Saturday Matinee - The Secret Life of Colin Chapman

"Goggles Pizzano" (gogglespizzano) 04/12/2014 at 15:35 • Filed to: None

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A great documentary. Total run-time of an hour. Lots of interesting tidbits:

Sir Stirling Moss says quite a few wheels came off the delicate cars. He tells of the time at Spa his front wheel came off at 140mph. He spun and broke his back and legs when he collided with an embankment. At an American GP the Team made Stirling Moss a cake with a picture of a Lotus on top. The piece he cut had one of the wheels, and he asked it be passed along to Colin Chapman. "He didn't think it was funny at all".

"Once he even tried to convince officials that paper was fireproof"

These were just in part 1.

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