Who's going to be there?
So far there's me, Djetset (of course!), nicanary and gilescooper - but surely there are going to be more AutoPuzzlers than that?
I suggest we all meet up for lunch one day.
How about it?
Quote from: Carnut on August 27, 2017, 03:02:03 PM
Who's going to be there?
So far there's me, Djetset (of course!), nicanary and gilescooper - but surely there are going to be more AutoPuzzlers than that?
I suggest we all meet up for lunch one day.
How about it?
I doubt if Djetset will have the time, but otherwise I'm in.
I'll follow the online live streaming as usual...
Would love to go some day and meet you gentlemen ! Not this year though, hopefully next year.
With just a few days to go until the 2017 Revival gets underway, here's a sneak preview of just one small corner of the event, taken a couple of hours ago.
For all those Puzzlers coming along, bring your umbrella as sadly the weather forecast is looking wet for Friday (but better on Saturday and Sunday). If any Puzzlers are at the Revival, let's try and meet-up at outside the March Motor Works Rolls-Royce dealership (this will make sense when you see it) at 12 noon on Friday and/or Saturday. I'll be easy to spot as I'll be wearing a Goodwood name badge. I look forward to seeing you there :D
Fiat 1800/2300 Familiale - I had the Dinky Toy which was a French import at the time.
Looking forward to meeting you all. Please don't be scared when you see me - it's what happens after a lifetime of debauchery and licentious behaviour. Use me as a teaching aid for your kids.
I've just realised that the meeting place is on the infield of the circuit. I know there have been problems in the past with non-badge holders attempting entry, and perusing a detailed map of Goodwood I see that there are 2 access tunnels (news to me) one of which is for members and the other for the riff-raff such as myself.
Can anyone confirm this? Does public access to the Motor Show still preclude access to the paddocks? Djetset will have an intimate knowledge of how the land lies - I wouldn't like to think that AP members tried to meet up and were denied the possibility.
(Talking of riff-raff, let's hope the poor weather which is forecast will put off the scumbags who looted the campsite last year. )
Just to reassure you that the March Motor Works (along with the Earls Court Motor Show, half of the paddocks, the Freddie March Spirit of Aviation, etc.,) is accessible to everyone (no special passes needed) , as is the main pedestrian (usually vehicle) tunnel under the circuit :)
Quote from: Djetset on September 05, 2017, 05:54:00 AM
Just to reassure you that the March Motor Works (along with the Earls Court Motor Show, half of the paddocks, the Freddie March Spirit of Aviation, etc.,) is accessible to everyone (no special passes needed) , as is the main pedestrian (usually vehicle) tunnel under the circuit :)
Wonderful news. I didn't even try last year, being convinced it wasn't possible! Thanks Djetset - I've sent you a PM before reading this, so no reply necessary. Looks like our meeting place is arranged. Let's all hope it's just showers and not that shocker we had on Saturday last year.
I'm bringing a spare pair of shoes and a good coat!
Brief summary - on Friday it was mildly moist (compared to being in the path of a hurricane)
Did meet up with a few auto puzzlers and had a chinwag...
As you can see from the attached photo these were my shoes when I got back. (I'll spare you the photo of the socks as they are worse)
The picture of my car was after the first day - it is worse now and will be going to a car wash shortly.
Saturday was drier until the middle of the afternoon - we left after race 4 to avoid the crowds it was very slippery getting out then. What the parking area would be like at the end of the day was not worth thinking about. Instead of staying a second night we headed home (didn't buy tickets for Sunday)
Did see some good racing and I will put some pictures up later.
Nice to see you Giles along with Nicanary.
It was a bit on the wet side on Friday but Saturday was a lovely day until quite late in the afternoon.
Today started well but it rained off and on for most of the afternoon.
Sorry it's over for another year as I thought it was a brilliant event and thoroughly enjoyed everything (apart from getting wet..)
Any other event is a disappointment after the sheer size of the Revival along with the huge number of great cars.
I'm a fan!
Nice to meet gilescooperuk, carnut and Djetset. Really made the meeting so much better for me personally. I don't know what time carnut left today but the last race was held in almost monsoon conditions - I sat in the startline grandstand and the whole structure was shaking in the wind, with rain coming in sideways and it was impossible to keep dry! Good fun sliding my car on the mud!
Fantastic meeting, with some superb driving from Chris Ward (winning from last place on the grid) and Dickie Meaden keeping us all entertained in the saloon race. The weather doesn't spoil it for me, but I would prefer it to be dry!
Pictures of the revival car show...
