Re: my non-Porsche picture of the day
Posted: Thu May 29, 2025 7:44 am
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Re: my non-Porsche picture of the day
Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2025 9:16 pm
Went out for a drive in this 66 Vette earlier - awesome!
Re: my non-Porsche picture of the day
Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2025 9:28 pm
I lived in Fairborn, Ohio , USA in 1966 when I was 16- the two brothers next door both had vettes with outside pipes like this.
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Re: my non-Porsche picture of the day
Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2025 3:32 pm
.Probably Photoshop but an interesting idea. Gullwing doors on a Frogeye
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Re: my non-Porsche picture of the day
Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2025 4:10 pm
It would be bloody difficult to get into if you’re over 4ft 6 tall ………..
A standard one is bad enough.
Ideal for KS though!
JW
A standard one is bad enough.
Ideal for KS though!
JW
Re: my non-Porsche picture of the day
Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2025 4:21 pm
That was a quite unnecessary comment...jwhillracer wrote: ↑Tue Jun 03, 2025 4:10 pm It would be bloody difficult to get into if you’re over 4ft 6 tall ………..
A standard one is bad enough.
Ideal for KS though!
JW
Re: my non-Porsche picture of the day
Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2025 4:40 pm
Re: my non-Porsche picture of the day
Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2025 5:22 pm
Sebring Sprite comes close to that design, but original doors.
Had one of the last 1500 Midgets way back new, not a nice car tbh...
Had one of the last 1500 Midgets way back new, not a nice car tbh...
Re: my non-Porsche picture of the day
Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2025 5:54 pm
Re: my non-Porsche picture of the day
Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2025 6:35 pm
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Frogeye Sprites are great fun to drive - a bit like a (slightly) more luxurious early Lotus Seven (albeit not particularly fast) ...
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Frogeye Sprites are great fun to drive - a bit like a (slightly) more luxurious early Lotus Seven (albeit not particularly fast) ...
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Re: my non-Porsche picture of the day
Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2025 10:16 pm
It was a great trip indeed, I'm sorry not to have spent more time with you Jeremy, I had completely lost track of who was staying on for the second leg to Champagne, and who was heading home. Our Youth 'section' is strongly encouraged and well supported by the club, their boisterous behaviour is a joy to share. By passing down, lending, sharing, we enable youngsters to join in, and by the club offering under 30s spares at cost, enabling them to join in these big events by them getting Airbnbs or camping instead of the main hotels and lobbying hard behind the scenes for accessible insurance etc. they feel welcomed, and embraced. The VSCC play a big part in this too.....Ill put some pics up too once ever caught up with fixing and admin! Some other DDKers there too.....Well done on your first, I really hope you'll be back.....we have space on the 1000 mile reliability challenge at the end of the month and the annual club picnic follows that in Yorkshire, a good journey for a very jolly weekend too.... Wjeremyg wrote: ↑Wed May 28, 2025 9:06 am
I’ve just returned from the Frazer Nash Club ‘Raid’ to Boulogne driving my father’s old Frazer Nash/BMW 319 roadster - for the first big trip since its engine rebuild.
I’ve driven on Porsche rallies, convoys and Flat Four Runs before of course - whether in my old 356 or 911, but in amongst pre war Nashes is something else! They don’t hold back.
The guy fettling his Supersports is Simon Blakeney Edwards, Chair of the VSCC, winner of this year’s Silverstone Pomeroy Trophy, and President of the Nash Club - he oversaw the rebuilding of my engine.
The first day’s drive from Dieppe to the Hotel in Boulogne was sublime - fab weather, a small convoy all in synch with warning hand signals travelling back down the line so there were no surprise speed bumps that French villages love.
There were over 70 Nashes - we were the only non chain driven, but we were made really welcome - a number of the Nash owners have 315s or 319s back home.
On the second day the weather was apocalyptic, and I learnt a lot about my road holding capabilities - tail happy. The Rain Ex was useless, and driving through a turbine landscape, the side wind (with no side screens) was like no other - but we got there to St Valery. And back.
The Nash club (Captain - our very own Winston Teague) has a very active up and coming youth element as family cars are handed down and enjoyed - expertly. On Sunday we all congregated in the Place de Résistance to commemorate a Nash winning the 1925 Boulogne Grand Prix.
After a romp around the old circuit, we were returning to the hotel and disaster struck. Engine died. We pulled over. Within seconds, passing Nashes had pulled up to help - we were in excellent, supportive, knowledgable hands. They aren’t going to let you be left behind.
It was like being operated on. I said as much to one of the guys, and he replied under his breath - ‘I think you’ll find one of them actually IS a surgeon’. The fuel pump was diagnosed US. A replacement one was magicked from a boot of spares, lashed up to get us back to the hotel, with the help of a Frenchman living nearby (arms folded in pic) who supplied electric wire and connectors (from the middle of Lidl) - and we returned to the hotel, where a better replacement fuel pump was found and donated!
It all got us back safely to England. A knockout experience. Film coming shortly when I get a chance after we’ve finished our garden opening.
Re: my non-Porsche picture of the day
Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2025 10:31 pm
Past 2 FN being trailered down the M1 when I was heading to Portsmouth the other week .. makes sense now as I did think what a rare sight it was to see them 
Re: my non-Porsche picture of the day
Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2025 5:11 pm
nothing a supercharger and a swiftune engine won't fix.Lightweight_911 wrote: ↑Tue Jun 03, 2025 6:35 pm .
Frogeye Sprites are great fun to drive - a bit like a (slightly) more luxurious early Lotus Seven (albeit not particularly fast) ...
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Re: my non-Porsche picture of the day
Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2025 6:31 pm
AND?....blimey that would be quite a package...RobFrost wrote: ↑Wed Jun 04, 2025 5:11 pmnothing a supercharger and a swiftune engine won't fix.Lightweight_911 wrote: ↑Tue Jun 03, 2025 6:35 pm .
Frogeye Sprites are great fun to drive - a bit like a (slightly) more luxurious early Lotus Seven (albeit not particularly fast) ...
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Re: my non-Porsche picture of the day
Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2025 9:29 pm
My friend has a frogeye with a ~130bhp motor. More power is not a thing I would want for it.