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King George

I worked at AMCN through 1987, Chris Beattie hired me and I was there through Guy Allen’s editorship and my father, Paul Reed, scribed for George Lynn back in the early days.

I recently sold an Alfa Spider to a Melbourne collector and his sister, and her husband took delivery of the car from me. It turned out that the guy who drove the car away was George Lynn’s nephew. I mentioned my father wrote for George in the early days of the Green Horror and they checked with a few relatives who remembered my father from those times.

I gave my father a call and he said he spent a lot of time with George. He said George’s eyesight was a huge problem and that he made a daunting sight wandering around at

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