Vintage Thing No 11 - the Weeny Leaper
It failed the clear the section at Warleggan but raised many smiles. And a little outrage On Easter Saturday 1992 I was marshalling at Warleggan on Bodmin Moor, during an MCC Classic Trial, the Land’s End. This includes motorcycle combinations and trikes and these run in the motorbike classes that precede the car classes. We still had many bikes to pass through the observed section when through the woods and around the lower corner came a high revving Allegro. Oh no, we all thought, somebody’s skipped a few hills and is too far down the running order. However, as the car went by some of it seemed to be missing… This was my first acquaintance with the notorious Weeny Leaper. It failed the section, along with many others, and I had a quick chat with the driver and constructor, that affable automotive anarchist, Ed Holloway of Bexleyheath in Kent. Entered as Number 66 and running in the Class D for three wheelers, he told me that he had only completed the car that week and had ...