Thread: Favourite Images from 2016 ... err ... and beyond!
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Old 23 Dec 2016, 08:35 (Ref:3698066)   #23
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Well, this is working better than expected. Keep them coming, folks.

I took this one at BDC, Silverstone back in August. It features one of my favourite cars with one of my favourite people. The car is of course the one off WSM MGB built by the late Douglas Wilson-Spratt and now owned by his son, Tony. It was an Invitation car in the Bic Healey Trophy race which ran for the second time this year and BDC has confirmed that I can run it again in 2017. The race which is not a FISCAR race is very much 'Woosum' territory and I am hoping that the grid will again increase this coming season.

This car seems to have popped from time to time in my life, as I first saw it raced at Silverstone in 1968. I then saw it driven many years later on the road in Croydon and Tony has campaigned it occasionally more recently. The man (I'm tempted to call him boy!!) looking over it has popped into my life rather more frequently, and is the current Editor of Autosport, looking rather taller than he does in my avatar photo, standing next to his younger brother. Alas, I did not own either of those Astons, unfortunately.
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