On My Radio

The July 2004 issue was wonderful: a classic. The Squire bit and those knockout photos with the Tiger Moth, I shall keep. A joke here: p33, the BMC race transporter. First job of an entire career, signed up as a newly minted Nuffield apprentice at Cowley, Sept 1,1959, where the first Minis were starting to roll out of Ε Block. Job was, fit all six trucks with radios, spot lamps and fog lamps and park them outside the works Police hut. Came back in the morn: not a radio or a light to be found – all I got was a smile from the cops and instructions to draw another six sets from the stores and fit them!

Hundreds of times I drove Remenham Hill in my 2 5 hp R-R tourer, often musing on the Squire: 45 years on, I still have the 20/25, it having been all over the world with me – including chauffering Mario Andretti on a lap of Kyalami.

I also recall a ride in the prototype Gordon-Keeble with Jim Keeble. I thought it better than a Ferrari 2 50GT. Another one with huge potential that somehow fell in a hole.

And the Blitzen Benz: presumably the Harnden car – broken up in the war? Richard Crumb has just built another out of bits scrounged in Sweden. I’d pay to read that story. Colin Black

Washington, Louisiana, USA