“Hello, Martin. Perhaps some of your readers might be interested in the telescopic steering column a few of us are using in Australia? It was an idea inspired when someone, in a competition incident some years ago, had the steering column push back into the cockpit and whack them in the (fortunately full-face helmeted) face with the steering wheel. It’s a simple arrangement using a Spitfire steering column with the Sprite splined end replacing the Spitfire arrangement at the rack end, in my case sleeved, pinned and welded by a proper engineer (he even had letters after his name!). You need to fit a second clamp or something for the column to stop against to force it to slide, and the bonus is that you can move the steering wheel further towards the dash, affording some extra arm-swinging space. (Oh dear, I’d forgotten how scruffy this car is!).
Best Regards, Peter Westcott.”
