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2016 Goodwood Revival
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MikeKardec
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Here's a few more ...
A celebrity of some ilk showed up ... no idea who, the place was crawling with people who owned and raced expensive cars.
There was a Swiss and Italian component to the trip too. We stayed at Le Grand Hotel des iles Borromees where Hemingway used to dry out and on lake Lucerne ... where there were a lot of the same sort of thing, great old medical "spa" hotels and STEAMBOATS!
A celebrity of some ilk showed up ... no idea who, the place was crawling with people who owned and raced expensive cars.
There was a Swiss and Italian component to the trip too. We stayed at Le Grand Hotel des iles Borromees where Hemingway used to dry out and on lake Lucerne ... where there were a lot of the same sort of thing, great old medical "spa" hotels and STEAMBOATS!
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If I had known you were there I would have made contact with you. The photo of the young ladies is where you would have found me. Every year, the girls recreate the British comedy: Carry on Cabbie, the area that they use is also the drop off/collection point for the vintage cars ferrying VIP's to and from the hotel and other places around the site, which is what I do in the vintage MG.
Sorry I missed you but I do hope that you enjoyed the experience.
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It was great. I'd love to come on the Friday rather than Sunday sometime ... it might be a bit less crowded!
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If you send me a PM with your details, I'll send you the contact name, phone number and requirements to get you in.
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Friday tends to be less crowded, though you definitely got the best of the weather coming on Sunday this year. Saturday -which we had intended to be our big look-around day - turned ouyt to be such a washout, we didn't make it over the the trackside at all between our stints. We had a grand weekend, though - as ever, with the Chap Magazine (available all good newsagents
) and our miniature version of the Chap Olympiad. I ended up, unexpectedly, commentating for the whole weekend, which was tremendous fun. (It's a whole different angle than having been a "competitor" all these years, I can tell you!). I believe we're due back next year... Herself and I have already booked our accomodation. We were going to try Little Hampton this year, but then Butlins Bognor cancelled the "adult nineties music weekender" they had planned and did rather a stonking deal on accomodation, so we're booked in there now (with the bonus that we pay in monthly installments, so we won't even notice it going out). Looking forward to it already: this event now nicely bookends my Summerf season, with the full Olympiad on the other end, in early July.
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That rainy Saturday was spent in another corner of the March Estate, the Rolls Royce Factory.
My "cousin" (she's kind of a step cousin acually) who got us into Goodwood works for a promotions agency and Rolls is one of their clients. When we got down there we discovered that she had us booked on a tour of the Rolls factory which may have been the "pay off" for getting us Goodwood "Mess" tickets. European car companies LOVE to show off their factories and will even give buyers from the US significant discounts for taking "European Delivery" of a car and taking the factory tour. They get to proselytize you for hours that way.
Anyway, you couldn't pay me to buy a Rolls and I think we "had" to take the tour but it was pretty damn interesting. It was also nice to talk to people who take pride in them. Living in LA they are mostly a bloated ego trophy but they did show us another side of it all. I have a lot more respect for them than I did so I guess they were somewhat successful.
I will go to Goodwood again but may have to save up for a couple more years.
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Rolls are nice, but it's been afair few years sicne they made one to my tastes - I find the modern versions a bit on the ugly side. Probably just as well I can't afford one. Still, why not cut out the middleman and just buy an actual Volkswagen nowadays anyhow?
Volkswagen = Bentley, BMW = Rolls Royce! Of course, you could always buy the most British of cars, a 2017 Das Mini!Rolls are nice, but it's been afair few years sicne they made one to my tastes - I find the modern versions a bit on the ugly side. Probably just as well I can't afford one. Still, why not cut out the middleman and just buy an actual Volkswagen nowadays anyhow?
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Or an MG made by the Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation.Volkswagen = Bentley, BMW = Rolls Royce! Of course, you could always buy the most British of cars, a 2017 Das Mini!
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BMW bought the rights to the Rolls Royce intellectual property in 2003, but there's no direct linkage between the Rolls Royce Motor Cars Ltd created in 2003 as a subsidiary of BMW and the company that produced Rolls Royces and Bentleys sicne their inception until 2003 - that was taken over by Volkswagen, though it now only owns the Bentley Brand.
In which case, yeah, I guess a new Rolls is really just a BMW, so that would be the appropriate thing right enough - why shell out on a pretend Rolls Royce when all you're buying is a BMW.... Better buy a VW and at least get 'the real thing'.
I think the only truly British car left in production is the Morgan? Would that I could afford one of those....
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If I ever win the lottery, a Suffolk SS100 would be high on my must have list! Fallowed by the Eagle Low Drag.
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The car that I like, money can't buy, there are so few left. About the only chance of getting hold of one is if you are lucky enough to see one being auctioned, but then you would need a King's ransom to buy it. It's called an MG WA, and it looks like this.
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For a glimpse of what the Goodwood Revival is like:
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Bazinga!
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The Morgan is a beautiful car. I do wish someone would take the same concept and make an affordable, practical runabout alternative that could seat four adults. The PT Cruiser was a sort of nod in that direction - I've seen some well enough customised to get a fair bit of the way there, but they still look more like an eighties hotrod than a fifties model.