(too tired to link each directly)
http://www.gilescooperphotography.co.uk/p99175032 (http://www.gilescooperphotography.co.uk/p99175032)
Thanks Giles; nice pictures.
I love that Unipower GT.
Not sure about your "Bond GT" though; that's a Peerless/Warwick!
Caption corrected, it was late and I was tired....
Quote from: gilescooperuk on September 11, 2017, 04:29:57 AM
Caption corrected, it was late and I was tired....
Got home last night at 10.30pm having left Chichester at 8.30am. One stop for fuel. Tired is not the word!
Add to which my screen got cracked by an errant stone on the M6. More hassle.
Quote from: nicanary on September 12, 2017, 05:00:44 AM
Quote from: gilescooperuk on September 11, 2017, 04:29:57 AM
Caption corrected, it was late and I was tired....
Got home last night at 10.30pm having left Chichester at 8.30am. One stop for fuel. Tired is not the word!
Add to which my screen got cracked by an errant stone on the M6. More hassle.
I didn't get home until 7 am today after my TVR's clutch packed up in a crawling diversion off the M1. Had to wait 5 hours before the RAC finally got a recovery truck to me!!!!
Golly, I'm very sorry to hear that you chaps had such problems getting back home! I'm still down at Goodwood, and typical that the sun is now shinning, and the very muddy car parks have now dried out quite well. It was good to see three fellow Brit Puzzlers at the Revival over the weekend. Hopefully we will get more puzzlers down at Goodwood next year...
To be fair, our worries pale into insignificance compared to those in the Carribbean. My nephew is in Barbados organising the RAF aid flights, and he's had 4 hoiurs sleep in 48, lying on the carousel in the airport because there's simply nowhere else for them to go.
(I feel a bit bad now. I told his dad he was spongeing a free holiday paid for by Brenda* - that's my sense of humour for you!)
* Brenda being Private Eye's name for Her Maj..
On the stand of GTO Engineering. I believe the accepted internet vocabulary is "wibble".
Suffolk Sportscars. They make an SS100 replica that actually looks like an SS100, and a splendid C-type copy.
Suffolk SS100s are accepted by the SS100 owners club as they are interchangeable for a lot of parts with the original cars (bar changes to get them through IVA).
BTW still working through tagging the racing pictures - it takes a while when there are over 800 of them....
Quote from: gilescooperuk on September 12, 2017, 05:50:03 PM
Suffolk SS100s are accepted by the SS100 owners club as they are interchangeable for a lot of parts with the original cars (bar changes to get them through IVA).
BTW still working through tagging the racing pictures - it takes a while when there are over 800 of them....
Who's been a busy bee then? Crikey!
Sorry these are arriving in small batches, but my camera didn't function at times and I've got a lot of junk to wade through.
A line-up of cars which took part in the demonstration of GP cars from 1957 - one of the themes this year was a celebration of the Moss/Brooks win in the British Grand Prix.
Former BRM works driver Dickie Attwood climbs out of his BRM P261. The closest I got all day to one of the "ancien pilotes".
Quote from: nicanary on September 13, 2017, 04:09:05 AM
Former BRM works driver Dickie Attwood climbs out of his BRM P261. The closest I got all day to one of the "ancien pilotes".
I was invited to a car test day at the Millbrook research ground some years ago and put my name down to be driven around in an Audi S8 by a top racing driver. The one I was allocated was Dickie Attwood! I just couldn't get over sitting in the passenger seat being driven on a track by such a genius! What an experience (and I thought I could drive quite fast!)
Just uploaded a couple of galleries to my website
Kinrara Trophy (moody evening photos)
http://www.gilescooperphotography.co.uk/p493820666 (http://www.gilescooperphotography.co.uk/p493820666)
Couple of small samples below.
and the goodwood trophy
http://www.gilescooperphotography.co.uk/p518723253
Quote from: Carnut on September 13, 2017, 04:44:29 AM
Quote from: nicanary on September 13, 2017, 04:09:05 AM
Former BRM works driver Dickie Attwood climbs out of his BRM P261. The closest I got all day to one of the "ancien pilotes".
I was invited to a car test day at the MIRA research ground some years ago and put my name down to be driven around in an Audi S8 by a top racing driver. The one I was allocated was Dickie Attwood! I just couldn't get over sitting in the passenger seat being driven on a track by such a genius! What an experience (and I thought I could drive quite fast!)
