Vale Paul Cockburn 25/07/48 – 17/11/21
FINDING a polymath is not quite as rare as a unicorn but it’s up there. Some 30-odd years ago I discovered a polymath inside an envelope requesting, very respectfully, that this magazine endorse his attempt at the Chinese Land Speed Record – in a modified E-Type Jaguar. The roadster, of course.
His name was Paul Cockburn. I was the Wheels editor; the letter was one of the best written and funniest things ever to make it to the In Tray. The rest, as they say, is history.
After such a mad and unlikely introduction, my friend graced these pages,
