McNab's Days of Glory
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I knew I was in the company of some truly great people on Pistonheads and I wasn't wrong! McNab, how dare you think that the post regarding Biddies could have ever apply to you!!!! Its great to have joined a forum with gentlemen such as yourself.
Regards (and thanks for your helpful replies, as always)
Regards (and thanks for your helpful replies, as always)
flasher,
Watchit!! I might just take you up on that...! Truth is I reckon the Tamora will turn out to be TVR's best yet, and I've liked the look of it from day one. The spec is more than good - it's excellent, and your comments are anticipated with pleasure.
Everyone, thank you for your felicitations (bigword
hope OK).
I will rummage about in my murky past, and see if the old brain
can come up with something not too embarrassing!
Watchit!! I might just take you up on that...! Truth is I reckon the Tamora will turn out to be TVR's best yet, and I've liked the look of it from day one. The spec is more than good - it's excellent, and your comments are anticipated with pleasure.
Everyone, thank you for your felicitations (bigword
hope OK). I will rummage about in my murky past, and see if the old brain
can come up with something not too embarrassing! 
Super thread this, McNab the fact that you use a computer is evidence to me that you are still at the forefront of your peer group.
Just spoken to my father-in-law (no he doesn't use a computer!)as your racing era's are very similar, just his was more 'clubman' MG-PB/TC/TD's, LW MGA's, Elva's, Lotus. He remembers you and Ninian(sp) Sanderson from meet at Brands, he always liked it when Ecurie Ecosse beat the works teams.
He used to sprint with Freddy Mott, when he moved south, not sure what part he had in Ecurie, but was a dentist? I'm meeting the father-in-law this weekend so I'll pick his brains for more details.
Keep up the stories, all I need is a chair and a beer and I'd be in petrol heaven.
Harry
Just spoken to my father-in-law (no he doesn't use a computer!)as your racing era's are very similar, just his was more 'clubman' MG-PB/TC/TD's, LW MGA's, Elva's, Lotus. He remembers you and Ninian(sp) Sanderson from meet at Brands, he always liked it when Ecurie Ecosse beat the works teams.
He used to sprint with Freddy Mott, when he moved south, not sure what part he had in Ecurie, but was a dentist? I'm meeting the father-in-law this weekend so I'll pick his brains for more details.
Keep up the stories, all I need is a chair and a beer and I'd be in petrol heaven.
Harry
Harry, it's a very small world!
Freddy Mort was a well-known motorcycle racer in Scotland, with a string of successes to his name. I'm terrified of dentists, but he was an exception, for a reason which deserves explanation. I mentioned in a previous thread my shameful lapse in an XK120 when I fell asleep and ended up shoeless in a field with the car upside down several yards away. Feet apparently shrink when they get frightened...
This happened on the way to Turnberry, which had a good circuit in those days. I think it was 1951, because the car was red (it changed colour every time I shunted it...) and therefore it must have been before Ecurie Ecosse, so I was in my first season of circuit racing. Anyway, a kindly passing motorist took pity on me and gave me a lift to Turnberry - quite what I thought I was going to do there without a car goodness knows.
To my everlasting astonishment Freddy Mort offered me his own XK120 when I got there. We had never met, and at the time I'd never heard of him, so you can see that this was an act of extraordinary generosity. His 120 was in great nick (dentist or not, he knew his way about bikes and cars), and I was able to produce a win for him. Tell your father-in-law about this, because it shows what a One Hundred Percent good guy Freddy was.
That was the only one of my several low-flying attempts which ever gave me the shakes (flying XK120s upside down is forbidden by the Civil Aviation Authority). I got into bed that night and suddenly started to shiver and shiver and shiver. Couldn't stop - maybe it was a case of delayed Delirium Tremens??
>> Edited by McNab on Saturday 16th February 02:44
Freddy Mort was a well-known motorcycle racer in Scotland, with a string of successes to his name. I'm terrified of dentists, but he was an exception, for a reason which deserves explanation. I mentioned in a previous thread my shameful lapse in an XK120 when I fell asleep and ended up shoeless in a field with the car upside down several yards away. Feet apparently shrink when they get frightened...
