{"id":4070,"date":"2012-11-28T20:51:02","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T20:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seloc.org\/?p=4070"},"modified":"2012-11-28T20:51:02","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T20:51:02","slug":"seloc-members-fund-jim-clark-memorial-clock-tower-restoration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/2012\/11\/28\/seloc-members-fund-jim-clark-memorial-clock-tower-restoration\/","title":{"rendered":"SELOC members fund Jim Clark Memorial Clock Tower restoration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seloc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/jimclarkclock002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4071\" title=\"Jim Clark Memorial Clock Tower\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seloc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/jimclarkclock002-300x258.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"258\" \/><\/a>The Jim Clark Memorial Clock Tower in the former Team Lotus drivers home town of Chirnside has stood since 1969 as a tribute to one of the greatest racing drivers to have ever lived, so when SELOC member &#8216;<em>hauxleablaze<\/em>&#8216; <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.seloc.org\/viewthread.php?tid=344775\">noted on a visit to the town that the tower had seen better days<\/a> it was clear what needed to be done.<\/p>\n<p>With the ever helpful Michael Hipperson taking charge, restoration work was carried out to bring the tower back to it&#8217;s former glory, cleaning and polishing the stone work and replacing the memorial plaque.<\/p>\n<p>SELOC members, along with Clarks former mechanic, Cedric Selzer, and F1 journalist Peter Windsor, raised over \u00a32,400 to pay for the work which was completed this month.<\/p>\n<p>Discussion: <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.seloc.org\/viewthread.php?tid=349513\">SELOC Chat &#8211; Jim Clark Memorial Clock Tower renovation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jim Clark Memorial Clock Tower in the former Team Lotus drivers home town of Chirnside has stood since 1969 as a tribute to one of the greatest racing drivers to have ever lived, so when SELOC member &#8216;hauxleablaze&#8216; noted on a visit to the town that the tower had seen better days it was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,7],"tags":[142,153,463,576,577,650,712],"class_list":["post-4070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classic-team-lotus","category-seloc","tag-cedric-selzer","tag-chirnside","tag-jim-clock","tag-memorial","tag-michael-hipperson","tag-peter-windsor","tag-restoration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}