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Subject: Old British Car Video
From: Richard B Gosling <Gosling_Richard_B@perkins.com>
Date: 19 Dec 2000 08:26:26 -0600
Just got the latest edition of Top Gear Magazine (general motoring mag,
 offshoot of a TV show of the same name in the UK).  In it is a short news
 article about a new series of videos that have just been bought out.  They are
 the culmination of 8 years (apparently) of research by one bloke into the
 whole British-cars-in-America scene, combining archive footage with interviews
 of current owners and collectors.  It also includes some old adverts (the
 subject of a recent discussion...), although it doesn't say in the article if
 there are any Triumph ones, although there is an MGB being pushed out of a
 'plane, to float down on a parachute onto the Arizona desert.  There may be
 one or two on this list who might be interested in such a thing....  The only
 contact details were a web-site, www.british-car-films.com.

The other interesting thing was that the photo Top Gear chose to illustrate the
 article - a British car being craned off a boat onto the dockside.  The car...
a MkI or MkII Spitfire!

Richard & Daffy

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