Viewing this car from above would show it featured side pods, sweeping gracefully from the front suspension to cover the rear wheels. A Longman tuned engine, giving about 130bhp, was connected to the ex-Gryphon rear axel by a Lotus Cortina gearbox and prop shaft. The engine, a structural member, had twin 45 DCOE Webers feeding petrol into a pre-crossflow head.
	Car: Raffo Mk V Driver: Ian Clark Date taken: April 1978
This car used the sit-up-and-beg driving position popular in Formula 1 at the time to produce a short wheelbase car which would have gained a weight saving. The engine in this car was a Formula Ford unit.