Biggar Show, 11th August

Eric Dymock

The next outing for the pop-up ‘booktique’ will be the ‘Biggar Vintage Rally’ tomorrow Sunday 11^th August although I’m bitterly disappointed to be missing out on the Grampian Rally yesterday and today. I also missed out on last week’s ‘Blast from the Past’ show at Inverurie, so I’m really hoping to make it to Biggar tomorrow. The pitch is booked and paid for and it’s only an hour from home, so it’s not too far away, fingers crossed.

However, there will be a couple of changes. In addition to the two rally books, ‘The Scottish Rally Championship 1980-1989’ and ‘Murmurs on Mull’, I’ll have another book for sale. Not written by me but written by a friend of mine, the Motherwell born motoring journalist and author, Eric Dymock.

His book ‘Jim Clark’ is regarded as one of the most insightful, illuminating and compelling biographies of the man who became a world champion. If you like your heroes ‘whiter than white’ it may not be to your taste as the book pulls no punches. It was written by a man who was there at the time and knew Jim Clark, his contemporaries and his adversaries and includes quotes and opinions from those others who knew him best. I found it quite disturbing in places but compulsive reading.

The original book was published in 1997 but was re-designed, reprinted and republished 20 years later and I have a small supply for sale!

The second change is physical. There will be no red Transit this weekend, so look out for a wee white Berlingo instead!

The ‘Jim Clark’ book is not yet available on the web site, but I’ll get round to it shortly, so your first chance to get a copy will be at Biggar tomorrow:

https://fife-motor-sports-agency.square.site/