This lot will be auctioned via Iconic Auctioneers, Race Retro Classic and Competition Car Sale 2024 - Competition Cars on Friday the 23rd of February, Stoneleigh Park, Stoneleigh Rd, Coventry, CV8 2LG. , Shy intuitive engineer and vastly underrated driver Derek Bennett was once dubbed Britain’s Enzo Ferrari, yet his most stunning world-beating Chevron cars emerged from the gloom of a lofty old brick-built Lancashire cotton mill in Bolton’s Old Chorley Road.The Chevron story officially started with a pair of beautifully built front-engined sports cars for the quirky new Clubmans Formula of 1965. Bennett himself started a tradition by winning the model’s debut race, at Kirkistown in Northern Ireland. But the prototype GT cars, which followed, paved the marque’s way to international stardom. The ubiquitous B6 and B8 coupes of '67 and '68 took the world by storm, particularly with two-litre BMW 2002 engines, enabling pecunious privateers to take on the world while satisfying the demands of the greatest professional talents – superstars like Lancastrian Brian Redman.Debuted in 1969, the B16 sports racer – arguably the prettiest sports coupé ever to grace the circuits - spawned a long series of two-litre prototypes, much beloved by connoisseurs of the sport then as now. Today, the closed coupés are among the most popular models, but the incredibly agile and quick open Group 6 sports cars derived from a cut-down B16 Spyder (Bennett’s response to Lola’s T210) enjoy a loyal following throughout Europe.The B31 was an evolution of the B26 and featured subtle changes, such as slightly redesigned fibreglass bodywork, but it retained the same basic aluminium
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