Sir Stirling Moss recently turned 86, and I can’t believe it’s already been about four months since we featured him driving his Mille Miglia-winning Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR. No other octogenarian we know of is capable of running circles around most other drivers, as well as being so damn charming all of the time, so it’s time to raise a glass of champagne and toast Sir Stirling with a few of our favorite things…
1. “It is necessary to relax your muscles when you can. Relaxing your brain is fatal.”
2. “Motion is tranquility.”
3. “There are two things no man will admit he cannot do well: drive and make love.”
4. “I believe that if a man wanted to walk on water, and was prepared to give up everything in life, he could do it.”
5. “If God had meant for us to walk, why did he give us feet that fit car pedals?”
6. “If everything is under control you are just not driving fast enough.”
7. “To achieve anything, you must be prepared to dabble on the boundary of disaster.”
8. “I love to feel a racing car around me, to feel the way it holds me.”
Photography from Daimler via Mercedes-Benz Classic Centre & classiccarmag.net
