Engine Punk

Nice to see such a wonderful old car out and about in January Now that the dust - well, mud - has settled after the Exeter Trial, I find myself returning to these photos of a splendid Frazer Nash that was nonchalantly parked at the bottom of the section at Fingle Bridge. There's something of Chitty-chitty-bang-bang in this view They only made chain gang Nashes in penny numbers and this is the six-cylinder variety. That means a double overhead camshaft 1660cc designed and built by the Blackburne company lurked under that bonnet but it would have been incredibly rude to have had a look without the owners present. It was tempting, though. According to my info, the six-cylinder Blackburne engine powered the Colmore, TT replica and Shelsely models of Frazer-Nash but none of the illustrated examples feature bodywork like this one. There's nothing quite like wood when it's been worked by a craftsman The most impressive bit about this car - I thought - was...