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Druids Bend is the best part of Brands for a Caterham driver - especially if you're sharing a session with cars that have doors, like Ferraris, Porsches, and BMWs. The drawbacks of heavy, powerful cars become visibly obvious. I had a 140hp Caterham with a windscreen, so the big motors would come back (and past) on the start/finish straight, but that was just another opportunity for re-passing in the twisty bits.

I used to work in Feltham, near James Whiting's bike-engined Seven shop. Sounds like Mr Peck had a similar specialty. The 1984 car is nothing like either of those. I'm having trouble uploading the image, but it looks like a short wheelbase Caterham, with few differences. It would be easy to imagine that Caterham would have given them the same legal treatment that Westfield received. How they turned that into surviving as an "authorized manufacturer" must be a lost story.

A 1984 car made by them has made its way south into Seattle, and I assumed that it was a product of the pre-litigation era, but... The web site for this company is up, and they are currently offering new cars. The Caterham UK site links to many countries, but not Canada, so one assumes that they aren't friendly with each other. The Super 7 Sports Car Co describe themselves as "Canada's only Factory Authorized Caterham Manufacturer." Not "distributor", but "manufacturer". They say that the cars are manufactured on Victoria Island in British Columbia. https://www.super7cars.com/index.html I'm really curious what the story is. The older car makes no claims to be a Caterham, as the new cars do.