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Work on the chassis now nears completion.
Im hoping to finish of the last main areas over the christmas holidays. The next major part is the engine check / re-build....hopefully ...hopefully it might run this season!
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At long last I've finally got around to updating the site with some photographs kindly supplied by Nick Edginton of his freshly restored ex- John Crowson car and from Mark Milne of several period events, the Mk7 and some of Ian Scott's Megapins. Ian constructed a number of these terrapin 'evo' cars which also feature in some of Allan Staniforths's other books. I wish everyone a happy new year...and hopefully I might even get around to doing some work on the Mk 5 SR! 
The original ex Cramer / Sims Mk5 car as featured in the HSLC book has been found and after negotiations that became stretched out over a couple of years is now in my ownership. The car has not run for over 20 years but is in good shape. I intend to restore it back to original specification / appearance and hopefully it might be out at an event in 2014. A couple of restoration in progress photos will be published in the coming weeks. :-) But in the meantime here is one of Terry Sims in action C.1974 
Mike contacted me after seing the site, and has sent across some photographs of his car Chassis No.39
Mike Bainbridge emailed to say....
just to let you know, car (chassis) No 52 is now back in the original driver/finish builder's hands and will be put back to gether, most of the car is as I delivered it and I do not think it has ever been off the trailer from delivery app'12 years ago, apart from the pick-nick area for the squirals in the main cockpit nothing has changed, lost the wishbone jig, poss when the car moved to the new work shop, will send you down some photos of the clean-up as and when, thanks for putting me in touch with Brian and keeping a eye out for the car for sale Courtesy of Simon Tarling, all taken 03/09/84.
Many thanks to him for taking the time to scan them all and send them across. Images are of cars; Mk1/47 Corbyn chassis driven by Mark Harbord (?) mk1/14 Gould Car, driven by one of the Crocker bros. mk1/KAJ Johnson built car , driven by another Crocker family member. Mk1/52 Bulilt and driven by Mike Bainbridge Ron Champion has sent along some pictures of his rebuild of the the ex- Stuart Nix Terrapin. He is blazing on with the work at an incredible pace, having only acquired the car a couple of months ago! He is seen in the gallery being ably assisted with the task, by a friends daughter, Lucy. Good luck to them with the work, and we look forward to seeing their progress and results with further promised updates from Ron in the coming weeks! :)
We have some more great pictures courtesy of Graham Smith, builder of chassis No.9, they can be found in the gallery under chassis 9, chassis 13 and 'others', they feature the Whitbread sponsorship launch, Barbados trip and promotional photos with Miss GB contestants!! Fantastic! many thanks to Graham for the very kind loan of these to enable me to publish them here. :)
....for spotting that the Martin Baugh built car, previously of Andrew Turnock, is in fact the same car as Stuart Nix and Chris Farr...!! All were featured on the site but under seperate listings!! Good job that someone is being observant!! :)
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