QUOTE (picblanc @ May 28 2010, 08:37)

Guessing here Russ, Martyn Ashwood?
Bill Warthog in the back
Talk (well mention of) Tom Newell. My first Manx in '73 on my trusty (

) Greeves Silverstone saw me awake all night prior to the first practice (Monday morning) laying, trying to sleep, a sleeping bag in a tent in the Paddock Hotel hoping for rain and an excuse not to go out. The morning dawned, eventually about 11 o'clock, but we were on the grid, well warming (

) up area in rain and fog at about six fifteen.
I tip toed accross the mountain slower than a final assent on Everest, when in a thunder of noise and spray Tom came surfing past up the mountain mile on his Norton. R

espect