{"id":496708,"date":"2017-07-01T01:41:12","date_gmt":"2017-07-01T01:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=47041"},"modified":"2023-12-22T04:19:20","modified_gmt":"2023-12-22T04:19:20","slug":"fast-exposure-36","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/fast-exposure-36\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorsport Moment &#8211; The Lightweight Special"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">1945 Cockfosters Rally<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Where: <\/strong>England<strong>\u00a0\/\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Date: <\/strong>July 14, 1945<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">George Dowson, the co-designer of this sophisticated pre-war Lightweight Special, is seen demonstrating it at the Cockfosters Rally on July 14, 1945. His partner in creating this little racing car was the famous designer Alec Issigonis, father of the Mini. This image is typical of what could be seen at the informal speed events organized in England just after World War II.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Details:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Photo courtesy of: <\/strong>THE KLEMANTASKI COLLECTION<\/li>\n<li><strong>Address: <\/strong>PO Box 8204, Stamford, CT 06905 USA<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tel: <\/strong>(203) 461-9804<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fax: <\/strong>(203) 968-2970<\/li>\n<li><strong>E-mail:<\/strong> <a href=\"mailto:info@klemcoll.com\" data-uw-styling-context=\"true\">info@klemcoll.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Web site: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.klemcoll.com\" data-uw-styling-context=\"true\">www.klemcoll.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Blog:<\/strong> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/klemcoll.wordpress.com\/\" data-uw-styling-context=\"true\">klemcoll.wordpress.com<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1945 Cockfosters Rally Where: England\u00a0\/\u00a0Date: July 14, 1945 George Dowson, the co-designer of this sophisticated pre-war Lightweight Special, is seen demonstrating it at the Cockfosters Rally on July 14, 1945. His partner in creating this little racing car was the famous designer Alec Issigonis, father of the Mini. This image is typical of what could be seen at the informal speed events organized in England just after World War II. Details: Photo courtesy of: THE KLEMANTASKI COLLECTION Address: PO Box [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":769215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[261,12314,8907],"tags":[11689,13683,274,548,17167,15621],"class_list":["post-496708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-motorsport-racing","category-fast-exposure","category-pictures-videos","tag-pre-war","tag-fast-exposure","tag-mini","tag-motorsport","tag-motorsport-moments","tag-alec-issigonis"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Motorsport Moment - The Lightweight Special<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"George Dowson, the co-designer of this sophisticated pre-war Lightweight Special, is seen demonstrating it at the Cockfosters Rally\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/fast-exposure-36\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Motorsport Moment - The Lightweight Special\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"George Dowson, the co-designer of this sophisticated pre-war Lightweight Special, is seen demonstrating it at the Cockfosters Rally\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/fast-exposure-36\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Supercars.net\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Supercars.net\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/steve.natale1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-07-01T01:41:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-12-22T04:19:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/FE201707.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"702\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"446\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Steve Natale\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@supercars_net\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@supercars_net\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Steve Natale\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/fast-exposure-36\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/fast-exposure-36\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Steve Natale\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/237befa83e8e5937247db55880b8cc49\"},\"headline\":\"Motorsport Moment &#8211; 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