Picture of the week: A Sprightly Fairthorpe from the past.

 

A recent email from Chris Marriott was interesting in several respects, firstly Chris lives only 15 minuets from where I am typing this and also that he owned two Fairthorpes in the late 60`s to early 70`s. The first EM was registered 442 WPP, according to Chris it had a tuned A H Sprite 998cc engine with an alloy aquaplane head and aluminium flywheel. Unfortunately the car was written off in an accident so a second EM was bought to replace it. Both cars had the early short Mk1 bonnet with the curved `mouth` although Chris cannot remember the number of the second EM, this one had a 948cc Standard  Ten engine which was then replaced with the Sprite engine from his original car. Chris still holds a soft spot for the cars and is hoping to meet up with some of us in the New Year.