The Classic Sports Car Club Mick Hill Trophy races at Silverstone earlier this month turned the clocks back 50 years to the birth of Britain’s Super Saloon movement he and Tony Hazlewood masterminded in 1974. Hill and Hazlewood loved brawny American V8 engines, and became fan favourites for wrestling mighty cars built around them in their spare time.
Both learned the hard way, saddling ‘bargains’ prone to breakages. Hill’s ex-Richard Scantlebury ‘Janglia’ – a Jaguar-engined Ford Anglia 105E – had a voracious appetite for diffs until he put a Jag rear end in it, before making an evo version. Hazlewood’s apprenticeship was served in the ex-Doc Merfield ‘Fraud’ Cortina Mk1, with 4.7-litre V8 power.
