Since I'm logged in for a posting I just made elsewhere, couldn't sign out again without acknowledging the new requests for scrawled (sorry, signed) copies of my new book.
So to Jim, Mike, Michael, Donovan, Adrian and Robert, all of you are noted, and thanked for your requests.
Jim, an RML? A rare beast indeed. I saw the original maroon car at Silverstone in 1991, and I think that's the same one Tiff Needell later raced on TV. Found a few good shots of the yellow and white car too, but I've found no photos of your car. How about posting a shot of it in this thread for me? Love to see it.
Mike, I'll be delighted to send you your signed copy of the book to go with your just purchased 40. Now, if only I can get me a 40 to go with my new book!! But short of surgical redistribution of the lengths of my various body parts, I couldn't fit in one even if I had one. Curses!
Adrian, must have been quite something to drive your 40 down Mulsanne. I'm rather a strange fish, in that I don't really have a desire to drive on race circuits under normal circumstances. But Le Mans is not normal circumstances. Back in 1994, my only ever visit so far to Le Mans, when I had finished at the ACO archives and was about to head back to Paris, some uncontrollable force took control of me, and I headed off - the wrong way - round the roads of the Le Mans circuit. Reaching the end of the open circuit roads, I turned the car round to drive back round that open part of the circuit in the correct direction, and despite the fact that I was driving a battered Volvo 760 GLE, all the way back round to the start, I was Bruce McLaren in GT40 P/1046! Back where I had started, it was all I could do to drag myself past the back of the stands and force myself towards Paris. Until that day, I had thought myself immune to race circuits. Apparently not!
All the best, guys, and thanks again,
Ronnie Spain