24 Jan 2024
This year sees Rob celebrate fifty five years in the automobilia world , starting work as a mechanic at 15 then on to sales and at the age of twenty becoming a director of a BL dealership. and by the time he turned twenty three he was running his own business which he has run to date.
Having collected automobilia from the age of fourteen he has bought , sold and cherished items from the motoring world and has aquired some very special items , some signed by Sir Stirling Moss and Nigel Mansell , in December he had his third book published to raise funds for the RNLI . In his private life he has been married fifty years this year and has two sons and a daughter . For several years he managed amateur football clubs with the pinnacle beiing the manager of a team who played Derby County at the baseball ground in a cup competition . He was also chairman of the governors at a local primary school for twelve years and also ran the youth club and the old peoples club for the same period.
We all wish him well as he turns seventy next month .
Jill
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