When I was 18 and just starting out as a book seller The Event was Beaulieu. Nothing else came close. Nothing was as important or as influential. You had to…
Read moreBeaulieu 1986 & 2016 : 30 Years And Worlds Apart.
Funny Place For A Chateau…but then again…
It is, with the best will in the world, a slightly bizarre venue for a hilclimb. There’s a 19th century French chateau dominating the landscape but it’s located just outside…
Read moreStuck In The Middle…Shelsley Walsh & Auto Unions
Yes, yes, I know. Dreadful pun. Sorry. Won’t happen again , honest. That’s Hans Joachim Stuck of course. Famous son of famous father, Grand Prix driver, Le Mans winner, Nurburgring…
Read moreAll A Question Of Clouds… Four Motor Sport Events In Spring
We had storm clouds, rain clouds, dust clouds and clouds of tyre smoke. We even had that rarest of happenings, Shelsley Walsh Hillclimb with no clouds at all! Yes Spring…
Read moreSpeeding Into Spring : Bromyard Speed Festival April 3 2016
The elderly man in the flat cap beside me laughs out loud and grins from ear to ear. His wife, not quite so vocal, beams her own approval. Beyond them…
Read more30th ANNIVERSARY of SIMON LEWIS TRANSPORT BOOKS
February 25th 2016 sees the 3oth anniversary of our founding. It’s hard to get your head around judging an enterprise in decades (four of them!) rather than years or months.…
Read moreA Vintage New Year’s Day Treat – Much Marcle VSCC Gathering 2016
The weather has sure been frightful, but the cars are so delightful… New Years Day 2016: 150 pre-war cars, motorcycles and one steam truck, cram into the car park of…
Read moreTesting…Testing…Anyone There? Biscester VSCC Driving Tests
Ah, 2.30pm at last! Time to pack up and get out of the wind … Been here since long before daylight (the trip took far less time than expected at…
Read moreTrial By Mud – Some Winter Motorsport 2015
As the days grow short and the weather grows colder the hillimbs have all finished and there aren’t many circuit races left but the hardy souls of the Vintage Sports…
Read moreSunbeams & Showers – Loton Park September 2015
Loton Park in September. One of the nicer events on the calendar to be among vintage cars. The well populated paddock is overlooked by the gatehouse of Loton Hall. Up…
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