26 sats \ 2 replies \ @carlosfandango 2 Mar \ parent \ on: Daily Discussion Thread ~Music Saloon Music
Sundays without Fleetwood Mac’s ‘The Chain’ , Murray Walker and James Hunt falling out, just feel wrong…
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20 sats \ 1 reply \ @0b1CoinObi 2 Mar
Them were the days, they were one of the best double acts on TV. You knew as soon as Murray said "he's only got three more corners to go to win the race" you knew they'd run out of petrol or breakdown
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @carlosfandango 2 Mar
‘There's nothing actually wrong with the car except that it's on fire..’
‘He only has laps 48,49,50,51,52 to go…’
His father was a motorsport journalist and they were apparently very close. Murray was a tank commander after landing at Normandy and was making his way through France. Stopping at a refueling point he found his Dad there who had taken a job as a war correspondent to see how his son was getting on!
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