Driving Gidding’s Alfa chassis 2311243 in 1966.
In the past, we have had brief interviews with the prolific Simon Moore, so we hesitated to ask him more about himself. He came forth, telling us a great many things we were not aware of, and included personal photos. What Moore could we ask…?
Story by Simon Moore
Growing up in London in the late 1940s and early 1950s, there were very few foreign-made cars on the roads, although one occasionally saw a British-built sports car like the MG TC. I have photographs of my father and grandfather’s car before the war (MG and Lagonda saloons) but after the war we had small Austin or Standard saloons. Three of my mother’s sisters married people in the motor trade so cars were always being discussed in the family. But it was only when my mother bought me a book to read (Ken Purdy’s Kings of the Road) that I learned about the great pre-war cars like Bugatti, Hispano-Suiza, Duesenberg, Mercer and, of course, Alfa Romeo.