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Category: Into the Gauld Mine

Into the Gauld Mine

Nostalgic Stories, Historic Audio Interviews
and Memorable Photography from Graham Gauld

A Very Special Alvis

By F1 GPDCDecember 1, 2020January 11, 2021 Categories: Into the Gauld Mine Leave a comment

Shortly after the end of WW 1, in 1919, T.G.John and Company was formed by Thomas George John that made stationary engines and created a logo of a winged green triangle, but the Avro aeroplane company objected to this as it was similar to their own logo. After much to-ing and fro-ing, the company retained…

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The Hand over That Saved Ferrari

By F1 GPDCDecember 1, 2020January 11, 2021 Categories: Into the Gauld Mine

At a time when everyone is lamenting the pathetic performance of Ferrari in Formula 1 grand prix racing this season (2020) it is worth recalling a similar season in 1955 when Ferrari were having a tough time making the un-loved Super Squalo grand prix car competitive. That year another Italian manufacturer was also in trouble:…

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Fritz, Colotti and the Tec-Mec

By Graham GauldOctober 1, 2020October 3, 2020 Categories: Hide from News, Into the Gauld Mine Leave a comment

Last month we lost another grand prix driver of the 1950s with the passing of Fritz d’Orey the Brazilian driver best known – one might say only known – by the fact that he was the only person to actually race the Tec-Mec Maserati Formula 1 car. To the present day generation the Tec-Mec is…

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Ferrari 2231GT photographed in the Brandone workshops in Cannes, France with its new nose. (Graham Gauld Archive)

How Ferrari 250GT SWB 2231GT got its nose

By Graham GauldAugust 1, 2020August 1, 2020 Categories: Hide from News, Into the Gauld Mine Tags: 250GT, Ferrari Leave a comment

Here in the South of France we will be starting the olive picking in three month’s time. There is  a small olive group in the village run by retired engineer Robert Barbetti so  whilst you tease the olives from the trees you talk and I almost fell out of a tree when Robert told me…

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The Three Musketeers in Hong Kong

By F1 GPDCJune 1, 2020July 2, 2020 Categories: Hide from News, Into the Gauld Mine Leave a comment

The whole Coronavirus affair reminded me of my two-year stint in Hong Kong back in 1993 – 94 and the motor racing community. Obviously there was no actual motor racing in Hong Kong but the Automobile Association of Hong Kong organised the odd motor racing event at Pattaya in Thailand and there was also the…

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Phil’s Brother in Law

By F1 GPDCJune 1, 2020May 31, 2020 Categories: Hide from News, Into the Gauld Mine Leave a comment

When it comes to the building of “Specials” the Americans probably lead the field and some years ago at the Laguna Seca historic races, I bumped into Terry Buffum a keen member of the historic racing group in the States. The car he drove on that occasion was the Parkinson-Special that was Jaguar powered and was…

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Michele Alboreto

By Graham GauldApril 3, 2020April 3, 2020 Categories: Hide from News, Into the Gauld Mine Leave a comment

Throughout the history of automobile racing, there have been the nice guys and the not so nice guys, the guys who go out and get on with the job and the aggressive ones, and Enzo Ferrari has had a few in his time. However, anyone who was around the circuits in the 1980s could not…

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Motor Racing Photography

By Graham GauldFebruary 3, 2020February 3, 2020 Categories: Hide from News, Into the Gauld Mine Leave a comment

Those of you who regularly visit this page on the Grand Prix Drivers Club site will have noticed that motorsport photography has been my interest throughout my life as a motoring journalist. It has been an adjunct that has helped boost the income from articles and books I have written and though it has been…

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A Ferrari Story

By Graham GauldDecember 1, 2019December 1, 2019 Categories: Hide from News, Into the Gauld Mine Leave a comment

I want to take you back to September 17 1955. I was on a Vickers Viscount aircraft on my way from Edinburgh in Scotland to Belfast in Northern Ireland. It was a happy return trip for me because in the previous two years I had been based just outside Belfast when serving with the Royal…

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