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A few more famous colour schemes from the weekend.
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A few more. bare in mind that my little digital camera is fine when cars are stationary!
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I absolutely love these 70s and 80s cars, so much more relevant to me than the fifties and sixties stuff which frankly leaves me cold. I think that's why Goodwood Revival doesn't excite me. About time the FIA moved the "Historic" cut off forwards. More, please, more!
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When I first went to this event in 2010, I was determined to return for this year, but unfortunately, circumstances conspired against it happening, so many thanks to all the superb pics and posts that brought back the great memories from 2 years ago.
Great shame about the 917's but, in period, once sorted, they were fabulously fast and successful and there was reason for that, of course, and Graham has explained it. Still capable of winning races in historics in the right hands, it will nevertheless be a rare event. Costs following mechanical or bodily damage are horrendous and quite possibly greater than for a 512 (but I am guessing there)! Max, 50's and 60's leaves you cold? You have no soul .... man! |
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Well, I love them all, and I'm older and grumpier than most. Still don't see how a C type, DB3S, 300S, D type, 450S, DBR1/300, 250 TR, 250 SWB, Tipo 60/61, 250 GTO, Lightweight E, 904, DB4GT, 289, 250LM, DP212, 330 LMB, DP214, Maserati 151, DP215, Daytona Cobra, Lola Mk6, Carrera 6, P2, GT40, P3, P4, T70 etc, etc, (need I go on .... cos' I could you, know) can leave anyone cold!
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Yes, the pic is a Porsche Carrera 6 / 906. Here is a couple of unadorned 908s, courtesy of conceptcarz.com, although my preference is for the little 'flunders'. I have heard the 906 & 908s referred to as the 'white racers', which I believe is because the works cars were predominantly white, rather than traditional silver? |
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.. thing is, maybe you liked Marilyn Monroe, whereas me being very much a child of the sixties, Twiggy and The Shrimp are my sort 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder'.
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Yes, thoroughly looking forward to it Yes, thoroughly looking forward to it. A friend of mine has a Harrier Chev, it was invited in the early years of the group C revival but I don't think we will be welcome now, it was actually an Interserie car, cracking racer though. Yup, 50s and early 60s do nothing for me, interesting to look at and I normally watch a couple of laps before wandering off and doing something else. Chacun a son gout as Delta might say. Pre 66 saloons are OK because there are so many of them which makes a good race. But I'm not just.a modern classic deviant, I also enjoy pre war stuff racing. Well possibly I'm stretching a point when we are looking at 750cc unsupercharged MGs, but the gung ho heroics of the pre war formula drivers are superb. See JT, I have plenty of soul it's just that I keep it buried |
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Fabulous album MGD, take it all apart from Tango were taken at the Ring last year?
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Sorry David, missed your sneaky little link first time! All those lovely Porsches and a scabby old 924!
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Definately a late sixties, early 70s person myself. Don't know why, I was only 7 in 1970, but show me a 9i7, GT40, 512, Tyrell 006, Miura, Daytona, Capri, any day of the week.
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7os onwards - speed and noise.
pre-70s - speed, noise AND cars sliding round corners with visible drivers sawing at the wheel, trying to stay alive. Now that's entertainment. (I actually registered with 10/10ths for the History Forum, but it's nearly all 70s on. Boring. So many nice GT cars ruined into Modsports, and how many Supersaloons were made from decent single-seaters and sports-racers which could be entertaining us today? A naff era) |
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Arrived back home today.
Not a bad LMC.Impressed with the watch we won.Boys will have that on E Bay later. Seems the Plateau dates are not changing for the next one and nor should they with 2000 entries for 360 places. Assume the entry deal will not change with CER,Peter Auto supporters first,Frogs second and the rest of us to make up the numbers.Still cant see what that T 26 in Grid 1 had to do with LMC other than the Swiss owner who is a nice bloke spends lots of dosh with Peter Auto. One of the 10/10ths inspired Teams won the scratch team trophy although the other superstar one should have done if some of them hadn't ballsed up the last fifteen minutes of Race three My high light was Michael Birch's Elva 160 GT in Grid 4 driven by two of the most charismatic drivers in Historic Motorsport.I am sure they will get excited at some point about something but they and the car are pretty quick! Talbots still best Pre War British sports car but I could be biast.Only a minute a lap quicker than those Bentley tractors. |
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