The Bluebird Project

I have been building this, as I worked on the big "one oneth" one Believe it or not, I drew the dials full size in paintbox, even the numbers and "Smiths" etc, and then scaled them down to 1/12th. Of course, at that size you can only see a blur, but I know it's all there and corr...

Ah, but Nigel, getting out is merely traveling between the two! Unfortunately, I have become, through no choice of my own, a man of liesure (sudden cancelation of my contract, though I have three manuscripts to finnish), so I may get about a bit more! Magnesium, I can think of two grand prix drivers...

My sad anorak moment of the day. We used to stock Saunders Valves at the garage I did my apprenticeship with. I HAVE to et out more................

Is the low pressure fuel valve in todays pic a Worcester (as in Norris Bros) or a Saunders Valve (Saunders Valve Company)?

I've done it once, I'm not doing it again (on the originals and the copies!!) So who has the register, or registers, of these drawings ??? Don't qoute me on this, but I think my register went with a full set to Beaulieu, although I believe Mike (Varndell) may have re=cataglogued it all. My lists we...

I've done it once, I'm not doing it again (on the originals and the copies!!)

I'm going from memory, so the usual disclaimers apply, but I think when the reg' was changed the "Z" was painted out and the infinity added (as per the photo's) and the "7" was merely converted to a "2", badly!!

It's a "2", always was, Scott=Paine was actually told to get rid of the stylised "2" and makeit more clearly a "2" . The reason it was originally done was that MGBIII was going for the off shore record, the outright record was an after thought, and much like K3 was, for...

It's a Replicast, made by the genius that is Fred Harris. Fred sold his masters but continues to makes short runs on commision and for himself. I know there's always a lot of "that's the wrong shape, that was bigger etc etc" when it comes to models, but what Fred produced, and how, was mir...

Now by odd coincedence, I was once asked to manage the Human League (very much post their succesful years, about 2002), and found Phil to be a total petrol head (he had a superb Laverda Jota amongst others) and later bumped into him severaal times when I worked in F1, where he ignored the drivers an...