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[QUOTE=allenbrown]I needed a break from BT35 speculation so here's a few things I spotted about Barton's cars while looking up March 802s:
Close season stock:
Autosport advert 29 Jan 1981 p53
March 78/79 B Atlantic or Hill Climb car available with or without spare tub
March 772P/77B Atlantic or Hill Climb car rebuilt with new tub Aug 1980.
He raced up to:
Scotcircuit 26 Apr (AS 7 May 1981 p45) : March-Hart 782
but then (Autosport 7 May 1981 p42)
"Barton wrote off his March 792 in practice at Croft on Easter Monday". He was "just getting the car sorted after fitting a Hart 420R over the winter to replace the Atlantic unit fitted in 1980". The engine is OK and "Andy has another tub to rebuild the car around".
Allen,
In the following weeks:
Oulton 9 May (AS 21 May 1981 p50) : March-Hart 772
Mallory 10 May (AS 21 May 1981 p47) : March-Hart 792
Scotcircuit 17 May (AS 28 May 1981 p48) : March 782 ("rebuilt")
AS 11 Jun 1981 p43: March-Hart 792
AS 25 Jun 1981 p54: March-Hart 78/792
So did he stick the Hart in the back of his old 772P/77B for the weekend of 9-10 May and then rebuild his 782/79B around a "new" tub in time for the next weekend?
Allen, we know the 77B was ex-Ian S from ZA, and think the 782/79B/792 was ex-Hoffman. I'm intrigued by the Mallory 81 May 10 meet. I haven't got a prog from it, so presume I wasn't there (A-levels looming maybe the reason I missed it !!), what was the meeting/race Andy was in ? I can't think he'd have stuck the Hart in the 77B would he, did he borrow a real 772, the ex-Dickson one maybe?
I saw the 782/79B on July 5 '81, at the Donington Open race, supporting the Belgian Touring Cars (really!), it was entered as a "782 Hart". Andy quallied well down, perhaps running it in (?), but cane thru' to 2nd behind Val M's 'Bennepaldi'.
Some interesting stuff out in that race - Muter in the Barton, Corridon in the Lyncar ('79 ex-Villota?), Kenny Stone non-started a '74B', Travis in a '772P' (which I'm sure it wasn't) BDA, Robinson & Booth in B48s, Malkie in the ex-Jim C/Keke B45. Plus sundry others.
In the supporting 'International Atlantic Race', Bob Howlings has his scruffy B29, Tyrrell Arnold the 2nd Argo JM9, Jim Evans the Kim 792 (which Jim E owned), and Malcolm Hull in the Neil Fletcher Racing '782' - this one I've mentioned before, no idea what it was.
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