David Butler

David found an unexploded bomb when 11 years old and lost both legs, the right one above the knee and the left leg below the knee and his left hand at the wrist.

David competed in over 600 events, he raced and competed in rallies with LHD cars so that he can change gear with his right hand and use a vacuum operated clutch operated by a T lever on the top of the gear stick.
 

To steer he uses a ball on the wheel and a deep cup fitted to his artificial arm and uses his left leg on the accelorator and brake which are conventionally mounted on the floor.

The MGB cockpit - LHD, clutch and overdrive control on gearstick - bit like playing a piano with one hand at high speed!

My beloved MGB came out to play in many guises - this is the car in rally format on the RAC International Historic Rally 1997 on an incident packed Special Stage at Woburn.  We won our class but only after other class contenders, two Porsches and a Lotus Cortina, all ended up in the lake at a blind S bend on the Woburn stage.

We avoided a ducking as we could actually see the Lotus on top of one of the Porsches!

Still, if you don`t finish you can`t win!

Opposite -

Racing at Oulton Park - MGB in its original blue and white livery.

Below left -

1963 historic MGB in two races in November 2002 at the Silverstone Eight Clubs Meeting - my 99th and 100th races.  

 Below right -  

Clean MGB (DJB on the right in red)

My historic 1962 Porsche 911 on the Scottish Rally just before it was written off on the Ulster Rally.

Back to the circuits where the trees and stone walls are further back!

Click to read an article by Enjoying MG - I was a lot younger and better looking then!