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Bideford Stock-Car Racing Entry Comes In Second

15.4.1955 stock car Bideford

Cheerful send-off impression of Mr William Jack Blight, of the Garage, New Road, Bideford, as he sets off for Plymouth Stadium to face over 13,000 spectators and to bash his way through to second place in his heat at the stock-car race meeting.

The above car is a Ford V8 28hp saloon, ‘Blighty’s Blue Devil’. In the background is Old Ford Farm House where he lives.

The full Gazette article is dated 15 April 1955

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