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Donington Historic Festival 04/05 May 2024 (with thanks to the XJS Club)
Read more: Donington Historic Festival 04/05 May 2024 (with thanks to the XJS Club)Thursday 2nd May dawned with an e mail from Motor Racing Legends (MRL) informing us that it had been acquired by Aythorpe Promotions Limited (APL). APL is led by prominent historic racer Shaun Lynn. I have had the pleasure of racing with the MRL organisation between 2014 and 2021 in…
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An Americano With an Extra Shot Please……..
Read more: An Americano With an Extra Shot Please……..…….. was the answer I gave to the lady on the coffee kiosk at the Bicester Scramble on Sunday morning. It was cold so I chose the Americano rather than my usual Double Espresso. What has coffee got to do with anything you ask? Well it seems a number of…
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The Right Crowd and No Crowding
Read more: The Right Crowd and No CrowdingThe Goodwood Road Racing Club 81st Member’s Meeting The modern version of the annual Goodwood Member’s Meeting started in 2014 with the 72nd version. Significantly and only for The Member’s Meeting, the age limit for cars racing on the circuit is increased to 1982, in order to permit the Group…
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Diversity Makes The Difference
Read more: Diversity Makes The DifferenceThe standard Volkswagon Polo of 2015 vintage weighs in at 1242Kg. So, why not stick a 428 Bhp power unit into one and have some fun? That’s exactly what this bloke did. I can’t begin to imagine the torque steer generated by such massive power, but fair play to anyone…
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Goodwood does MG
Read more: Goodwood does MGYou like motorsport and you are reasonably well off but you’re not a milionaire. You like the idea of racing but you don’t have a car. You’ve looked at historics and note that there are loads of Cobra’s, GT40s, E Types and Elans, but amongst all of them, there’s an…
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When Sunday Comes
Read more: When Sunday ComesWell, the first Sunday in the month that is. This day is set aside for the Car Collective’s Leighton Buzzard Cars and Coffee morning at Jackson and Phillips’ garage in Leighton Buzzard. Always a good turn out of diverse cars and this meeting was no exception. There was the young…
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Vintage Sports Car Club Pomeroy Trophy 2024
Read more: Vintage Sports Car Club Pomeroy Trophy 2024In 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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Shark Nosed Corvettes
Read more: Shark Nosed CorvettesI’ve been looking through some of my photographs from 2023 and inside the file for Pistons and Props at Sywell, I found one which I think, shows off the Corvette C3 in all its curvy glory. Designed by Larry Shinoda who was directed by Billy Mitchell, they’re not a car I’ve…
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It’s All About The Vehicle
Read more: It’s All About The VehicleSo, February kicked off with a trip to the Leighton Buzzard Cars and Coffee gathering organised by the Car Collective Ltd. I rarely miss this event although last month it clashed with the Bicester Scramble. My chosen ride for today was my trusty black Focus ST, although I often take my XJ-S. There’s…
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Vintage Sports Car Club New Year Tests
Read more: Vintage Sports Car Club New Year TestsA 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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