BY
T
he late Colin Seeley was a
pivotal force in the close-
fought British short circuit
racing scene of the 1960s,
originally as a GP-winning side-
car driver, then top-level chassis
manufacturer, and finally the
builder of complete race bikes,
engines and all, after he pur-
chased the manufacturing rights
and tooling for the Matchless
G50/AJS 7R/Manx Norton GP
racers from Associated Motor
Cycles' liquidators in 1966.
But Seeley's organizational
talents extended into other
areas, from running a success-
ful charity—the Joan Seeley Pain
Relief Trust he founded in 1979,
after his first wife succumbed to
bone cancer—to managing the
British Superbike title-winning
Duckhams Norton race team,
producing trials bikes and street
motorcycles for Honda Britain to
retail, and writing a two-volume
autobiography recounting all this
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III BOOK REVIEW
BY ALAN CATHCART
COLIN SEELEY
The Machines, The Magic, The Man
P118
