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Gordon/Julian Lennox
After prompting by a mate of his we encountered
at some road works during our return to the Classics Museum on the
weekend of the national rally Gordon finally heeded Philip Meyer's call
for members to show off their cars in the Club Cars section of the
website. On April 7 2015 I
was pleased to receive the story of the cars development so far and
several photos with the request to include them on our web site.
These were duly sent to Patrick Harlow our web
master who was a bit busy to load them straight away.
Sadly within a short time we received the news
of Gordon's unexpected passing, his funeral being on April 22.
We decided to hold off entry of Gordon's car until the family had
a chance to decide its future.
The engine had been reconditioned 10 years
previously but had done less than a 1000 k's. Gordon had fitted an
Airsensors fuel injection system to it prior to that, but after the reco
the hotwire on the air mass sensor had broken and was too expensive to
replace which was why it was parked up. The trans had been rebuilt by
Trevor McLean of Papakura Automatics (R.I.P) and he dealt to it
severely. He told Gordon there was nothing he do to the engine that will
ever worry the trans. He also provided him with the cam which he
reckoned was perfect for street performance and fuel economy.
A 465 holley was
recently fitted to replace the injection, lp electric fuel pump
and regulator. It has headers with a 2 1/2 inch exhaust and flowmaster
muffler. It has an electronic distributor and finned alloy rockers.
The body was stripped out and cleaned and
painted Absolute Red with black accents. The interior had been done 12
years ago so just needed a good tidy and he tinted the windows 35%. A
last job was the fitting of a Pioneer stereo with USB, SD card and
bluetooth capabilities.
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