Dave,
Sounds like great fun! Pity you don't have any pictures of the Cannon.
JLC
---- "Dave G." <dmg@bossig.com> wrote:
> > Never heard of the Cannon. Details, please?
> The Cannon was a purpose built car, built strictly for automobile motor-
> cross. Always with a crew of two. A driver and a crew man, who's "job"
> was basically to hang on to the trunk (boot) and to bounce up and down
> trying to get some grip on the rear wheels from the muddy fields and
> wet grass where the events were run..
> Using the typical 1 to 1.2 liter engine, it's outstanding
> characteristic was the enormous amount of travel achieved by the front
> wheels.
> This was achieved by "cross-shocking". The left front shock coil was
> anchored at the lower point at the left axle. The top of the left front
> shock coil was fixed to the top of a securing mount on the right hand
> side. And vice versa for the RF shock.
> So looking from the front of the car, the coil shocks formed an "X".
> The radiator was behind the crossed shocks. In those days the front
> axle was solid.
> No doors, no top, and minimal Brooklands style wind shields.
>
> I regret that I have no pictures left to show... They were lost when my
> folks died...
>
> Dave G.
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