RE: Time For Tea? Hawthorn laps Le Mans
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Too many stories! Dad raced at the TT Trophy, Dundrod, Goodwood etc. He also competed in a Riley in Hillclimbs before the war. Stopped for speeding once when he was 14 while driving his parents through Brighton. That was before cameras so he must have been moving!
The cars were all driven to the event and tested on the public roads before the race. In those days anyone getting in the way of a racing driver testing on the public roads received a telling off from the Police! Champagne parties and outrageous behavior at the Hotel de France were the norm. Of course Dad and Gerry were true English Gentlemen.( Gerry was in the RAF as you can tell by the moustache) He would say " well it was all a little lively nothing more"
This car LXH 3 is still going and running at classic meetings, and has been owned by the same person in Surrey for at least 20 years.
It was owned and entered at the time by a lady- I will have to come back to you on her name, but she raced at Le Mans also.
. However, and please excuse my ignorance, what is it?
Active75 said:
Too many stories! Dad raced at the TT Trophy, Dundrod, Goodwood etc. He also competed in a Riley in Hillclimbs before the war. Stopped for speeding once when he was 14 while driving his parents through Brighton. That was before cameras so he must have been moving!
The cars were all driven to the event and tested on the public roads before the race. In those days anyone getting in the way of a racing driver testing on the public roads received a telling off from the Police! Champagne parties and outrageous behavior at the Hotel de France were the norm. Of course Dad and Gerry were true English Gentlemen.( Gerry was in the RAF as you can tell by the moustache) He would say " well it was all a little lively nothing more"
This car LXH 3 is still going and running at classic meetings, and has been owned by the same person in Surrey for at least 20 years.
It was owned and entered at the time by a lady- I will have to come back to you on her name, but she raced at Le Mans also.
Entered in 1952 by Mrs. P Trevelyan, but the 1954 entry was by Frazer Nash GB. Quite possible they used her car as a works entry to make up a 3-car team.The cars were all driven to the event and tested on the public roads before the race. In those days anyone getting in the way of a racing driver testing on the public roads received a telling off from the Police! Champagne parties and outrageous behavior at the Hotel de France were the norm. Of course Dad and Gerry were true English Gentlemen.( Gerry was in the RAF as you can tell by the moustache) He would say " well it was all a little lively nothing more"
This car LXH 3 is still going and running at classic meetings, and has been owned by the same person in Surrey for at least 20 years.
It was owned and entered at the time by a lady- I will have to come back to you on her name, but she raced at Le Mans also.
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