Here they are. The only pictures ever taken of my ill-fated Lea-Francis MG. Taken on the Yale University campus on 3/15/1955 when I drove it up from Philly to visit a friend. (we're still best friends 63 years later. He later had an MG Midget and then an MGB-GT. Now his fun car is a '91 Mustang 6-cylinder. )When the rod bearings blew in my TD engine (didn't they all?), Jim Pauley, well-known but now forgotten race car driver and mechanic,
talked me into substituting a 1767 cc Lea-Francis engine and gearbox. It never worked out. At a driver's school on the old Thompson track, it came out of gear in the middle of the Clubhouse turn and I spun out, doing a 180. With the TD rear end ratio of 5.125/1, this thing revved like mad but you went nowhere. I traded it back to Pauley for a 1955 Renault 4CV even up. What happened to it I was never able to find out. Those were the days - and the nights weren't bad either. I was 21 when these pictures were taken. Note the crew cut. My father hated it. He said I looked like a Nazi.