THE MAGIC NUMBER
Jul 21, 2021
5 minutes
WORDS STEPHEN DOBIE
PHOTOGRAPHY
JONNY FLEETWOOD
“ I’M PERFORMING THE DRIVING EQUIVALENT OF PATTING MY HEAD AND RUBBING MY BELLY”
The circuit at Bicester Heritage is not big, nor especially quick. Yet today its straights feel as dicy as the Döttinger Höhe and its corners as tummy tightening as Eau Rouge. If you want to make 40mph feel more like 400, it’s simple: swap your steering wheel for a tiller and put what scant braking ability your car has at the end of a lever unhelpfully close to the gear shifter.
Oh, and make sure the car in question is the unique fruit of years of autojumble-scouring labour. That’s because the car in question is a 1910 Morgan Runabout, the origin of the bike-engined 3 Wheeler you can still buy today, though which.
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