Sir,<\/p>\n
Congratulations on MOTOR SPORT celebrating its 75th birthday.<\/p>\n
I purchased No 1 in 1924, and as I believe Bill Boddy bought No 2, and then No 1, I am in good company! Then followed Speed<\/em> which I also bought, and at my elbow is a supplement to it, dated July 1935, containing three drawings by an artist, HJ Moser, which I expect you have on your files.<\/p>\n I kept all the issues for years, together with copies of The Motor Cycle<\/em>, occasional issues of Motorcycling<\/em> and The Autocar<\/em>, which filled a cupboard built in my bedroom intended for my clothes, and odd corners in our home. One day my mother noticed a chap with a horse-drawn cart coming along the road, stopped him, and for two shillings he took all the magazines, even helping to carry them out! The only copy of MOTORSPORT I still possess is that of June 1955, the epic drive of Stirling Moss and Jenks in the Mille Miglia.<\/p>\n I was abroad from 1943-1946, and to the best of my belief, received all the copies of MOTOR SPORT my wife posted to me. I shall be 89 next month and, optimistically, shall look forward to reading many more copies of a favourite magazine.<\/p>\n I am, yours, etc. Dan Nicholas, Ambleside, Cumbria<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","categories":[],"tags":[167,35917,190],"issue_decade":[121596],"issue_year":[121642],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/45114"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/issue_content"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/45114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232660,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/45114\/revisions\/232660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45114"},{"taxonomy":"issue_decade","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_decade?post=45114"},{"taxonomy":"issue_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_year?post=45114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}