MOTOR CARS | 2030n early-1954 VH? 39 was re-sold, this time passing to Walter Grant-
Norton who fitted engine BS1142. He continued the cars racing career
at minor level, while also rallying it, including International outings in the
RAC Rally that March, the Dutch-based Tulip Rally in May and the mighty
French-organised Alpine Rally in July. While not figuring in the results of
these challenging events, Walter Grant-Norton was competitive and led
his class in the Tulip Rally.
The car was again offered for sale into 1955, this time by HW Motors
of Walton-on-Thames. 0t found a new owner in John Dashwood who
club-raced and rallied the car with a friend - Paul Fletcher - through
1955-56. Stan Creamer owned 'VHX 839' for a period before it was
re-purchased by Peter Kenneth in 19 1. Eleven years later, in 1972, it
passed to its present owner - an International race-winning member of
the British Racing Drivers Club and a well-respected connoisseur of fine
performance cars.
As offered here - with only eight owners from new and the last having
lovingly preserved the car for no fewer than the past 44 years - this
important Frazer Nash Le Mans Replica is described as being "...all
working, fully operational and in a lovely patinated condition - not a
recent bright-as-a-button restoration, and all the better for it - owned
since 1972 by a Scot!".The car is accompanied by a beautifully presented documentation
file, plus historic photographs, fascinating copies of the 1951 May
Silverstone race meeting bulletins detailing the Salvadori accident, and
past, paid restoration invoices. These include" 197 -1994 nine invoices
from 0an Cunningham (Edinburgh) covering extensive servicing and
maintenance" 1991-1992 from leading Frazer Nash marque specialists
TT Workshops covering engine and ancillaries overhaul, totalling
,250" May 199 from David Morris covering an extensive mechanical
overhaul and bodywork tidying, totalling more than 14,000" and from
2010 for a brake system overhaul.