Two decades ago last November the World Rally Championship decended on a picnic area beside a lake in the Forest of Dean for the annual pre-Rally GB (or RAC Rally…
Read moreWorld Champions Down In The Woods : Network Q Rally GB Media Days 1998-99
Formula One Tractors….Not As Uncomman As It Would At First Appear.
With RACING POINT due to rebrand itself ASTON MARTIN in 2021 it marks the latest in a short but select line of F1 teams that (in name at least) trace…
Read moreA 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.…
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