Engine Punk

Brian Partridge's Ridge-Cannon This is a long overdue series of notes about the car in which I passengered Brian Partridge in the 2016 Land's End Trial . This blog is as much for my benefit as anyone else's. Over time, some details can get lost. I really mean forgotten. I have been wanting to record something about Brian's car ever since the 2016 LET, which we now regard as Lee Peck's stag do. I don't drink but things are already getting a little hazy with the passage of time so I gave Brian  a ring and quizzed him about his car, in between enthusing about Vintage Things, trailling and swapping tales of derring-do with our motorsport chumrades. It's a well-proportioned little rascal even if I can't fit in it Brian has developed his Ridge-Cannon over many years. It started off life as a Cannon sporting trials car with a beam front axle and a Ford 1172cc engine but when Brian got it in 1986 it had a crossflow Ford engine. The chassis pro...

Let's hope the weather is this good again Team Robert won't be in the 2016 Land's End Trial because we still have to sort out the broken halfshaft. Logistically, this happened at the wrong time for The Odd Couple at Wobbly Cottage (Mr and Mrs Binky) for the Allard's usual home was barred by scaffolding and their garage is only just big enough to get the car in. I was going to go up this weekend and lend a hand now that the scaffle is gone and the carport accessible but, due me having the snots and other real world issues impinging on the sunny world of classic trials, this has been postponed until after Easter. We weren't going to be ready for the LET anyway and hadn't entered but... I will now be bouncing for Brian Partridge in his Class 8 Cannon. Brian took the Class Award on the Exeter and bouncing/shouting directions duties usually fall to our mutual friend Stuart Crouch. However, Stuart's had to drop out due to family illness and Brian and...