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Old 27 Jun 2009, 22:48 (Ref:2491756)   #13
Vitesse
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Vitesse should be qualifying in the top 10 on the gridVitesse should be qualifying in the top 10 on the grid
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It isn't the speeds or the achievements that captivate me - it's the people, and the art and music of the vintage engines! (I've even strapped a rather good sound recorder into a couple of accomodating drivers' cars! Because, it IS music. (And I was a musician.)
For me - and I'm sure most of us here - it's a combination of some or all of all those. And the smells of course ... nitro and other exotics .... Castrol R .... tyre smoke ....

The chance to stand beside - or even touch - a piece of machinery and know (almost to the minute) where that very car was twenty, thirty, fifty, eighty or a hundred years ago and to relate that to pictures, film or text ...
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Urm...I took alot of pictures - but it's the...oh, hell, I bet you wish you'd not said anything now don't you!!! If you'd like to see a couple of pictures...? But I'm not brave enough to post them publicly...

Thank you for being initially interested!

Becc.
Piccies please! (Pretty please!!!)
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