Category: Classic and Historic Racing Cars
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Vintage Sports Car Club Pomeroy Trophy 2024
In the late Douglas Adams’ book “The Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”, a super computer known as “Deep Thought” takes eons to work out the answer to life, the universe and everything. In fact it takes so long to calculate that the computer forgets the question. I suspect Douglas based…
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Vintage Sports Car Club New Year Tests
A rather dull start to Sunday became a very sunny day at Brooklands in Surrey for the 2024 VSCC New Year Driving Tests. To anyone unfamiliar with the discipline, driving tests involve threading one’s way through a series of cones in the fastest possible time. Easy, until you realise that you…
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MG Car Club cancels MG Live 2024
By that time [1930] hardly anybody thought of the M.G. Car Company as builders of large well appointed and relatively expensive motor-cars. They had won fame with a bewildering array of Midgets, Magnas and Magnettes, and achieved so many successes in races, trials, rallies and record breaking…………. M.G By McComb 1978…
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Dear Diary
Planned Events January to February 2024 A quiet January is coming to an end. It started with the Bicester Scramble on 07 January and looks like ending with a trip, for me, to the VSCC New Year Driving Tests at Brooklands on 28th January. February kicks off with the Aylesbury MG…
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Back In Time
Before my life became complicated by building pipelines and Energy facilities, I would often be found at a race circuit; Brands Hatch; Donington; Silverstone etc. In fact anywhere where cars were being put through their paces, I would be there, cameras in hand. Bruno Giacomelli GP De Europe 1983 – Photo:…
