Your Hero's

[lazyitus]

PICTURES PLEASE

Who would you say is a hero of yours, car related or not?

One of mine is this fellow....



>> Edited by lazyitus on Saturday 21st January 23:12

[roop]

Agree entirely with James Hunt. I think this guy is a legend and one of my heroes... :



To give it some context... :

[Balmoral Green]

Barry Scott

[lazyitus]

los angeles said:

Blonde and Bling.

He was last of a dying breed. Just before the pretenders woke up.

[F.M]

THE MAN..NO QUESTION!

we`ll all miss David Jeffries.

[cymtriks]

Most of my heros are members of my family!

Beyond that it's anyone whose name is associated with a product, typically but not always, a car, that I admire.

Colin Chapman
Harry Miller
Dyson (non car - vacuum cleaners!)
Henry Royce (actually Frederick H Royce!)

[Kinky]

My automotive hero I have to concur with Lazy above.

As for non-automotive ....

I present to you Ladies and Gentlemen

[puggit]

[eccles]

Balmoral Green said:

Barry Scott

(topical!)

[wowbagger t.i.p]

Motoring:- Gordon Murry

Others:- Leonardo DeVinchi, Freddy Mercury (Bulsara)and Maggie Thatcher.

[mattley]

Kinky said:

My automotive hero I have to concur with Lazy above. As for non-automotive .... I present to you Ladies and Gentlemen

There's a man with taste.




I'd like to add



and

[Rob-C]

Kinky said:

My automotive hero I have to concur with Lazy above. As for non-automotive .... I present to you Ladies and Gentlemen

Couldn't have put it better myself.

[Wacky Racer]

[jessica]

Nelson Mandella

[scorp]

Isambard Kingdom Brunel

(dodgy name though)

Followed by Darwin..

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[Fortjefferson]

cymtriks said:

Dyson (non car - vacuum cleaners!)

Correct me if I'm wrong, but did'nt James Dysons brother invent/design the Ford BDA engine

[anonymous-user]

Mike Hawthorn.

[mybrainhurts]

John Prescott....

Errr....

Hang on....wait a minute.....

No....

Hang on.........



NO....not Johnny boy.

I'll have to give this some thought.....

[tomtvr]

guys a legend

[kenny chim 4]

I was at a Brit Awards after show party at the Grosvenor House Hotel some years ago- and I spotted James Hunt. He was wearing a white tuxedo and had been employed to adjudicate a Scalextric (four lane track) event for charity.

Some hours later, there he was on his own, drinking a very large whisky and using the wall for support.

I, kind of stupidly, approached him and asked why he didn't get into sportscar/Le Mans racing after he quit F1. He drunkenly mumbled something about those cars being too slow. When I replied that the then Silk Cut, Walkinshaw, Jaguars were capable of 200+ mph down the (then unrestricted) Mulsanne straight, he told me to off.

I duly ed off and was happy never to meet him again.