YOU’RE PROBABLY ALL GETTING FED UP WITH TALK OF OUR HOUSE MOVE OOP NORTH!
However it is now imminent so from tomorrow 13th March until 21st I shall be off-air and otherwise engaged.
Please keep all the little bits of info coming and I will catch up shortly. Back soon. Martin.
FROM MIKE CURTIS: (on 2-speed wipers)
“re: wipers – I have gone to a great deal of trouble fitting a later two speed motor (round body and to be honest I am not sure its worthwhile, I’d describe the typical speeds as very slow and not so slow! I think I’d stick with one speed…its largely guesswork seeing in the rain in a Midget at the best of times!!”
TWO-SPEED WIPER MOTORS (A reply to Ken Grasing’s earlier message)
“Ken, On the subject of 2 spd wiper motors, I can’t imagine that the round wiper motors were very available, even in the mid-60’s. They started appearing maybe as early as 69 on street cars, but the square bodied motors were available in cars such as E-type and Lotus Elans much earlier. I would guess that’s what you should fit. Roger (Sieling)”
ANDY ACTMAN’S SPARE BONNET is for sale on ebay, currently at £80. Expires 17th March
REMEMBER THIS?
The auction in which the rusted remains of PMO 200 were sold for the princelt sum of £15,000 enabling Paul Woolmer to restore the car to its former glory.
This NEW STAINLESS STEEL RADIATOR GRILLE for Sebring or Frogeye has just become available from Halls Garage, Folkingham Road, Bourne, Lincolnshire, PE10 0NS at £105 inc VAT
Contact Steve Hall by email
108 CPX – ANDY ACTMAN’S SEBRING REP
would appear to have sold at auction on Saturday (3 Mar). Anyone know who bought it? It achieved £17,360 – quite a bargain if you want a rapid race Sebring a good bit less than expected, and that included the trailer.
GARAGE CLEAROUT
I am grateful to Bob Hinchliffe for suggesting I offer some of my stuff to OUMF (Oxford Universities Motorsport Foundation) who are building a Sebring Replica. I am pleased to say they took the lot which saved me the pain of putting them in the skip.
KEN GRASING: WHICH 2-SPEED WIPER MOTOR?
” I’m trying to determine what the Sebring Sprite used for a two-speed wiper motor. I’ve seen two sets of preparation notes, attributed to John Sprinzel, and the notes from Brian Moylan’s book “Anatomy of a Works Mini”, describing changing the single-speed wiper motor for a two-speed unit. I’m trying to figure out whether they changed to two-speed shunt-wound motor, the DR2/3 rectangular housing style, or a permanent magnet type, cylindrical housing type. The two-speed DR2/3 type is quite expensive, relatively few were made, and most offering them want a core unit in exchange”.
Please let us know if you have the answer – via Feedback as usual
WANTED
DONOR CAR FOR SEBRING BUILDER
OR AN IDENTITY
Anybody got a basket case going cheap?
Feedback please
WARWICK ARCHIVE
The latest bulletin from The Warwick Archive has recently been released. I had a hand in creating the captions for some of the Sprite photos. View the bulletin
ROGER FRIEND
has a radiator for sale which has had only 2 hours use having been changed for an alloy one. The outer cowling has been removed, the rad in as new condition
£50
Contact Roger by email
