Christmas reads and planning more purchases
Purdey wrote several paragraphs about why he thought the BMW 2800 CS was probably the best car in the world circa 1970 and the book includes probably the finest interview I’ve ever read with Stirling Moss, with whom he appears to have been good buddies.
Anyway it's giving me some light relieve from the density of James Ellroy (Blood's a River) and an Encyclopaedia of Morrissey (Mozipedia).
I also met up with Nicholas Margerison on Tuesday and talked about a plan to repatriate a two-door Range Rover from Italy (with fantasies of the journey looking something like the above), plus got a nice package from America courtesy of writer and Mercedes freak Reed Hitchcock. It contained all of his Mercedes 600/M100 notes from his days editing Lode Star, magazine of The International M-100 Group. Looking forward to getting stuck into that.