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A range of sports-racing Piper cars, GT coupé and Formula 3 single seaters, designed by Tony Hilder, was offered by George Henrotte, a former 500cc driver. Composite structures were adopted on the Piper car – a platform chassis with tubular appendages was used for the sports Piper car, with an alloy and glassfibre body. Coil/ damper unit suspension was adopted. Various Ford and BMC engines were fitted in Piper cars. The Piper GT coupé was developed by a separate company under Brian Sherwood as the GTT, and during 1969 a few of the GTR racing Piper cars were built, with 2-litre BRM and BMW engines as well as Ford. Plans were afoot for a new single-seater and road and racing V8-engined Piper cars. After Sherwood died at the end of the year the Piper car firm concentrated only on the Piper GTT two-seater, with square-section chassis tubing and 1600 Ford GT engine, priced as a complete kit at £1.355. About 50 Piper car kits were sold before they were phased out in favour of the Piper P2 in 1971. This Piper car was a basically similar but longer, wider car with better roadholding, pop-up headlamps and other detail changes. A 2-litre Ford engine was used in the 1973 Piper car model.
Source: Georgano, encyclopedia of motorcar; DF
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