First MGB, Lowrey, Turing, Boddy, Bell Archive

Four days after it was announced I took one of the first press MGBs to Charterhall. Did anyone get a picture of MGB 523CB on 23 September 1962? New to The Motor road test staff I was putting in the miles, grateful for the tutelage and relishing every minute. I was so taken with it I had one of my own (above).

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Saab 9000 North Cape. 1985 Fast Lane Archive 004

Spain or the Seychelles were OK, but as a press launch gambit you couldn’t beat “I’ve been fishing in the Arctic”. Or finishing dinner with Erik Carlsson (Above) one night in broad daylight. “Ah well, we’ll just have to keep drinking till it gets dark.” Which would have been September. To show how good the Saab 9000 was for long, fast, tough drives to the ends of the earth we went to North Cape, the latitude of Alaska and Siberia. Scheduled airline to Helsinki, private jet to Rovaniemi, on the Arctic Circle before setting off into Northern Norway and North Cape, 350 miles further towards the Pole as a frost-bitten crow might fly.

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