Chevron built eleven B39 Formula Atlantic cars. Examples were driven by Bobby Rahal and Keke Rosberg in the Formula Atlantic series and the Tasman Series.

British-based Chevron Cars Ltd. was founded by Derek Bennett in 1965. After Bennett died in 1978, the firm continued to prosper in several different arenas, including building replacement parts and continuation models of earlier Chevrons. The early vehicles produced by Chevron were particularly successful in single-seat competition series such as Formula Two, Formula Three, and Formula 5000. The company never seriously competed in F1 (one F1 car was built and ran only in the national-level Aurora F1 championship in Britain).

The Formula Atlantic series was an open-wheel racing program developed in the 1970s. It was used in It was used in professional racing through the IMSA Atlantic Championship until 2009 and is currently primarily used in amateur racing through Sports Car Club of America Formula Atlantic. Formula Atlantic began with the SCCA Formula B class created in 1965. It was a single-seat formula with an engine capacity not to exceed 1600cc in capacity.

Formula Atlantic evolved in the United Kingdom in the early 1970s from the US Formula B rules. It also specified production-based twin-cam engines of 1600cc capacity. It was conceived by John Webb of Brands Hatch as a series with performance similar to Formula two cars but with costs that were more in-line with that of a contemporary Formula Three car.

by Dan Vaughan