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Legends, I’d say! Some stories not publishable, I believe........
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I'll try & describe - the monitors on the ground, looking at pictures from the Musk rocket & commenting "still 200,000 miles to go & they're stuck behind a caravan".
Well, it made me smile. On the subject of the Three Musketeers, messrs Marshall, Lanfranchi & Williams, I recall an incident which I am pretty sure involved all three of them. The occasion was an Escort Mexico race at Mallory Park, can't remember who won but all three went on the victory lap in one car, Barrie I think, in the boot clutching a pint of beer which he managed to control as they rounded the hairpin. |
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One such occasion was when a friend of mine had been looking for an Anglia shell to start building a car to race. Gerry had mentioned that he had one available for a very reasonable price around the back of the showroom where he was then working in North Finchley. Four of us piled in to my car, with a flatbed trailer behind, and drove up the few miles to where Gerry was. We had a quick look over the shell with Gerry, and my friend agreed a price. Gerry told us to load it on the trailer, and to come into his office after to settle up. When he had gone we went to pick up the shell, only to find that by doing so, the floor opened up from one door sill to the other - it was a very poorly cut and shut! We dropped the shell back on the ground, and marched into Gerry's office to find him with a huge grin on his face, and asking if my friend still wanted to buy the shell! Having called him a few unsavoury names, we had a good laugh about it, and went on our merry way. I have read comments by some past drivers and others that they didn't enjoy racing with Gerry, but I never had any problems with him, possibly because we were fair with each other, and therefore learnt to respect each others' space. But then, on the whole, that applied to most of the drivers that I came across. |
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We had Gerry as guest speaker at the local MG Car Club annual dinner. It was an "ok" speech, but in the bar afterwards the tales were taller, more riotous and totally scurrilous. Wonderful evening!
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I was lucky(?) enough to meet Gerry fairly regularly in our, then, local boozer. He was great company and often somewhat disparaging of various members of the clientelle, golfers, whom he collectively called............................
That said I last saw him at Oulton Park where he drove an RX7. He was in a mobility scooter and frankly did not look well. That was around 2002. |
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I would guess that that would coincide with the time that he had his own showroom in Temple Fortune, near Henly's Corner on the North Circular. One thing that could certainly be said about Gerry was that he was forthright! |
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Anyone remember Gerry's UNKLOG campaign, complete with car stickers (may even still have one somewhere)?
It was his battle against the Middle Lane Owners Club, as he called them. A battle that still goes on today. |
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Ha, ha John, at last you got the white message. Snowing again here. Pedestrians not knowing how and ABS system "works" walk in the streets instead of staying on the sidewalk.
By the way, GM has always been admired here, we didn't know that a touring car could be that fast in wet conditions! Dry either… What a legend. |
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My main memory of Gerry was at a pre season test session for a national touring car series (can't remember exactly what) and Mr Marshall turning up a little late in a Capri with the front brake discs glowing red hot from his drive to Snetterton.
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Coincidentally, I've just been sent a great (Mike Dixon) pic taken at Cadwell by Andrew Kitson. It’s from a 1975 prod saloon race, and the cars are passing the long demolished farmhouse and barn. Guess who is in the lead.....
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I know with cars, vans, trucks etc that they’re built all over the place, and just because you drive a mini, for instance, doesn't mean it was made here. Seems it’s same with railway stock, as a percentage of the new carriages we’re promised in this region are being built in Hungary, then fitted out in Switzerland..... The rest are being built in Derby though, which is nice to know.
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Hitachi assemble trains in the NE but they are designed elsewhere and assembled from imported components. CAE design and build in Spain Siemens and Alstom are about to merge their rail businesses and build i Germany and FRance, and elsewhere probably. China, as with most industries, is a growing competitive threat (hence the Siemens-Alstom merger and past merger talks between Siemens and Bombardier), and I think 1 Chinese company is on the short list to bid for the HS2 trains. Last edited by andy97; 9 Feb 2018 at 14:47. |
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