Yet another Goodwood FoS pic thread

Well, having just lost two days of my life to sorting out around 800 photos I thought I'd bring you my humble offerings from the Sunday of the Festival. In advance, I'd better say this is cut and pasted from my thread on another forum, so sorry if you've seen any similar pics or whatever elsewhere, but frankly life's too short for me to type up all this drivel and a zillion links again lol Just sorta fast forward through the passe bits, yeah?

Is everybody sitting comfortably? Good, then I'll begin...

The first thing you reach on arriving (after the mahooooosive car park...well, field) is the Moving Motorshow. Which is essentially a bit of a gimmick. It's basically a huge shed where manufacturers display their current models and a few choice classics and punters can book test drives in them throughout the day... for about ten yards each way. Generally it leaves me rather cold, partially cos modern cars leave me mostly unmoved and partially cos you get there first and want to get in and see the "real" cars so tend to breeze past without giving it your full attention. However...

New Porsche 918 Spyder did hold the attention


Not least because it's a Porsche that doesn't look like every other one since 1950


and it has got these rather natty little camera "mirrors"


I'm sorry, but I'm here to tell you the new California is utterly fugly. It just is. Get over it. Blasphemous bastardisation of the name, could even be heresy I reckon


Hahhhhhnda stand had a nice 1st gen Civic celebrating... errr I'm not sure actually, fifty years or something. Maybe


This is a "deluxe", too, which presumably means you got a wing mirror with it


New Toyota/Scooby crossdresser GT86 thing is actually quite funky, a bit like a mini LFA. If you squint. Unfortunately, every pic I took of it came out cack so you'll have to take my word for it. Here's a nice detail of the boxer/86 logo to make up for it


BMWs are another marque that generally fail to move me much, but you'd have to be dead in the soul not to feel a slight tumescence in the prescence of one of these


Can't be many cars that were obsolete almost before they turned a wheel and yet had such a profound effect on a companies' heritage and reputation


If you leave the Motorshow gimmick and turn left instead of going straight over the bridge to the infield, you'd come to the Cathedral Paddock which holds about 40% of the proper entrants. One of the first things to meet the eye here (apart from the thick mud and storm clouds overhead lol) is the "fastest lorry in the world";


a 1929 "blower" Bentley, a 4.5 litre supercharged cad of a vehicle


this is why you needed passengers in early road races, you needed someone to make sense of the random gauges for you lol


I love the very gentlemanly clock, though, and the mileometer that counts down to Paris


There weren't so many of the really vintage cars as some years, which is fine cos it's hard to get too excited about a wicker picnic hamper on pram wheels with a two-cylinder ditch pump engine hanging of the back. There were a few real old critters though. Here's an Era.


The world's first genuine single-seat racing car, the straight-eight supercharged 1932 Alfa Tipo B


As you'd perhaps expect, Alfa had some utterly gorgeous cars there, like this lovely pair of little GTAs


One of only 40 1750 Giugario-styled GTA-ms ever built. Hard to look at the modern Giulia and not wonder why they don't just still make ones that look like this


and the rather arresting 3000CM spyder one driven by Fangio


Here's another old 'un, a 1914 Sunbeam Indiannapolis. This 4.9 litre straight six finished 4th in 1916. From the days when engines were made of brass


and carburettors were made out of plumbing