Ron Flockhart... 'the best sports car driver on the planet'
I have noted before that it is our habit to forget all too easily those people whose impact on this sport was, in their time, much more important than we…
AN INTERESTING LAGONDA
For a fee of 1/6 per year additional to the 1/affiliation fee, the Northern Section of the Vintage S.C.C. sends out a photograph with each of its Notes. The first concerns Norman Ledson’s special 1926 2-litre Lagonda. This car has had fifteen inches of side-member removed from immediately before the rear spring shackles, rejoining being by bolts and welding. The body, a four-seater, was shortened to suit, ash-framing with steel panels being used for the new body sides; finished in green cellulose. The hood came from a 3-litre Sunbeam, the screen from. a 16 h.p. Sunbeam. The cylinders did’ not require re-boring after a vast mileage, but at the time of the conversion new valve-guides, new timing chains and four new exhaust valves were fitted. The flywheel was lightened considerably, and an S.0 carburetter replaced the existing
Zenith. This conversion cost between £70 and i,80, The car weighs 25 cwt., pulls atop gear of 4.65 to 1, does 75 m.p.h.