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Fan mail to Moss

Sir Stirling by our Readers

April 28, 2020 By pete

Pete,

Bear with me as I tell you a little story about Ed Leavens, and how I came by the above photo of Moss and Zsa Zsa.

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Sir Stirling Moss, A Man of Letters

April 21, 2020 By pete

The year was 1955 and my father and I had a brilliant idea of how to settle an argument. Being all of eight, I insisted that a Grand Prix car – for instance like the Mercedes W196 Stirling Moss was driving – could get around a 90-degree corner much faster than my wise old father could imagine.

He suggested that we ask the expert, Mr. Moss himself. I don’t recall how he came up with Moss’s address, but we mailed a letter which eventually found its way to the apartment that belonged to Stirling Moss, LTD.in London England. We put the question in general terms, suggesting an average streetcorner at the end of a block without stating the width of the road.

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