Engine Punk

  The Gregory Special and Cannon of Ian and Nigel Moss The first ever Heritage Trial took place on the 4 th of July this year at Blackmoor Farm, near Woolminstone, south west of Crewkerne in Somerset. This event is intended to tempt out the older types of trials cars that could still give a good showing in ACTC and MCC trials but with a much lower risk of damage. The Alf Foster Special is just the ideal sort of car for this event. Sorry about chopping off the top of your head, Richard but you suddenly stood up straight Recent changes in the trials class structure put the Candidi Provocatores Allard J1 in Class 5 instead of Class 7. This would mean less restarts which are punishing on elderly drivetrains. It would even be in Class 2 if the Allard ran on cross plies but the available treads don’t offer much grip and are expensive. Also, we damaged the Allard’s axle on Warleggan on the John Aley Trial, completely without a restart. Still managed to finish, though - stance! Tony Mar...

As it is today, lovely and clean in a climate controlled garage Ian Headon died in 2018 but I had the good fortune to meet him a couple of times. He was a true enthusiast and created a series of cars that he designed and built himself. On his way to another clean of Blue Hills (Photo : Louise Ransome Headon) The IRH2 is one the of the known survivors in the series and it's returning to competition thanks to the active involvement of Ian's daughter, Louise. Ian gets some air in the IRH2  (Photo : Louise Ransome Headon) I know Louise through the Hillman Imp Club and was interested to hear she shared my interest in trialling. Literally, a few days after our exchange of trialling tales, I stumbled across this photograph in my jumbled up collection.  Louise Ransome Headon piles up some zeds on the 1987 LET I very rarely write on the back of my photos but this occasion I had written Miss L Headon, Ford 1172cc Special .  Talk about serendip...