Archives news
24th Jan 2020The Archives are delighted to announce that James Trigwell has agreed to become Patron of the Trust. Having w...
Etretat
19th Jan 2020Tim Pryke received a letter from Michel Deldon explaining that Etretat is not going to happen in 2020. The club wi...
Measham Rally
7th Jan 2020Entries are now open for the 2020 Measham Rally, to be held on 1st/ 2nd February with the start and finish at...
Minutes of the 2019 AGM
19th Dec 2019The minutes from the 2019 AGM are now available under Forms on the Members' section of the website ...
Missing links
15th Dec 2019Someone passed me a cufflink they'd found in the bar area last night Could you put this on the Website please and as...
Raid to Sicily - 2021
18th Nov 2019There are still places on the raid to Sicily in June 2021, to celebrate the anniversary of Franco Cortese's Ta...
Manx Classic 2020 Frazer Nash Class
29th Aug 2019Entries will be opening in the next couple of weeks for the Manx Classic 2020 event, April 30th-May 2nd, which consists ...
Frazer nash Raid to Sicily 2021
27th Aug 2019The FNCC is planning a raid to Sicily that will take place in May/June 2021. The exact dates are dependant on the Giro d...
Bolzano lost property,
19th Aug 2019We found these two Bolzano raid jackets in the carpark by the wash station of hotel when you had all gone. Two M men&rs...
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Membership Lists
6th Aug 2019
We are now able to provide a list of members and their contact details. In fact there are two, one for UK and one for Overseas members and these are a...
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After a years-long restoration, Jay Leno has completed his chain-drive Frazer Nash!
6th Aug 2019
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Tom Waterfield wins Nash Race at Cadwell
29th Jul 2019
A delighted Tommy Waterfield won the Nash race this weekend in Simon BE's Supersports, in what were very wet and slippery conditions. Eddie Willia...
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Cognac wins vintage FTD at Shelsley
9th Jul 2019
Several Nashes & GNs featured in the awards at a boiling hot Shelsley last Sunday. Particular congratulations to Tony Lees for winning...
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Patrick topples Fane's 1937 Shelsley Walsh record
8th Jul 2019
Frazer Nash history was made yesterday when Patrick Blakeney-Edwards pulled out all the stops to break Fane's 1937 Shelsley record of 38.77 second...
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Team Frazer Nash triumphs again
8th Jul 2019
Only a matter of days after arriving home from Bolzano, the need for a Nash fix was high, this time the Hertfordshire (Eastern) Rally. The sun shone a...
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Parker GN wins the Boulogne Trophy at Oulton Park
20th May 2019
Justin Maeers drove the Parker GN to victory in the vintage race at Oulton Park on Saturday, winning the Boulogne Trophy. With 8 of the 18 cars ...
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Eddie Williams breaks long standing record at Wiscombe
13th May 2019
Eddie Williams, driving Charles Gillett's Supersports, put in a stunning time of 50.18 at Wiscombe Park hillclimb yesterday to beat Dick Smi...
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Records topple at Curborough
23rd Apr 2019
Nashes & GNs dominated at Curborough, with 2 records broken. Patrick BE took Charles Gillett's 2013 Class 3 record by just under a secon...
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Request from the Frazer Nash Archives
16th Apr 2019
You may be aware that we are in the process of sorting through an awful lot of Club records and artefacts on the first floor of the Frazer Nash Archiv...
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Spring Start Silverstone 2019
15th Apr 2019
A fantastic, well attended Silverstone marked the start of the 2019 race season, with several Nashes & GNs out enjoying the sunshine. Patric...
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On The Road Again
30th Mar 2019
Photo: Taking on some crude The Interceptor of Richard Parsons, PG 7028, is on its way back across the States west to east, via the southern states...
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Pete does it again!
17th Mar 2019
Pete Kite continues his run of success, this time winning the Herefordshire Trial in his GN Sports, dropping just 8 points over the weekend. Con...
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The Pomeroy Trophy, Silverstone (VSCC)
22nd Feb 2019
A great start to the 2019 speed season with 2 of the 3 main trophies going to Frazer Nashes. Many congratulations to Patrick BE for winning the Densha...
