LONDON TO BRIGHTON REGULARS GO FOR GOLD ON 2017 RUN


Special achievement medals given to three participants who


have


each taken part in more than 50 London to Brighton Runs John


Dennis knows


exactly where he was on the Sunday, 1st November 1959. He knows exactly where he was on Sunday, 6th November 1960, too. In fact, he can pinpoint where he was on the fi rst Sunday of November of every year, ever since. Bar one year in the 1990s, when he was in America on a business trip, on the fi rst Sunday of every November, Dennis


has


been behind the wheel of his veteran car, making his way from London to Brighton. Not just any veteran car, either, but one made by his grandfather’s company 115 years ago. It’s a 1902 Dennis Tonneau built by the Guildford-based Dennis Brothers, a company


better known


today for its buses, trucks and fi re appliances. T is year, John Dennis OBE will be driving the same car – registered P 26 – for the 58th time on the annual Bonhams London to Brighton Veteran Car Run, supported by Hiscox. T e car, however, will be on its 66th Run, having completed eight runs with John’s father at the wheel in the late 1940s and early


CARS WITH THE FEAR FACTOR – HPI SCARES UP A LIST OF HOLLYWOOD’S


1950s. John and two other drivers who have taken part in 50 or more Runs are to be given special Gold Medals by the Royal Automobile Club in of


their


recognition remarkable


achievements. John will be joined at the ceremony by John Kemsley and John Newens, who have participated in 50 and 61 Runs respectively. “My father acquired the car in 1936 and took part in his last Run in 1954. I accompanied him on a couple of those Runs as a passenger before doing my fi rst as a driver in 1959,” said John Dennis. T e


Dennis


was founded in 1895 and produced


Speed


company King


bicycles before building its fi rst motor vehicle in 1898. It started car production in 1900 with the fi rst Dennis bus arriving in 1903 and its fi rst fi re engine in 1908. Commercial vehicle manufacture quickly took off and car production became a side line before


ceasing in 1915. It is thought the company made


between 3,000 cars in that


2,000- time,


of which just three are known to have survived: and all three are owned by John, who has cars 1909 and 1915 to go with the 1902 veteran. T e Dennis Tonneau is powered by an 8hp single cylinder


engine, then and


was discovered by John’s father,


assistant


managing director of the company, languishing at the back of the factory in 1936. “We think it must have been taken back as a part exchange many years earlier when a customer wanted a new car. It was pushed into a corner and largely forgotten until my father rescued it. When he got hold of it, many parts were missing – presumably it had been used as a donor vehicle when


other


needed parts. “At


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customers still


had factory drawings, so


my father could get the missing parts remade and he restored the car so it could take part in the Veteran Car Run,” said John. Remarkably


the Dennis


has never failed to make it to Brighton in time to be a classifi ed fi nisher – “all the fi nishers’ medals are on the car... goodness knows how much extra weight they add”. T e 2017 Veteran Car Run will be held on 5th November – the fi rst Sunday in the month – and is organised by the Royal Automobile Club. Other events in London Motor Week include the Bonhams Auction, a motoring art exhibition at the Mall Galleries, which is open to the public, and


several invitation-


only lunches, receptions and functions at the Royal Automobile Club Clubhouse in Pall Mall. For more details of the event and access to registration forms visit www.veterancarrun.com.


ICONIC VILLAINOUS VEHICLES. Automotive experts hpi has unearthed its Top 10 list of creepy cars from the movies following a frightful poll amongst its team of motoring editors. Tim Bearder at hpi said: “Halloween is looming and the team here thought it would be great fun to recall some of the cars playing starring roles in movies that have given us the chills over the years. Some scary movies put their bad guys behind the wheel. Sometimes, the car is the bad guy. And occasionally, the car's just there to help out. “The hpi team has compiled some menacing movie cars ranging from hearses and sports cars to classics and even an ambulance!” The Top 10 list of fearful fi lms to feature cars or trucks: 10. Maximum Overdrive (1987) – Directed by the master of horror Stephen King (his only directing credit), this features a collection of marauding vehicles including a whole fl eet of sinister semi-trailer trucks that go on a murderous rampage. 9. Duel (1971) – Directed by a young Steven Spielberg this chase thriller features a 1955 Peterbilt 281 tanker truck driver with a major case of road rage hell-bent on revenge against motorist (Dennis Weaver) down a deserted highway. 8. The Car (1977) - A supernatural black 1971 Lincoln Continental rampages the roads in this seventies road movie. 7. The Hearse (1980) – a woman is menaced by a possessed hearse and its evil driver in this creepy eighties low-budget thriller. The hearse of the title is a terrifying looking 1951 Packard Funeral Coach Henney. 6. Death Proof (2007) – Quentin Tarantino’s grindhouse fl ick sees a serial killer stuntman (Kurt Russell) using his death- proof stunt car to create elaborately staged accidents where he murders young women. The two death-proof cars used in the fi lm are the 1970 Chevy Nova and the 1969 Dodge Charger.


5. Jeepers Creepers (2001) - the famous classic car that terrorises two siblings on their way home from spring break is a 1941 Chevrolet Cab Over Engine. 4. The Wraith (1986)- A high-performance Dodge M4S prototype with a mysterious teenage driver (Charlie Sheen) who’s out for revenge. 3. The Evil Dead (1982) – The notorious eighties video nasty also features an Oldsmobile Delta 88 that belonged to director Sam Raimi when he was in high school. It has appeared in all three Evil Dead fi lms and eventually, it gets its own body armour, spinning death-blades attached to it, and even travels through time. 2. Ghostbusters (1984) – It’s debatable if the blockbuster Ghostbusters is a real horror movie but the iconic ECTO-1, originally a 1959 Cadillac Ambulance, plays a memorable part as the ghost fi ghting machine we all know and love. 1. Christine (1983) – Another Stephen King adaptation this is the ultimate four-wheeled fury. A beautiful but berserk 1958 Plymouth Fury in fact, with a penchant for regeneration and mowing down innocent people all in the name of love for its besotted owner.


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