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Remembering Le Mans 1989 at Donington 2012
I was lucky enough to have a number of good teachers at school but, in this context, my history teacher should get special mention. That’s because ...
Memories of Shelsley, the ultimate 'power hill'
I recently picked up a copy of Simon Taylor’s The History Of Shelsley Walsh, written for the famous hillclimb’s centenary in 2005. I’d flicked ...
Variety is the spice of life – sometimes
An old colleague of mine once told me that he tended to shy away from buying a model of car that he’d already owned. His reasoning was that there ...
Original is best... or is it?
When I bought my MX-5 back in August, obviously I tried a few before plumping for one conveniently located on the other side of the country. Up ...
Emulating the heroes of 1965 on a dodgy old laptop
I’m not much good with computers. I can use them, but I don’t pretend to understand them. It was therefore with a mixture of surprise and delight ...
With age cometh wisdom... and a love of porridge
It all happened so gradually I didn’t really notice. First, my wife and I found ourselves spending New Year’s Eves at home or at friends’ houses ...
Childhood love remains unrequited... for now
A fondness for a particular marque or model can come from many sources but, for the most part, it dates from when we were growing up as ...
