Well the sun has arrived in the Vienne and that is the time when the cars need to be prepared for the summer.Today I must sort out a water leak on the T252 ready for the rally at Le Vigeon.I shall then take advantage of the sun to take her for a run.I have put the cambox lid back on after using it to make a new pattern for the T251 cambox.Sadly I have the original corebox but not the outer print,so a new one had to be made.Fortunately the T252 MK 1 cambox lid is just half of the T251 so it could be used by my pattern maker as a model.I wish they had made a hood for this car.I got very wet when I went south for a rally last year.It needs a proper windscreen frame making to support the hood and that has to be beautiful.I rather like the windscreen frame of the Jaguar XKSS.This has the required elegance.Oh well it is another job to add to the list.here are two photos of my baby.good day to everyone.
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73c001 has also driven and took part [slowly] in a race at silverstone where I was entered in my T37.This car may have driven in paris after the war.73c003 is in the schlumpf museum and is incomplete and will probably never drive which leaves 73c004 [mine] and 73c005 Tom Dark's car.Jumbo Goddard tried 002 and thought it had potential.Tom Dark is the only person up to now who has raced seriously and has every intention of continuing.He is coming to Angouleme this year and will hopefully be at Le Vigeon on the 6/7 june this years.If I can finish 004 in time I will also be at Le Vigeon.No two T73c's have ever been raced together.Toms car has at present 200 BHP for a weight of 600 KGs.Tom has been very sucessful with his "Q" type MG single seater and his comments on the T73c are worth hearing.In his Magnum Hugh Conway said quoting Domboy that "for want of a suitable carburettor the car was not run"I believe this comment was not correctly translated by Hugh. It is a fact that the later large blower has its inlet underneath.I personally think that they made the classic mistake of designing something without reference to the CAR.The steering tie rod passes across just under the blower and it is almost impossible to get a decent manifold and carburettor to fit,although it would have been simple on the dyno!I made the same mistake and have a wonderful new manifold and 50 DCOE but although it fits Rolands T73 roadcar perfectly it won't fit on my T73c 
005 has this type of cast manifold.001 and 002 [both ex De Dobb.] have proper tubular bugatti pipes.I show here the various carbs and manifolds used on these car,002 has a small solex bolted direct to the blower.The engine shot at DE Dobbs workshop shows clearly Rolands manifold.A very poor design with a very small opening for the flow of gas.