For those of us brought up in less interesting circumstances, Colin Crabbe’s life is something out of J. K. Rowling and Hollywood. Parents with connections to royalty, castles and ghosts, public schools, the ruins of mediaeval abbeys were all a part of his young life. Colin Crabbe never lost sight of the wonderful past that surrounded him which would eventually drive him to become one of the world’s great car collectors. Below, we have excerpted paragraphs from his autobiography; this segment focuses on his youth, and the next segment will deal with some of the fantastic cars he has found and raced. Edited and published with permissions from the publisher and author. BTW, the publisher is running low on copies, so order now!.