TONY DRON

THE TRUTH IS ALWAYS BETTER THAN A ROSET INTED VIEW OF HISTORY

NEVER SPEAK ILL of the dead. It’s wrong and I won’t. However, so much nonsense has been written about Ken Costello, who died in July aged 88, that somebody just has to put the record straight. Ken, a successful club racer in the 1960s, gained greater fame a er that by converting MGBs to Rover V8 power. That embarrassed British Leyland, sparking a long-running ‘David and Goliath’ battle. Leyland-bashing has been a popular sport for decades, which perhaps explains why Ken’s long obituaries were so one-sided, casting him as the brilliant engineer who devised a faultless MGB V8, yet received nothing but hostility from British Leyland for his trouble. The full story was a bit different and I must be honest: in 1973, the Costello MGB GT V8 that I tested for…

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Octane (Digital) - 1 Issue, December 2015

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