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- "Marjorie Eccles relaxing at Brooklands with a quick smoke & a couple of rows of knitting while a mechanic works on her Eccles Rapier Special" ...
Lovely.
The same Eccles Rapier today, about to go out for a test session at Curborough in atrocious conditions. Good fun though despite the rain, wind sleet and standing water......
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Winston
'61 356 BT5 & a lot of broken chain driven stuff
3.6 996 Purchased with a bad case of bore scoring but not any more
3.2 Carrera Speedster (Sold and sorely missed)
3.2 Manual Cayenne (Sold)
73 2.4S (Gone to Singapore)
75 3.0l 914 (Sold)
That's going to be tremendous fun. What are you doing for cooling? I once fitted some Keihin carbs from a Honda to a Lomax. It was great till you went round a very long corner, and the float chambers ran out of fuel. It turns out that bike carbs don't have to tolerate any sideways G forces and even a Lomax has a fair few of them. The sideways forces cause the floats to hang up, and the fuel runs out. No such problems with the BMW fuel injection!
'65 356 SC
'91 Ducati 750/900ss mongrel
1963 Velocette Viper (mostly) with '39 KSS OHC engine
'05 997 C2
1954 FB Mondial 200 Extra Lusso
Kneeslider wrote:That's going to be tremendous fun. What are you doing for cooling? I once fitted some Keihin carbs from a Honda to a Lomax. It was great till you went round a very long corner, and the float chambers ran out of fuel. It turns out that bike carbs don't have to tolerate any sideways G forces and even a Lomax has a fair few of them. The sideways forces cause the floats to hang up, and the fuel runs out. No such problems with the BMW fuel injection!
....all has to be finished off and plumbed in, front bracket is for a 34 row oil cooler to be fitted and currently having an exhaust fabricated. All the main components are sorted now so a questions of fitting all together.
That's the ugly little blighter in question! My dad and I built one in the early '90s. WAO 898Y. I wonder what became of it, because all attempts to look for it have drawn a blank. We cut up an old black and burgundy Charleston with terminal rot, and over about 9 months built it into something cheap and purposeful. I think that the whole lot came in at about £1,700.
It was burgundy, with disc brakes and the hot 36hp engine set up. There were a few neat touches, like the filler in the middle of the rear deck, and the shifter set quite low between the seats.
We sold it to a chap in Cheshire, and in the pre-internet age it took a long time to find a buyer.
'65 356 SC
'91 Ducati 750/900ss mongrel
1963 Velocette Viper (mostly) with '39 KSS OHC engine
'05 997 C2
1954 FB Mondial 200 Extra Lusso
I went to see the Bromyard Festival of Speed at the weekend, which was well attended, cost £3.00 (charity) and was friendly and hospitable if the actual parades had been more interesting. I arrived for Supercars that don’t interest me much anyway, but they were preceded by three "course cars" and followed by various Fords advertising the local dealer as was Aston `Martin and Morgan.
The course cars were slow, jams were just as on ordinary roads and an i8 BMW broke down and had to be pushed off. It’s a lovely town all the same.
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