Nice project. Not an AC subject as such but... Blakely also had an H.R.G connection and did the Goodwood 9 hours in 1952 and 1953 in one of the 1949 H.R.G Le Mans Lightweight team cars latterly fitted with H.R.G Engineering's new twin cam engine at that time which was on loan to him. When he was shot, H.R.G quickly took their engine back, the car fell on hard times and did not turn a wheel for many years. My Father bought the car, with its older engine back in it, in 1972 and I "helped" with various bits of the car as a boy and dreamt of one day racing it. It was one of those long re-builds and during the project Father found the twin cam engine in a chain-gang Nash and re-united it. Eventually I got to race it and memorably did 50 laps of Snetterton in it once.