Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 14:20:55 +0100 (MET)
From: Nickcleak
Subject: GEORGE BEVAN 1917 - 1998
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 14:20:55 +0100 (MET)
From: Nickcleak
Subject: GEORGE BEVAN 1917 - 1998
We are Saddened to learn of the death on Sunday of legendary engine tuner George Bevan , he was 81.
He is best remembered for the Bevan Imp, which won the British Saloon Car Championship title three years on the trot , 1970 , 1971 and 1972
The Imp won 48 times in 51 races .....
Will Gill send the news to IMPRESSIONS ??
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 21:52:47 +0100 (MET)
From: Gillian Hill
Subject: GEORGE BEVAN 1917 - 1998
>Will Gill send the news to IMPRESSIONS ??
Wil do.
Gill
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 16:53:17 -0500 (EST)
From: Mike & Tich Marsh
Subject: Re: GEORGE BEVAN 1917 - 1998
Thank you Nick, for sharing that sad news. I've set up the picture you attached as my wallpaper as my tribute.. is there any contact address we can send condolences?
81.... a very fine innings indeed, with a couple of highlights none of us Imp nuts are ever likely to forget.
Mike
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 05:41:24 +0100 (MET) From: Paul Greville
Hi everyone,
Thanks Nick for passing on the sad news about George.
I feel that it would be appropriate for the Imp club to send condolences to his family. What do others think?
If we are all of the opinion that it would be appropriate to do so, can someone in the U/K make the necessary arrangements. I feel that this is the least we can do for a man who made such a commitment to Imp racing and development.
Regards.
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 09:11:23 +0100 (MET)
From: Darcy Maddock
Subject: Re: GEORGE BEVAN 1917 - 1998
Dear Gillian, if you are sending condolences to the family, would you pass my wife's and mine. We never met George but that has not stopped us admiring him from afar. May his memory be kept alive by all of us. Darcy and Lyn Maddock
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 20:34:42 +0100 (MET)
From: Nickcleak
Subject: Re: GEORGE BEVAN 1917 - 1998
> is there any contact address we can send condolences?
i guess the editor of the mag will know , as George recently had a letter in the magazine ... pity the editors are not yet on the internet ...
it was ironic that i found that photo a couple of months ago in a motorsport memorabilia shop , it is one of my favourites ... you saw what i wrote in the March issue of Impressions regarding the photo ..
ironic isn't it .....George should die the same month as i had the picture published , a sort of pre-tribute ...
thanks Gill
nick
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 21:31:40 +0100 (MET)
From: Gillian Hill
Subject: Re: GEORGE BEVAN 1917 - 1998
>Dear Gillian, if you are sending condolences to the family
No, I was pssing the news to the editor of Impressions, which I have done.
I wouldn't know where to contact the family, and feel it would be presumptious of me to do so. Sorry.
Gill
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 18:35:38 -0500 (EST)
To: imps@coollist.com
From: Gillian Hill >I feel that it would be appropriate for the Imp club to send condolences to his family. What do others think?
>If we are all of the opinion that it would be appropriate to do so, can someone in the U/K make the necessary arrangements. I feel that this is the least we can do for a man who made such a commitment to Imp racing and development.
I will pass this on to the Chairman, as well as the editor.
Gill
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 21:10:45 +0100 (MET)
From: Gillian Hill
Subject: Club letter to Mrs George Bevan
The Club Chairman, Graham Beddoe, has just telephoned to ask me to tell you all, and especially those who suggested it, that he has written a letter of condolence on behalf of the Club to Mr Bevan's widow, and will be posting it tomorrow (Tuesday).
He also asked me to thank the mailing list subscribers as he had not heard the sad news before I rang him last night.
Gill