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Several years ago I was visiting a high horse power engine manufacturing plant in Long Buckby (Northampton) in the UK. On the way back to the station, the taxi driver pointed to the gates of another facility "that's the global headquarters of Maclaren"
I was amazed. "wow, nobody would believe the F1 team HQ is behind those gates". He turned and said "Not F1. Maclaren baby buggies. Strollers."
The M40 motorway in England can’t compete with Le Sentier…
…but as my wife was driving us along it this afternoon it occurred to me that there are links between the two. As you head south east down the M40 from Birmingham towards London you get to Gaydon This small village in Warwickshire (population less than 60...
Thanks Nico
I do love that picture of the three Paris Boutique Editions. I hope you used the sale proceeds for yours to buy something very special.
Race history
A trip of the core of international motorsports. AM won today the 24h of LeMans in the GT AM class. Congratulations. Sadly both Corvettes lost. Next year maybe more luck. The good results of Glickenhaus do soften Chevy’s bad luck. Fighting against factory...
Super post Jon!
Love the travelogue, I'm seeing some of that signage for the very first time myself.... I've been a member of the Aston Martin Owners Club since December 2008! Even longer than I've been a member here . Time to pay a visit to Gaydon methinks ....
Thanks Filip. Yes, a tour around the AM factory and facilities would be great.
Some years ago my dad was able to get us a private tour around the old McLaren Formula 1 car factory and museum and their road car factory. If was quite an experience. Factories in general are often fascinating places (at least to someone like me who is n...
The raw processes....
of creation are precisely what I always held a fascination for. It's what gives a product its distinctive character and 'soul', or not! I was wearing my Hackett AML jacket during our JLC visit . Cheers, Filip
Several years ago I was visiting a high horse power engine manufacturing plant in Long Buckby (Northampton) in the UK. On the way back to the station, the taxi driver pointed to the gates of another facility "that's the global headquarters of Maclaren"
I was amazed. "wow, nobody would believe the F1 team HQ is behind those gates". He turned and said "Not F1. Maclaren baby buggies. Strollers."