It is sobering to think Miles would be 90, I forgot that he was older than Shelby. When we see pictures of him, it's all of him at the age he raced for Shelby and we forget he was a fixture in racing for many years before that. In fact he was racing before WWII, when Shelby was still a teenager. He began racing in America in 1950 or so, when Shelby was still a chicken farmer or maybe still an
oil well roustabout. I know he and two other "codger" driver got jackets made that said something about an old man's racing club since they were about ten years older than most of the other drivers racing (Ed Leslie was another one of the group, having flown bombers during WWII).
Speaking of Miles, I never got it straight, was he fighting in Africa in the Tank Corps or from Normandy Eastward? Or did he start his WWII experience in Africa and then go on to the European theatre?