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“One generation’s greats become a following generation’s so-whats”

Way back around 195960 I recall it was my big brother who first pointed me towards this magazine. “It tells you more about the cars than the others”, he said, and I instantly found he was right. When I first started drawing racing cars, then writing about them in 1963, this was good grounding.

In 1970-71 happenstance brought contact with Tom Wheatcroft, the Leicester buildercum-racing car collector then compiling his illustrious Donington Collection. For Tom I at last became literally hands on with some of the world’s mostI had always wanted to get closer to the action, so there I found myself just about as happy as a pig in the proverbial.

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