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Originally Posted by FastDB2s
Whilst emptying our filing cabinets I have just found a letter from a man called Roger Williams from Brill Buckinghamshire asking for info about the Francis / Moss Special that was built about 1953/4.
This letter was from March 1986, it was an enquiry to my late boss, Jack Moss, asking the whereabouts of the original radiator surround from the car or the alloy one that replaced it in the early 1950's presumably when Jack & Alex Francis built/ rebuilt it.
Roger Williams had bought the remains of the car in 1969 from Jack whilst Four Ashes Garage were at Dorridge, where the Sytner Porsche garage is now.
Any one know if the car car still exists, with or without said radiator surround.
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Roger Williams rang me about 3 or 4 years ago with some questions about the Francis / Moss Special, It was based on a HRG demonstrator, the Green car GPE 607, fitted with an ex army Mercury engine from Fletchers in Birmingham, he still owns it.
Roger asked me if I knew what the chassis number FEG1 stood for, it was easy, Furnace End Garage 1 as that was where the chassis/ car was constructed, its 1st outing may have been Prescott September 20th 1953, driven by Alex Francis, just found the program for that event before Christmas, incidentally signed by Stirling Moss & other top drivers there.
A year later Alex in the 1st Alexis car, registered JUE 234 since its rebuild above, beat Masten Gregory in the latest Ferrari at Prescott, Gregory was heard to say, as he looked at the converted HRG 'Beaten by - A Hot Rod'