MUSIC, MOTORS AND A MATCH MADE IN HEAVEN
Music teacher and notable Mini racing driver of the 1960s Christabel Carlisle once told me that learning bars of a piece of music as they lead from one phrase to another was similar to competing somewhere like the Nurburgring as the circuit unfolds ahead of you. Fellow musician and classic car enthusiast Mary Mitchell-Gogay may not have raced on the Nurburgring, but her merging of musical and motoring interests has been based around a lifetime spent having to find space in her cars to accommodate her plethora of instruments.
'My parents never owned a motor car, so I have no idea where my interest in them came from at the outset,' says Mary. 'However, when I left school and before I went on to music college, my parents took me to Italy on holiday where I fell completely in love with all those tiny Fiat 500s whizzing around the place. So when a few years later I bought my first car around 1973, it was the slightly larger Fiat 600D that I
