“Just turn the key and it will start,” I was told, as the door of the Tojeiro-Buick registration number TSU 719 was closed. A quick turn of the key to the right and a large pump of the throttle and it did! Instantly aware of the growl from the car’s Buick 3.5-liter V8 engine, mounted just inches behind my head, the noise was somewhat comforting as I became used to my home for the next thirty minutes. Engaging first gear…

Author Beckett squeezed himself snugly into the Tojeiro’s cockpit for his trial run up Kop Hill.
Photo: Pete Austin