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CONTENTS INCLUDE:
Lucky Tom - Tom May
The Editor reprints a much abbreviated version of his interview with Aston Martin and Jaguar afficinado, decorated wartime officer and businessman, Tom May. Narrowly escaping owning the local vicar's Austin Seven as his first motor car, May was able to persuade his father that a 1930 Aston Martin International 2/4 Seater was a far safer proposition altogether. So began a lifetime love affair with expensive machinery that included - at HM Government's expense during WW2 - Mustang fighter aircraft and, post-conflict, pre-war Bentleys, a Jaguar SS100, ex-Ecurie Ecosse XK120 and C-Type Jaguars,and the car that he is most closely associated with, the Aston Martin DB2 CSV 451.
It was in this car that, at the age of 80, Tom May drove for 80 minutes at an average speed of 80 mph. Just short of his 90th when he died in 2004, he was planning a 90 - 90 - 90.
Robs Lamplough Racing Reminiscences III -
It's 1968 and Robs has bought a Trojan-built McLaren M4 Formula 2 car - the type of car Piers Courage had done so well in, in the recent Tasman Races. A year of frustration ensues as the car is clearly not as good as a 'Works' one. A bonus however was the purchase of two Formula 1 cars ('67 H16 BRM-engined Type 43s) and the Indy Type 42B from Lotus. By inserting a GT40 engine into the rear of a '43 he had, in effect, created a F5000 car. A Formula due to come into being in 1969. The car won the 1968 Oulton Park 500 Guinea race and in '69 Robs decided to give the new F5000 a real effort with his Lotus-Ford hybrid. Not always reliable due to the wet-sump engine, the combination was fast, and sometimes the big-engined car was replaced by a Formula 3 Lotus 41 fitted with a 1600cc Twin Cam motor.
John Tojeiro - Neville Hay
Neville Hay examines the life of the intuitive designer who died aged 81 in March 2005. Best know for influencing the design of the AC Ace chassis via Cliff Davis' Bristol-engined Tojeiro sports racing car of the 1950s, Tojeiro also produced several Jaguar-powered two-seaters for Ecurie Ecosse, as well as still-born road cars such as the Berkley Bandit and Corvette-engined 'Corveuro' with Dennis Adams.
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