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Yes, you are right - PC will be there. Here are the details: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3 London Classic Off Road & Racing Show, Kempton Park Racecourse, Staines Road East, Sunbury-on-Thames, Middlesex, TW16 5AQ. 8.00am-3.00pm. Admission: Early Bird (from 8.00am) £10, adult from 9.30am £7, child (under-15) free. Free car parking.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9 Longsight & District Sports & Social Club, 140 Kirkmanshulme Lane, Manchester M12 4WP. 7.30pm. £10.00 for an ‘Evening with PC’ Q&A (inc buffet).

Yes, PC was very enthusiastic about devoting a full and lengthy chapter to all the many who assisted him throughout his career. He'll be pleased that you were first attracted by that chapter. Enjoy the read...

Paperback.

PC resigned.

Easily the best, most efficient, way of clarifying if and when your book has been posted is to contact Retro Speedway direct. Please call Susie, who handles all our dispatch, on 01708 734 502, or email her at retrospeedway@gmail.comNeither of us checks this forum for messages intended for us on a daily basis, so queries such as yours may well go unanswered for longer than is necessary.Thank you.

Easily the best, most efficient, way of clarifying if and when your book has been posted is to contact Retro Speedway direct. Please call Susie, who handles all our dispatch, on 01708 734 502, or email her at retrospeedway@gmail.com Neither of us checks this forum for messages intended for us on a daily basis, so queries such as yours may welkl go unanswered for longer than is necessary. Thank you.

PC and we and very much looking forward to this event. Peter will be bringing along his 1976 World Final leathers and body colour, which should make for a neat photo opportunity. We will also be selling our Retro Speedway DVDs on the night, including our brand new release DEFUNCT BRITISH LEAGUE TRACKS 2, Sadly, Brandon obviously features among the 14 new additions since we produced volume 1 some years ago. To check out the full range, please visit www.retro-speedway.com

Thank you, hope you continue to enjoy it.

Thank you for your continued patience. Had an overwhelming response and we're posting out more than 100 per day.

PC spent all day Saturday back at Retro Towers signing lots more copies, and we have hired extra staff to catch up the backlog. We've already made two trips to the Glossop post office sorting depot this morning with numerous sack-loads of books. Thanks for your continued patience.

Email Susie at retrospeedway@gmail.com to check status of your subscription, or to order the extra copy... Thanks.

Thank you. Hope you enjoy it.

Another hundred+ pre-ordered Peter Collins books being posted out today (yes, we know there is a Royal Mail strike on today but let's at least get the packages in the system...), and in the days ahead. Please stay patient and thank you. Meantime, PC took last night off to reunite with ex-British Lions team-mates Doug Wyer & Reg Wilson at Sheffield, and also catch up with Eric Boocock, Neil Machin and many others. Thanks to Julie Reading and all at Sheffield Speedway for your help and co-operation.

Not the case. Everyone who pre-ordered a signed copy should (Post Office permitting) receive it in the post BEFORE the signing at the Longsight & District Sports & Social Club, 140 Kirkmanshulme Lane on Thursday, October 27, and the one at Sheffield Speedway on Monday the 24th. We thank everyone for their patience. ~

If you haven't yet ordered your copy of PC's autobiography, you can do so for £20 (inc UK P&P) here at www.retro-speedway.com and save a fiver on the RRP. The 506-page book is currently being printed and you should receive it by October 31. Meantime... WHO, WHAT, WHERE? TRY THE PC QUOTES QUIZ From these edited excerpts, who or what is PC referring to in his book . . . ? “******’s old man *****, a bit of a stickler, gave me a rollicking for crashing and bending his son’s bike. I was 17 and green, hadn’t seen the place before but got no sympathy.” “I say ******* ‘did me’ but it was my naïve mistake to keep going up the inside. I probably blamed him for what happened at the time but, to be honest, if you clip someone’s back wheel, it’s always your fault. Another reminder to ‘keep it on the tyres’.” “He became one of England’s greats but he was always slow into the corners. It was his Achilles heel. I’m not having a go at him – you can’t argue with his superb record over a long and distinguished career. It’s just an observation.” “I must have ruffled *****’s feathers because he confronted me after our race – I have a picture from a newspaper cutting of him taking a swing at my dad, who was trying to break it up. When your opponent gets angry enough to want to fight, you’re always well advised to keep your helmet on!” “He didn’t say it in a menacing manner but with typical Yorkshire cockiness designed to get into my head. ****** probably felt that his mind games worked a treat, because he beat me both times we met.” “***** legged it across the centre green, grabbed the driver by the throat and pulled him down. ***** also ended up on the ground and had to be restrained as the tractor driver, other track staff and ambulance men joined the fracas.” ******** always had a lot to say and wouldn’t hesitate to throw a punch at anybody if he thought it was justified. But it was good to have him on our side because he always had our best interests at heart.” “It was both frightening and exhilarating at the same time.” “When I first started riding there were some much less dedicated riders who would turn up for meetings with a dirty bike they hadn’t bothered cleaning from the night before, and ******* was one of them. His idea of cleaning the bike was to kick it with his steel shoe, to make dirt fall off it.” “While waiting for traffic lights to turn green he’d rev the engine as hard as possible before releasing the clutch and doing wheel-spins along the road in central Manchester.”

