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Standardsteve · Guest

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Old-Nail · Guest

It's nice to know the craftsmanship exists to remanufacture such things - even though we may never have the cash to take advantage of it!

Uncle Joe · Guest

Old-Nail, do you not remember the guys not a million miles away from our old stomping grounds that did not only the D type replicas, but the ctype and Bugattis? They were all aluminium as well!

Old-Nail · Guest

I used to live a few hundred yards away from the Chevron racing cars factory but I can't think of any others?

An interesting but true story for you here;

Right nextdoor to Chevron there was a pub in Bolton called the 'Sally upsteps', and one afternoon in the late 1970's I was having a drink in there with my uncle who was a notorious joker. (Think Tommy cooper)

As the afternoon wore on and we both became a little worse for wear he went to the bar to get in his round. on returning to the table he said "Guess who's just walked in?...Steve Mqueen and Paul Newman!"

I laughed and shook my head at his usual dry - if a little whacky sense of humour, needless to say I wouldn't be 'fooled' into getting up and taking a look in the other room!

At that time Paul Newman and Steve Mqueen were huge stars, why would they be in a rather dingy old northern 'boozer' I thought, and ignored the insistence that it was true.

I found out days later that the two screen legends both of whom were keen motor racing fans/drivers had indeed been to Bolton to see their latest race car being built and had called in the nearest pub for a beer!

So folks I hold the record for being in the same pub as two all-time screen legends and not bothering to walk the five or so yards it would have taken me to meet them![/i]

Uncle Joe · Guest

I do remember the Hewland factory, that used to make the gearboxes, but not the Chevron, unless they are the same one? The Bugattis used to be made in Farnworth, and then the C and D types moved from A-in-M to Farnworth.