Oh sorry!
Twofold really. My Grandad knew AGBO quite well, they were both from Walsall. I remember being taken as a very small kid, about five, to Darlaston Bapist(?) Church to hear the great man preach a service. He was a legend in the pulpit apparently. It was one of the most boring afternoons of my life. I don't think any of his good intentions rubbed off on me, except a love of cars, as I knew nothing of motoracing in those days. I would have much rather done what my dad was able to do, namely visit Bourne a few times, meeting the likes of Graham Hill and Tony Rudd. They used to go out boozing together.
In an ealier part of my life, I was on the committee of the Owen Motoring Club, which was sort of affiliated with Rubery Owen Ltd. The club emblem was the old Owen Organisation rondel thingy, AGBOs son David was the Chairman. It was all a bit low key really, though we once had Betty Hill and her daughter Bridget as our guests at the annual dinner. Damon couldn't make it, he had an important FFord race the next day...
We also used to run the Graham Hill Sprint at Curborough. Indeed I competed in it a few times. First prize trophy was the wheel of Hills F1 '64 title winning car. Unfortunately Roy Lane in his famous Steel King Pilbeam DFV just pipped me to it! By about 15 seconds. Well I was only in an Alfasud.
That's all.
