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CGVA01313 Austin Se7en - Mini 850 - Christabel Carlisle - BRSCC National Meeting, Brands Hatch Corgi Classics Availability: Cancelled Size: 1:43 Scale Age: 14 years and up Release: December 2007 Type: Static Model Manufacturer's Code: VA01313 Product Code: CGVA01313

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When Christabel Mary Carlisle received a Mini with the personalised number CMC 77 for her twenty-first birthday she had no idea that its registration, which had been bought for her by her brother and two sisters because seven was her lucky number, would become a motorsport legend; but it did. After attending a race meeting with some friends in 1960 the young piano teacher said that if she went back to Brands Hatch again it would be as a driver, because watching was boring! As good as her word, within a year she was racing CMC 77 and after careful study of Piero Taruffi's 'The Technique of Motor Racing', proved to be something of a natural. Christabel enjoyed a fantastically successful three-year motorsport career that saw her dicing with, and often beating, the great champions of her era. Her talent was such that within a year she was practically a BMC works supported driver as CMC 77's preparation was taken over by Don Moore Racing who put her number plate on each car that she raced, although it actually still belonged to her road car. The model depicts CMC as it was when she famously beat US film legend Steve McQueen into third place at Brands Hatch after an epic race-long battle that grabbed the headlines in that week's Motoring News. The race concluded with Christabel finishing second to 1000cc class victor, Vic Elford.

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