My father was a news photographer for many years and I couldn’t help but absorb all the learnings from watching him work. Later, I went to college for journalism and photography and combined those with my love of racing cars to develop (oops, did I say that?) a bit of specialty. When digital photography came…
From the age of 14, my mind was set on being a racing driver with visions of a Grand Prix career keeping me awake at night. That ambition likely made my teens and early twenties one of the best times of my life. With model car racing, and then karting and Jim Russel Formula Ford…
My best friend David and I were hooked on cars from a young age. His 1956-model Volkswagen Beetle started us on the road of some ridiculous and amazing car stories. And those seemed to have never stopped…!
(image above: this is not David’s beetle (nor my photo), but I imagine that his looked much the same in terms of “attitude” as he drove it on gravel roads during the MCO rally. Well, except for all the lights — we just had the regular headlights and a small dent in the front after…
About 20 years ago, I discovered a long-lost teenage crush online. Thousands of miles apart, we spent many emails catching up on our lives. And remembering my obsession with car racing, she asked why I loved racing cars so much and why I had wanted so passionately to be racing car driver. She asked: how…
My father was a newspaper photographer for many years when we lived in Scotland. One day he was assigned to cover the demonstration of the new Aston Martin at a track near Glasgow. The driver that would take them around that day? F1 star Peter Collins… Collins, his friend Mike Hawthorn, Tony Brooks, and the…
In 1970, I was a fourteen-year-old who’d just been bitten by the car racing bug. When my new friend, David Sampson, took his Scalextric set out of it’s box — that was it. I was hooked. My Dad was a former news photographer and when he started taking me to car races, he couldn’t resist…
More than 70 vintage cars were on display at the Washington waterfront today — and if you didn’t already know what old cars looked like, you might be forgiven for thinking they just rolled off the assembly line yesterday. Lovingly pampered and restored by enthusiasts from the Coastal Plains Chapter of the Antique Automobile Club…
My good friend David left his corporate job many years ago and took up car appraising in British Columbia, Canada, with Oceanside Appraisers. He regularly teases me with pictures of the pristine old cars he gets to see and work with. He often visits collector car shows to hob-nob with owners and let them know…
This morning we lost a very special friend, Jon Snadden. Jon had been in hospital for a while and passed away peacefully this morning surrounded, as I understand it, by his family. Although I hadn’t seen Jon in many years, his friendship still meant a lot to me. You see, when I was racing, Jon…