Reply To: Welcome to the dedicated "6" area of the Forum
Julian Pratt
Bernie, thanks for setting this up.
It would be interesting to know how many TOC members have 15/6 and Big 6 cars in their garages! Mine originated in Ireland and was brought over to the UK and registered in April 1990. Sometime later it passed into the hands of Ray Fielding, who was an extremely wealthy motor racing enthusiast with an impressive collection of (now) extremely valuable racing cars including the 1956 Le Mans winning D Type Jaguar, a Type 57 Bugatti and a 1953/54 Maserati A6GMC. He also had Maserati, Peugeot, Lancia and significantly, Citroen dealerships.
The car was restored by a retired or nearly retired Citroen trained mechanic and used a display vehicle in the Citroen garage in Forres near Inverness from about 1999. Just a few years later Ray got very ill and the business was folded up and the family kept the car in the empty garage for the next 15 years! I heard about the car and went to see it. It had not run for many many years, but with a new battery and petrol it started immediately and ran beautifully. I put it on a trailer and took it home. Brakes had all seized up, but apart from that it seems in super order. Mark Harding did the brakes and felt it was a car that had been in a time warp and he was excited that he found the “fingerprints” of the original Citroen mechanic in several places on the car.
Below is an old picture of the car in the Citroen dealership celebrating Christmas!
Regards
Julian Pratt 07824 313541
