A Coach With A Past . Our 1937 Bedford WTB JT 8077
When I was young my Dad and several like-minded friends formed a group to save and restore a derelict 1937 Bedford WTB coach that one of them had found rotting…
Read moreSUDDEN FASCINATION 3 :THE GNOME MONOSOUPAPE ROTARY ENGINE
Recently, while reading a couple of autobiographies by World War One fighter piltos, I became increasingly entranced by the engineering of the machines they flew. In particular by the curious,…
Read moreSudden Fascination 2 – Trojan Utility Cars
Some years ago I was dozing off in my chair at a particularly ‘slow’ Beaulieu Autojumble where the crowd was sparse and sales… only an ambition. A kindly lady ,…
Read moreThe Stirling Moss Moment. Testing Racing Cars With The Maestro.
Among all the global sadness of the Covid19 crisis the death of Sir Stirling Moss wasn’t the banner headline it would have been in less traumatic times. Moss wasn’t just…
Read moreIt Already Seems So Long Ago : Clee Hills And Cotswold Clouds Trials 2020
This week we would, if things had gone normally, have been getting organised for the LANDS END TRIAL in which Carlotte and I were entered with our Suzuki X90. Of…
Read moreThe End Of The Road, For Now : VSCC Herefordshire Trial
It’s nearly the end of March 2020 and I was planning to be at Goodwood for the Member’s Meeting this coming weekend. A fortnight later we should have been off…
Read moreConcorde & The Post Horn Gallop – Aerospace Bristol
In February with one or other of the many winter storms lashing the country (Ciara I think, they have names these days to make them seem more important) the four…
Read moreNew Year – New Venue – Old Cars. VSCC Gathering Ross on Wye.
There’s, a huge Rolls Royce Phantom that looks as if it’s youth was spent on tiger shoots and a 3 wheeler Morgan getting stuck in the mud under a tree.…
Read more“It’s Trialling Jim, But Not As We Knew It” Three Car Trial Adventures
Untill November , taking part in car trials was a strictly Dad-and-Daughter adventure. Ever since I got back into competitive motoring I have been accompanied by my daugher Charlotte. We’ve …
Read moreOver Thinking Litton Slack : 2019 MCC Edinburgh Trial
So there we were , in our nice, warm Suzuki X-90, on the way down through the fields to the most infamous hill on the entire Edinburgh Trial. A hill…
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