I was re-reading an old issue of British Car magazine (Page 11,
October 1995) and spotted this paragraph which pertains to driving to
the track with racing decals, etc.
"In his hilarious autobiography, "Touch Wood!," Duncan Hamilton, who
won Le Mans in 1953, recalls driving a D-type from Coventry to Surrey
after a heavy fall of snow; "Many sports-racing cars would be
undriveable under such conditions," he pointed out. "No one has ever
had to take a Jaguar to a race on a transporter." Lofty England - the
team manager who became Jaguar's chief executive "always said that if
you cannot drive a car on the road it will never be reliable in a
race." By Phil Llewellin.
So presumably in the old days the "war paint" was applied at the
track and then removed for the drive home - or the rules have changed
since 1953. It would be interesting to know why this was OK in the
old days and frowned upon today.
Tim Collins
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