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Imagine how gobsmacked I was when this Series 1 1964 Maserati Sebring turned up at a local meet this evening, rare enough to start with but even rarer in RHD...

Some more Italianate nostalgia from Brooklands...

Round three...

And a few more...

Slip Slidin' Away - Paul Simon

A local meet at Crick this afternoon...

Bring On The Dances Horses - Echo & The Bunnymen

Ludgate Circus dahn the smoke, 1914...

Don't Bring Me Down - ELO (I know we've had it a few times already but it's such a great record)

Some more photos from yesterday's Italiana-fest at Brooklands...

Spot on Ian - there was another at Brooklands yesterday... And in a Maserati 3500GT from the same period, RHD too which is very rare...

Another one from Brooklands...

A quickie from Brooklands, two cuties from Turin...

Thanks for the correction, not sure why I typed Wednesfield 😉

Just got back from the 'Auto-Italia' day at Brooklands where my eyes were out on stalks as usual - I'll upload some photos later but what a cracking day it was, Fiats, Ferraris, Lancias, Lamborghinis, Alfas and Abarths galore, old and new, with some very rare gems amongst them.

Vladek Sheybal was cast as a doctor in 'UFO', slightly against type but still with that sinister vibe he so often gave on screen. See also : George Murcell, often cast as a Russian, Eastern European or occasionally South American in numerous ITC series and the odd film... Roger Delgado, the go to actor for a middle eastern sheik and fabulous as the original Master in Dr.Who... Derek Newark, a regular ITC supporting actor when a bit of good old fashioned British thuggery was needed... Oh, and talk of Peter Salis in 'Last Of The Summer Wine' reminded me that he played a sinister villain in an episode of 'The Persuaders' before landing the part of Clegg!

Photo c/o GWS collection : Reading in 1958 with members of the CMEE Department, l to r : Don Flook, Jack Dowsett, Ken Gibbs, Horrace Rhodda (possibly related to veteran Old Oak driver and ex- Arnhem paratrooper Jack Rhodda), Fred Kitchen, Dennis Norris. Behind them is ex-1908 built Steam Railmotor No.93, rebuilt as auto trailer 212 in 1935, retired into departmental service in 1956 and renumbered 0799014.

Photo by John Atkinson : 33 038 at Bristol TM in 1986...

Photo by Michael Mensing : Bescot's D8137 on a local tripper at Wednesbury on 19th September 1969...

Photo by Roger Wainwright...

Photo by John Goodale : St.Pancras in 1982, probably just as many of us here would like to remember it, with 45 135, 45 116 and 45 121 in attendance...

Photo by Peter Parnell : Newton Heath in 1968..

I'm sure I read somewhere that he'd passed away - hope I'm wrong!

Photo by John Goodale : now preserved on the Glos & Warks line, here's 47 105 at CF Canton on 17th December 1982... And at Cheltenham Racecourse in April 2005...

Photo by David Malpas : D6507 at Dorchester South in 1967...