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Curtiss engined Frazer Nash
10th Feb 2019
Rolf Zoller has been putting together his Curtiss Frazer Nash in Switzerland,it is fitted with a Curtiss OX5 8,2L engine from 1918. Rolf hopes ...
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Whoops
3rd Jan 2019
Whoops! Remember to chock the wheels when jacking ...
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Members List Inclusion Form
13th Dec 2018
We have spent a lot of time on the new data protection regulations. The final piece of that jigsaw is a consent form, sent to everyone in the Gazet...
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Fire Extinguisher Servicing - Special offer for FNCC
6th Dec 2018
As you are probably aware, the MSA now requires all cars in Race Events to have their fire extinguishers serviced at least every 24 months. Paul Baker...
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David triumphs at the Lakes!
13th Nov 2018
Congratulations to David & Lucy Leigh for winning the Standard Class at the Lakeland Trial last Saturday. Driving his Interceptor, pictured ...
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GN victory in Welsh Trial
16th Oct 2018
Congratulations to Peter Kite for winning the Welsh Trial outright in his GN Sports. He only dropped points on 2 hills, coming away with a score...
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Snetterton Sprint FTDs
24th Sep 2018
Frazer Nashes topped the bill once again at Snetterton Sprint this weekend, with Julian Grimwade taking FTD, and Tom Waterfield young person's FTD...
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Team race victory at Snetterton
24th Sep 2018
FN/GN won the VSCC team race outright at Snetterton yesterday! The team, consisting of Dougal, Jeremy Brewster & Jo BE, beat 10 other ...
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Angouleme Nash Race
19th Sep 2018
The FNCC returned to Angouleme last weekend with our own grid, 'Plateau Harchibald Frazer Nash'. It was a spectacularly good weekend of racing...
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Californian Nash
12th Sep 2018
Jay Leno's has written an article on his TT Replica which is in Octane magazine ...
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Double FTDs at Loton Park
10th Sep 2018
The FNCC enjoyed another successful weekend of hillclimbing at Loton, with Vintage FTD going to Winston Teague on the Saturday, and young person's...
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Accidental Coincidences
28th Aug 2018
Photo: Bob Winkelman If we hadn't have needed to take a certain road to avoid a traffic queue, we wouldn't have met Joe Breeze. If we...
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Etretat car park fettle
27th Aug 2018
You will be pleased to know that the axle has been replaced and PE4731 is now mobile and hopefully will get us back to Scrooby🤞. All I ...
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Broken but not out
23rd Aug 2018
Andy and Penny Cawley had the misfortune of breaking their rear axle on their holiday in France. The car was taken to a loc...
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Dolomites
10th Aug 2018
Paul Baker found this clip https://vimeo.com/282718398 It's a beautifully filmed, fast motion video of the Dolomites a...
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A Place to Stay
10th Aug 2018
Photo: No roof at the inn The only problem with following the more remote roads in the U.S. lies in trying to find overnight accommodation. We have...
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Busted in Montana!
6th Aug 2018
Photo: Take short a stretch of interstate and look what happens! Having just clocked 3,000 miles and needing to drive literally 4 miles along...
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Indians and Cowboys
1st Aug 2018
Photo: Spot the Nash Heap big fun at the Ho-Chuck Tribe powwow in Winnebago, Nebraska, and PG now known as Crazy Chain Car. We stopped at the Wound...
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PG 7028's Adventures in Wonderland
26th Jul 2018
Photo: Paying homage at Jenks' US concession in New York State Louise and Richard have just started their second USA adventure , . . ...
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A Life Behind the Wheel - Betty Haig Biography
4th Jun 2018
A new book by Roger Farmer on Betty Haig is due to be launched at Prescott on 14th July. It will cost £45 but he is offering it to members...
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Frazer Nash Child Safeguarding policy
20th Mar 2018
As part of keeping our wonderful club up to date with current legislation I have published the Club's child safeguarding policy in the documents s...
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Ice Raid videos by Nick Evans
28th Feb 2018
Nick Evans is in the process of making 9 CD's with various photos and videos of the cars on track and in Sauze, some of the videos are ...
