Here's a pic of some of the cars Peter brought along to T&T for our last event:
The coolest car in the bunch is the beautiful hand-built, red Ford Anglia in the last row. This car has a very special appeal to me. My mother had a grey Anglia and that was the car I learned to drive in. I used to sit in the parked car for hours doing imaginary laps of the then two-mile-long Wallerfield circuit, changing gears and going through all the wheel turns as I navigated the bends in my head. When I was eventually allowed to actually drive it, I used to borrow the keys from my mother soon after I got home from school (and before my dad came from work!) and I'd take it for drives back and forth along the driveway and down the private road that led to my house. There was a spot just before our driveway where dirt and gravel collected that I learned to throw it into a slide just before entering our curved driveway. I was sixteen at the time.
My mother's Anglia at home circa 1967-1968 (I put the red stripes on it using electrical tape):
Our driveway at the time (it went through the arch and circled back and rejoined itself, so I could do "laps" down the road and back):
The second Anglia influence I had was Simon Kelshall's racing Lotus Anglia (which was also grey in colour at that point, with MiniLite wheels). I used to go to Wallerfield with my brothers-in-law-to-be and watch it lap the track in races, then ogle it in the pits. It was one of the fastest cars in T&T at the time.
Simon Kelshall's Anglia at Wallerfield:
...and at South Dakota circuit in Guyana (check out the stance with those rims!):
Wonderful cars and great memories.
Gordon