How much interest did the biking public take in the Wildcats success?
It didn’t take long for the ‘biker’ magazines of that era to cotton on to the fact that something ‘interesting’ was going on down South, and before long the name ‘Wildcat’ became very well known both locally and internationally. Visits to their stores in Fareham became a bit of a pilgrimage for entire Scooter Clubs of a weekend, and it was a regular thing to find it difficult to locate a parking space at the back of their shop on a Saturday morning. Sometimes, if they were lucky, visiting customers would get a sneak preview of the Wildcat racing machines as they were wheeled out of the workshop and fired up for the last time before being loaded up into a van and driven off to a race meeting somewhere far away. Pete Hockley and John Dudley were particularly excellent at scaring the living daylights out of anyone viewing their antics in the car park. A large part of it was covered in a fine shingle, which was superb for providing colossal full throttle sideways power slides on their Wild
