Supercharger for sale

I have for sale a Marshall J 100 supercharger. It comes with a pulley and inlet manifold. It has been used but in good condition. Pictures via email for anyone who's interested. Haggling starts at £1,150.

Christmas Quiz - Question 3

Our final question this year is from Cliff Morrell who sent this photo. Click Here for a Bigger Picture

My interest is that I owned and trialled the 4 wheel ‘Tiger’ XOR 500 
which is the vehicle shown on the left of the picture prior to me owning 
it from May 1963. This was one of only 16 or so cars in the country then.
(It still sort of exists, was ‘rebuilt’ from a box of parts a few years 
ago by a man in Colchester and this year was sold to someone in Germany 
for in excess of £50,000 !!!)
 
I entered it in MCC events in 1963 and 1964 and in fact got a 1st on 
the 64 Exeter.
 
 This copy from the original photo was given to me by the concessionaires 
for the TG500 Testwood Motors who were at Totton, near Southampton.
They imported these cars and modified and entered 2 or three of them 
from 1959 to about 1962 in all sorts of events, trials, rallies and 
speed hill climbs.
 
They also raced cars at the MCC Silverstone meetings in the early 60s. 
(I have race programmes from 1960 and 1961)
 
The driver in the picture is Ken Piper (black hair and moustache) who 
was one of Testwoods drivers, the car is of course generally known as a 
Messerschmitt and the main bodyshell was identical to the 3 wheeler, 
with 10 inch wheels instead or the 3 wheeled versions 8 inch, hydraulic 
brakes and a 500cc 2 stroke twin engine.
 
It was actually marketed as a FMR Tg500, they wanted to call it ‘Tiger’ 
but that name was of course used by other manufacturers, so they 
abbreviated it to Tg, but enthusiasts did and still do call it a ‘Tiger’.
 
The event shown in the picture is some sort of inter regional car trial 
with front wheel drive, rear wheel drive and rear engined team members, 
other than that I do not know who the other drivers were or where the 
event took place,
 
Year is between 1959 and 1962, cannot be more specific than that.
 
I realise that it is of limited interest but someone out there may 
remember such events, I can recall watching televised inter region 
Sporting trials which took place in Wendover woods, so perhaps the event 
in the photo was something similar for Production cars?
 
Would love to know more,

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2009 Quiz

Christmas Quiz - Question 2

Thanks to Ian Lawson for sending me this picture.

Who, What, When and Where?

Neither Ian or I know all the answers!!

Christmas Quiz - Question 1

a) Where
b) What
c) The story behind the photograph

A nice bottle of wine to the first person who can get it all right. Non-members can email me at mleete24@hotmail.com and I will post your answer for you.

Trials Marlin for Sale on EBay

Click Here to goto the Ebay page

From Andrew Browns site we learn:-

"This car has a lengthy history. It was first converted for trials use by Terry Mattin, then sold onto Tony Squires in Summer 1998. Tony campaigned it for three years before selling it to Patrick Robotham in Summer 2001. Patrick kept it for nearly four years before it was sold to Julian Lack who used it for the 2005 Lands End (only) after which it was resold once again to Richard Clarke - the present owner"

Guild of Motor Endurance

http://www.guildofmotorendurance.co.uk
Organisers of long distance reliability trials for hand built sportscars

Six Hour 2010 invitation

If you own a hand built sportscar you are invited to take part in a Six Hour Endurance on 21st May 2010. The manufacturer of your sportscar will be who your team will be representing. Each two car team will consist of four drivers, a team manager and a mechanic. Pit stops, car and driver changes, refuelling, 240 laps of the Mallory Park circuit in 6 hours. The focus of activity will be on keeping the cars running at the required average speed for 324 miles.

 

No race licence required. The entry fee is £125 per person. Road registered sportscars only. Free admission to circuit spectator areas & paddock.

 

It was May 21st 1998 when Guild of Motor Endurance ran it’s first Six Hour at Mallory Park. 28 sportscar manufacturers were represented in the Six Hour 2008 by 104 drivers in 52 sportcars.

 

For more information, regulations and an entry form, contact: Secretary of the event: carolbury@hotmail.co.uk  Tel eve: 01386 45556,  mobile 07739 173995 

Sporting Trials Grand Final - 16th January, near Crewkerne, Chard & Cricket St Thomas

 

On SATURDAY - yes Saturday 16th January the BTRDA Sporting Trials Gold / Silver Star final will take place at Hinton Park, Crewkerne, Somerset.

It may be of interest for people to come and marshal, or spectate and watch all the best Sporting trials drivers and cars from England and Northern Ireland going head to head due to its location.

Reigning champion Ian Wright will be very keen to defend the title he won in Cumbria last year.

The site can be accessed from : http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&tab=wl

Start Time: 0930

Its anticipated to be ten hills run three times in a wooded area used for the first time in April.

Any more details you want to know let me know.....