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- Petrol in My Blood – trade enquiries
- David Benson’s article about his arrest
- Press quotes from Eric Jackson and Ken Chambers
- The roads in Africa
- Round the world delays?
- The pretty girl on the docks at Cape Town
- Guns and tear gas
- Rosie’s Bar, Monte Carlo
- A few things I’ve discovered
- How’s the book going?
- Ouch
- Tulip Rally 1966
- The great meat pie race
- Cortina d’Ampezzo
- Mud, glorious mud
- First rally car – last rally car
- Meanwhile, back in Barnsley
- Across the Sahara and back
- Timbuktu
- George Hinchcliffe – London to Cape Town
- London to Sydney can’t be tougher than this
- Edgy Fabris
London to Sydney can’t be tougher than this
That is the title of a press cutting I have. It shows a photograph of the Ford works team on an eight mile trek over the Welsh mountains. The article begins:
This is recorded by Eric Jackson in Petrol in My Blood. He says he enjoyed the training but laughs when he recalled how Ken Chambers, a heavy smoker, hated the physical exercise. He also tells the story of the rally too.Team orders aren’t just controversial in Formula 1, you know
Hope the water's warm. You can't have your kayak and heat it
Although Eric does seem to have an apprehensive look on his face in the photograph above, doesn’t he?
Look closely and you can see the scar where he was shot in the stomach. He had survived being shot at by Russian soldiers when he was in Berlin, but was shot when he left the army … in Barnsley of all places.