Topic: SOLVED: WTH # 386 - 1969 Rawlson CR6 w Holbay-prepared engine

[sixtee5cuda]

For car #41 on the right, specify the name, driver, and powerplant

[sixtee5cuda]

Rookies don't like race cars?

Up!

[sixtee5cuda]

Up again!

[shamrock]

LYDDEN HILL CIRCUIT, CAR IS A RAWLSON ,,DRIVER

[serra]

Late but I had only the car and powerplant

[nicanary]

Rawlson CR6 1.0 MAE.

[serra]

This was that I had, I thought it could be the same car.

[sixtee5cuda]

Too many answers, and none of them complete.  Also, the information I have is incomplete or contradictory. 

The car is a Rawlson CR6.  For all the information on the internet to be correct (!), more than one of these needs to have existed.  Gerry Marshall's son indicates "the" CR6 was rebodied to become "the" CR7.

My source indicated the engine was called Holbay, although it may simply have been an MAE prepared by Holbay, or equipped with a Holbay head.

A former owner of this car:

http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=29513

indicates that Mike Rawlings bought the Lotus-Rotorvic, rebodied it and changed the engine, creating the Rawlson CR6.  The Rawlson competed for several years.  After retirement, it was eventually re-united with the Rotorvic V12.

One point awarded to nicanary for being close enough.

[sixtee5cuda]

Also, I discovered my information on the driver was incomplete.  I thought it was Mike Rawlings, but he was not the only driver of the CR6

[nicanary]

Also, I discovered my information on the driver was incomplete.  I thought it was Mike Rawlings, but he was not the only driver of the CR6

The car was driven in the 1971 Motoring News GT Championship by Mike Yeomans. This photo looks awfully like a race from that series. If I could see the decals it would help - the sponsor was Cona Coffee.

[shamrock]

CONA COFFEE  went on to sponsor martin Biranne