{"id":502680,"date":"2023-05-24T19:03:26","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T02:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/?p=502680"},"modified":"2024-01-04T22:20:34","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T22:20:34","slug":"scotland-the-brave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/scotland-the-brave\/","title":{"rendered":"Scotland the Brave"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='memberful-global-teaser-content'>\n<p>Recently, my family and I had to venture back to Scotland for a funeral, which was sad, but we decided to make the most of it and so spent an extra week touring the Highlands, where my wife and her family are from. I did a lot of driving in those seven days, up one side of the country and down the other, which is a topic for an entirely separate column on the joys and terrors of driving on the \u201cwrong side\u201d of the road (whether you\u2019re American, Australian or British!). But early on in our journey we motored through a quaint little village called Kilmany. While typical of the hundreds of tiny villages scattered across the Scottish landscape, this one is particularly unique in that off to the side of the road it has a lonely looking, life-sized bronze statue of its most famous and influential product, a young lad named Jim Clark.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/jim-clark-statue.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-536789\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/jim-clark-statue.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"530\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/jim-clark-statue.jpg 530w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/jim-clark-statue-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/jim-clark-statue-100x72.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/jim-clark-statue-293x210.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n        .memberful-global-teaser-content p:last-child{\n            -webkit-mask-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #000 0%, transparent);\n            mask-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #000 0%, transparent);\n        }\n    <\/style>\n<div class='memberful-global-marketing-content'>\n<div class=\"a07online-global-marketing-content-wrapper\">\n<h2 class=\"a07online-global-marketing-title\">No Subscription? 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