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Aston DB2 coupe rounds the Sebring hairpin during a wet practice session in 1954. Apparently fitted with an Offy engine, it did not start the 12-hour race. Note the Lyons family DeSoto parked with an MG and a Caddie right alongside the course. Photo: Ozzie Lyons / www.petelyons.com

Le Mans champion Roy Salvadori once wrote in a UK magazine, decades ago, about driving his winning Aston Martin DBR1 on the open English road. One could take such liberties there in those green and pleasant days of yore.

Pete Lyons
Pete Lyons

“This is a car you’d better have pointed in the right direction when you pull the trigger,” is my recollection of what he said.

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