I have recently purchased a BT21C that was recently brought into Australia from the US.
The car changed hands as a single seat sports racing car or possibly a Formula Atlantic car around the mid 80's when it was sold to Philippe de Lespinay. Philippe says it had a "not very nice" body on it and was colored yellow and red. Philippe apparently bought the car to take out the FT200 for another project, bought back the original light blue body then removed the sports car type body and associated outriggers. He then sold the remainder on to Russel Baldwin. Philippe bought the car from the Northwest area, and I have found a Portland Oregan sticker on the throttle cable which would indicate this.
Preceding being used as above the car competed as a Brabham single seater with a light blue livery, but I am not sure when this was.
The chassis retains its Arch Motors frame number of 288.
Since purchasing the car, I have had the chassis straightened by an ex Brabham fabricator here by the name of Elwyn Bickley, who after 58 hours on it has made it like new. It was twisted in every bay front, cockpit and rear, and bent as well. Elwyn says that damage usually occurs when a car hits an earth bank and stops very suddenly. The frame is now ready for re-bead blasting and then painting, before the restoration starts.
Some records that came with the car identify it as a BT21C, and certainly the AM number is a very late one which would also indicate this.
If anyone has any memories of a light blue Brabham becoming a yellow and red single seat sports racer, or Formula Atlantic, I would very much appreciate your comments.
Wow, I have just seen there have been 2700 of you that have looked at my request ... thankyou ...
I am the registrar for our Sydney based Club, the HSRCA and try to do my bit for the Historic cause by doing a newsletter for the Atlantic equivalent down here. The last one was 40 pages lots of photos, so if you are interested in seeing what we do down here go to ...
http://www.hsrca.com/wp-content/uplo...sletter-14.pdf
its the 14th one I have done over the couple of years. If you want to be on the email list for them just drop me an email and I'll put you on the list. We've had quite a few of your guys come down the last 3 runnings of our Tasman Revival at Eastern Creek.