{"id":171664,"date":"2026-02-02T20:25:01","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T01:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/?p=171664"},"modified":"2026-02-09T13:43:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T18:43:56","slug":"the-legends-of-bob-gerard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/the-legends-of-bob-gerard\/","title":{"rendered":"The Legends of Bob Gerard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_170976\" style=\"width: 790px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/bob.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-170976\" class=\"size-full wp-image-170976\" src=\"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/bob.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"1009\" srcset=\"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/bob.jpg 780w, https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/bob-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/bob-768x993.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-170976\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">You can\u2019t read one without the other.<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p><strong>An inquisition into one of the funniest and most original racing books ever written<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>All hell is about to break loose at the Gerard residence. Young Julian is attempting to make up a model grid of the British Grand Prix, circa 1952, with his collection of Dinky Toys. Not having enough red F1 cars to fill the grid, Julian paints a spare Cooper-Bristol in the Italian racing color and pretends it\u2019s a Maserati.<\/p>\n<p>But Uncle Bob, who always refused to drive or race anything other than British cars, seriously objects to Julian\u2019s new color scheme. \u201cExplain to me why it is in red. And not British Racing Green as God intended.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmpro_content_message\">This content is for Premium Subscriber members only.<br \/><a href=\"\/wp-login.php?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fvelocetoday.com%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F171664\">Login<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/subscription-account\/subscription-checkout\/?level=1\">Subscribe<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An inquisition into one of the funniest and most original racing books ever written All hell is about to break loose at the Gerard residence. Young Julian is attempting to make up a model grid of the British Grand Prix, circa 1952, with his collection of Dinky Toys. Not having enough red F1 cars to... <\/p>\n<div class=\"pmpro_content_message\">This content is for Premium Subscriber members only.<br \/><a href=\"\/wp-login.php?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fvelocetoday.com%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F171664\">Login<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/subscription-account\/subscription-checkout\/?level=1\">Subscribe<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[10272,13476,13477,5262,6396,13474,13475,13473],"class_list":{"0":"post-171664","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-people","7":"tag-bob-gerard","8":"tag-books-on-bob-gerard","9":"tag-english-racing-postwar","10":"tag-era","11":"tag-graham-gauld","12":"tag-julian-gerard","13":"tag-laura-jeffcote","14":"tag-pip-greasley","15":"pmpro-level-required","16":"pmpro-level-1","17":"pmpro-no-access","18":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171665,"href":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171664\/revisions\/171665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}