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TonyF

Original Poster:

2,300 posts

283 months

Sunday 21st August 2016
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Heard that Phil Abbott is no longer part of the radical business ?
Anyone confirm ?

Ron V

85 posts

158 months

Monday 22nd August 2016
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Heard the same thing from our local HQ.

Might be retirement for Phil........good for him and Thank you for building such wonderful cars.

smile

Ron

TonyF

Original Poster:

2,300 posts

283 months

Monday 22nd August 2016
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Certainly built some great cars Ron but I heard slightly different in that when he sold a percentage to the Germans they pushed him and Amanda out pretty promptly...
Stand to be corrected though..

splitpin

2,740 posts

205 months

Tuesday 23rd August 2016
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Hi Tony

Hope you're keeping well, been a while now since I last saw you!

It's not a rumour, indeed it's been a known fact for several weeks now, including RS officially themselves; this appeared in their Oulton Park Championship Newsletter of July 5 2016 >




Not just Phil and Amanda, but also young James, so a genuinely sad day imho. My sincere admiration, appreciation, thanks and best wishes for the future to all three of them. End Of An Era (and a very special one) me thinks.

Cheers

Trev

TonyF

Original Poster:

2,300 posts

283 months

Tuesday 23rd August 2016
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Sad day indeed trev, Hope it all continues to go in the right direction.
All the very best to Phil, Amanda and James.
Hope you are well trev, hope to see you soon.

Tony.

BertBert

19,706 posts

218 months

Wednesday 24th August 2016
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Not often that I am in full agreement with Trev, but on this I certainly am.
I understand when change is needed, it's needed and never easy. I suspect that great though Radical are, they are a bit stuck in terms of forward progress.

However and back to the point, I look back on my time racing Radicals with huge fondness - a time that cannot be repeated for me - even if the Bertish vault were to unlock again and offer up sufficient funds. And not only were the Abbotts the creators of such fantastic cars, their utter goodness, friendliness and spirit of doing the right thing for the customers was fantastic.

So all the very best to the Abbotts and also all the best to Radical in their future endevours.

Bert


splitpin said:
Not just Phil and Amanda, but also young James, so a genuinely sad day imho. My sincere admiration, appreciation, thanks and best wishes for the future to all three of them. End Of An Era (and a very special one) me thinks.

Cheers

Trev

anonymous-user

61 months

Wednesday 24th August 2016
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+1

Racingroj

488 posts

170 months

Wednesday 24th August 2016
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+1

Gc285

1,216 posts

200 months

Thursday 25th August 2016
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+1

dunc_sx

1,630 posts

204 months

Thursday 25th August 2016
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Totally argee with all of the above, great folk & great cars smile