Lagonda Rapiers

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For anyone interested the Lagonda has now passed Portugal and is out of the Mediterranean en route to Rotterdam from there the next stop should be the UK and the end of its long journey.
Tomorrow we fly to the France for almost a week in Paris and should be reunited with the Lagonda on following Friday morning.  No matter what you  may think of my contributions here; no-one could say that our lives are boring. Rather than tucked up in an air-conditioned garage the car plays a significant part in our activities.
 
Bj.
 
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6-6-2019

This post is coming from near Cognac in France. sadly we have returned the Rapier to England  to be packed up ready to be shipped home to Australia after just a couple of weeks in France. After spending the whole day up to 7.00 pm working on the car I got it running  but with no top gear, We completed the Fougere Rally and started out for our next event but driving at Motorway speeds using 3rd gear and sustained 5,500 rpm was no fun and eventually the Rapier called enough! After a waisted two days at a French garage where I was not allowed into the workshop, the car was no better and we limped back to the ferry terminal at St Marlo.
The car was pushed onto the ferry and off again at Portsmouth. A five hour journey on a tilt tray truck took it back to Cars UK at Chedburgh where our. i’ll fated journey began.
We are now back in France in a hire Renault Captur. Not my first choice in transport but it will be our every day drive until we return to Australia

7-22-2019

Very sadly our hoped for touring holiday in France and England has been cut short.The very expensive gear box rebuild has fallen in a heap. The Rapier went back to the Container Depot after just a couple of weeks driving on the back of a Recovery vehicle and is now waiting for us to deliver some of our surplus luggage to go home by sea with it. It should arrive back in Australiain time for Christmas. At least I will not be short of things to after it arrives home.
The annoying part is that there was NOTHING WRONG with the gear box. The rebuild was only necessary so the car would not fall foul of the Australian BORDER FORCE (Customs) on its return home (Asbestos).

7-23-2019

We are now nearing the end of our Holiday,  The two months in France was really great and now we are coming to the end of the month in the UK. This has been spent visiting friends and the time has flown by. we have to take some excess luggage and the collection of 1916/18 Dodge parts we have acquired from our friend Anthony Bryant in Suffolk. The Rapier will follow us home and will take eight to ten weeks to travel home by sea. Once it is safely at home again I will be occupied removing the gearbox and striping it down again.In addition I will need to sort out the distributor and give the rest of the car a complete checking over. This should keep me busy for some little time.
I suspect that the electronic conversion in the distributor did not like running at a constant 5,500 RPM in third gear on the French motorways.