Back in 2010 this car was on display in the Mouldsworth Motor Museum which has subsequently closed. Perhaps someone can share some better quality up to date pictures.
Well maybe its my eyes but the shape of the door looks different in the first picture and of course there is that folded hood and no outside exhaust either. Could it be a Jarvis-bodied M which has been re-built as a 12-12 at some point?
Some 30 years, or more ago, I was invited to take a ride in this car, which I enjoyed enormously, it being quite nimble and rather fundamental. It was in fact a McEvoy Special.
I heard some time later that it was to be converted into 12/12 Replica format and the photo clearly shows it in its more recent guise.
I believe it was an active participant in VSCC events. Powerplus.
Sam, One further thought. I may be mistaken about the origin of the car, as I now recall that there was more than one car of similar type in the family at the time, but I certainly rode in the McEvoy Special. Powerplus.
Sam, This looks to be a relatively recent photograph. You have the correct location and family. The car in which I was an intrepid passenger was not in the attractive condition portrayed by your photo, but perhaps it has undergone restoration subsequently.
This lovely 1932 Morris-based example was purchased by the vendor from an advertisement in the Blackpool Evening Gazette in 1962. Fitted at the time with a Morris 8 engine, a correct side-valve unit came with the car which is now in place. Used as his everyday car, it spent much of its life in and around his offices in Fleet Street - parked at the back of the Daily Express building.
Fitted with a home-made hood cover made from a Players Weights Tobacco tarpaulin, it was sufficiently reliable to transport the vendor’s wife on their second date, the third almost ending in disaster when she had to push start it! It was then actively campaigned in VSCC trials until 1973 when it was put into the Mouldsworth Museum as an exhibit, the vendor’s efforts going into setting up and running the museum.
Over the next 16 years he undertook a full chassis-up, nut-and-bolt restoration. The ash frame was carefully repaired by Enrique Llinares where needed, retaining as much originality as possible. Local firm Roscoe Howard & Tickle completely rebuilt the engine, while Plus Four undertook a quality retrim which included a new hood, hood bag and sidescreens. Finished in cheeky bright red with black wings it returned to the road again in 1989, just in time for the VSCC Jubilee celebrations.
In super running condition, this very rare and original example has been used for numerous long journeys and has provided a huge amount of pleasure during the vendor's 51-year ownership. It is now time for a lucky new owner to continue to cherish the car in the manner to which it has become accustomed.
Definitely not the same car. The McEvoy Minor Model 60 is known and was photographed in the sixties by Nick Georgano while it has also appeared at Brightwells Auctions in 2013 and 2017. Jim Peacop campaigned SC 9559 during the early years of the last decade and I suspect long before that as well. He owned both cars.
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