Preparation for Goodwood Revival

The next major event in this years calendar is of course Goodwood Revival. In the workshop we are busy getting the cars ready for the St Mary’s Trophy. Other than our own Nash Metropolitan we are currently working on Dave Griffith’s Standard Vanguard, the Turners Ford Zodiac, Roger Wills Gaz Volga, Julius Thurgood’s MG ZA Magnette and Bonham’s Riley 1.5. We’ve got engines being built, suspension setups and a little tarting up all going on. If you are attending this years Revival please pop down to the St Mary’s paddock and say hello.

Preparation of Lumbertubs

Lumbertubs is at CCK for race preparation. We’ve put a new bonnet on the car with the classic BRM paint job so not to damage it’s original. We are building an engine for it and will also be setting up the suspension. Lumbertubs was built in the 60’s and features a custom made aluminium GT roof and a fibreglass Sebring bonnet.

Darren Turner and James Turner bring Ford Zodiac to CCK

Ford Zodiac

Racing driver Darren Turner and his good friend James Turner have brought their 1959 Ford Zodiac to CCK. This classic Ford is believed to have been a race car since the 1970’s and although it has been well prepared their are few things we will address in order to provide Darren and James with a competitive and reliable car for the up coming HRDC “Touring Greats” race series. Darren is most well known for his two class wins for Aston Martin at Le Mans, he says he enjoys historic saloon car racing as a relaxing weekend. We will be looking after the Zodiac and supporting James and Darren for the 2012 season.

James Turner said,

“Darren and I have known each other since we worked together at Aston Martin Racing in 2005 – he was one of the team drivers and I was commercial director.  Since then we have had a lot of fun together and I guess that Darren’s first appearance at the Goodwood Revival Meeting (in the Mini and Cobra in 2009) sparked his interest in historic racing.  We talked about getting a car together and the Zodey is the result.  Julius Thurgood at HRDC could not have been more helpful in advising us and so we are keen to support his excellent HRDC series as much as possible.  We only did a few things last year in what was my first season of racing but I did manage to luck into a class win on my solo debut at Brands – so it must be a good car!  We had admired the CCK approach each time we saw them during the year and we were delighted when the chance to put the Zodey with them arose at the end of the season.  We can’t wait to get the old girl back out again and doing some more races…”

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Spring Clean

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Last week we had a big spring clean. Everything was dragged out and on Saturday Graham and Ali re-painted the floor. The workshop is looking too good to dirty up now.

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