When Frank Cuttell drove it at an Historic Amaroo, he clutch-started it down the entry slope and as it scuttled through the marshalling grid my then small children shrieked in unison "It looks like a dung beetle!!" It probably still holds distance records for Tiny Little Sports Cars. ![]() The Maxoan ( =Mac's Own) had bodywork of lithographic plates, print to the inside perhaps so Rod could read the Women's Weekly while hillclimbing. John Mellen's Tammell was the Scarab: I bought it for one shilling one day and sold it back to the owner at the end of that day for one shilling It is no longer the same now so many ageing drivers have run out of dopey friends and use conveyor belt/ roller starters Peter Macleay, who owned the ex Saywell Cooper JAP Mk 4 and the Cooper BMW at the same time long ago, reckoned the pushers did the running, the recalcitrant car did the jumping, and then they all stood around doing standing still. Wonderful pics of The -Running-Jumping-And-Standing-Still-Show, gents!
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