These guys are on a different planet, even at an advanced age. Dickie Attwood wasn't really anything special compared to his peers like Clark, Hill and Surtees. Yet as you say, it all comes so easily to them. By all accounts being a passenger of Jackie Stewart is an experience to savour, he drives in such a smooth and controlled manner that you have no idea of how fast you are really travelling, and to Stewart it's just another trip behind the wheel.
Lucky man, Carnut!
This was an oddity in the paddock. Virtually the entire works team of 1927 Delage GP cars, including Rob Walker's ERA engined car (wasn't that destroyed in the big fire?). Yet none of them were entered in a race, there was no demonstration run, they were not part of one of the annual "themes", athough it would have been a 90th anniversary. I have no idea why they were there - they couldn't be seen by most of the public.
You wait for Dick Protheroe's E-type, and then 2 come along at the same time!
Joe Colasacco's Ferrari 1512. I was watching as they fine-tuned the engine and the noise was extraordinary. I honestly thought it wouldn't race as there was blue smoke coming from the bottom right exhaust, but it raced OK and made the greatest sound. As I moved away I found I'd been standing next to Lord March, who'd been talking to a man in a stetson hat, presumably Colasacco or the owner.
Quote from: nicanary on September 13, 2017, 05:52:07 AM
You wait for Dick Protheroe's E-type, and then 2 come along at the same time!
Is one of the pair a replica or what else?
Quote from: Iluvatar on September 14, 2017, 05:10:51 AM
Quote from: nicanary on September 13, 2017, 05:52:07 AM
You wait for Dick Protheroe's E-type, and then 2 come along at the same time!
Is one of the pair a replica or what else?
Protheroe owned 3 E-types at different times. He retained the registration CUT 7 for each of these cars (this is allowed in the UK, but only one car at a time!). The present-day race cars are not road-registered, and therefore their owners have detailed them with the number plate they would have worn in period. Hence 2 cars with the same plate, each representing a car which was owned by Protheroe in the past.
This car was part of the TVR stand which showcased the new model. Some of you might recognise it. TVR always had very attractive female models on their stand at Earls Court Motor Show time, it was part of their attempt to obtain maximum publicity - one year the girl was actually topless!
At the Revival TVR "revived" this theme and employed some very nubile young ladies. One of them wore pink leather hotpants - shades of Herr Flick in 'Allo 'Allo and his memories of his youth and his friends in "tight lezzer shorrts" .(*)
Unfortunately the crowds were so dense on the unveiling day that I couldn't get a photo and had to wait till Sunday, by which time the models had all gone home.
(*) Apologies to all German-speaking AP members for mild racism. I believe that this BBC comedy became quite popular both in France and Germany.
Quote from: nicanary on September 14, 2017, 05:23:28 AM
Quote from: Iluvatar on September 14, 2017, 05:10:51 AM
Quote from: nicanary on September 13, 2017, 05:52:07 AM
You wait for Dick Protheroe's E-type, and then 2 come along at the same time!
Is one of the pair a replica or what else?
Protheroe owned 3 E-types at different times. He retained the registration CUT 7 for each of these cars (this is allowed in the UK, but only one car at a time!). The present-day race cars are not road-registered, and therefore their owners have detailed them with the number plate they would have worn in period. Hence 2 cars with the same plate, each representing a car which was owned by Protheroe in the past.
Ok, now it's everything clear
A selection of entries in the Goodwood Trophy race.
Quote from: nicanary on September 14, 2017, 07:08:12 AM
This car was part of the TVR stand which showcased the new model. Some of you might recognise it. TVR always had very attractive female models on their stand at Earls Court Motor Show time, it was part of their attempt to obtain maximum publicity - one year the girl was actually topless!
At the Revival TVR "revived" this theme and employed some very nubile young ladies. One of them wore pink leather hotpants - shades of Herr Flick in 'Allo 'Allo and his memories of his youth and his friends in "tight lezzer shorrts" .(*)
Unfortunately the crowds were so dense on the unveiling day that I couldn't get a photo and had to wait till Sunday, by which time the models had all gone home.
(*) Apologies to all German-speaking AP members for mild racism. I believe that this BBC comedy became quite popular both in France and Germany.
Thanks.
In fact the girls at Earl's Court back in the 1970s were not topless but completely naked!
And here's the car last week with the nubile young ladies in situ!:
I bet you don't clean your car for weeks!
Quote from: nicanary on September 15, 2017, 05:29:29 AM
I bet you don't clean your car for weeks!
Yes - pity there wasn't room to take them home with me...!
More pix. The Aston Martin DBR1 was on the maker's stand in the Earls Court display building.