The things they say . . .

“There’s no doubt this is the best car I have ever driven in the whole World.”- Jackie Stewart reporting on the Mercedes-Benz 600 in The Sunday Times Magazine.

“It is an unfortunate truth that V.S.C.C. competitions today put a premium on a programme of development on a car which often means that after a couple of years of competition it is necessary to indulge in all manner of technical trickery in order to stay one jump ahead of the handicappers, so that we get a large number of highly unoriginal cars under their original names……” – From “The Alvis O.C. Bulletin,” commenting on boy’s racers in the vintage firmament.