The Phantom story dates back 51 years to 1973, when Jaguar engineers Chris Greville-Smith and Richard Cresswell built their first Clubmans car. Cresswell won his class in the 1974 Silverstone-based Tricentrol championship, but CG-S - who subsequently transferred to Ford - continued the project solo, racing and developing his chassis and building a handful more, among them the ex-Kimber Crossley/David Childs P79 still raced by Steve Chapman.
Arguably the most consistent challengers to Mallock’s offerings over the period, Phantoms were subsequently created by several firms, including John Maguire Racing in Coventry, before being taken over by Jan Nordgren in Sweden, from whom Alex Champkin acquired the project. Greville-Smith still engineers cars, helping recent Brands Hatch race winner Michelle Hayward in Tom Commander’s Zetec-engined P82TR.
