Beach Mk 4B s/n 100

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•  #100 was the first Mk 4B chassis, although #101 was actually completed earlier.
• This car was shipped as a kit (unassembled without engine or transmission) to Hugh Grammer of Ft. Worth TX on 9/18/64. Grammer assembled it with a Bandini engine during the winter of 1964-65 with help from Don Westerheide.
• Grammer was very successful racing in 65-67. Don Westerheide and Danny Poor raced it later, also with a Bandini engine. Poor traded the Beach and $1 for a Mini from Overseas Motors.
• Around 1968-69 a 1275 Mini engine was installed by John Sturgess at Overseas Motors. Gary Brizendine built the "Pop-Rivet Special" body for it at this time. Wayne Rutherford raced it some then.
• Walter Mays acquired the car and drove it at races in Texas and Mexico in 1969-70 with the fiberglass body back on it. After the fiberglass body was damaged hauling the car to/from Mexico in the bed of a pick-up, so Gary Brizendine put the "Pop-Rivet Special" bodyback on it. Click here for more info from Richard Elphick.
• In 1970 Jug Latham traded a Huffaker-engined MGB to Mays for the Beach - Latham  put on 1/2 a Studebaker badge and called it the "Stud".
• After a crash at the 1970 ARRC runoffs, Latham rebuilt the car with a Cosworth engine and Lambert body.
• Dennis Hackler raced it in 1974-79 (as the "Mariah") and rebuilt the roll cage after a crash at Green Valley.
• The chassis was then owned by Forrest Tindall & Gerry Strickfaden before going to Frank Sible who restored it with Beach bodywork and a Ford 1600 engine. Gus Meyjes acquired it in 2008 and got it back on track (after 30 years) for its first race in May 2009. See photos below.
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• There has been some confusion in the past over this car. Hugh Kleinpeter wrote in 1995 that Grammer got #100 and then sold it uncompleted to Fred Cox. We now know that is not correct. Fred Cox got a Mk4 kit less engine (s/n 4-001?), probably from Lotus Southwest (Gene Beach is sure he never sold a car directly to Fred Cox), but it wasn't from Hugh Grammer.
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75-Hugh Grammer - Green Valley, 6/5/65 85-Don Westerheide Jabro 27- Reb Folbre Tadpole (photo by Bob Jackson)	75-Hugh Grammer - Green Valley (27- Reb Folbre Tadpole) photo from Reb Folbre (by Bob Jackson)	Hugh Grammar - Green Valley 6/65 Photo from Jerry Melton	Hugh Grammar - Green Valley 6/65 Photo from Jerry Melton
Hugh Grammar - Green Valley 6/65 Photo from Jerry Melton
Hugh Grammer - Green Valley, 6/66 Photo from Jerry Melton	Hugh Grammer - Green Valley, 6/19/66 Photo from Jug Latham
probably Danny Poor Austin 10/8/66 (X indicates novice driver) Photo from Jug Latham	Don Westerheide, Galveston 8/67 (photo from David Seibert)		Grammer's Bandini Engine (photo from David Seibert)
Walt Mays gridded ahead of Lola T-70 - 1969 Polar Prix at Green Valley (Walter Mays first race?) (photo by Richard Elphick)	Start of 1969 Mexico trip (photo by Richard Elphick)	Valle de Bravo, Mexico 1969 (race was cancelled) (photo by Richard Elphick)	Practice at Ricardo Rodriguez Autodrome in Mexico City - Pepe Bosini driving some test laps (photo by Richard Elphick)
Practice at Ricardo Rodriguez Autodrome in Mexico City - Pepe Bosini driving some test laps (photo by Richard Elphick)	Wayne Rutherford? "Pop-Rivet Special", 1969? (photo from John Sturgess)	Walter Mays - San Marcos Texas- May 1970 (photo by Richard Elphick)	Walter Mays - San Marcos Texas- May 1970 (photo by Richard Elphick)
Texas International July 1970 - Jug Latham's first drive (photo by Richard Elphick)	Jug Latham Dallas? Photo from Jug Latham	Jug Latham - 1970 Atlanta ARRC (Runoffs) Photo from Jug Latham	Jug Latham - 1970 Atlanta ARRC ( Runoffs) Photo from Jug Latham
Jug Latham - 1970 Atlanta ARRC ( Runoffs) Photo from Jug Latham	After runoffs Photo from Jug Latham	"Ain't Racing Fun?" Photo from Jug Latham	Jug Latham -  ("Stud" - Lambert body) Photo from Jug Latham
Rebuilt with Cosworth engine Photo from Jug Latham	Rebuilt with Cosworth engine Photo from Jug Latham	"Stud" - Lambert body - Cosworth engine (1974 Log Book Photo)	"Mariah" - Dennis Hackler rebuild ( 1977 Log Book Photo)

1996 Photos from Forrest Tindall

1997 - Photos from Gerry Strickfaden			1997
1997	1997	1999

2008 - For sale - link here

Restored by Frank Sible with 1600 Ford crossflow and Porsche transaxle

2009 - BACK ON TRACK AT LAST - NEW OWNER GUS MEYJES

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