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The Miss Wilby TT Rep
24th Feb 2018
The car was built for a Miss VM WIlby who kept it all her life and about 30 years ago it was acquired byJohn Noot at the auction of her effects after ...
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MV 2751 - Racers seek full comfort
22nd Oct 2017
Hi James, Thought you may like this pic for the website ? Gobbo and I are eschewing the aero screens and putting the original windscreen and hood...
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Liz Cawley's go-faster amplification device
7th Aug 2017
Dougal decided that what Piglet needed at Prescott was more noise - this may be how Liz improved her times on Sunday by a second. ...
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Prescott 2017
6th Aug 2017
Class Three's 33 entrants included 21 Frazer Nashes and GNs, so the others didn't stand much of a chance. Among the fastest Nashes, Eddi...
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Zandvoort
8th Jul 2017
The Owner- Driver-Mechanics (SET 3) gang made a foreign excursion to Zandvoort , with a grid of 21 cars, including three Frazer Nashes, which all came...
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VSCC Shelsley Walsh
1st Jul 2017
Despite the number of cars away in the Alps, there was a good turnout of Nashes and GNs at Shelsley. In Class 3 there was the interesting specta...
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Brooklands Double Twelve
17th Jun 2017
With sweltering weather and demonstration runs on the newly-opened Finishing Straight (following re-siting of the hangar which has been on it si...
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First run for Californian Nash
15th Jun 2017
First run for Jay Leno’s Blackburne Nash after major rebuild in California, Video taken by Bob Schmitt https://youtu.be/E1L9RMM03ww ...
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Broken Clutch
13th Jun 2017
Piglets poor little clutch does get some hammer. The good news is that it is just a Jaguar clutch so when my club footed action ripped the centre out ...
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Oulton Park - GN and Frazer Nash wins
10th Jun 2017
Justin Maeers, Parker GN, was out dragged at the start of the all-comers race by Tom Walkers' Amilcar, and ran in second place for the first...
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Scrutineering Snippets
9th Jun 2017
Scrutineers would like to see a dedicated catch tank of one litre capacity for radiator overflows. The radiator overflow pipe should NOT go into th...
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Harewood - FNCC wins in five classes
3rd Jun 2017
At Harewood, Clas 3 was a Frazer Nash benefit, with places one to six all going to chaindrive cars, Jo B-E taking top honours from Geoff Smith and Dav...
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Loton Park
27th May 2017
A fantastically clubby evant at Wiscombe had some entertaining FNCC needle matches: In Class 3, it was close all the way between front runners JoB-...
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Wiscombe
7th May 2017
On a fabulous weekend in Devon, with many Nashes at Montlhery (in the rain), the field was left clear for Geoff Smith to take a win in Class 3, with N...
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Curborough
30th Apr 2017
Curborough, the first VSCC sprint event of the year, saw a few debuts: Jo Blakeney-Edwards' new mount was the most significant eligible car, but t...
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Rebuilt Single Seater Frazer Nash
29th Apr 2017
David Pryke has finished his rebuild of his single seater - he writes: My understanding of the history of this car is that is was built up from var...
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VSCC Spring Rally
29th Apr 2017
On a beautiful Spring day, the VSCC Rally saw a close event, won in the tie-break by the reliable team of Mark Garfitt, Dood Pearce and 319 FN-BMW.&nb...
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Silverstone Spring Start
23rd Apr 2017
The VSCC's Spring Start had plenty of Nash action from the first race. Notable successes came from: Dougal Cawley (2nd) and Andrew Hall (...
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Herefordshire Trial
18th Mar 2017
With a thin showing of FNCC entries in the trials so far this year it is pleasing to report that Peter Kite took a First Class award away from the Her...
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The Pomeroy Trophy
18th Feb 2017
There is perhaps no other event that captures the imagination and ethos of the VSCC better than the legendary ‘Pomeroy Trophy’, a unique e...
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VSCC New Year Driving Tests
29th Jan 2017
The New Year Driving Tests at Brooklands saw victory in the Standard Sports Car class by Mark Ballard, with Captain Annabel taking a Third Class award...
