Thursday 22 January 2015

READERS' HELP NEEDED: HAVE YOU GOT A PHOTO OF FAB1 IN BLACKBURN FROM 1970?

Hi Moonbase Readers,

I won a competition at EXPO 70 in 1970. [I was] driven in an original FAB 1 across the field in front of the crowd of kids and parents. Was I embarrassed.! It was pretty basic inside then, unfinished and raw fibre-glass with a bench seat with a leather cushion on it. 

The driver had a chauffeur cap and blazer on, seen from outside but jeans on underneath I found when I clambered in. I won by drinking a pint of orange squash faster than the other kids in the competition in a Marquee tent. 

I was impressed by how it had been restored and luxuriously finished in white leather inside when I saw it in the 1990s with my son at the Cars of the Stars museum in Keswick, England. 

FAB1 at Cars of the Stars with Museum owner Trevor Nelson
1990's

Now it is in [the Miami Auto] Museum in Miami, Florida, USA [pictured below].



Does anyone have a pic of me in the FAB 1 at EXPO 70 in Blackburn, 1970 at Witton Park? 

Paul D 
Formerly of Blackburn, where Expo 70 was held at Witton Park.


Woodsy says: You can email Paul D here. Words in brackets are mine.

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