trevorkeirle

Hi Just picked up your reply as I remember this day. I now have a garage full of bikes etc. and have just had a new electric roller door fitted to replace the the old metal half sliding doors - give full opening access. Thanks for the pics if the S7 - what a transformation. The build was started in a lock up garage on the RAF base at Locking near Weston super Mare. The donor was a blue Sierra that progressively became scrap. I recall lots of my tools became repatriated to Weston. It came to Burntwood when he was posted to Staverton Glos. I recall he'd owned a series of Skoda's one with twin webers and a 4 branch exhaust a real XR3 eater. It languished in Burntwood for ages until you bought it. I'm not surprised it was a handful with 300bhp. The riveted ss sheet box chassis had its limitations - not forgetting the build quality of course. Brendan did improve with age. I'm sure you must have had many hours of pleasure from the car as you sure feel in touch when driving an open car. He had a Westfield 11 with I think, an Alfa 2 litre, at one stage - and that was a hair raising ride round the 'ring. In the wet it spent a lot of time facing he wrong way. I well remember my first drive in a single seater - Lotus formula Junior - noisy, exposed and all sorts of bits flying past your head from exposed front and rear exposed tyres. Still, you new little Pop/Prefect? looks a pretty fierce motor two - the guy that lived in the bungalow dead opposite where you loaded the S7 had a grey one. At last you'll stay dry!!! Hope all goes well over the summer. We have been jabbed and this area of Portugal (central) is virtually free of Covid. Hope too, that you are keeping clear of infections - it has certainly changed the way we live for the foreseeable future Yea, Bren was a quick guy. At about 10 yo he would handbrake turn my Princess on the Chasewater Kart track car park and on his little Sabre kart I've seen him win by more than a lap in the wet. We keep a flat in the UK only a few hundred yards from Chasewater but have not been back since May last year. A Tamworth guy found a sister kart to Bren's old Sabre - only a few exist - he restored it and Bren was due to drive it in an Historic Race, just after he died. Instead, Mike had an old steering wheel off Bren's kart and converted into an annual trophy for young Driver of Day award at their club meetings. Lot's of little things still keep cropping up. I have his 'Baron' leathers here too and intend to put them in our reception room which Bren did a fair bit of work on. Every time I go out onto the terrace here I see one of the wall lights he put up at an odd angle - he was going to straighten it up but it can stay as 'Bren's wonky light' that Hazel has christened it. If you ever fancy a trip / break out here feel free to show up - we have a 2 bedroom (doubles) self contained annex with full kitchen lounge and shower room - no pool, sorry. I email pics if you send me your em. You have mine I think from my log in. Hope to keep in touch. Trev

Hi Just picked up your reply as I remember this day. I now have a garage full of bikes etc. and have just had a new electric roller door fitted to replace the the old metal half sliding doors - give full opening access. Thanks for the pics if the S7 - what a transformation. The build was started in a lock up garage on the RAF base at Locking near Weston super Mare. The donor was a blue Sierra that progressively became scrap. I recall lots of my tools became repatriated to Weston. It came to Burntwood when he was posted to Staverton Glos. I recall he'd owned a series of Skoda's one with twin webers and a 4 branch exhaust a real XR3 eater. It languished in Burntwood for ages until you bought it. I'm not surprised it was a handful with 300bhp. The riveted ss sheet box chassis had its limitations - not forgetting the build quality of course. Brendan did improve with age. I'm sure you must have had many hours of pleasure from the car as you sure feel in touch when driving an open car. He had a Westfield 11 with I think, an Alfa 2 litre, at one stage - and that was a hair raising ride round the 'ring. In the wet it spent a lot of time facing he wrong way. I well remember my first drive in a single seater - Lotus formula Junior - noisy, exposed and all sorts of bits flying past your head from exposed front and rear exposed tyres. Still, you new little Pop/Prefect? looks a pretty fierce motor two - the guy that lived in the bungalow dead opposite where you loaded the S7 had a grey one. At last you'll stay dry!!! Hope all goes well over the summer. We have been jabbed and this area of Portugal (central) is virtually free of Covid. Hope too, that you are keeping clear of infections - it has certainly changed the way we live for the foreseeable future Yea, Bren was a quick guy. At about 10 yo he would handbrake turn my Princess on the Chasewater Kart track car park and on his little Sabre kart I've seen him win by more than a lap in the wet. We keep a flat in the UK only a few hundred yards from Chasewater but have not been back since May last year. A Tamworth guy found a sister kart to Bren's old Sabre - only a few exist - he restored it and Bren was due to drive it in an Historic Race, just after he died. Instead, Mike had an old steering wheel off Bren's kart and converted into an annual trophy for young Driver of Day award at their club meetings. Lot's of little things still keep cropping up. I have his 'Baron' leathers here too and intend to put them in our reception room which Bren did a fair bit of work on. Every time I go out onto the terrace here I see one of the wall lights he put up at an odd angle - he was going to straighten it up but it can stay as 'Bren's wonky light' that Hazel has christened it. If you ever fancy a trip / break out here feel free to show up - we have a 2 bedroom (doubles) self contained annex with full kitchen lounge and shower room - no pool, sorry. I email pics if you send me your em. You have mine I think from my log in. Hope to keep in touch. Trev