A Nash reborn

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Today, the chances of finding a Frazer Nash from the first year of production in need of restoration must fit somewhere between the chances of finding a needle in a haystack or a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. There can’t be many left, but one owner managed to acquire one in 2011, even if it didn’t amount to much more than ‘a selection of ironmongery’.

Frazer Nash

It was really just a chassis and an incomplete selection of parts, including a useless front axle and an inappropriate AC Anzani engine. At least the restorer was at liberty to construct the body in whatever fashion he pleased, and he naturally settled for a fetching Fast Tourer body, just like the one his grandfather had bought new and campaigned in the 1925 MCC London to Exeter Trial.

Various friends and experts in the ’Nash world lent their assistance, and after Blakeney Motorsport had worked its magic setting up the bevel box, countershaft, steering box and more, Aurora Panel Beating had constructed a body and a correct engine had been sourced and restored to working order, the project was becoming very promising.

Now completed and looking every bit as good as the high-quality execution of its restoration suggests it should, the ’Nash is set to be thoroughly enjoyed over the years to come. Zack Stiling tells of its rebirth in his Back On The Road series in the February issue of The Automobile, available now.

Words and photographs by Zack Stiling.

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