Hi guys,
Here I am for another update. Sorry it’s been so long, but you all know why! Also, sorry it’s such a long posting, but I have a lot to catch up on.
First of all, thanks Bill Brownlee, Julian, Tom Tomlinson, Chris Simpson and Bill (Wadietz?) for your requests for signed copies of the new book. I’ve added you all to the list. I will ask all of you, as well as all the others who have requested signed copies, to PM me with your e-mail addresses later on so that I can contact you all directly and make sure I get all the needed postal details. I’ll make a posting shortly of all the names, and re-post as necessary with reduced list until I’ve got everybody’s details.
On to other responses now.
Brian Stewart – If David Brown can manage to get your 6-feet 4-inches into the car he’s building for you, then maybe there’s hope for my mere 6-feet 3-inches after all. But I know it’s not that straightforward. Colin Crabbe is 6-feet 7-inches, and managed – granted with a large bulge in the top of the door – to race GT40 P/1021. But when I sit in a GT40 with my feet on the pedals, and my bum properly on the seat, I wouldn’t need a bulge in the top of the door, I’d need a clear plexi-bubble, because my eye-level is well above the roof of the car! Why the hell am I so hooked on a car I could never possibly drive??? But I still look forward to seeing how David copes for you!
Jim Pearson – Thanks for posting the shot of your car, as well as for the extra info on it that I didn’t know before. I’ve only ever seen your avatar shot of the car, and a very few other photos on the Internet that were not much bigger, so it is very nice to have a decent shot of it at last.
Adrian – Thanks for thinking of me regarding the 2 GT40s that were going to be auctioned, and the extra work that would give me. But I’ve posted on the “GT40’s on the block this weekend” thread about not just the two, but the four GT40s that changed hands at the auctions, and have posted that I have survived! Thanks for the thoughts though.
John Peck – I’m honoured that you should use your first ever posting on the forum to ask me about my new book on behalf of your 12-year old GT40 fan son. I certainly don’t want to give everything away in advance, but within the next month at most I will make a posting briefly summing up the content. If I were to try to say it all, I’d end up having to publish the book here!! But for all the years this new book has been going on, I have to say that a huge amount of what has gone into it (and is still going into it – I am still tap-tapping about 10 hours a day!!) has come to me in only the last few years. It has all been quite remarkable. And it has really upgraded what I already knew to be a top notch book to a level beyond my wildest dreams. I just can’t wait! Why do people say that, when they know that is precisely what they know they are going to have to do?
Anyway, back to the grind. Thanks to one and all.
Ronnie Spain
