My friend Alex, who painstakingly did the bodywork/paint on my B20, has kinda taken these cars to his heart due to getting under their skin, as it were. So whenever he comes across one he feels obliged to converse with its owner.
Last week he was in the UK with the family, in his 2+2 Jag E Type, on a trip to the Silverstone Classic. He said to me afterwards that it didn't seem that special considering the sheer amount of E Types that turned up. Almost made them seem a little 'common'. He runs a small restoration buisness, and has no allegiance to any marque, indeed his other 'classics' are a 50's Studebaker saloon, and a 60's Ford Galaxie.
Anyway on the way to Silverstone he spied the front of a B20 in his mirrors, then before he knew it, the car zoomed past at a rate of knots. So curious, he gave chase, after a few roundabouts he gave up, as the B20 zipped through them and sped off into the distance. All he knew was that it was 'beige' and had smaller tail lamps than mine, so possibly a series 1 or 2.
So who was this 'boy racer' ? Anyone here perhaps ?
