‘First’ Locost surfaces

[MikeWood]

Hi

It looks like one of the first Locost Sevens ever built has just surfaced in England and is for sale.

This is the one on the front cover of the first edition of the Haynes published ‘Build Your Own Sports Car for as little as £250’ by Ron Champion (1996).

See: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1556670 ... 830462886/

I am not connected with the seller, it is just it would be great if it could be in a suitable museum, such as the Haynes Motor Museum (https://www.haynesmuseum.org/), which was set up by the publisher John Haynes, as this started a widespread movement of people building these cars. This would be a nice link to John Haynes’s early days publishing books on building Ford specials and Austin Seven specials, and his building of them himself, as well as the Locost and Haynes Roadster books and all the workshop manuals.

I would be very happy to contribute to a crowdsourced fundraiser for this to go into a suitable museum.

Thread on Locosbuilders: http://www.locostbuilders.co.uk/viewthr ... tid=218958

Cheers
Mike

[mainlandboy]

Yes, it's pretty amazing to see Ron's original Locost for sale.

A discussion was started in this forum in the For Sale section:

viewtopic.php?f=40&t=21442

[MikeWood]

Thanks for the reply. I will check out the other thread.

Cheers
Mike