I had a go at putting a few photo's of the Humber's on the forum, but came over all girlie and gave up, so I attached a couple and wondered if you would mind doing the honours for me. The older of the 2, Neil's Hawk, is a photo of a friends Hawk that is very similar to our's except a: his is on the road and b: our's is a1953 and his is a 1956.
Mike has got several plans for the Hawk, 1 is to restore back to original and 2 is to modify it, because the side valve engine is supposed to be very slow. He was talking about putting a similar engine in it to the one in the Super Snipe.
Thanks for doing that for me, I'll have a go at putting a few pictures of the Rapier on here at some stage.
We've had the Super Snipe, that's the 2 tone blue one with white walls for a couple of months, pretty much as standard, except it's been converted to run on un-leaded, got a stainless exhaust and we've put seat belts in the back for the kiddies. It was built in 1960 and has got a 3 litre engine, power steering and an auto box, pretty much standard things by today's terms, but in 1960 it must have been something. Top speed is something like 100mph, but it's happier at 75mph and is very interesting in wet!!!! Won't be trying to improve on the speed.
Took it to the NASC Nats at the showground and hope to the Ipswich to Felixstowe in May with it (that's the old car run from Christchurch Park for cars, lorries & buses aged 30 years plus and no moded cars I'm afraid) and several other classic car show's!
If you see us out in the old beast please give a wave.
Standing mile for Super Snipe 20.7seconds and 0-50mph is something like 12.7 seconds, fast it isn't!!
Data for the Hawk is something like standing mile:6 weeks and 0-50mph: what it can go that fast, when it was on the road only ever managed 30mph top if you're luckly.
