Norm Scott raced a 203 in the early 60's at Caversham -couldn't beat the Simca but very compeitive.
He also raced a 203 at Claremont Speedway in "Stockies" and was very successful. He won a the first 30 lap for these cars at Claremont with big prize money. (1968-69 I think) I was leading to the last lap(Simca) and he gave me a big hit in Pits Bend and went on to win. Second prize was great $820!!!!!
Couldn't win this in a year roadracing. The smaller cars could out run the Holdens etc by staying down but got belted around a lot and we soon gave it away. Also CAMS threatened to take our Race Licences away.
Vic Watson also had a 203 at Caversham. This was running a 272ci Ford motor and he sat in the back of the car. It was a shocker-handled like a stuck pig and only Vic could have handled it. Vic also built tthe Goggo Special. THis was the little Goggomobile Coupe with a Lancia V6 in the back. He raced this at Wanneroo as well as Caversham. It was very very quick and Vic had some great wins against the bigger bodieb and engined Sports Sedan.
Vics 203 was very quick in straight line and could do something around the 14 sec bracket at Caversham which was slightly uphill.
Rod Slater -top rally driver also raced some odd versions of Renaults.
At one stage he had an R8 with an R4 motor out to about 1700cc with a special cam and the exhaust ports became inlets and the two inlets became exhaust. It had big overheating problems but did it go.
Rod still has his original 1952-3 203 Rally car as far as I know.
Jack Whynoff also raced an R8/10 which was out to about 1800cc. Jack was a Renault specialist and great engineer. This was very quick but handling was not up to performance. Rolled it very spectacularly at Bugatti corner at Caversham -63 Six Hour.
Another strange "frog" was a Simca Aronde with twin cam head. This was built by a guy in Midland Juction from memory. It was a 2.4 Jaguar head cut down to 4 cylinder and obviously a lot of mods done. I never saw it run or installed in the car and driven.
Simcas , Peugeot, Renaults were raced, rallied, gymkhana's , hillclimbed in good numbers in WA and many of the competitors wnt on to great success in various forms of competition.
Perhaps Ray or Wildebeest may have some memories of these as well.
He also raced a 203 at Claremont Speedway in "Stockies" and was very successful. He won a the first 30 lap for these cars at Claremont with big prize money. (1968-69 I think) I was leading to the last lap(Simca) and he gave me a big hit in Pits Bend and went on to win. Second prize was great $820!!!!!
Couldn't win this in a year roadracing. The smaller cars could out run the Holdens etc by staying down but got belted around a lot and we soon gave it away. Also CAMS threatened to take our Race Licences away.
Vic Watson also had a 203 at Caversham. This was running a 272ci Ford motor and he sat in the back of the car. It was a shocker-handled like a stuck pig and only Vic could have handled it. Vic also built tthe Goggo Special. THis was the little Goggomobile Coupe with a Lancia V6 in the back. He raced this at Wanneroo as well as Caversham. It was very very quick and Vic had some great wins against the bigger bodieb and engined Sports Sedan.
Vics 203 was very quick in straight line and could do something around the 14 sec bracket at Caversham which was slightly uphill.
Rod Slater -top rally driver also raced some odd versions of Renaults.
At one stage he had an R8 with an R4 motor out to about 1700cc with a special cam and the exhaust ports became inlets and the two inlets became exhaust. It had big overheating problems but did it go.
Rod still has his original 1952-3 203 Rally car as far as I know.
Jack Whynoff also raced an R8/10 which was out to about 1800cc. Jack was a Renault specialist and great engineer. This was very quick but handling was not up to performance. Rolled it very spectacularly at Bugatti corner at Caversham -63 Six Hour.
Another strange "frog" was a Simca Aronde with twin cam head. This was built by a guy in Midland Juction from memory. It was a 2.4 Jaguar head cut down to 4 cylinder and obviously a lot of mods done. I never saw it run or installed in the car and driven.
Simcas , Peugeot, Renaults were raced, rallied, gymkhana's , hillclimbed in good numbers in WA and many of the competitors wnt on to great success in various forms of competition.
Perhaps Ray or Wildebeest may have some memories of these as well.