Well.... it did in Britain! Sarah and I went from Great Missenden to Lands End to John O'Groats and back to Great Missenden in my 1952 Flat Rad +4....a distance of well over 1000 miles. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53591937428_efb0e55661_h.jpg Did it go well.....of course it did! Our Morgan w...
I stumbled across this youtube video of Mark's Flat rad, https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53590854407_064858b08a_h.jpg KUY As was A good watch and well done Mark! https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53591184287_e27dbdb6da_k.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53591728251_841584eb92_k.jpg KUY ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKXcFVRnsMo TOK and XRX 1 at Brands Hatch in the PECO trophy starting at Mid day on Boxing Day 1962. You need to forward and pause at about 11:50 The Program is here https://www.progcovers.com/motor/brands621226.pdf TOK is still in her green Le Mans 62 guise, XRX is i...
Plateau 1 Race 3 Sunday A perfect celebration of Phil's life with all Morgans completing 6 laps. Simon in DLJ was the first british Morgan home closely followed by Graeme and third was Leigh. Simon did not see Graeme alhough only a few seconds seperating them as he said to me "Graeme was runni...
Plateau 1 Race 2 Saturday evening The devastating news from the UK that Phil lost his struggle with life. Perhaps a fitting tribute was made by Graeme in bringing Phils Series 1 Morgan home ahead of all the other Morgans. Simon and Leigh followed Graeme home all completing another 6 laps.....the ve...
Race 1 Saturday Plateau 1 The French series 1 won!!! This was a real surprise to me but perhaps not as it is the ex avdk car. Simon was the first of the Brits , then Graeme and Leigh. All completed 6 laps. The French had the fastest time recorded at 153.9 kph...some 15 kph quicker than Graeme in my...
Shock horror..... SLR is at Le Mans!! https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53014230798_62d843aa97_z.jpg Early news from Friday qualification Plateau 1 https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53013912319_bf4af21c06_z.jpg Simon qualified 49th overall! And 1st of the 4 mogs. Graeme was 2nd mog and Leigh 3rd...
I also have finished reading the Lance Macklin story......more of a novel than a biography. But still enjoyable. It made me re visit Nixon's book "mon ami mate" and also Stirling Moss, Alf Francis and Mike Hawthorn's biogs....much more factual (?) and less embellished. Le Mans start "...
Great find Mark, The Author is Jack Berlow a New Zealander! I have ordered a copy today from a seller here in the Land of the Long Wiate Cloud. You might also like to read John Fitch "Racing Through Life".. he raced at Le Mans with Levegh but never took his seat, you know why. He also race...
2002 The First LMC – 21 years ago Just 2 Morgans were entered, in the first L e Mans Classic, John Clarke and Chris Acklam in the 38 series 1 “ SL2490”, Rick Bourne and Chris Lawrence in the 1962 +4 Super Sports, “TOK258”. These are my recollections written later in 2002 and published in Miscellany,...
Mentioned in passing ""I caught up with Andy Garlick last time I was in the UK and he gave me the original reverse wired edge bonnets for my car". The year of the car was 1955. This is all new to me, I didn't realise that MMC did this.....or did they? Perhaps someone more knowlegable ...