Club Torque Spring 2021

The most beautiful car ever made

Jill Hurcombe - The first time I was

Marriage, children and a busy career occupied the next fifty years, and it wasn’t until Roger Textor, and I became a couple that I had the boy and the car and many happy times in his true red MX-5 - a car very easy to fall in love with. My first nervous drive of it was in the back streets of Gundaroo not

having driven a geared car for over forty years. Obviously, my image of myself in a sports car and reality are two different things, as one day when returning to the car, a man standing nearby said, “You’re the last person who I thought would drive a car like this.” He was quickly covered in confusion having spoken aloud but recovered when I laughed and said that I was, too, until forming a new relationship with the man who owned the car. Being part of the MX5 Club in Canberra has been a delight for me and I enjoy all the drives and the camaraderie that goes with it.

interested in sports cars was as an impressionable teenager when I and most of my girlfriends maneuverer to get a ride in a boy’s pale blue Austin Healey. Needless to say, he had plenty of willing passengers and I only had the briefest of rides.

I couldn’t wait to get a ride in the pale blue Austin Healey

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