Wilkie Wilkinson made his name polishing the ports, freeing up bearings and balancing crankshafts preparing Evans’s Bellvue Garage MGs for Brooklands in the 1930s. Even Ecosse mechanics had doubts. Wilkie belonged to an era when engines were tuned, literally, by ear.
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British Racing Motors never got over the Sunday Pictorial: “FOUR YEARS —18 MEN, £160,000, MUCH OF IT IN HALF-CROWNS, WENT TO BUILD A CAR THAT WOULD NOT START. Jackie Stewart demonstrated the thrilling supercharged sixteen-cylinder masterpiece that jerked only yards off a 1950s Silverstone starting grid. It was ignominy then. Yet three years later, at my first-ever motor race, I saw one win.
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Jackie Stewart pontificated and name-dropped when he was selling Jaguars from the family garage in Dumbarton. Then it was his brother Jimmy, not he, who was the local hero racing driver. Jimmy Stewart cut short a promising career after crashing heavily at Le Mans. His mother worried until Jimmy, a gentle, unaggressive son, hung up his helmet. Jaguar E-typre FSN1 Dumbuck demonstrator at Turnberry Eric Dymock picture.
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