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VSCC Measham Rally 2017
22nd Jan 2017
This year's Measham had a decent turnout of Nashes, with Philip Tillyard, Trevor Tarring and John Villar all contenders in the first half, but fin...
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Winter Driving Tests close the VSCC season
3rd Dec 2016
A good crop of Nashes and GNs took part in the last VSCC event of the year, driving test maestro Mark Ballard doing the best, with second in class.&nb...
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Goodwood Lavant Cup Frazer Nash podium finishes
24th Nov 2016
In the Rain at this year's Goodwood Lavant cup Martin Hunt drove a dominant race in the wet, until the nail-biting final lap, with Patrick B-E and...
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Cotswold Trial - Class win by Blakes
19th Nov 2016
Matthew and Sarah Blake returned to winning form on the Cotswolds Trial, taking Class 1a by a convincing margin. Jo Rose with Sarah Owen and Duncan...
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Overall win and two Class wins at VSCC Lakeland Trial 05 Nov
5th Nov 2016
With only three chain drive cars out on the Lakeland Trial, the Club punched way above its weight - In a hard-fought Class 1b, a span of only seven po...
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Montlhery 2017
14th Oct 2016
Hello James, I am getting people asking me about Montlhery next May and while I'm not organising the club's attendance there I did say to the ...
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Single Seater Strip Down
9th Oct 2016
Anyway, this is today's effort at workshop. The SS had its engine taken out today by myself and Gobbo, which as you can see means quite a strip do...
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Mallory Park
24th Sep 2016
Our future is in good hands - in the Novice race at Mallory Park Tom Waterfield and Hughie Walker came third and fourth. Elsewhere, in Set 1, we...
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Single Seater spins out at Goodwood Revival. Bevel box failure
15th Sep 2016
Eddie Gibbs had a massive slide in the Goodwood Revival, which was caused by a bevel box failure. To see the heart stopping Video click below ...
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VSCC Loton Park - class wins
10th Sep 2016
The last VSCC hillclimb of the year took place on the 10th and 11th September and the FNCC entries secured Class wins for Jo Blakeney-Edwards, J...
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Prescott 2016
11th Aug 2016
A truly Vintage Prescott, with some impressive FNCC results. Friday saw the long course one-day competition, while the weekend event used the tr...
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Knicker Brook
25th Jul 2016
If you have wondered how Oulton Park's Knicker Brook got it's name (not suitiable for minors) Click here ...
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Cadwell Park 2016 The Nash Race and others
24th Jul 2016
Cadwell was a fantastic race meeting - a bit of a Frazer Nash benefit admittedly, with chain drive cars dominating the day. Julian Grimwade and ...
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GN runs again
20th Jul 2016
After many hours of fettling including pistons, valves, magneto, trips to Bassett Down for ballenceing, Steve Pryke fired up the BHD. ...
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GN at Le Mans
6th Jul 2016
Good photo of GN and Bresciaat La Sarthe 1920. Grand Prix de L’UMF at Le Mans 28th August 1920, the GN i...
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Shelsley Walsh
3rd Jul 2016
A great day at Shelsley - after last year's deluge everyone was grateful to get two afternoon runs, and we had two record-breaking performances:&n...
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Harewood Hill Climb
4th Jun 2016
Harewood, as ever, was a great weekend, with several impressive FNCC performances. Unfortunately Rileys had an even better day, seeking to close...
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Boulogne 2016
30th May 2016
Despite the prospects of thunderstorms, fuel shortages and French strikers at the barricades, a brave group of Chaingangers spent a weekend in France ...
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VSCC Wiscombe Park Hillclimb
8th May 2016
Wiscombe in a heatwave was a glorious weekend, with many notable chaindrive performances: Tony Lees and Cognac continued their run of success, w...
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Silverstone Autosolo
23rd Apr 2016
The Autosolo format, with no reversing, suits Frazer Nashes particularly well and this event attracted seven FNCC entries - a healthy percentage of th...
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Around the world in 80 Days
2nd Mar 2016
Winning Ways: A Navigator’s Tale” hardback, packed full of over 100 photos and an easy narrative style. It is on Amazon at &po...
