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About Colin Goodwin
- Colin Goodwin (born 18 August 1962) is a freelance motoring journalist who has worked for a number of magazines including UK titles Car and Autocar.
- He is currently best known for his 'Ask Goodwin' column in Autocar, where readers write in with their motoring problems and questions.
- His latest publication The Racing Driver's Pocket-Book is a nostalgic light-hearted look at motor racing before the arrival of Formula 1 and includes extracts from the diaries and memoirs of pioneering drivers, with a bit of interesting technical data from vintage service manuals. He has built a reputation over the years for more unusual and adventurous stories, such as taking an amphibious vehicle across the English Channel; the vehicle caught fire halfway across.
- He also held the Guinness World Record for driving backwards the fastest, reaching 104 mph in a Light Car Company Rocket. He is a keen motorbike rider, previously racing a Triumph Trident classic bike and has written for UK biking magazine TWO in recent years.
- He also writes about his classic Porsche 911 in Purely Porsche magazine. Colin has a wife, Amelia and has one daughter, Rachel and is also a friend of Top Gear presenter and ex-Autocar staff member James May.
- They both recently gained their Private Pilot Licence (PPL). Goodwin built a two-seat plane in his back garden which he named Dumbo.
- The aircraft was finished in 2014.
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