Pete05
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EJS stands for Edwin Joseph Snusher, the automobile engineer who created this curvaceous competition classic.
From 1954 he spent two years designing and developing the car to compete against Lotus, Cooper, Elva and Tojeiro - and he did it all from scratch.
It's tubular chassis weighs just 30 kilograms with aluminium panels for rigidity. It's shrouded in a fibreglass Mistral body, giving it those stunning looks.
Powering the car is a Climax engine and in period the power moved to the wheels through a five-speed Aston Martin DB3 gearbox.
The suspension was bespoke and designed to be adjustable. Up front the combination of a semi-elliptical spring with a coil spring under tension beneath it gives the car a constant camber and caster. The rear employed a De Dion axle, but used two parallel tubes instead of the single standard.
For the brakes rear drums were attached to the differential and featured separate circuits front and rear.
Snusher raced the car in 1956, achieving a fourth at Crystal Palace in that August, but then sold the engine and gearbox and put the car into storage.
That's where it stayed until 2001 when Sherwood Restorations bought it. They set about it's restoration, fitting a Climax 1100 motor and a four-speed MGA gearbox before selling it on to it's current owner.
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Very good JK 👍