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Lost Nash EXC 465
1st Mar 2016
Hi James. Sone photos cropped up in my mums photo album of this Nash owned by a friend of hers. Don't know who has it now but they might be intere...
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A Link to the Past to Celebrate
9th Jan 2016
Photo: Vaughan Skirrow in PG 7028 at Oulton Park, June 1958 Past Captain, Vaughan Skirrow celebrated his 90th birthday on 15th November 2015 (we di...
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Another link to the past gone . . .
7th Jan 2016
I got a call yesterday from a local Councillor for Osterley and Spring Grove, part of Isleworth, that the excavators had moved in to the old AFN L...
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FNCC Christmas driving tests photos
15th Dec 2015
Paul Weston has sent us a link to photos of the driving tests. He has selected the best from the original 360 he took!! Click here The fin...
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Piston Broke
2nd Dec 2015
we were on the road between sections on the Cotswold Trial, luckily just taking it relatively easily and there was a nasty crunching and grinding nois...
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Frazer Nash Film
13th Nov 2015
A documentary about the Frazer Nash marque has been released. To watch it in full go to the About page on the opening home page of this website and th...
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Welsh Trial - GN Wins Class
15th Oct 2015
The 2015 VSCC Welsh Trial was blessed with great weather, making it relatively dry underfoot and very competitive. There were three clean sheets...
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Snetterton
13th Oct 2015
Hi Here is a lovely film taken by one of those Riley types on their way to lose the inter marque trophy. https://www.youtube.com/w...
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Neill's Italian translator
6th Oct 2015
Not only did Neill Bruce take many iconic photographs for the VSCC and Nash club at meetings and raids during the 1970’s and 80’s but he h...
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GN drag racing
14th Sep 2015
Jeremy Morris in his GN beside a local GN-ish creation on its maiden voyage. 6.2 litres of V Twin. ...
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Frazer Nash Victory in the 2015 Alpine Trial
10th Sep 2015
Peter Kite and Terry Thorp have just won the 2015 alpine Trial beating 37 other cars http://www.endurorally.com/pages/alpine-trial-2015-day3 htt...
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The Nash race in 1956
22nd Aug 2015
The start of the 1956 'Nash race at Silverstone. Dorinda Thirlby sent us this photo. The back of the print has Mark Joselands handwritten ...
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Bevel box rebuild
10th May 2015
This is a picture of Mike Hipkins with his newly rebuilt bevel box. Mike has been useing the Members Section Workshop Chatter pages for advice a...
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Advanced engine tuning
7th Feb 2015
Put your GN at 45 degrees to fill the cylinder to measure combustion volume- yikes!! ...
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Single Seater in Australia
26th Jan 2015
Hello James, Thought these would be an interesting photos for the website. I have been collecting information and photo'...
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Oulton park in the 60's and 70's
15th Dec 2014
Oulton Park 1961 (featuring Spider with the 2-valve BHD engine) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoziLDTA828&sns=em 1968 Nash race https:/...
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Something for you racers to aim for
24th Oct 2013
Good morning James, I thought this might amuse one or two FNCC members, Graham Rankin Stay with this - even if you aren't a 'car nut&...
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Sponsorship for eligible Nash folk
17th Aug 2013
Photo: Freddie Giles is not convinced Dick Smith has any hope of being included in the under 30's list At the last committee meeting ...
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Overseas News - Chassis 1107
14th Aug 2013
As many will know an Anzani Nash, Chassis 1107, was recently sold at auction in Melbourne Australia. It had belonged to Ted Hider-Smith since 19...
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Then and Now
30th Jul 2013
Chris Chilcott has sent in some photographs of his 1926 Super Sports Frazer Nash then and now Photo 1 Raymond Dunstan Crarey at the wheel of PF...
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Slovenia Raid - Pass Storming
28th Jun 2013
Simeon Evans - Colmore, James Parker - TT Rep, Tim Pryke standing, Peter and Sue Livesley - The Archives Byfleet II (photo: Steve Pryke) Do you w...
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The Frazer Nash Trademark
28th Jan 2013
Since John Aldington's death in 2007 the Archives have continued his work in trying to regain control of the Frazer Nash trademark. Members will r...
