Sunday 29 July 2012

Fairthorpe Zeta 777 PPD then and now.


The main reason for starting this blog is to catalogue the rebuild of this fantastic car, here is a taster to kick the blog off, the picture below was taken at Silverstone in 1960 with the cars builder Bob Linwood at the wheel.

                                                                                                                                                              


And fifty two years later the car made a surprise reappearance  again at Silverstone following seven months of intensive labour behind closed doors with work going on deep into the night on many occasions. The Zeta has had a busy past with plenty of circuit action, a number of owners and two burn outs but you can`t hold a good car down.  This picture was taken at the 2012 Silverstone  Classic on the Fairthorpe Sports Car Club stand


Hopefully that has whetted your appetite, the next post will be a description of what automotive ingredients go in to making up a Zeta.