Ginetta G15R

The Ginetta G15R was a lightweight racing development of the rear-engined Ginetta G15 sports coupe, built for the Modsports category of British club racing. According to the Ginetta Owners Club, before the 1971 season the husband and wife racers Roger and Alison Davis asked Ginetta to supply a lightweight body and chassis on which they could build a Modsports G15 with their own fully rose-jointed suspension, very wide wheels and wide arches. The factory then built a similar car for Barry Wood to drive as a works entry, and that car won the 1972 Modsports Championship. The body carried a full roll cage and a bonnet air extractor for cooling, and power came from the rear-mounted Imp engine of the standard G15. The club lists a production of three cars, noting one damaged and one missing, and records that Wood's car was destroyed on 25 August 1975 when it hit a marshals' post at Castle Combe.