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Jim Keeble is a novelist, Oxford graduate, travel-writer and screenwriter from Cambridge, England. He now lives in London with his wife.
Aug 16, 2014 · Jim Keeble turned the original Gordon GT idea into reality, but he had help from a young apprentice who saw it from the inside. Meet Derek Baker. Derek Baker was born in 1943 in east London but moved to Slough as boy, which led him to apply for a position at a boatyard on the Thames at Maidenhead at the age of 14 when he left school.
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While 1964 marked the commencement of production in Hampshire of the Gordon-Keeble, the story really started in 1959 when Rick Nielsen, an American Voodoo fighter pilot based at Bentwaters, asked Ipswich auto engineer Jim Keeble to fit his 4.6 litre small-block Chevrolet V8 engine into a Peerless GT.
Dec 16, 2020 · Jim Keeble, the chassis designer and engineering brain behind the marque, is said to have taken every G-K fresh from the factory on a test route through rural Hampshire. He would start at Eastleigh, head up the A3 towards Winchester, drive through the town and then out north-east along the A272, which is where we are now.
The origins of the Gordon-Keeble date back to the late 1950s when the Managing Director of Peerless Cars, John Gordon, met a talented automotive engineer by the name of Jim Keeble. At the time, Jim was running a successful business in Ipswich restoring cars and building one-off specials for his customers.
Dec 23, 2021 · Peerless co-founder John Gordon partnered with engineer and racing driver Jim Keeble in 1959 at the behest of USAF pilot Rick Nielsen, who wanted a Chevrolet Corvette V8 swapped into a Peerless GT.
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Jul 15, 2019 · Imaginatively monikered after John Gordon of Peerless fame and Jim Keeble – the two chaps who formulated the concept after coming up with the idea of shoehorning a big American V8 into one of John’s Peerless chassis, the Gordon-Keeble is an often forgotten sixties British dream machine that features timeless Italian styling on the outside ...
