@craptiger
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I wrote an article on tyres…. I’d be interested to hear people’s thoughts on it (and corrections please if you spot any errors!)
Hi Sheldon,
I have standard wheels on my P1 special, with Blockley radials. I’ve heard they can tramline on roads but have never experienced this myself. I like them, but I’m afraid I have nothing to compare them against!
It has been reported by another club member that a Scrutineer at Prescott stated “no balaclava, no racing” so I think we should probably advise every competitor to have one in the car for all events.
If anyone else is looking for these, please get in touch via this link and I will point you in the right direction
Next I needed to actually repair / remake the doors themselves.
You can see here how much I chopped off the bottoms
The internal structure also needed modifying
New wood bottom neatly finished
Internals added
then I needed to think about A pillars & B pillars – I had one half decent door frame and one B pillar to go from.
Some other bits of wood needed repairs as well
Msg from David via email
David Cornwallis is the person to contact re males steering boxes. The Palm Beach box is different from the K’s L’s etc.
His email
info@davidcornwallis.com.
I cannot help on the steering wheel . The original steering wheel on a PB is not Blumels. Probably a proprietary one from a Vauxhall in period.Also…. Peter Love said this on the Social WhatsApp chat (let me know if you want adding to that group)
You can tell him Ben it’s quicker to take the engine out than undo the rear axle springs to move it all back with the torque tube etc. If it was just the pan gasket, he could do that in situ. Yours PL
Also how does he know its on the clutch as there is a drain hole in the bellhousing and all Allards leak. They only have a screw at the crankback end. PLHi Colin,
When I had mine out I was advised that it’s possible – but actually easier / quicker to just have the engine out than fiddle around trying to shuffle it forward enough. I do have an open prop shaft so easier than a torque tube but the gearbox mounting metalwork meant that I couldn’t really pull it back far enough, hence the engine came out too.
