Many of the early 350H Mustangs on the '66 Hertz fleet were manuals and were rented on a Friday, fitted with racing tyres, thrashed all weekend and delivered back to the depot with burnt clutches on Monday morning. Some cars came back with remnants of drag racing decals left on the screen or doors and legend has it that on one car there was evidence of a temporary roll cage being welded in! The later batch of 350 H's came as autos to try and stop the 'weekend racers'....

A smart move by the Russian. Any association with Bertone will be good news for TVR and give the brand a much needed 'makeover'. For a start, it sounds a lot cooler if your car is built in Turin rather than Blackpool.

The Bertone name is linked with some very exciting cars (Lamborghini Countach, Alfa Montreal, Lancia Stratos to name but a few) and hopefully that partnership will help to revive TVR's fortunes. The next issue is to sort out the poor and patchy dealer network and bring them up to the standard you would expect of a manufacturer knocking out cars at £40k+.

Back safely in the UK after my first visit to the Petit. What a circuit! The vantage points at Road Atlanta are incredible, and it's possibly the most time I have spent watching the action on the track in the many, many years I have been going to Le Mans! Stunning.

Cheers to Dave and Matt for making this event such a blast, and for Seth for making sure our glasses were never empty. It was also a little bizarre to be sat in the Georgia sun with a cold Guinness (carefully poured by our man-servant Seth) and hearing our old Geordie friend Hindy blasting from the PA.

Also a big thanks to Dave for letting me hammer is C6 'Vette through most of Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee and Georgia (and doing it all again on the return trip). We avoided the police radar and got the fuel consumption into single figures on many occassions.

Definitely on my race calendar for next year!

I had the pleasure of meeting Randy for a short while and was warned about some of his tall stories. Nothing could be further from the truth.....

Shows what a forum Newbie I am. Completely f*cked it up trying to add Matt's quote to my reply above. No nice blue box. Apologies...

Quite so, delicious and nutricious, not too fizzy, substantial enough to substitute track food, smooth, creamy, full-headed and ultra refreshing (if properly chilled) - and not particularly mind-splitting the following morning. I can even live with the merde-noir for the following few days, in exchange for all it's benefits.

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Matt - splendid summary of the features and benefits of a trackside Nigerian diet. Looking forward to enjoying the supreme qualities of this fine brew with you and Dave next week!

Sh*t!! Hope we manage to get our Guinness stash past the Road Atlanta Cooler-Police 

Really looking forward to my first ever trip to the Petit, and meeting up with some of the CA crew. Randy - we met at the Champagne Bar at Le Mans this year, but it was all a little hazy! As part of 'Team Harper' this year, I'm sure the brothers will be gentle with this Petit virgin....

Fax - get your a*rse down there!

Rich