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Exuberance personified, Moss three wheels the Vanwall at Melling Crossing, Aintree, 1957 (Gauld Photo)
Story and photos by Graham Gauld
1952. It is remarkably 68 years since I first wrote about and photographed Stirling Moss when I was a trainee journalist with an Edinburgh newspaper. In a remarkable bit of chutzpah, I had talked the Sports Editor into letting me take over the motoring and motor racing correspondents role at the age of 17!
Susie and Stirling Moss, Goodwood 2010.
Story and photos by Jonathan Sharp
“Who do you think you are, Stirling Moss?” was an oft-used phrase by British Bobbies when pulling over speeding motorists in the mid-twentieth century. So well-known in fact, that Renault used the line during the 1970s for a Renault 20 television advertisement. If I recall correctly, the scene starts with the Renault stopped on a country road with a Bobby on a bicycle next to the car. The driver’s front window then comes down electrically, and the Bobby looks at the driver in the car whilst saying the immortal line. As the camera pulls away, we see Stirling Moss at the wheel. [Read more…] about Sir Stirling Moss, Mr Goodwood