Motorsport History

The proprietor of PMS Motorsport Peter Gilham has over 30 years Motorsport experience. He started karting at the age of sixteen and progressed to Autocross with a 1300cc Ford Anglia.  From there he moved into rallying when he built a 2.1 Pinto powered MKII Escort.  He rallied this car until 1989 when an accident caused the car to be declared a right off.  In October 1989 he finished building its replacement the MKIV Escort which he still competes in today. The MKIV Escort has recently benefited from the installation of a 2.0L 16v normally aspirated Cosworth engine.

During Peter's Motorsport career he has owned many competition prepared vehicles.  Below you will see some of the cars he has used over his 3 decades of Motorsport.

My first proper compitition car. I built it in ???? and used it to autocross for ?? years.

The remains of my MKII escort. This happened when I struck a pothole at 90Mph+. I used the engine when I built my MKIV escort which I still compete in today. I wish council would fill those potholes!!!

I built this car in 1993 from spares I had from my previous MKII escort. This was the only event I competed in with the car. We finnished in ?? place.

This Sieara Cosworth was originally built by ????????. When I bought the car it was a rolling shell. I installed an engine but unfortunatly this is another car I never raced or rallied before I sold it in ????.

This was one of the cars I used to hire out to rally schools. I decided to go out and have some fun in the cars only competitive event.

Robert Gilham, Peters son, who has recently joined the company full time as a qualified vehicle air condition engineer has spent his career also within the motorsports industry.  Starting at the age of 16 teaching people to perform handbrake and J-turns on corporate events, Robert has now progressed into competing and instructing following his father footsteps.