Archive for the ‘Fury’ Category

The start of the race season is fast approaching, so I’ve had to spend a lot of the weekend fettling the Fury for the (J15-less) start of the season. The photo is of the end result.

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I’ve been pressing on, although I don’t seem to be making sufficient progress to make me feel comfortable. Still, some things are happening. I have, though, managed to completely finish the hydraulic side of the braking.

So, here’s a nice shiny picture of the final arrangement of the master cylinders, lurking at the bottom of the footwell.

Continue reading ‘Brake, turn in and…’ »

birkettteam1Last weekend was the Birkett and we were up again racing in team Eastern Delight (we decided to give it a better (?) name this time). The Birkett is a unique event being, if you don’t know, a 6 hour relay race for teams of up to 6 cars and drivers. In this week’s Autosport Marcus Pye got it just right in his column where he says:

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malloryA little vignette of an RGB/750 club paddock:

I took my cordless drill to Mallory, as I always do. I didn’t use it though. However, two other people borrowed it:

  • Adrian was having cat problems, again, and used the drill to hack out the remains of yet another expensive waste of money
  • Andy borrowed the drill to help him repair the bonnet of an MG Midget that was racing that day, although clearly not in an RGB race.

I don’t know about you, but I think that’s great.

Continue reading ‘End of the season’ »

DSC_0087There’s quite a lot of good photos around of the race at Snetterton. The one shown here was taken by Derek Jones’ Dad at Russell chicane. That’s Tony just behind me, thankfully.

Continue reading ‘Two car Tim’ »