Ron Brown
Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 1:53 pm
It is my sad duty to inform the group of the sad death of one of my oldest Morgan friends , Ron Brown , who died on Monday from a suspected heart attack.
Being red/green colour blind Ron was unable to get a racing licence and settled down to the pursuit of hill climbing in the 1970s in his 1958 +4 , SDW 287.
Many of the group he competed against are no longer around the competitive Morgan scene but included Martin Wyatt, Bill Holt, Graham Turner, Dave Walters, Andy Duncan and David Rutherford.
His car was originally raced by Hugh Wilmore in the 1950s and appeared on programmes alongside the name of Chris Lawrence. His car has been laid up since the 1980s and his son Andrew is now starting on a rebuild.
A gifted engineer and a talented mechanic Ron was just the sort of companion a racer needed and I was extremely grateful to him for accompanying me many races in the UK and to the Nurburgring and Zandvoort in the 1970s. Many of the parts on my old +4 were fabricated by Ron , because he did not like the conventional solution, and the car was the better for it.
After my smash at the Nurburgring Ron insisted on my driving his car at the Bentley Drivers Club races in order to "get me back into the saddle" quickly. He was not even worried when it came back with body damage following an assualt by an errant Lotus 11 (which came off second best)
He is succeeded by his widow Katie, his son Andrew, and his daughter Suzy. I don't have any funeral details yet as they were not finalised as of last night.
Please be careful out there, I have now lost my brother and Ron in less than 2 weeks to heart problems.
Andy
Being red/green colour blind Ron was unable to get a racing licence and settled down to the pursuit of hill climbing in the 1970s in his 1958 +4 , SDW 287.
Many of the group he competed against are no longer around the competitive Morgan scene but included Martin Wyatt, Bill Holt, Graham Turner, Dave Walters, Andy Duncan and David Rutherford.
His car was originally raced by Hugh Wilmore in the 1950s and appeared on programmes alongside the name of Chris Lawrence. His car has been laid up since the 1980s and his son Andrew is now starting on a rebuild.
A gifted engineer and a talented mechanic Ron was just the sort of companion a racer needed and I was extremely grateful to him for accompanying me many races in the UK and to the Nurburgring and Zandvoort in the 1970s. Many of the parts on my old +4 were fabricated by Ron , because he did not like the conventional solution, and the car was the better for it.
After my smash at the Nurburgring Ron insisted on my driving his car at the Bentley Drivers Club races in order to "get me back into the saddle" quickly. He was not even worried when it came back with body damage following an assualt by an errant Lotus 11 (which came off second best)
He is succeeded by his widow Katie, his son Andrew, and his daughter Suzy. I don't have any funeral details yet as they were not finalised as of last night.
Please be careful out there, I have now lost my brother and Ron in less than 2 weeks to heart problems.
Andy