The car was finished at about 9.30pm on Friday night and was trailered to the event at 10.30pm.
The Seven was running in the Saloon & Sports Cars pre 31st December 1946 class.
The other cars in the class were: Alvis 12/70, Morgan 4/4, supercharged MG J2, MG Midget PA and the 4.5 litre Batten Special.
The event started with a wet practice session on Saturday morning.
My first run was fairly uneventful (slow...).
When the batch was called for second practice the accelerator cable decided to come adrift but I managed to tag on at the end of the batch and improved my time a bit.
Final practice run on Saturday was dry and I managed to get down to 55.10 seconds and was only a second behind the two MGs.
The big Batten Special was well out in front as expected (low 40's).
In Sunday morning's practice (slightly damp) I had a 55.25 run. On my second practice run my accelerator cable came adrift again, this time on the steepest part of the hill between Crawyett and Old Padock Bend.
A quick bit of pedal bending and cable adustment meant that I should not be able to overstretch the cable again.
On the first timed run, my time was 50.89 which exactly matched the time of the MG J2 and was fractionally faster than the MG Midget.
On the second run I made a hash of the gears/braking for the hairpin but picked up good time further up the hill and improved to 50.72 seconds.
The MG J2 did not improve but the Midget got to within 2 hundredths of a second at 50.74.
Needless to say the class was won by the Batten Special but I did get second place honours in a very close fought battle.
The Seven was reasonably nippy off the line (2.86 second 64'
which shamed a few more modern cars. I was thrilled to be given the Jimmy Gibbon Memorial Trophy which is awarded to "Bo'ness Specials".
This award is given to specials which either competed at the original Bo'ness events, or in my case - one car per year can be nominated by the committee to become a Bo'ness Special if that car was of a type likely to have competed in period.
By my own admission, the Hamblin bodywork is not the pettiest and the suspension needs lowering (currently running on a standard Austin Ruby saloon chassis/suspension), the car did however attract a fair bit of attention in the paddock.
[I just need the clown shoes, red nose, wig and eccentric wheels to complete the ensemble]
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