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[kartman24]

I have an early Mallock U2 which i have owned for the past 12 years, the restoration has finally started and i am trying to find out any more history of the car. As with most old racing cars it had been updated over the years and the original modified Ford Pop suspension had been replaced with that from a Triumph Spitfire and the body work modified with later Mallock type sidepods and later type tail. The guy i bought it off had tossed the side pods, modified rear panelling and the nose which was homemade apparently as he was going to put it back to original spec (as am i). The rest of the aluminium bodywork is there which shows that it was last used in the Hendy Ford Gurston Down Hill Climb championship which puts it at late 80`s are very early 90`s and it was then running a tweaked 1300 Ford crossflow engine. Does this ring any bells with anyone here,  i have a picture which someone might recognise, can someone load the picture for me?.............Martin

Edited by kartman24, 07 October 2017 - 16:18.

[Garsted]

Was there a 1300 class in that hillclimb championship?  if not, then the reason it had a Ford 1300 crossflow was probably because it had been used in the 750MCs F1300 championship.  This seems  plausible, as quite a lot of Mallocks and similar clubman's cars gravitated to that formula when they got a bit older.

I think the photo is key to making progress on this.  I have not tried to upload photos directly to TNF, but found Dropbox quite easy for file sharing.

 

Steve

[fyrth]

Pics of the car, then & now, might make all the diffenence.

[kartman24]

Thanks for the replies, i have started a blog on the restoration of the car, this lets me post up the pictures so you can see all the chassis detail etc, it can be found at :-

https://earlymallock...blogspot.co.uk/

 

 

I will update with more pictures as the car progresses...............Martin

[Pat Clarke]

Lordy Martin,

 

I wish you well.  It really is a 'bucket of bolts' and way beyond anything I would take on,

Be careful it doesn't become a money pit.

 

Pat

[bradbury west]

Try via Marcus Pye, he was always the Gurston man. Do they not have a web site with a contact point, archives? I have had stuff from there for earlier than that.
Roger Lund

[Rupertlt1]

Re Gurston Down try Graham Masters, B.A.R.C. South West, who was the archivist at one time.

I haven't heard from him in a while - somebody else may have taken over.

RGDS RLT