BIO: Charles Chong
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Born in Kuala Lumpur in July 1953, Charles Chong hails from a wealthy Malaysian Chinese land owning family. Although Malaysia was hardly a hotbed of high end motoring during the 1950s and…
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Bio: Nina Dyer
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Nina Dyer was born on February 15th 1930 in Ceylon (modern day Sri Lanka). Her mother was Indian and her father was the wealthy British tea plantation owner, Stanley Dyer. Nina spent her…
Read MoreBio: Miles Davis
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Miles Davis was born in Alton, Illinois, on May 26th 1926. He went on to become one of the most influential and acclaimed figures in jazz history. Davis was raised in East St. Louis by his mother, a…
Read MoreBio: John Lennon
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John Lennon was born in Liverpool on October 9th 1940. His father was a merchant seaman and spent much of John’s early life away from home. When John was five, his father left for New Zealand.
Read MoreBio: Colin Crabbe - Automotive Super Sleuth and Privateer F1 Entrant
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Born on April 14th 1942, Colin Crabbe went on to become an F1 and sportscar entrant but is perhaps best known for having extracted some of the 20th century’s most significant motor cars from all…
Read MoreBio: Peter Sellers
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Peter Sellers has frequently been described as the greatest comic genius to emerge from the UK since Charlie Chaplin. Born in 1925, at an early age, Sellers accompanied his parents on tours with…
Read MoreBio: Paul McCartney
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Self-taught musician Paul McCartney rose to fame as bassist and joint lead vocalist for The Beatles. Born in Liverpool on 18th June 1942, McCartney lost his mother at age eleven which later became a…
Read MoreBio: George Harrison
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Born in Liverpool on February 25th 1943, George Harrison became best known as lead guitarist of The Beatles. As a youngster, Harrison not only practised the guitar but also collected photographs of…
Read MoreBio: Mohammad Pahlavi - last Shah of Iran
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Mohammad Pahlavi’s father, Reza, was an Iranian army general who seized power in a 1921 coup d'etat. Two years after the coup, Reza Pahlavi installed himself as Iran’s prime minister and, in 1925…
Read MoreBio: Chris Dawes, Micromuse & McLaren F1 chassis 017
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Although several McLaren F1s have been involved in serious accidents, the fiery demise of chassis 017 in 1999 attracted an especially large amount of press attention. Three people were killed in the…
Read MoreBio: Schlumpf Brothers
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Over the course of three decades, Swiss brothers Fritz and Hans Schlumpf accumulated the best high end automobile collection on the planet. The Schlumpfs were big Bugatti fans and, for a time…
Read MoreBio: Walter Wolf
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During the 1970s, Walter Wolf made a fortune trading oil cargoes and providing technical services to the oil industry. Born in Graz on October 5th 1939 to Austrian-Slovenien parents, Wolf spent his…
Read MoreBio: Tony Parravano
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Tony Parravano was a construction tycoon who rapidly established a multi-million dollar fortune building large numbers of tract homes in Southern California after World War 2. Having caught the…
Read MoreBio: Lord Brocket, the Ferraris & the Furnace
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Charles Nall-Cain inherited his family seat and Peerage aged 15 when his grandfather, the millionaire businessman, Sir Charles Nall-Cain, died in 1967. Brocket’s own father had died when he was nine…
Read MoreBio: David Thieme, Porsche & the Essex affair
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David Thieme was the enigmatic American owner of Essex Overseas Petroleum Corporation, an oil spot trading company that, for a short time in the late 1970s, was rumoured to be making profits of…
Read MoreBio: Porfirio Rubirosa - the wild life of a Trujillo agent & Ferrari racer
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Porfirio Rubirosa was born on January 22nd 1909 in San Francisco de Macoris, Dominican Republic. His father, Pedro, was a general in the local government-backed militia and advanced to become a…
Read MoreBio: Herbert von Karayan
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Born in Salzburg on April 5th 1908, Herbert von Karajan became one of the 20th century's greatest orchestral conductors and sold an estimated 200 million records during his career. Of Greek…
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