Chevron B36 (Group 6)
The B36 is the 2-litre line's Group 6 finale: the 1976-78 spyder whose Le Mans class careers — the ROC-and-Chrysler-engined French campaigns among them — closed Bolton's sports-racing decade before the house's tragedy.
History
Chevron's 2-litre sports-racing line reached its Group 6 finale with the B36 (1976): the B31-lineage architecture's world-championship-era specification — the class's engine variety (BDG staples, the ROC-Chrysler French campaigns' 2-litre units, BMW fitments per customer) — racing the era's endurance map: Le Mans's 2-litre class careers (the French privateer entries' class honours through the late-seventies runnings), the World Championship for Makes' 2-litre divisions, and the European hillclimb-and-national campaigns the customer fleet served — the line's development ending with the house's tragedy (Derek Bennett's 1978 hang-gliding death, the Bolton story's close) that made the B36 era the marque's sports-racing testament.
The French campaigns' texture is the type's particular story: the ROC-Chrysler engine partnership's national-championship logic, the Le Mans entries' class-focused strategies (finishing the 24 hours at two-litre pace the whole art), and the privateer economics that kept Bolton's customers racing at La Sarthe while the prototype war spent fortunes above them.
The testament identity prices the type: the Bennett-era construction's final sports-racing chapter, the Le Mans-class provenance layer (the French campaigns' documented careers), and the register scholarship's usual apparatus.
The present is historic Group 6 custody: the 2-litre revival's era-extension grids, engine-variety precision per chassis, and the Bolton romance's closing-chapter affection.
Palmarès
Le Mans 2-litre class honours through the French-campaign runnings, World Championship divisional results and national titles — the testament's ledger.
What to check before you buy
Testament-tier law: register scholarship per chassis (the run's identities and campaign histories — Le Mans-career provenance the premium layer), engine-variety precision (BDG-versus-ROC-versus-BMW fitment histories pricing specifications per the era's customer options), and Bennett-era construction forensics at the closing chapter's stakes. Group 6 revival eligibility structures the racing life; the tragedy-testament romance (the house's story closing with the line) prices the affection layer the marque's collectors carry. Engine-first economics per fitment as the era demands.
Did you know
- The testament chapter: the B36 era closing Bolton's sports-racing decade before the hang-glider took its genius.
- The ROC-Chrysler campaigns were the French connection: Le Mans class careers on engines the British class wars never ran.
- Engine variety was the customer truth: BDG, ROC and BMW fitments making per-chassis specification the scholarship's daily work.
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