My Lomax 223

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Hello all,

I thought i would all show you my car. Some people may recognise this from another forum. This is just a cut and paste from the other forum, so you may need to bare with me, while i get it all sorted and re-arrange a few things.

Feel free to leave comments and suggestions and I will answer an questions to the best of my ability.

It’s a Lomax 223 classic kit car.

I bought it in June 2009. At the time it was not road legal and had been on SORN for over a year as the owner had another two 3 wheelers so this was sat on his drive feeling sorry for itself. Once I cleared out the garage (7 trips to the tip in my brothers Volvo), I organised for it to be delivered. A bit of TLC, a few weekends in the garage and a night or two sorting out the tuning we had her pass the MOT and on the road for the summer. This is a rare, door model version, I have only seen 2 others with doors. A lot of Lomax owners are amazed by them!



A little bit more information about the car:
Lomax Kit cars are based on the legendary Citroen 2CV chassis and drive train. Lomax mainly offered two models, the 223 (3 wheeler) and the 224 (4 wheeled version). Both use the same tub and bonnet with bits cut out for the rear suspension on the 224. For those not familiar with the 2CV it uses an air cooled 602cc flat twin engine with 4 speed gearbox and front wheel drive. The suspension layout is fully independent leading and trailing swing arms giving it the excellent ride quality and comfort it is known for. To allow for the single rear wheel at the back one of the rear swing arms was removed completely and the other turned around to "point" inwards. Although the standard 29BHP sounds like nothing you would be surprised at the amount of torque they appear to have. Mind you, at only 400KGs (ish) they are a lot lighter than the standard car and so feel very fast. Mine is based on a 1981 2CV with the better ami8 gearbox.



I’ve done a few little bits and bobs in the time of owning her, mostly just niggling little bits like door openings, exhaust mountings, fitted the Aero screens and added a bit of chrome detailing.

As with all types of kit cars and classics, there are no two the same. When we took her to Stoneleigh Kit car show I was surprised to see that she was one of the tidier examples on display. I cheekily managed to persuade my way on to the Citroen Specials Club (CSC) stand and became a member the same day. There was around 20 Citroen Specials on the stand.

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On Thursday the 24th June I went to North Wales near Prestatyn to partake in one of the runs that the CSC had organised as part of their annual summer gathering. The event was week long but as I only lived 50 miles from Prestatyn and had work commitments we decided to go for just the one day. A short run of 50 miles took us through some of the most beautiful parts of Wales and the weather was an absolute dream. On the run was some truly stunning looking motors and in total counted around 40 at the stop off point at a reservoir (the name escapes me). Naturally there were a few poorly ones on the way around but I am glad to report the mine made it through and didn’t skip a beat all day.

In total we did 180miles over about 5 hours and have never had a more enjoyable day spent in a car! Neither of us has stiff legs or back ache (probably due to the comfort of the MGB seats) although a little sun burnt.

A few photos that were taken on the Citroen Specials Club summer gathering in North Wales, June.

It doesn't seem to want to add the photos in the thread, instead it has given hyperlinks.

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Last weekend we attended a club meet called the 10,000ft run, so called because you climb and descend 10,000ft across Lancashire and West Yorkshire.

(copied from another forum)

The morning of the 10,000 foot run, 25th of September was very crisp indeed. We awoke to find the Lomax covered in frost having stayed at our caravan over night. At the start point in Ingleton there was a total of 21 cars, including 2 Pembletons, 3 Lomii, an incredibly rare 2CV Bijou (only 212 were made in slough), a DRK a special and various Marlins, a JBA, a BRA and a few others.

We set off at approximately 10.15 with one of the Guzzi Pembletons storming off into the distance and disappearing over the horizon, it sounded great and went just as well. The run to the lunch stop was fantastic, and although very cold, it was sunny too. We had a precautionary stop after smoke was appearing from under the bonnet, only to find a little Oil on the Disks, after a wipe down and a bit of nut and bolt tightening, all was well. At Lunch two other Pembletons joined us. The silver surfer BMW brooklands and the Guzzi powered Silverfish.

Malcolm had sorted out a great way over plenty of hills on mostly single track lanes and roads, which had amazing views over the surrounding area. We had various stops on the way round with the two longest ones being lunch, where the local morris dancers entertained us, and the stop off at the reservoir. The final run took us to Ribchester at around 5.30, where we all had a natter, and presented Malcolm a Bottle of the warm stuff for all his efforts to a great day out.

















Unfortunately, we had an AA escort for about 60 miles of the way home on Sunday due to a suitably flat battery, a dead alternator, and a stall up a hill in the middle of Lancaster.

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Last chance to properly clean my Lomax before Stoneliegh this coming weekend. I will be on the CSC stand, not sure which day yet.








if you are going, I will be on the CSC stand (6B)

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Nearly three months of driving takes us to the weekend just passed and the annual Citroen Specials Club (and nutcracker kit car club) 10,000ft run over the roads of the lake district and Yorkshire.

As per last year, the run was approximately 80 miles over some of the best roads the area has to offer. The run is so called because you climb and descend 10,000ft over the course of the day!

The day started off with a bit of rain, then a fair bit more and as we climbed higher up into the hills and mountains we had to use "the force" to predict where the roads and twists were as we were plunged into exceedingly thick fog in a few places!

Fortunately though the rain and accompanying fog cleared for about 11.30am leaving the rest of the day grey, but mostly dry. A huge array of cars were there from a Reliant Kitten based Tempest, right the way through to a Grinnall scorpion and Tiger as well as a fair few lomax's, pembletons and others as well as a Malvern moss and a renault 4 based special 3 wheeler that tagged along en-route.

see the pics in the next post as well as a video (if i find an uploader) at the bottom!

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and finally here are two videos of the Lomax.

the first is a video of the CSC run as per the piccies above...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ll_MWYmdF68

the second video is parts of the A537 macclesfield to buxton road more commonly reffered to as he cat and fiddle road.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjLhHvaCcO0