|
The 2000 Run |
|
|
| |
|
|
| A few months after I
began the "Genevieve"
site, David Burgess-Wise -- a noted motoring
historian, author, and journalist -- wrote to kindly offer corrections and additional information.
We began an e-mail correspondence. David
informed me that Genevieve would be an entrant in the 2000 Run and
wrote that he might be able to obtain press credentials for me. This was far
too good to pass up, and so I hopped a plane in New York and flew to London to see the Run.
I expected it to be
wonderful, and it was. Little did I know that David's kindness would turn out to be the first of many.
David says "I was born lucky," and I can't argue with him. |
 |
|
David Burgess-Wise (left) on an earlier London-to-Brighton Run in
his 1903 DeDion
Bouton. |
| |
|
|
| My luck had everything
to do with David's encouragement... and to a group of
extraordinarily generous people… including Mary and Bill Ellam, Clive
Hawley and his family, Anthony Roberts, and David Potts. Thanks
to their many kindnesses, I found myself viewing the Run not
from the side of the road as expected, but rather from a most remarkable
vantage point… the red leather back seat of Bill and Mary Ellam's
beautiful 1903 Darracq. |
|
|
| |
|
|
| As a side-of-the-road
observer, I would have been able to report anonymously on the 2000
London-to-Brighton. But - literally overnight - I
was transformed from self-styled reporter to full-fledged
participant… passenger,
to be accurate… in the 2000 Run. And
so this section of the site recounts my personal experience of
the 2000 London-to-Brighton.
If what happened to me
on the 2000 Run had happened to someone in a movie… you'd never believe
it. All screenwriting manuals suggest avoiding the plot device of
"the impossible coincidence." Yet they do happen.
Of course, many of the
things that ultimately happened
to me... more or less did coincide with occurrences in a movie.
"Genevieve," of course.
|
|
|
 |
| The author
and Genevieve at the conclusion of the 2000 London-To-Brighton Run |
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
Click
Here to go to Next Page |
|
|
