Once you’ve raced, you never forget it…and you never get over it.

— Richard Childress

Photographic Archive

  • 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:…

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  • Forgive My Cynicism

    If one goes to the UK Parliament website http://www.parliament.uk and searches for the first passenger railway you’ll find that this was the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, which was authorised by Act of Parliament in 1826.[1]  The South Eastern Railway Act was passed ten years later in 1836. The website goes…

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  • What’s Your Flavour?

    Somebody far more famous than I, once said “If you restore a car, and you’re making money, then you’re doing it wrong.”  Jay Leno is known for his wit but he makes a fair point.  It starts at the point of sale, when all rational thought goes out of the…

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