Hi, Cotty wrote: > > On 24/2/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged: > > >> >><http://www.macads.co.uk/snaps/reportage/images/pic4.html> > >> > >> It's a car engine heavily illuminated - the shot was grabbed at the 2002 > >> UK Motor Show at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham. Only time > >> for 2 frames before the chap moved off. I kept the guy behind in the drop > >> as it would have been a bit tight if he'd gone, and I don't do Digital > >> Removal (tm) . Keeps it busy. > >> > >> Actually I think it's John Francis <g> > > > >Unless I'm very mistaken, the man is Leonard K. Setright, one of the > >best vehicle (he writes about bikes and cars) journalists in the English > >language. To give you an idea of his capabilities, his book on BMWs is > >called "'Bahnstormer". Someone I have wanted to meet for a long time. > > > >mike > > Great Scott! It was press day, so the probability is very high. Not many > with a beard like that.
Somewhere in my collection of motorcycle literature, I have a picture of him (with only a goatee) on some hairyarsed Triton, wearing laceup aviator boots, a Norfolk jacket, jodphurs, gauntlets, pudding basin and goggles. One of the few Englishmen with style..... mike who on a good day looks like a sack of potatoes.
