Shaun was invited to the St. Pancras Hotel for the International Historic Motoring Awards last night as the HRDC was nominated for best club. Unfortunately they didn’t win the award but Shuan said it was a great night and a real “who’s who” of historic motoring.
Nash Metropolitan Colour Choice
Here at CCK we’ve been arguing for the past couple of weeks as to which colour to paint the Nash Metropolitan. Here are the contenders, Turquoise, Pink, Yellow and Orange. My vote is for turquoise, if you’d like to voice your opinion on this matter feel free to leave a comment. There is still a lot of work to do so we have a few weeks to decide. Now if only they made white wall racing tyres.
Standard Vanguard comes to CCK
This lovely Standard Vanguard is coming to stay at CCK. There are a few tweaks to be made before we go testing and get it dialled in. We will be looking after this car for next years HRDC Touring Greats Season. More to follow.
Brakes for a Lincoln
This beautiful 1955 Lincoln Capri is local to us. It came in for some work on the brakes. We’ve ordered some new seals for the booster which should do the trick.
HRDC Launch MGB50 at Goodwood
2012 marks the 50th anniversary of the MGB and to honour this Julius Thurgood of the Historic Racing Drivers Club will be running the MGB50 series along side his already successful Touring Greats and Grand Touring Greats race series. Yesterday’s event at the Goodwood Motor Circuit saw no less than four Works MGB’s reunited with past members of BMC’s Special Tuning and Competitions Department. Among them were Bill Price, Basil Wales, Peter Browning, Den Green, Brian Moylan and driver Alec Poole. We also saw the likes of Barry “Sideways” Smith who came along to demonstrate the MGB’s performance around the track. As well as the four MGB’s we had the beautiful green MGA “LBL 301” of Jon Savage. LBL 301 competed in the 1955 Le Mans 24 hour as well as the Mille Miglia in 1957 before being re-bodied by the MG development team in 1958. It was restored by Bob West who brought it down to Goodwood for Tony Dron to expertly pilot around the Sussex circuit. Dron also got out for a few laps in the works MGB’s which he remarked as being “a little quicker”.
