My wife helps at a charity shop and I called in to see her to go for lunch and was perusing the bookshelves and wandered into the Sports section (an area I do not tend to view) and came across this book ! . The chap that wrote it was a vicar and as we know vicars write a cracking book ! , very interesting and just the era I was aiming for . It is illustrated by the authors paintings of racing cars - what a find !
I have also purchased the other cars I needed from the eBay , here a Talbot Lago , the card is going to be part of my racing car game , in black and white cos this is the 50s !
A Cooper Bristol , the driver is Reg Parnell - you don't get people called 'Reg Parnell' nowadays - and thats what's wrong with the modern world !
And finally a HWM (Hersham and Walton Motors) piloted by Stirling Moss - there's a name to conjure with ! - I remember Stirling Moss from my youth . I've made cards for ever car and for some strange reason my printer is leaving a white line through them (Grrr!)
The prototype track - a piece of MDF rescued from my neighbours skip , the rules are being worked on at the moment - keeping them simple and having no paperwork to record speed etc - hence the dice behind the cars .The rules are up next .
Great job Tony, I'm glad that you located all of the cars that you needed! This looks like it will be a lot of fun! Enjoy!
ReplyDeletePleased to have all the cars , and not to expensive , now to try out some rules.
DeleteGreat idea...I'll be Fangio!
ReplyDeleteVery nice find, looks a cracking book. Nice to see the whole project up and running.
ReplyDeleteAn excellent and timely find, looks a super read. Looking forward to seeing where your rules take you in this fascinating project.
ReplyDeleteLooks a great book. We recently had a miniature reissue of Pit Stop with chance cards squares with the dice roll list printed in the box lid, good fun - I can’t find my mini copy seen here https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/20003/pit-stop
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