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I am in Mission Bay. I'd love to see it. I though I would convert a Chevron B8 into a road car once. It was so horrible on the road I gave up on it.

Hi everybody, thank you for welcoming me

One of my biggest disappointments was at the GT race before the German GP at the Nurburgring in 1962 in a Lotus Elite. It was raining and there must have been a hundred car grid. I jumped the start and was fourth through the South Curve, in front was an Aston Martin driven by Peter Lindner...

Hi John, I never drove a GT 40 But Paul Hawkins an Aussie from Melbourne was with me at Walker's in England and he was to drive a GT40 at LeMans and when I asked him what happened when he got to La Source the 30mph hairpin he said that he if he missed the braking point the next stop was Paris

Hi everyone! My name is Richard Melville. I am a former racing driver. I drove GT cars in Europe in early sixties, Formula Supervees and Atlantic in the States and Canada, and finally in New Zealand in the mid-seventies. This forum looks like a good place for me to chat with like-minded...