Grot chassis ??, Another larry ward car Options

[Chris Frost]

I had a chat with John Goldsmith at the week end, he used to run the Heron club at Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk He owned a Grot chassis or two way back when, and this is what he told me.

Grot chassis were built by Andy Murrow and Carl Nichols, they were both members of the Heron club, as far as John can remember they were both at school when they built the chassis. Larry Ward was also a Heron club member at the time. Apparently the C in the serial number means Carl built that particular one. John confirms the Reginald Perrin TV series was where they got the Grot name from.

John also mentioned a couple of other local builders.
Chuck Palmer was also a member of Heron. Chuck was an American serviceman stationed at a nearby US Airforce base. He built other chassis for sale as well as the F32s.
Nigel Harvey built chassis under the Streakers name. The Streakers' logo was a running "matchstick man", that'll be found engraved on the chassis.

[superhornets]

Hi Guys
Well there we are another mystery solved ,well done chris ,I am sure there are a few more out there that we havn,t covered yet who knows?
Cheers tony

[merkit the grof]

Chris

Thanks for taking the time to dig around, most interesting.



Joel