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At the British Truck Grand Prix. PHOTO BY ROGER HAYTER
In 1987 ‘Street Machine’ magazine hosted the most
outrageous and costly display stand ever commissioned by a magazine at the London Motor Show. They came up with the idea of showing six cars featuring the most extreme styles; the longest, the tallest, the fastest and, the other three categories which were taken by me, the shortest – Mini Ha Ha, the weirdest – Indecision and the lowest – Claustrophobia. It was certainly one of the most impressive stands ever built on Earls Court, Level 1. They even made a display podium for Mini Ha Ha that stood the car above Claustrophobia
whilst the heavy pearl of Indecision glowed against the red background wall on the other side of the stand. It was quite breathtaking.
On Saturday, the build-up day, all six cars had been requested to appear on BBC1’s ‘Saturday Superstore’ for some pre-show publicity where all the owners were interviewed by Keith Chegwin. At that time I was a singer with a very odd, early 1980’s new romantic band. I was also doing catwalk modelling and I figured
RIGHT: Passes for the British Truck Grand Prix.
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