Colin Goodwin (born 18 August 1962) is a freelance motoring journalist
who has worked for a number of magazines including UK titles ''
Car
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The year 1886 is regarded as ...
'' 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
The Porsche 911 (pronounced ''Nine Eleven'' or in german: Neunelfer) is a two-door 2+2 high performance rear-engined sports car introduced in September 1964 by Porsche AG of Stuttgart, Germany. It has a rear-mounted flat-six engine and origin ...
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
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(PPL).
Goodwin built a
RV-7 in his back garden which he named ''Dumbo''. The aircraft was finished in 2014.
References
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British motoring journalists
Living people
1962 births