Welcome back!
I read the story again, with renewed interest, as I started doing a few local hillclimbs/sprints just a few years ago, aged 58.
Never having done any form of motorsport before, for the majority of my early biking years I rode British/ Harley/ custom bikes & tended to take no interest in racing at all!
I wish I'd started 40 years ago, I might have even been good at it now!
All good fun, I won fastest pre 1960 at Leighton Hall for 2 years in a row, until this year when I was soundly beaten into 2nd! 
(I'm going to have to so something about those 750cc pre 1960 Triumphs i.e. convert my 650!!)
Good to hear from you, maybe our paths will cross one day, 
hoping to do Curborough next year, that'll be as far South as we go!