Posted on August 28, 2013 by driverjohn
Sorry if anyone has called in to see our stock at GAC over the last 10 days as we have found out this morning that the centre has been closed since the 19th August, apparently due to a lease dispute with the landlord. Continue reading →
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Posted on August 23, 2013 by driverjohn
News that IndyCar plans to widen its scope to other parts of the world is welcome. Given our comments earlier about the state of F1 the opportunity to have another single seater series on a global platform might focus F1 a little and get them to sharpen things up. Continue reading →
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Posted on August 23, 2013 by driverjohn
Not so long ago a German in a red car was winning just about everything in F1 and some people thought that it had become a bore. The German chap was kind enough to retire (for a while), to let some other blokes have a go, but along the way there had been a couple of occasions when the team had ordered the driver of their other car to let this serial winner through and there had been much uproar about this practice. So much so that they banned it and said that manipulating race results was naughty and anyone caught doing it would be smacked and sent to stand in the corner. Continue reading →
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Posted on July 1, 2013 by driverjohn
Things have gone well with the virtual shops on the web site and on eBay, but working with mail order has led us to keep to selling things that conform to the “large letter” format as the more lumpy items are expensive to post and more prone to damage. Shipping costs can be exorbitant and so we have tried to stick to smaller and flatter things.
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Posted on May 12, 2013 by driverjohn
The shop will be closing shortly whilst we are overseas, but things have gone well over the last month with a steady stream of sales. At the moment the sales are all running through the eBay version of the shop, but we are looking at an on-line store to provide an alternative sales channel for buyers and we have also started to compile lists of items so that we can add them as ‘pdf downloads from the current website. Continue reading →
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