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The Paul Emery stand at the 1964 Racing Car show exhibited the Emery GT (next to the DART).
From: Wolfgang Melenk
Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 10:46:05 +0200
Hi there,
searching for some info about the Emery GT I found your homepage.
The Emery GT, obviously from Paul Emery, was a coupé with plastic body and Imp engine in central position. This car was published - with picture - in the German annual cars catalogue vol. 1965. The price in UK was 1212 pounds with serial engine, but it was also available in kit car form.
Do you have any knowledge about it?
Best regards - Wolfgang Melenk, Hamburg/Germany
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AZ of sports cars / by Mike Lawrence
"Emery GT, 1963
Although it was designed to be a practical road car, the Emery GT was a natural racer and in 1963 John Markey won his class 15 times from 16 starts. That was not enough to save the project when the backer died."
| engine | a tuned Hillman Imp engine mounted at the rear |
| gearbox | the Imp gearbox inverted |
| chassis | space frame chassis |
| suspension | all-round independent suspension by coil springs and wishbones, anti-dive at the front, anti-dip at the rear |
| body | The prototype had an aluminium body, and because it was constructed
on an uneven floor one door sill was deeper than the other, so the
doors were of different sizes. Emery's response was typical... "So
what? You can't see both sides at once". The three other examples built had fibreglass bodies taken of the prototype and these were bonded unto the spaceframes. |
| production | 4 |
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'Klaus' at ten-tenths.com saw an Emery GT with an Imp engine at the Nuerburgring in 1966 doing the 500km race. The driver might have been John Mockford, Klaus is not 100% sure. The car did not finish. It retired at section Hohe Acht, the highest point of the track. Klaus speculates that perhaps the engine overheated as a result of the ascending 3 miles from the bottom at Breitscheid. Apparently most cars stopping at that high part of the Ring, do so because of overheating problems.
The Emery at the Ring 500km in 66 was dark green, had a very long-tailed boot (LeMans Alpine A63 like) with a huge rear window.
The photo Klaus supplied is called Emery 66 front, suggesting there is also a photo of the rear...
According to Rob29, the Emery GT was a regular at British club meetings around 1966, driven by John Markey.
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'Klaus' also sent in a photo to ten-tenths.com of the Ring in 1964, with the 500km race showing the north curve, with a low-nose-bonnet Marcos Fastback against a Diva, a rare Emery, a flock of DKW, BMW 700 , BMW Martini, Saab , Mini and Abarth.
There is also a video of this Nürburgring race in 1964, which briefly shows the earlier short tailed coupé. [1963]
Later Emery built 12 highly tuned Emery GTIs: Imps with their roofs chopped down by four inches. The 500 km run of 1965, 5th Sept. on the Nürburgring had an Emery GTI listed (Emery - Hillman Imp GTI), entered by Paul Emery in group P850, driven by Bob Beavers, comp.no. 35. It did 13 laps, but did not finish. The other Emery entrant was an Emery - Hillman Imp in group P1.0, driven by Emery / Jeremy Delmar-Morgan, comp.no. 23. This one did not finish either, after 12 laps.
From: S. Bertrand in San Francisco, California
Subject: Emery GT
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009
[...] Imps make nice vintage racers, but are very rare here. I am seeking information on Emery GTs. I know that one came to the US. It was white in color, had a 'Scuderia Stiletto' decal on it and a 1964 Brands Hatch decal on it as well. It appeared to be Imp based and not Ford 105e based as the Markey car. I wonder if any of your viewers might know of or have any pictures/ information other than those on your website regarding any Emery GTs.
From: Ray H Gay
Sent: Sat, Apr 2, 2011
[published with permission]
Came across your site when looking for remnants of Scuderia Stiletto, a loosely knit racing group based in Germany in the 60s. I think I remember seeing an Emery GT, white, at Klaus Fritzinger's shop in Kaiserslautern one time in about 1965. I had driven a racing Mini over there from Ramstein to get a new exhaust pipe installed and I had never seen an Emery before that. I was new to the group and didn't know all the driver/owners yet, so I don't know who it belonged to. One of our members raced an Imp - his name was Jerry something. Last time I saw him was at a hillclimb not far from Ramstein. We always called it the Hillman Pimp.
Scuderia Stiletto was formed originally by Major George Esser, a UASF officer and engineer stationed at Ramstein. He did tuning on customer cars and had a brand new BMW 1800 TI which was a very impressive sedan in the day. The operation was taken over by Bill Vanderford (aka Blue Bill – military people commonly raced under pseudonyms) after George returned to the states and Bill stayed several years, up to about 1969 or 1970, racing around Germany and France, subsidizing with the tuning business. Steve "Yogi" Behr (as Mr PCA) was a member, as was Fritzinger. I remember one of our members was a tech rep out of Denmark with a brand new Cooper/BMC F3 car. It was a beauty then and priceless now – it stayed at our shop one night. Bill and Steve are still alive and kicking up their heels – Bill in a spec Miata and Steve building a GT Prototype for ALMS. I sold my GT3 Datsun a couple of years ago and am now nursing a BMW 635 back to life.
I have maybe the only existing Scuderia Stiletto decal, but it is a later blue/white rectangular and not the circular one.
Ray H. Gay
 S. Bertrand [23 Nov. 2011]: The white Emery GT seen in the US years ago. |
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 S. Bertrand [23 Nov. 2011]: GT seen in the US. Subject of e-mail: Emery GT Scuderia Stiletto |
From: S. Bertrand (via Stephen Booth)
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011
Regarding the Emery GT cars, there was indeed a white fiberglass car owned by a collector in the San Francisco area. I saw it several years ago and took a picture. It had the circular Scuderia Stilleto badge on it. It was complete except for engine and trans. Frame was brazed joined. Everything there waiting for restoration. I wonder if this was the same car seen by Mr. Gay in the 60s in Germany, and maybe brought to the US by fellow identified by Mr. Gay who founded Scuderia Stilleto. If I can find any pictures, I will try to forward the same.
S. Bertrand
The Encyclopaedia of Motor Sport / Nick Georgano. - at p.435
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4 Sep 1966 John Markey entered and drove a Emery GT Ford (comp.#24) in the Nrburgring 500 Km, in group WCS (Prototype 1000), but he DNF.
It was dark green, had a very long-tailed boot (Lemans Alpine A63 like) and a huge rear screen.