Correction:
Pat Moss (Stirling's sister) was Erik Carlsson's wife!
Alan C
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From: Paul Stenquist
Sent: Sunday, June 11, 2017 3:54 PM
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Subject: Re: PESO 2017 - W196 - GDG
I first met Moss at a Saab press dinner at Hilton Head. Eric Carlsson,
Saab's rally star, was there, and would take the journalists for hair
raising rides the next day at a Georgia racetrack. (He put one car on its
roof with a scribe seated beside him and teased me because I politely
declined an invitation to try for rollover number two.) Anyway to get to the
point, Eric's sister was the wife of Stirling Moss, so Eric had invited them
to the Hilton Head bash. As journalists pressed Moss for tales of his days
behind the wheel he would steer the conversation back to Carlsson and Saab.
And of course there are plenty of Eric "on the roof" Carlsson stories out
there. Good guy, Moss. Carlsson too.
Paul via phone
On Jun 11, 2017, at 9:02 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <godfreydigio...@me.com>
wrote:
On Jun 11, 2017, at 5:44 AM, Steve Cottrell <co...@seeingeye.tv> wrote:
Saw this gorgeous Mercedes-Benz W196 GP car this morning...
https://flic.kr/p/VB3DeY
Looks a bit dim and yellow on my monitor
Probably display calibration differences. I could brighten it a touch,
but I kinda like the deep tones. I'll be making a couple of prints soon
and might revise it a bit at that point.
Gods, what a beautiful machine!
I haven't seen that car there. I may have to swing by after lunch on
Monday or something.
I don't know when it arrived--it's on loan from Indianapolis.
Do go see it if you get the chance ... It represents a significant piece
of auto racing history.
My claim to Sir Stirling Moss fame. Back in the 1990s I was filming at
McLaren HQ near London, packed room, lots of people. Camera was on
shoulder, filming interviews in close quarters, I swung around and felt
the back of the cam clobber something, turned slowly to see Moss nursing
a growing bump on his head!!!!
Nice pics btw!
Thanks Cotty!
My 'moment with the star' was at the Goodwood Festival of Speed some
miserable, pissing-down-rain day in the 1990s. I and my friends are
slogging our way up through snot-slick muddy paths when a small scooter
came zinging down the path towards us. It was moving way too fast and we
jumped backwards off the path to get out of the way … Two of us fell down
in the process and the scooter slid to a halt practially over me.
"Sorry about that, chaps! It almost got away from me in this muck! Let me
help you up!" and the hand of septeganarian Sir Stirling Moss reached down
to assist me to my feet. I was covered with mud down my right side and I
think all the dredgings of Istanbul were in my right shoe. "Thank you,
sir! And could I have your autograph in the mud on my shirt, please?" I
grinned at the man. We both laughed and he signed my program. He hung with
us a few moments than raced off for whatever appointment he had already
been late for.
Somewhere in my mess I still have that program. :-)
G
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