2821This week I have been fortunate enough this week to have a couple of jobs with a bit of interest not just the normal boxes of something that's late or tender documents.
My first was on Wednesday to collect 5 "heavy" books from a private address in Surrey, deciding that it might not be too wise to take the bike 90 miles without knowing how heavy they were, I went in the van.
Knocked at the door and the gentleman said "when they said a motorbike courier I was a bit worried so I packed them up a bit" pointing to an archive box, I lifted it and thought to myself it would have gone on the bike. Apparently one of my customers had bought 5 of his books that were printed around 6 years ago.
However the gentleman, who was around 75 said "if you've got a minute come in and take a look at what they bought!" kinda intrigued that I had been sent right round the other side of London for an ebay purchase I agreed.
The guy was freelance photographer that has photographed every Monaco F1 grand prix since 1962, last year being his last. He produced a book with some amazing photographs flicking through the book he told me several amazing stories, with cars bouncing off walls a few feet from him to moving from a spot moments before Lorenzo Bandini's car crashed 1967 into the wall spraying the area with fuel which promptly caught alight.
Friday evening I went to Suffolk to Collect two Carburetor funnels for a guy that was Racing on Saturday at Lydden Hill in Kent, the place I went to actually a tuning specialist and the owners mum asked if I like to see the cars they had in at the moment, They had a Lamborghini Countach (yes I have since found out how rare they are), a Caterham 7 and a Hot Rod I even got a coffee as she said it looked cold for the ride back.