My Dad was taken into hospital a few days ago. His wife will be visiting today photo in hand. He'll be overjoyed.
Thank you.
John.
Sorry to hear that John. He won't know me from Adam but best wishes to him anyway.
I think an earlier post mentioned Terry's association with the CSMA. That's how my dad came to know him and as a teenager at the time I used to write a column for the CSMA Nottingham Group monthly newsletter "Driving Mirror". My dad was editor. The column covered the exploits of Terry and fellow local CSMA members Mick Hill and Dave Chambers. Mick you've probably heard of and of course he sadly passed away last year. Dave raced in Monoposto Formula with his brother John and assisted by Mick Moxon. When I joined in we became very close friends as "Team Chamox" (Chambers, Moxon and Fox) and remain good friends to the present day.
I don't have any copies of Driving Mirror any more but I do have some rough notes from which I can tell you that Terry's first event was a sprint at Castle Combe in 1965 driving a road going Cortina GT. He won his class. After a few events in the Cortina, Terry decided that a Ford Anglia was a more suitable race machine, especially fitted with a twin-cam. A heavy accident at Brands wrote off that car so another Anglia was acquired along with a 1 litre F3 engine in 1968. This was raced in Group 5 events for a while but as the car was progressively modified it became ineligible so he joined the 1 litre class in club saloons with sponsorship from Pat Mannion's Revolution Alloy Wheels business. The Anglia looked striking in its new orange, purple and silver colour scheme. The result was 25 wins and the class win in the Triplex championship in 1971.
Although he mainly competed at Mallory and Silverstone I remember him making a trip to Ireland with Mick Hill where they both competed at Mondello and Bishopscourt.
1971 was Terry's last season. The Anglia was sold to Gerry Marshall and featured in a track test in Cars and Car Conversions magazine. Terry was hoping someone would offer him a drive in a Group 1 saloon, as he didn't want to pay for his racing any more - but sadly that ambition didn't come to anything. For a number of seasons he continued to spectate at Mallory, usually accompanied by Betty and his father and almost always sitting in deckchairs overlooking the start line. Terry was a very amusing character and would happily sit and reminisce about his racing days in a very colourful and animated way. We had some laughs. Terry's dad used to spend even more time at Mallory as he used to fish the lake!!
That's as much as I remember. Maybe you and/or your father knew most of it anyway but I guess it's the nearest I will come to writing Terry's biography!
I will sort out my transparencies and get them digitised, a winter project I think. The photo I posted above was a print so easier to scan and post.
