Over the past two weeks Will Corry has restarted works on YFY 467.
Most recently the deep dish Minilites have been powder coated and fitted to the Lenham GT. Once the electrics are sorted and the final touches are completed it will be time to get the car started and then onto the Dyno finalise timing and setting the fuel mixture. The end is near!
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The Weslake Cup was introduced to the Goodwood Members’ Meeting in 2017, a race series tailored to the popular ‘Spridget’ MG Midget and Austin-Healey Sprite cars, as a tribute to Harry Weslake, the wizard engine builder and tuner who designed the cylinder heads for the A-series engine for the Morris 1000 and Mini. Since then it has broadened out to welcome other small wonders into the fold, with front-wheel drive, Mini-based models spicing up the field. It brings together the multitude of oh-so-small but laugh-out-loud fun sports and GT cars of the late 1950s and ‘60s – all powered by the A-Series engine. Cars like the Ashley GT, Lenham GT, Austin-Healey Sebring Sprite, Ogle SX1000, Fletcher Ogle, Rochdale Olympic, Turner Mk1 and Deep Sanderson 301 all attracted a huge crowd – no surprise when you consider that they are based on some of the most popular cars of the ‘50s and ‘60s. One of the highlights of the 79th Members’ Meeting was the Weslake Cup, the little GT cars lining up for the start omight look cute with their smiling faces, but these lightweight racers put on one heck of a show. Charles Rainford in his fathers SS1800 Lenham GT was overall winner. Both races held have been won by Lenham GT’s. |
AuthorRob Clubbe is orignally from Wem in Shropshire. At the age of 20 he purchased his first Midget from Dr Sayce and the story begins! Archives
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