Argo Chassis Numbers

Group C or GTP cars

Chassis Engine Year Group First owner - Next owners (year) Comment
JM16/097/GTP Mazda 1983 GTP Jim Downing  
JM16/098/GTP Mazda 1984 GTP Jim Downing/Marsh  
JM16/099/GTP DFV 1984 GTP Courtney  
JM16/100/GTP DFV 1984 GTP St. James  
JM16/101/GTP Buick 1984 GTP Don Bell  
JM16/102/GTP Buick 1984 GTP Charles Morgan During 1985 IMSA season was raced variously as Argo JM16 and Royale RP39 or RP40.
JM16/103/GTP DFV 1984 GTP Argo Cars Ltd. =PC Automotive (Richard Piper-1986) Later acquired by Hugh Kleinpeter and re-numbered as Royale RP40.001 . Then sold to Richard Piper and fitted with Mitsubishi engine before reverting to DFL.
JM16/104/GTP Mazda 1985 GTP Corazzo  
JM19/106/GTP Mazda 1985 GTP Fowells  
JM19/107/GTP Mazda 1985 GTP Jim Downing ... => Ralph Thomas The car won 3 IMSA Lights championships in 1985-87 driven by Downing/Maffuci. This car was the basis for the Kudzu chassis later built by Jim Downing. Later raced by Ralph Thomas in HSR Thundersport series. Winner of Camel Lights class in 1997 and 1999 while winning in 1999 overall.
JM19/108/GTP Mazda 1985 GTP Marsh  
JM19/109/GTP Mazda 1985 GTP Frank Rubino => Jim Downing ... => Dennis Spencer Won Lights class at 24H Daytona in 1987. It was purchased by Downing as a team car to JM19-107 and campaigned in the Panasonic colors of Hiro Matsushita. It is now (2000) campaigned in the HSR International Thundersport Cup Series in the U.S. by Spencer.
JM19/110/C2 Zakspeed 1986 C2 Schanche - Dahm Racing (1987) From 1987 Porsche engine.
JM19/113/GTP Buick 1986 GTP O'Neill  
JM19B/116/C2 Zakspeed 1987 C2 Schanche  
JM19B/117/C2 DFV 1987 C2 Hans Egenter => Ruedi Jauslin (1989) => ?, Japan or USA (1998)  
JM19B/118/GTP Ferrari 1987 GTP J. Braun  
JM19B/120/C2 Motori-Moderni 1987 C2 Jean-Pierre Frey => Josef Sacher(Dollop Racing) Wittwer put Judd engine in it when raced by Sacher.
JM19C/121/C2 DFV 1988 C2 Schanche  
JM19C/122/C2 DFV 1988 C2 Piper (PC Automotive)... => Mike Wright (owner in 2000) Entry in 1988 WSC bought by Cooke from Mark Wright in 2001
to be raced in Group C-GTP series
JM19C/124/C2 DFV 1988 C2 Messauodi (MT Sport)= France Prototeam (1989) = Dieter Bergermann (1989) = Michael Schuster (1997) Modified by Bergermann in 1991 and then entered as BGN-Argo Judd.
Erhard Motorsports Austria Sold the car in USA Colorado . The Cosworth replaced with a carbureted Chevrolet V-8 - restored.
JM19C/125/C2 Chevrolet 1988 C2 N. Burke  
JM19C/127/C2 Chevrolet 1989 C2 Hans Egenter => Robert Dubler (1997) In 2000 still owned by Robert Dubler.
JM19D/128/C2 Chevrolet 1989 C2 Walter Friedrich => Josef Binder (1996 or earlier) => Nick Randall, USA (1999) Raced in Interserie and Euroserie by Binder. Still owned by Randall in 2000.
JM19D/129/C2 DFV 1989 C2 Helmut Bross  
JM19D/130/C2 DFV 1990 C2 Wittwer Used as works entry at Le Mans 24 Hours 1990.
JM20/131/C DFV 1990 C1 Wittwer  
JM20/132/C Chevrolet 1991 C1 Helmut Bross => Bruno Baur, CH (~1996)  
JM16---         Built in the Argo works but without being numbered acquired by Hugh Kleinpeter to U.S. It was raced as Royale RP40-002
JM20/WSC001 Chevrolet   WSC => Team Cascandia (1998) Ordered by Stan Wattles as GTP car but wasn't completed. It was shipped over in pieces to be completed by Mike Collucci (MCR). The car was never completed as a GTP car, and was instead modified to be a WSC car and numbered WSC001. Raced by Blake Pridgen/Jeff Jones in 1996/97 then by Ed Zabinski/Shane Lewis in 1998.

Group CN Argo JM21

Chassis Engine Year Group Comment
JM21/133/C3 Alfa Romeo 3.0   CN Raced by Gerhard Ludwig 1998 and Roland Mittländer in 1998-1999.
JM21/134/C3 Alfa Romeo 3.0   CN Raced by Freddy Küng in 1995-1998.
JM21/136/C3 Alfa Romeo 3.0   CN Raced by Robert Hahn in 1994-95.
JM21/138/C3 Alfa Romeo 3.0   CN Raced by Franco Foresti in 1996-2000.
JM21/139/C3 Alfa Romeo 3.0   CN Raced by Josef Binder in 1993-95. Raced by Adolf Gärtner in 1996-2000.


This list is not complete. Missing chassis numbers were probably built as JM21 too.