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Brian Jordan

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Jan 5, 2003, 7:25:21 PM1/5/03
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Many motor racing enthusiasts will be saddened to hear that Barry Foley
this evening lost a long fight against cancer.
Many motor sports enthusiasts will remember Barry as the author for many
years of the "Catchpole" cartoons in Autosport. He was also a great
enthusiast for the sport who always had a fund of stories to tell about
"the good old days" while being totally up to date with all modern
developments.

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Pete Fenelon

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Jan 6, 2003, 5:39:01 AM1/6/03
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Brian Jordan <club...@ksports1600.org.uk> wrote:
> Many motor racing enthusiasts will be saddened to hear that Barry Foley
> this evening lost a long fight against cancer.
> Many motor sports enthusiasts will remember Barry as the author for many
> years of the "Catchpole" cartoons in Autosport. He was also a great
> enthusiast for the sport who always had a fund of stories to tell about
> "the good old days" while being totally up to date with all modern
> developments.

This is terrible news. I was a great fan of Catchpole (and especially
Mad Dog!). Saw Barry racing in Clubmans quite a few times too - wasn't
his car the St Bruno Roughcutter?

(crosspost to rec.autos.sport.f1 - a lot of autosport readers worldwide
there who would I'm sure like to add their condolences).

pete
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Emma

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Jan 6, 2003, 5:51:34 AM1/6/03
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Pete Fenelon <pe...@fenelon.com> wrote:
>Brian Jordan <club...@ksports1600.org.uk> wrote:
>> Many motor racing enthusiasts will be saddened to hear that Barry Foley
>> this evening lost a long fight against cancer.
>
>This is terrible news.

Yep, yet another sad day for British motorsport. When I started buying
Autosport Catchpole was really coming to the end of it's run but it was
still very funny and seemed to reflect real life racing very well!

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Kim Andrews

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Jan 6, 2003, 6:01:31 AM1/6/03
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On Mon, 06 Jan 2003 10:39:01 -0000, Pete Fenelon <pe...@fenelon.com>
wrote:

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>This is terrible news. I was a great fan of Catchpole (and especially
>Mad Dog!). Saw Barry racing in Clubmans quite a few times too - wasn't
>his car the St Bruno Roughcutter?

Catchpole was the best auto cartoon ever. How sad. :o(
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H

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Jan 6, 2003, 1:45:52 PM1/6/03
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Brian Jordan <club...@ksports1600.org.uk> wrote in message >
> Many motor racing enthusiasts will be saddened to hear that Barry Foley
> this evening lost a long fight against cancer.
> Many motor sports enthusiasts will remember Barry as the author for many
> years of the "Catchpole" cartoons in Autosport. He was also a great
> enthusiast for the sport who always had a fund of stories to tell about
> "the good old days" while being totally up to date with all modern
> developments.

This is very sad. Having been a long-time fan of his work I finally
got to meet Barry at the Autosport International Show a year or two
back. He signed a copy of his book for me, which I will treasure
forever.

Regards

Henry

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Fredrik B. Knutsen

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Jan 6, 2003, 5:53:37 PM1/6/03
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That is desperately sad news. Catchpole used to give me many a good
Saturday morning chuckle....remember when Mad Dog had a plaster cast on
his foot, coz he opened his Orterspurt too quickly and all the
supplements fell on his foot? What innocent days...much missed.
Doc

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Pete Fenelon

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Jan 17, 2003, 7:27:37 AM1/17/03
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H <henry_...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> This is very sad. Having been a long-time fan of his work I finally
> got to meet Barry at the Autosport International Show a year or two
> back. He signed a copy of his book for me, which I will treasure
> forever.
>

I'm glad to say that Autosport printed a very good two-page tribute
to Barry this week (and also a "last ever Catchpole" by Jim Bamber
with Catchpole racing Will Hoy to the bar...)

Brian Jordan

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Jan 17, 2003, 3:17:25 PM1/17/03
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In article <v2ftlph...@corp.supernews.com>,
Pete Fenelon <pe...@fenelon.com> wrote:

> I'm glad to say that Autosport printed a very good two-page tribute
> to Barry this week (and also a "last ever Catchpole" by Jim Bamber
> with Catchpole racing Will Hoy to the bar...)

I have to say that alongside Simon Taylor's appreciation of Barry, I
found Bamber's cartoon somewhat tasteless, racing not to the bar as you
suggest but to the pearly gates.

David Buttery

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Jan 19, 2003, 8:31:27 PM1/19/03
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Brian Jordan <club...@ksports1600.org.uk> wrote here on 17 Jan
2003:

> I have to say that alongside Simon Taylor's appreciation of Barry,
> I found Bamber's cartoon somewhat tasteless, racing not to the bar
> as you suggest but to the pearly gates.

Well, I didn't know either of them, so bow to superior knowledge, but I
found it really rather touching. Certainly not remotely tasteless.

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