Here's where it all started...

Blue · Post by **Blue** » Fri Feb 10, 12 6:54 pm

While clearing out my Mum's loft I've found all sorts of stuff I didn't realise I still had. In 1966 I got my weekly comic and there was an article on Drag Racing, I was instantly hooked and have never forgotten it. Yesterday I found it....

TYREMAN · Post by **TYREMAN** » Fri Feb 10, 12 7:01 pm

Good find

I thought you were a 70s Child

Blue · Post by **Blue** » Fri Feb 10, 12 7:11 pm

You having a laugh? Born in the '50's mate....

Pete · Post by **Pete** » Fri Feb 10, 12 7:17 pm

I'm getting worried as I am sure I have seen that before....what mag was it?

Pete · Post by **Pete** » Fri Feb 10, 12 7:18 pm

"Look and Learn" by any chance???

Post by **TyreFryer** » Fri Feb 10, 12 7:24 pm

"Look and Learn", crikey Pete that brings back memories, and "Tell Me Why".

Only yesterday I remembered those card sheets that you could buy with scenes printed on them and transfers you rubbed down, what where they called?

Good find John, it's nice to re-discover stuff like that isn't it?

R.RUNNER · Post by **R.RUNNER** » Fri Feb 10, 12 7:57 pm

Was it a "JANET and JOHN" book

Dave-R · Post by **Dave-R** » Fri Feb 10, 12 8:05 pm

I was an avid reader of "Tell me Why" when I was at Junior school.

In secondary school I used to get "How it Works" and until recently I still had the full 7 bound volumes. But I chucked them out the other week.

Blue · Post by **Blue** » Fri Feb 10, 12 8:07 pm

I'd have put money on it being Look & Learn, but it wasn't, it was this. I have no recollection of this title at all....

Pete · Post by **Pete** » Fri Feb 10, 12 8:08 pm

Heard of it, never seen a copy.

Looks like the same art as per the Ladybird books, very Deco......

Dave-R · Post by **Dave-R** » Fri Feb 10, 12 8:08 pm

It was a "Monkees" annual that got me first interested in Drag Racing. What really hit it home it was the early Funny Car model kits I used to get sent from my penpal in the USA. Both events were in the 60s.

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Fri Feb 10, 12 11:24 pm

Picture post for me

Cannonball · Post by **Cannonball** » Fri Feb 10, 12 11:28 pm

Dave wrote:I was an avid reader of "Tell me Why" when I was at Junior school.

In secondary school I used to get "How it Works" and until recently I still had the full 7 bound volumes. But I chucked them out the other week.

your crackers dave (dont we know it) a mate of mine sold a full bound set in mint condition of how it works around oct on the bay last yr he got £2,200 for the set went to the states,

Dave-R · Post by **Dave-R** » Fri Feb 10, 12 11:34 pm

I tried to sell it a couple of years ago and never got a single bid.

Adrian Worman · Post by **Adrian Worman** » Fri Feb 10, 12 11:42 pm

I got Popular Mechanics by airmail when i was around 8 or 10, never understood most of it, i understood the tits in Custom Car tho................
when I was little I used to like Beano and my fave was Baby Face Finlayson