There have been a number of issues with the new computer booking system at Kop Hill https://kophillclimb.org.uk/paddock-display/. If it is your intention to attend on the weekend of 16/17 September please use the link and inform John Marr at hertsregion@dloc.co.uk who is hosting the Daimler stand.
Do you have an action ‘shot’ of your SP or a group photograph, then Alan Mason is interested as he is compiling the next edition of SP250 calendars, please send photographs to Alan at soaring.ace@btinternet.com asap
An historic 1960s shot of YXB 873, currently doing the rounds on Facebook, owned by the SP250 registrar Barry Thorne. This SP metamorphosed into Barry’s successful race car which was bored out to 2.8 litres!
This period photograph is taken outside the Motor Taxation office in Brighton, where, no doubt the then owner was applying for a road fund licence. This iconic photograph must hail from the mid-1960s as noted by the Consul Capri in the foreground. Hopefully Barry will give us a clue from whom and when he bought the SP. I note it was originally delivered in1960. However, it was rectified subsequently by the factory to ‘B’ spec and delivered the following year, although It still retains its 1960 registration number.
Fancy getting down on your hands and knees and trying to find that allusive part! Then why not visit the largest autojumble in the UK on the 2/3 September See; https://www.beaulieu.co.uk/events/international-autojumble/.
As always September brings forth the correct style of apparel down at Goodwood for the Revival on the 8/10 . See https://www.goodwood.com/motorsport/goodwood-revival/.
We will be at the NEC Classic Car show 10/12 Nov in Hall 2 stand 750, showcasing one of Robin Read’s dragsters, a couple of SPs and a rolling chassis. No doubt we will have SP calendars on sale. You will need to ask me for the discounted ticket code.
Just in case you need some moral support in restoring your SP, here is Dave Melton who not only restored this SP in twelve months but later restored the Felday 2 in the same time frame :see: https://youtu.be/SKqXBPsH9to
The focus is hunting SPs this month, here we have two unidentified cars, the first comes in this sequence at 17mins, lo and behold a yellow SP! Mind you it’s worth watching all the clip. see;- https://youtu.be/SZ77CEr3k7s utterly amazing what these chaps stagger across and given their youth, in a number of cases have no idea what they are looking at.
The second comes from Steve & Simone Waddington whilst over from Germany visiting family earlier this month. Their country hike saw them clamber through brambles and thick woods in Cheshire and they stumbled across:-
The NF series is a Manchester June 1962 and on series and by using various filters I reckon it is chassis no: 104098, as I have a gap in the files. However, I will not be claiming this as an unknown known (UKK) as all its identity tags were missing.
And finally………..
No doubt the extreme weight of the batteries cause the roots to give way, such poetic justice.
Thought for the day:
There are only two classes of travel – first class and with children!
