Specialists in Formula, Sports & Classic road car restoration.
In 1958 the late David Hepworth began competing in a Morris 1000 Traveller begining an association with Motorsport and classic cars that the family continues to maintain. The early years were mainly around rallying and hill climbing after many years competing with Morgan,Austin Healey,Cooper,Brabham and David reached his pinnacle winning the British Hillclimb championship in 1969 and 1971 with a self built four wheel drive car the Hepworth Ferguson 4wd (Sandblaster Special) which is still owned by the family (see restoration projects). The early 70's saw the purchase of the entire BRM P154 and 167 Can-am sports car team this saw him competing on the continent in the Interserie series all but one of the P154's and P167'sare also still in the Hepworth family collection. The early 80's saw the building of the Hepworth GB1 Can-am car which was built up around the last ever BRM formula 1 car the P230 unfortunatly the car was substantialy damaged in a testing accident before it got the chance to race, restoration of this car will begin this year after which it will hopefully start its first ever event.
The early 1980's then saw David's sons Andrew and Stephen start to compete, from club karting and begining a journey that has seen them compete in saloon cars, various single seater series including Formula Ford 2000, Formula 3, Formula 3000, sports cars including the Le Mans 24 hours, Daytona, 24 hours, Sebring 12 hours in addition there have been rallies incuding the carrera sudamerica and classic Adalaide this journey still continues mainly at the wheel of historics but also at the helm of Hepworth International recent projects include the rebuild and running of 2 Argo-Chevrolet Group C/GTP cars a Harrier Group C2 ,the Richard Dean Oulton Park Gold Cup winning Reynard/Mugen F3000 along with an ex Johnny Herbert sister car. Road cars include De Tomaso Pantera, Ferrari 365BB and 328, Porsche Speedster approaching completion we have the Cooper/Chevrolet David competed with in 1963/4 recently re-aquired by ourselves after 40 years lying in a nissan hut in Scotland.
The facilities at Hepworth International allow the best opportunity for clients to have there classic cars restored and maintained to the highest standards. With excellent workshop, fabrication, and engineering facilities.
On track back up and support is offered for both modern and classic motorsport with our fully equiped race transporter which is equiped with a large awning allowing a profesional enviroment for team, drivers and sponsors even when traveling around Europe. Recent success has seen a third overall in the standings of the Group C series and taking Nigel Moore to victory in the Ginetta Junior series.
Whether its classic road, single seater sports or GT race cars, rally cars for use or for show Hepworth International can offer the service required.