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<DIV><FONT size=2>A gent as you say. His era is my first memory of being
interested in cars and motor racing. The husband of a friend of
my mother was really into it with memorabilia all round their house and I was
desperately hoping he would take me to a GP one day. I was gutted when
they divorced! </FONT><FONT size=2>I was at Silverstone many years
ago and Sir Stirling was in the middle of a crowd signing
autographs. Couldn't get near him but I managed to perch on a short
concrete pillar and get a clear view of his head and shoulders, when he
looked up and smiled at me for a moment long enough to get a picture. I
like to think he was giving me the opportunity to take the picture,
but maybe he was wondering if I would topple off.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>He was at Gaydon for the first public showing of the MGF
and the 75th anniversary of Old Number One, and after sitting in the MGF he
clambered into the claustrophobic cockpit of EX181 and recounted how, the first
time he got in, he hoped that he would never have to get out in a
hurry.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>PaulH.</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>