If you haven't yet ordered your copy of PC's autobiography, you can do so for £20 (inc UK P&P) here at www.retro-speedway.com and save a fiver on the RRP. The 506-page book is currently being printed and you should receive it by October 31. Meantime... WHO, WHAT, WHERE? TRY THE PC QUOTES QUIZ From these edited excerpts, who or what is PC referring to in his book . . . ? “******’s old man *****, a bit of a stickler, gave me a rollicking for crashing and bending his son’s bike. I was 17 and green, hadn’t seen the place before but got no sympathy.” “I say ******* ‘did me’ but it was my naïve mistake to keep going up the inside. I probably blamed him for what happened at the time but, to be honest, if you clip someone’s back wheel, it’s always your fault. Another reminder to ‘keep it on the tyres’.” “He became one of England’s greats but he was always slow into the corners. It was his Achilles heel. I’m not having a go at him – you can’t argue with his superb record over a long and distinguished career. It’s just an observation.” “I must have ruffled *****’s feathers because he confronted me after our race – I have a picture from a newspaper cutting of him taking a swing at my dad, who was trying to break it up. When your opponent gets angry enough to want to fight, you’re always well advised to keep your helmet on!” “He didn’t say it in a menacing manner but with typical Yorkshire cockiness designed to get into my head. ****** probably felt that his mind games worked a treat, because he beat me both times we met.” “***** legged it across the centre green, grabbed the driver by the throat and pulled him down. ***** also ended up on the ground and had to be restrained as the tractor driver, other track staff and ambulance men joined the fracas.” ******** always had a lot to say and wouldn’t hesitate to throw a punch at anybody if he thought it was justified. But it was good to have him on our side because he always had our best interests at heart.” “It was both frightening and exhilarating at the same time.” “When I first started riding there were some much less dedicated riders who would turn up for meetings with a dirty bike they hadn’t bothered cleaning from the night before, and ******* was one of them. His idea of cleaning the bike was to kick it with his steel shoe, to make dirt fall off it.” “While waiting for traffic lights to turn green he’d rev the engine as hard as possible before releasing the clutch and doing wheel-spins along the road in central Manchester.”

In his long-awaited book that will be published later this month, Peter Collins reveals how Stuart Bamforth offered him the chance to take over the running of the Aces a year before the world famous Manchester venue closed in 1987. PC also explains how he literally helped shape the club’s next two tracks, at Kirkmanshulme Lane and the National Speedway Stadium. To order a signed copy at the discounted price of £20 (UK), please go to www.retro-speedway.com

THE long wait for the Peter Collins autobiography is nearly over. This mammoth 504-page, full colour book by British speedway’s most decorated champion and published by ourselves at Retro Speedway is now with our printer. All being well, everyone who has pre-ordered a personally signed copy should hopefully receive it by the end of this month. We sincerely apologise for the delay of a book that we initially planned to release in mid-August but was delayed for all the right reasons. We’ve added more than 100 pages to the original spec, many more rare pictures and lots more content. All this added weeks to a hefty tome but we are confident the wait will be worthwhile. Thank you for your patience and understanding. If you haven’t ordered your copy from us yet, taking advantage of our introductory offer of a £5 saving on the RRP of £25 in the UK, go to www.retro-speedway.com or phone Susie on 01708 734 502. Peter will sign every copy ordered through Retro Speedway, which is another great reason to buy it for £20 directly from us instead of the likes of online giants Amazon and retailers Waterstones. Thank you.

Initially, PC will be a printed softback (386 full colour pages). But it's very likely that it will evolve into an eBook edition too at some future date. As for the other autobiography we have planned for next year, I'd rather not reveal the author at this early stage. But it's none of those you've mentioned.

I don't think you need have any concerns re. clarity. From my experience spanning numerous recent interviews with him about his life looking back over a 68-year period, PC has a very good memory; in many cases his recall of minute detail is remarkable. Enjoy Slaski!

Many thanks for your kind words.

Many thanks, Ian, for your very kind words and support over many years. We'll miss you and all our other loyal subscribers.

They might. We are in talks that will hopefully bear fruit.

Nothing like pre-judging, eh! The book will, of course, be edited. That PC's book wasn't written well before now was his decision but it means it will now be bang up to date and, from the feedback we're getting, eagerly awaited. People won't agree with everything he says - but then isn't that true of most decent autobiographies in which the author is forthright in his/her opinions - whether or not we agree with them.