Atlas gets the 'works'

I always thought the Atlas looked a little plain and seeing as it's painted in it's original powder blue 'works' rally colour I thought it might look nice in some 'works' sign writing. Some kind soul forwarded me a picture of a van in period with something suitable on the side which we forwarded to the people doing the job for us, I think they did a good job of replicating it.

New Pictures of 6003VC

Yet more trawling through the pile of old classic car magazines brought in from home for shredding revealed the following pictures of 6003 VC's past exploits. Found in the February 1990 edition of Thoroughbred & Classic Car they show 6003 VC going on to to win overall the Historic Car Register's Weston Park event on the RAC stage. As this entry, and result is new to me I shall have to add it to the car's other battle honours further down this page (when I've worked out how to do it!).
That pile of old magazines is finally getting smaller, I'm on my third boot full in the Chicane, and you can get quite a few magazines in a Chicane boot I will tell you!

Gold Seal Spitfire

Browsing through the remnants of my once extensive magazine collection (I have been shredding them!) in the garage at home the other day I found the following from the March 1986 edition of Classic & Sportscar. This confirms my recent correspondence with Julius Thurgood that the car had passed through his hands in the mid eighties.
Coincidently I had a gentleman telephone me last week who had owned the car in the early 70's after it's Gold Seal career ended. More info to follow as and when we get it including some promised new pictures!