1954 LECo Sport

This car competed in the Jack Fairman Cup race at the Aston Martin Owners Club's meeting at Oulton Park in May 2018.

It's the 1954 LECo Sports of Alex Quattlebaum and has a 1,480cc MG engine. It's the second of only three cars built by the Liss Engineering Company (hence the name LECo) and was commissioned by Richard Ashby and his wife Margaret. They had gone to a meeting at Goodwood in 1953 and comments they made about the standard of driving were overheard by another spectator who said if they thought they could do better they should give it a go. The other spectator was apparently Raymond Mays. From 1954 they competed with the car in the south of England, including Goodwood, Crystal Palace and the Brighton Speed Trials, and Richard Ashby is known to have won at least one event at Goodwood.

Here's Alex Quattlebaum on the exit from Lodge Corner during the race.