When household names speed off into the history books...

The ink was barely dry on my newly-issued driving licence when I was first pulled over by the blue flashing lights of a police car.

- with Mike Hill

Whisker nickname, or that of Judith Chalmers, or Four Buckets, or at its flower name (and some day soon there will be a quiz question covering up the front lawn and painting the garden shed like Percy Thrower here, (with

The officer leaned into the window and asked the standard question of traffic police of the era, “and who do we think we are, sir, Stirling Moss?”

Despite the race ace hanging up his helmet a decade before my birth he remained the go to reference point for the eighties cop addressing speeding motorists before deciding whether to issue a ticket or not.