Vintage Thing No 144 - Ridge Cannon
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...