[Trevor Legate]

Hi Slow8

You are right, I must learn to load images onto this site. Although I've been a photographer for too many years, I have only just taken up digital. I had my first proper non-film photo session on Sunday at a small track, Croft, in the north-east of the UK where Kevin Kivlochan reunited COB6008 with its first 2 owners, Bruce Ropner and Keith Schellenberg. Must download the images soon but I now have a day in the darkroom printing racing Boss Mustangs!
6008 has the original 1964 FIA-flared arches but with a small lip added. A really great Cobra that can easily be driven either with the steering wheeel or the throttle as it has way too much power for the chassis - but that's the fun of it! The guys who raced it back then were all certifiable speed-freaks who worked hard and played harder. The stories they could tell - I only heard a few, about the early days of bobsleigh racing, about the first (and last) guy to water-ski from Scotland to Ireland (you do NOT want to do that!!) and how Bruce would drive from central London to his home in Darlington, some 220 miles, in 2hrs 18mins along a the old A1 in the days before dual-carriageways.
I must try to load some the photos - watch this space!