This happened on the way to Turnberry, which had a good circuit in those days. I think it was 1951, because the car was red (it changed colour every time I shunted it...) and therefore it must have been before Ecurie Ecosse, so I was in my first season of circuit racing. Anyway, a kindly passing motorist took pity on me and gave me a lift to Turnberry - quite what I thought I was going to do there without a car goodness knows.
To my everlasting astonishment Freddy Mort offered me his own XK120 when I got there. We had never met, and at the time I'd never heard of him, so you can see that this was an act of extraordinary generosity. His 120 was in great nick (dentist or not, he knew his way about bikes and cars), and I was able to produce a win for him. Tell your father-in-law about this, because it shows what a One Hundred Percent good guy Freddy was.
That was the only one of my several low-flying attempts which ever gave me the shakes (flying XK120s upside down is forbidden by the Civil Aviation Authority). I got into bed that night and suddenly started to shiver and shiver and shiver. Couldn't stop - maybe it was a case of delayed Delirium Tremens??
>> Edited by McNab on Saturday 16th February 02:44
McNab, we are all in your debt, because the Jaguar exploits at Le Mans etc. brought British endurance car racing into the modern era, and made the world see that Great Britain produces great sports cars, and great drivers. (Obviously, Aston Martin , Coventry Climax etc. also contributed). This has, over the years, had the knock on effect, of a driving a racing culture being perpetuated in this country, and we are all just mad petrolheads as a result. You are part of that history, and that (ahem) driving force, and car culture in the UK, including TVR, is alive and well, partly as a result of your efforts.
It's an honour and a pleasure to be able to talk cars with you. Long may it, (and you) continue!!
And, like flasher, you're welcome in my Tamora anytime!!
>> Edited by nubbin on Saturday 16th February 09:40
It's an honour and a pleasure to be able to talk cars with you. Long may it, (and you) continue!!
And, like flasher, you're welcome in my Tamora anytime!!
>> Edited by nubbin on Saturday 16th February 09:40
Hello McNab,
I'm sorry this thread has embarrassed you but in the "car of the year" thread you told me about having run your C-type at the 'Ring with Roy Salvadori so I couldn't resist having a look in my father's library
Of course I knew by the moment I was typing it might embarass you but I thought it was important for our sacred PH land to know of these truly glorious days of motoring (now dead and buried I suppose
), and most of all to know that there's a chap out there who has done what we're all looking for: life in the fast lane 
So McNab, I think there are just six words to say:
Thank You for being with us
Ted,
let's award McNab the title of 'PH moral Godfather'
thom,
the knight who says 'ni'
I'm sorry this thread has embarrassed you but in the "car of the year" thread you told me about having run your C-type at the 'Ring with Roy Salvadori so I couldn't resist having a look in my father's library
Of course I knew by the moment I was typing it might embarass you but I thought it was important for our sacred PH land to know of these truly glorious days of motoring (now dead and buried I suppose
), and most of all to know that there's a chap out there who has done what we're all looking for: life in the fast lane So McNab, I think there are just six words to say:
Thank You for being with us
Ted,
let's award McNab the title of 'PH moral Godfather'
thom,
the knight who says 'ni'
Thom, your remarks are most generous and very much appreciated. Re 'moral' Godfather, there are alarming protests at this end...But I absolutely agree with YOU, no question!
Nubbin, I'd love a shot in your Tamora, thank you, but your insurance company (and mine) would be most obstructive. Silly of them - no risk involved at all
!!
Nubbin, I'd love a shot in your Tamora, thank you, but your insurance company (and mine) would be most obstructive. Silly of them - no risk involved at all
!!More than 17 years later, someone mentioned this thread in the one about the Ecurie Ecosse XJ13 continuation - Ian Stewart alas died over two years ago, but I wonder if he ever recorded his experiences in print? Or indeed if any past contributors to this thread are still around to answer?
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