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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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MG Car Club cancels MG Live 2024
Read more: MG Car Club cancels MG Live 2024By 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
Read more: Dear DiaryPlanned 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
Read more: Back In TimeBefore 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
Read more: Forgive My CynicismIf 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?
Read more: 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…
Once you’ve raced, you never forget it…and you never get over it.
— Richard Childress
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