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Hi Steve. Rodney Jameson's old red estate YGC7G is an auto and I have an idea that CGF886H (if it's still around) is as well. Ron.

Please...which MK2 Savage Estate do you have? Need to update my records if an old one has moved around or a "new" one has turned up. Cheers!

Is that OUA411F? That (after I found out what a Savage was) was the first Savage I ever knowingly saw. In the car park at Churchill Square, Brighton c1977/8. I saw it again in Southampton in 1982. I'm sure it was just plain Silver then.

Here is CAN189H at Lilford in 1988...complete with 1300E "disguise"....

That's a shame, Steve....Kingsley's a great bloke and a great laugh. We doubled-up for the countryside drive around Devon, during the 1995 meet-up down there and had a riot. We kept in touch for a while afterwards, but then he stopped returning my letters. Maybe he moved without giving me his new address...? I know that around that time, he'd had a bit of a "health scare", but he said that it was all cleared up...maybe it came back.. Anyways, if you DO have any contact with him....please give him my best... Cheers, Ron.

Ahhhh....yes....you're right, of course! Trevor's was CAN189H. Regarding the Weslake 190....I was only repeating what Trevor had told me. I think at the time, he genuinely believed that it HAD the conversion. Yes...VYP19G is another very nice car. I never heard it for myself, but apparently 189H had a knocking sound coming from the engine, causing Trevor to give it the nickname "Knocking Ben".

Steve - VYP14G was one of the cars that Trevor Smith looked at, before he bought CAN187H. It was over here in Eastbourne and on sale for £1,000 in "excellent condition". When Trevor went to look at it, it was full of holes! Needless to say, he walked away! He then went to see CAN187H in Southampton, which was in better nick, and his for £300!! Those were the days!! CAN187H had it all; Twin Tanks, Overdrive and a Weslake 190 lump. Imagine finding that for £300 now!! I have to say, that VYP14G was always my favourite of ALL the Savages I've ever seen (including Rob's!). Do you hear anything from Kingsley nowadays? Has he still got SYP3F?

There is another one on eBay, which I think might be genuine. https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F292643536402 We had a Blue Mink car in the Register in the mid-80s up in Egremont, Cumbria (this is Blue Mink and in Whitehaven) the Reg of that car was YMP240H. There are no plates on this car, but it could be.. It has the yellow area on the rev-counter and VERY similar exhaust headers to the ones JU used.

Hi Steve! What was the Reg of that car? If you knew it, I must have done as well. Hope you're keeping well! Ron.

<blockquote class='ipsBlockquote'data-author="mk2sav" data-cid="675043" data-time="1530739070"><p> Cross purpose talk here - the OP car was <a href='https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1970-Jeff-Uren-built-MK-II-Ford-Cortina-Savage-3-0-V6-Essex/253716711084?hash=item3b12b1c6ac:g:qFIAAOSwq8FbNMFn'>https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1970-Jeff-Uren-built-MK-II-Ford-Cortina-Savage-3-0-V6-Essex/253716711084?hash=item3b12b1c6ac:g:qFIAAOSwq8FbNMFn</a> , which as Tony said earlier in the thread , is a genuine car -personally known that car for about 25years . Steve.</p></blockquote>

First one of these I've seen being driven on the road in more than 30 years. On the A27 Lewes Bypass in East Sussex, around 2030 last night. Cheers, Ron.

It's true that all cars that qualify to bear the "Savage" name, were converted either at Hanwell or Ashburton, by Raceproved/Uren, not all of them were sold directly from his workshops. The four that I've owned, all had different pedigrees; TMC618F - Converted at Hanwell, registered and sold from there. OCD30G - Converted at Hanwell, but registered in Brighton and sold from Endeavour Ford, in Brighton. EMP741J - Converted and registered at Hanwell but sold new, from a Ford Dealer in Andover. GXF745J was first registered in 1970 as a 1600E and converted to Savage spec, by JU in his workshops at Ashburton, Devon, in 1976. Rgds, Ron.

As a general rule, all of the Raceproved cars that were sold direct from Hanwell, had West London registrations and many had sequential numbers - TMC615-624F, VYP11-20G, CGF885-894H, & DUC26-35J for example. Raceproved cars, registered anywhere else, were sold through Ford dealers (aside from the rebuilds he did to customers own cars). Endeavour in Brighton, sold five cars, all Anchor Blue estates - OCD30G, PCD232G, PUF560H, YUF466K plus one other I can't track down. As Steve mentioned, there are a few that were registered in Devon. These were converted by Jeff at his workshop in Ashburton, after he moved down there. He DID sell conversion kits, for customers to apply to their own cars, but I don't believe he supplied any badges for those, as he didn't market those kits under the "Raceproved" banner. As far as the research that Trevor Smith did, none were sold via any dealer in Scotland, Wales or Ireland. An Englishman, living in Switzerland, had to come all the way over to Hanwell to pick his car up, then drive it all the way back! Rgds, Ron.

http://rover.ebay.co...K%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

Here it is, in better days.... A genuine Uren Savage and built to a high spec... Ron.