30-03-2020, 05:35 PM
Splendid machine. I remember being sat in the smoking lounge of the Coil and Codpiece one summer's evening, when Percy Ponde- Lyffe came dashing into the car park in that very racer. "Missed you at Shelsley today, old boy" he called out above the sound of the village ricket team celebrating a draw this week instead of being slaughtered as usual " got the little bugger up the hill in eighteen seconds! Made Old Raymond's ERA look like a Trojan." He then slapped a florin onto the bar and challenged me to a race down to the Pie and Pinion, a couple of miles down the road in Great Slatherings, last one there buys the pints and a very large gin for Brunhilde the barmaid, good lord you should have heard her sing! Anyway, I fired up my Type 35, the vicar dropped the flag and blow me if that racing Austin didn't leave my Bugatti standing. As true as the ad, and continued on p.94.......