“Sorry To Bother You But…” Exmoor Clouds Trial 2021
September 5th . It’s supposed to be red hot and balmy but on the north Somerset coast, Exmoor is shrouded in mist and the temperature has been distinctly average for…
Read moreTo Use Or Not To Use? Thats is the question. Competeing with Vintage Cars.
Last month I posted a video clip of a vintage Bentley in very spirited action on the VSCC Welsh Trial – and it caused a lot of comment . Comment…
Read moreBeaulieu 1986 & 2016 : 30 Years And Worlds Apart.
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 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 morePetrol Pumps, Pedal Cars and The World’s Smallest Sidecar : Beaulieu 2015
The thing with Beaulieu Autojumble is you never quite know what you will see. On the surface it all appears much the same year after year (It’s 31 since I…
Read moreA Glastonbury For The Vintage Car Set. Prescott Vintage Hilclimb 2015
On the course and in the paddock you see a beguiling assortment of pre WW2 sports and racing cars. In the car park on Sunday morning a jaw dropping variety…
Read moreLocation, Location , Location… Strange Days At A Very English Chateau !
Nestling just off the busy M5 motorway not very far from Birmingham is a gloriously eccentric hotel – Chateau Impney. The story goes that this elaborate former stately home was…
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