Posted on August 29, 2013 by driverjohn
Despite the problems with Gloucester Antiques Centre we are still very much in business. Amongst what we have for sale at the moment there are a number of aviation related collectibles from BOAC, Pan Am, American Airlines and others, mostly from the 1960s and 1970s, but some 1950s and some contemporary. Many of these have been listed on our eBay store and there are some more to come, so do click the link on our eBay site to subscribe for updates. 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 truckertoggle
Yes, we know that we need to get on with writing some more of our Setting the Record Straight series, and we will try to dust off the research on the James Hunt v David Morgan story and also the 1966-69 story of Fords at Le Mans so that we can get those stories on here. 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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