My passion for F2's/superstox have always been strong since these early days at Cowdenbeath although it wasn't until I was in my 30's that I actually bought one. The chance came when I read one of these "loot" type papers. As I read through the car section I came across an F2 for sale which required a fair bit of work to make it raceworthy. It was Sunday and not much was happening so after a phone call I went to view the car. I had no intentions of buying , it was something to do on a Boring Sunday morning. As the add said the car had seen better days, I looked around it but to be honest I knew absolutely nothing about the set-up and neither did the guy who was selling it. It had been in his garage for about four years and his pal had it a few years before him. Between the two of them it had just gathered rust. I went home but couldn't stop thinking of the idea of buying it. I discussed it with my wife saying it could be a project I Could work on with the kids.Through family pressure she agreed, I was ecstatic, the kids were delighted and my wife was .....well. I made a quick phone call and asked the guy how much he was asking, he said not less than £200 and that was that. That night the deal was settled and the car was sitting in my drive with half the housing estate gathered around my car. I was like a proud father of a new-born child. Little did I know in comparison to children it was down hill and grief all the way from there.

The next day I started to strip the car right back to the basics, surprisingly the parts, nuts and bolts were not seized perhaps due to the amount of times it had a paint job and oil leaked from the engine. I buffed the 3 layers of paint that had accumulated over the chassis and took it right back to the metal, then repainted it in  hammerite silver. My pal Alan took the small parts to his work and shot blasted them, radius arms, coil springs of the spax adjustable suspension etc. At this point I decided to investigate the origins of the car. I visited a guy I knew in the village (Carronshore) who constructs 2 litre saloon cars (Tully Motorsport), a great guy who talks about stockcar racing with a passion, he came to look at my car informing me that it was an old Forsyth chassis and was still fairly straight with a 70mm box section running parallel through the middle. The set-up was adjustable shocks on the front and leaf springs on the rear with side tubes running from the roof to support the leafs. A further two tubes ran from the roof to the front of the car. After more investigating on my own it appeared that the car would be more suited to shale (there's no shale tracks in Scotland) and it looked that due to the extra weight it was carrying it would not be competitive, however in comparison to some lightweight cars the damage inflicted to the car might be less than others this could be a bonus when your learning the ropes. I still haven't  worked out who the car had belonged to or its racing history, I do know the number  was 521 and might have raced at Newtongrange (promoter Gordon McDougall's first track) one other clue is that on the left foot rest pedal is welded the name P Bear......cont.