Shore av!

During the 1940s and '50s the name of Argentinian Juan Fangio was well-known in motor racing for his fearless use of speed and tactics. I mention this to help younger readers today understand the sarcastic comment with which I was faced sometime in the late 1960s when I badly misjudged my approach s...

You nicked that from the last Farina News!!

This first one was witnessed by me... In the 1990s the Ashmolean Museum in the centre of Oxford had its slates covering its main galleries roof replaced. No ordinary household slates these, each one was five feet by four feet and four inches thick. They were delivered by a fleet of articulated lorr...

An elderly driver asked her local garage to find the source of an occasional awful pong in her car. They assumed it would be overheating brakes or clutch, perhaps a dead mouse or spilt milk causing the problem but no, nothing was found. They road tested it and found nothing wrong, so in desperation ...

It was just before Christmas and late one night a local phoned his remote pub to warn them of a police car parked quietly in a field's gateway near them. At last-orders time, a motorist was seen almost falling down the steps in front of the pub. He staggered around the car park trying to find his ca...

... and doesn't it just show how the humble A40 is still a very great part of the racing scene these days.

Certainly will, but really sorry to miss you both (and of course Tina the Farina!) and I hope you do find time to send FN an article once the rally is over. The very best of luck to you!

I had the pleasure of meeting Chris and nav. John Varney at the Banbury stage of the rally: here's some memories of that bitterly cold day, Thursday 31st January 2019 (see FN 156, pp 18-19 for full report). Banbury stage.jpg Chris and John.jpg engine room.jpg means business!.jpg first road kill, nea...

Hi Chris, I'm reasonably sure there isn't an actual font one can purchase and I've been through my comprehensive listings of commercially available fonts but can't find a close match. Depending on what words you need to create, perhaps a designer could draw them up from a photo of the "Austin" and "...