Full update.
Thanks to several real experts on Ten Tenths over the last 4 months or so I think I have the full history of my T490.
I post this on here incase there are others who might add anything to the details no already known.
'We' think the car is a T490 HU #6 bought in Jan 77 by Ted Toleman
Ted raced it for 3 years with himslf, and others like Daly before going to F2 and F1 fame with the Toleman formula cars.
Ted sold the car to Tony Dickinson who promptly placed a Skoda body on it for Super Saloon racing. It was Tony's 3rd Skoda shot and was sucessful. His 1st and 2nd Skodas were on a Lola chassis too.
Tony sold the car to Harry humberstone who had John Schenieder/Tony Harman add a Karmann Ghia body in pink/black stipeand wing to the tub.
This took a year to do.
Alan Humberstone raced the Ghia once or twice having a crunch at Lydden Hill which finished the car off (by all accounts)
The wreck was sold to Brian at Autoquip who started a rebuild keeping the shattered Ghia body but lost heart. It now had a Sieera Cossie engine/FT 200.
The lot was sold to Mike in 2002 who fancied the car as a sprint hillclimb car and scrapped the shell and did several Lola based mods to the tub, keeping the Cossie/FT200
I bought the car from Mike in 2008 and it looks like this so far. I think the Porsche engine is the cars 6th motor.
The car is destined for hillclimbing.
If anyone has anything to add to this colourful tale, please post on here unless 'sensitive'!
Avid hillclimber, just bought a Lola T 492 to hillclimb.