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James Jordans Twin Cam
Updated 08/04/2014
End of update.
Flemming Rassmussen from Denmark bought a Mk1 Twin Cam from Ford and raced it from 1968. The Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) is believed to have been BB49HC24886. The VIN number indicates it as being a very early Halewood May 1968 Lotus TwinCam Escort.
Flemming MK1 (1)
Chassis Number 2
Flemming had an accident on track at and wrecked the car. Bo “Emma” Emanuelsson bought the damaged car from Flemming and repaired it for racing
(Picture of crash2)
The repaired car was raced by Bo in 1969. He proceeded to scrap the car/shell as he believed it to be un-safe.
Extract from Bo /Raymond e-mail” 4/11/2013
“The car that he bought from Flemming is not this car! That was repaired and raced by Bo in a red colour with sponsring from a Swedish magasin *BILSPORT'. So, we can forget the story with Flemming....... What happened to that car he don't remember. He also said that that car should never have been repaired!!! It was so badly damaged. But as we talked the memory came back, so we will keep contact if something new comes up.”
Bo then purchased a new heavy duty Shell from British Vita in the UK (Bo stamped BB49HC24886 number from Flemings car on inner wing) E-mail extract from Ralf Petterson as result of request by Vincent Caro from the FIA sent Thu 3/21/2013 7:42 AM
“Dear Mr. Jordan
I called Mr. Emanuelsson about his Escorts.
He told me, that every year he built a new car from raw chassis he bought from GB.
The chassis numbers were stamped by himself.
He also built a lot of cars for customers.
In 1970 he bought a crashed car from Denmark.
In 1971 he had a green/white (typo/Black) car with BRM engine and injection
In 1972 he had a blue/white Timex car with 1800cc BDA engine
In 1973 he had a 2-litre BDA engined car
Best regards
Ralf”
http://www.fia.com/node/1198/submission/1259
FEDERATION INTERNATIONALE DE L'AUTOMOBILE
2 Chemin de Blandonnet CH 1215 Geneva 15 - Switzerland
Commission Internationale de Karting (CIK-FIA)
Phone : +41 22 544 4400
Fax : + 41 22 544 4450
Email : vcaro@fia.com
Web : www.fia.com
His mechanics Raymond Pettersson and Paul Engstroem completed the preparation the car for competition.
Paul and Ray with car when Green and Black (very old picture)
Extract from Bo /Raymond e-mail” 4/11/2013
“The Green / Black car was built from a new, emty bodyshell in Bo,s garage in Gothenburg by Bo and his mecanic Paul Engstroem.. He do not remember but he had some thoughts that the emty shell was bought from British Wita (British Vita) or any other company connected to Ford Motorsport. He had also ordered a BDA from BRM, but they could not deliver due to they were full up with their Formula one project. Therefore they let Bo use one of their own Twin-Cams for the season 1971. He is not shure if the engine were sent back to BRM or if they sold it in Sweden. The car had a ZF 5-speed gearbox, 4-link rear suspention with watt-link and coilovers. The leafspring was just a dummy due to the regulations. The car was right hand drive.”
British Vita was contracted by Ford/Boreham to prepare under contract FTW47H cars for Ford.
Car had been modified for race purposes with inboard turrets, enlarged Gearbox tunnel, and rear wheel-well tubs cut and raised inside car to enable it to run lower. 4 link rear end similar to FTW47H (on sale at Oakfields www.oakfields.com) Vita prepared one of the 3 contract world cup cars.
FTW47H
Bo Raced in Twin cam livery with a BRM twin cam from 1969 to 1971 car was painted Black and Green results on separate sheet
BRM Twin Cam in Green and Black car
Bo struck a deal with Timex to run a sponsored team 6 Cars & Drivers
Bo’s MK1 was the first of the Timex cars and his personal race car.
Extract from Bo /Raymond e-mail 4/11/2013
“Hallo James and Par.
I have now spent 45 minutes with Bo. We tried together to find out the proper history of the car. He has also seen your pictures and he is shure and can confirm it is his old car !! “
Bo/Timex painted the car in TIMEX (Blue and white) colors with a BDA
Bo/Timex Installed a BDA 1790cc and raced by Bo through 1972
Bo Emmaneulason/Timex won the Swedish Touring championship in 1972
Andres Waerner also raced car through end or 1973. Extract from from Vincent CARO FIA 3/20/2013
The entry list of that event shows that there were other Escort BDA entered by the Timex Racing Team : the one of Bo « Emma » Samuelsson, used by Ronnie Peterson, plus two others, driven by Lennart Hall (Sweden) and Better Diesen (Norway). A Timex Escort BDA has also been driven by Sweden’s Anders Waerner (but in 1972 apparently).
FEDERATION INTERNATIONALE DE L'AUTOMOBILE
2 Chemin de Blandonnet CH 1215 Geneva 15 - Switzerland
Commission Internationale de Karting (CIK-FIA)
Phone : +41 22 544 4400
Fax : + 41 22 544 4450
Email : vcaro@fia.com
Web : www.fia.com
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Car went back to Bo in 1973 and was sold off sometime afterwards. Not sure who to or date of sale
Car was bought and stored in somewhere in Stockholm to 1992 when it was then sold
Henrik Andersson from Kanalgatan 11A, 61231 Finsprang Sweden bought the shell from the dealer in Stockholm. Henrik installed drive train, convert to LHD, installed roll gage, and did some minor mod’s including re-paint to the current paint scheme ready for the Yokohama cup. Car was fitted with a Volvo engine and rear axle. Herick had car inspected by Svenska Billsportforbundet NR; 21-75 papers competition papers issued. Henrick Raced the car in Sweden with a Volvo engine. (Note some details incorrect on papers)
Swedish Club papers
Wow, what a read! Words & pictures supplied by James Jordan. Billy.
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