My Life In Cars Richard Noble
Top Gear South Africa
|October 2017
Former land-speed record holder and Bloodhound SSC project chief has been going quick in cars for longer than you might imagine…
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It all started off with a 1936 SS2 Jaguar 1.5-litre, which I bought from a scrapyard in Guildford for 19 quid. This amazed my parents when I got home to Hampshire because they asked, “How did you get here?”, and I replied “I’ve got my own car.” “What sort?” “A Jaguar!” This raised quite a lot of eyebrows, as you might imagine.
It was a beautiful car, and it taught me a lot about car mechanics. The big problem was the engine was on the way out, and I lived in Cornwall Gardens in London and the only way we could get the car going was to ring Bell’s Garage around the corner, and for five quid they would tow it around the block until we could get the engine started.
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