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At the end of 1975, Titan stopped building racing cars, but fifty years on these old cars are still bringing many of us a lot of pleasure. I know quite a few of you couldn't imagine driving another marque. The goal of this portion of the website is to share those stories. Over the coming months, I will add articles and letters that appeared in the motoring press and in the Titan Registry Newsletter that I published for almost 10 years. I'm sure many of you have some great stories to share. Please feel free to send them to me and I will post them on the site.

Recently a bunch of new Freatured Articles were created. They're at tht top of the list and marked with this icon . Enjoy.

Here is Fred Opert’s Titan Mk6 Sales Brochure that dates from 1970.

Derek Lawrence Tests Mk6 in America

Though the majority of Titan Cars production came to the United States, there were a handful of Titan Formula Fords that remained in England with much success. The following article discusses Titan's formula ford engine building practice, as well as a short track test of Derek Lawrence’s Mk6. The picture is a photo of Derek in his Mk6

"Happy Go Luke" Article

Speedworld International was a short-lived competitor to Autosport Magazine in the UK. The May 25, 1968 issue featured an article about Charles Lucas, and it is another good read.

Mk3 Track Test

Charles Lucas Engineering was making waves with the introduction of the Titan Mk3 Formula 3 car. Here is an excellent article discussing the features and performance of the new car.

Luke featured in Motor Racing Journal

Charles Lucas Engineering was a serious racing enterprise as discussed in the December 1967 article in MOTOR RACING which is the official journal of the British Racing & Sports Car Club

Peter Lissiuk from Silver Springs Maryland racing a Mk6

When new Titan formula cars were being raced on just about every continent, and they are still being campaigned in historic racing around the world. This article dates from 1974 and focuses on a 22 year old Peter Lissiuk from Silver Springs Maryland racing a Mk6 in Australia’s “Driver to Europe” championship. It is an intriguing story! The article was sent to me by Tony Caldersmith from New South Wales Australia.

Derrick Worthington - Reminiscing about the early days

Motor racing has always been a relatively small community. Many of us are only a couple of handshakes away from some of the more notable people in the sport. Back when Charles Lucas Engineering (ENG) was a leading one liter formula three team, chassis, and engine constructor many talent individuals spent their formative years at the ENG. Derek Worthington is one of those people with skills ranging from engine building, chassis set-up, and team management. The internet has connected people in ways that weren’t possible in years past. Derek stumbled across this website and it prompted his recalling the early & heady days of F3 racing. Here is Derrick’s story.

The Grundig Racing Team In the late 1960s corporate sponsorship of motor racing teams was in its infa ncy. In 1968, formula one racing cars were still painted their national color, but that was soon to change when Lotus acquired sponsorship form a tobacco company. Sponsorship in the lower categories was even less common. but in this article we have an example of a small Scandinavian based Formula 3 team driving Titan Mk3s with sponsorship from Grundig, which was a major European electronics manufacturer. Thank you to Ole Vejlund for sharing photos from the Teams brief existence including some of their early marketing efforts

Grant Walker - NZ FF Championship in a Mk6 back in 1974/75 As told in June of 2020

Grant has recently acquired the actual car he won the Championship in back in 1974/75 and he has done a fantastic full restoration on the car. Nice story of the car's full history.

Howden Ganley's Musings, Classic Driver, Jan-Feb 2016

Howden Ganley was a VIP guest at the 2015 Thunderhill Reunion III. This reprint of his regular "Musings" column in the NZ magazine, Classic Driver will give the reader nice insight into Howden racing history and the neat circles he travels in these days. In this month's column, among his many other travels this winter, he mentions the Titan/Winkelmann Reunion. Here's the link to Classic Driver's website)

P.S. Howden has published a wonderful biographical book, The Road To Monoco, about his life-long racing pursuits and accomplishments. After leaving NZ as a youth to seriously pursue racing, he worked for Bruce McLaren, raced one liter F3 with the likes of Emerson Fittipaldi, Ronnie Peterson, and many others. Went on to race for BRM and Frank Williams in Formula 1, and then started TIGA Racing Cars with Tim Schenken. A great read about "the days" climbing the ladder to F1. The book can be purchased at these USA, UK, and New Zealand outlets.

I met Todd back in 1999 at Buttownwill Raceway near Bakersfield, California. I was a rookie race car restorer and driver with only a handful of events in my wayward Mk9 Titan, and for some reason I decided to attend Cal-Club's 30 anniversary of FF event. We chatted a few times during that weekend and for some reason we quickly became close friends! I was able to convince Todd to restore and race a Mk9, which he has developed into a great handling car. Todd sent me a copy of this article and I think it does a great job of illustrating his passion for the sport.

When I started down this club racing path, I had no idea I would become the Titan registrar. When I first made contact with old Tom (Roy Thomas) I had never heard of one liter Formula 3. Though I was always asking about formula fords, Tom would patiently steer the conversation to the one liter era. On my trips to England, I would go to a couple of specialist motoring bookshops and look for anything related to one liter F3. I learned what a fantastic time it was to be an up and coming racing in F3. When the opportunity to buy the one off Mk3a presented itself, I moved heaven and earth to make it happen and I have no regrets. I'm so privileged to have that car parked in my garage. The sound of that MAE at 10,000 rpm has been worth the effort!