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Norman Norrington in his Buckler in c1965
Photo of 99 NKN with me
driving it circa 1965. Sold it in 1966 but
can't remember to whom. It was bright blue with BRDC
stickers on the wings
suggesting it had been campaigned. No Hood and needed a
blanket round the
legs to stop the heat from the bulkhead!!
I purchased and sold it
in the Colchester area. As far as I can recall it had a
Ford E93A
side valve engine with an Aquaplane head, double valve
springs and went like
stink and was bloody hot in the cockpit. I never raced
it, but was always
bemused that I could take it out in the pouring rain and
never get wet -
never did understand that, must have had superb
aerodynamics over the
cockpit.....ah those were the days, petrol 2/6 a gallon,
no windscreen
wipers. Since then have owned a Lambo Espada, Ferrari,
XKR, RR (3), Austin
A40 Sports, Jensen Intercepter (3) plus about two dozen
other minor and
major exotics, sadly in my dotage now drive a Range
Rover......but none made
me smile as broadly as driving 99NKN.
Norman Norrington 2006.
Where is she now?
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