DOWN THE PUB FOR SUNDAY LUNCH

I remember those Lotus advertisments where Dr. Someone or other bought his Elan in kit form (to avoid purchase tax) and it was delivered on the Friday and by Sunday morning he had finished building it! I think it was mainly a question of putting the wheels on and maybe dropping the engine in to the chassis. Anyway he had finished it to go down the pub for Sunday lunch..........so did we! The Mors was towed by Linda in her 3 litre Bentley well past our only neighbour and then fired up. Usual noise factors despite fitting 8 motorcycle silencers on to the stubs. Jeremy drove there and I back. Cooling was fine with the radiator running very cool. Oil pressure steady 55psi..........spot on. Dropped 3 cylinders on the way there. One pluglead off at the plug and one pluglead broke under vibration. ( We are using temporary leads we fitted to run it on the test bed). Also some arcing across the magneto output. Jeremy had geared up the braking during the morning by fitting a longer lever on the cross shaft and this improved things greatly. The steering definately needs sorting. Its sticky with little castor return and also vague dead ahead.
Jeff Theobald called in today with his magnificent Stanley Steam car. His wonderful permanent smile became even bigger when we fired the Mors up for a few seconds to demonstate it at tea time.
Becker top the day off with a great Aerobatic display in his Zlin 50. Stunning!
As Oliver has reportrd we now have a Registration number!