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micrat South East Building a Kanjo styled Cinquecento :) Posts: 1,176	VSCC Sprint day @ Goodwood 25/10/2014 picsmicrat @micrat
	Oct 27, 2014 8:27:53 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	This was a bit of a short notice deal, I found out about it on the Friday, but as I am only 10 minutes drive away I headed down on a clear, crisp Saturday morning to see what it was like. As always, arriving at Goodwood is like a car-show in itself, the carpark was rammed with all ages, sizes and variations of cars from vintage gems to modified retro's... Ferrari, Lamborghini, Lotus, Bristol, Ford Ranchero, a mini with a mid engined VTEC lump and a whacking great Jackson Racing blower and an awesome rat-rod were my highlights! So when that's just the car park and the 'event' itself hasn't even started yet, AND had free entry...you know it's going to be good... VSCC stuff coming up in part 2
	Last Edit: Oct 27, 2014 8:28:30 GMT by micrat

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micrat South East Building a Kanjo styled Cinquecento :) Posts: 1,176	VSCC Sprint day @ Goodwood 25/10/2014 picsmicrat @micrat
	Oct 27, 2014 8:54:07 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	So, my first VSCC vintage car experience. I must admit, I was slightly worried that not being called Rupert or not wearing any tweed may have singled me out, but I couldn't have been more wrong, what a welcoming, warm bunch of people...and the standard of the cars was incredible. There was a static display as well as the competitors, and excuse my lack of knowledge on some of these but anything pre-60's is out of my car-geek comfort zone. My camera has made up its own filing system for some reason so these are in no particular order. I guess these old girls need some extra luck, 4 leafed clover in a little display cabinet may or may not help in racing, maybe it was the ripspeed sunstrip of its time?! Gorgeous Peugeot looked startled... There was something about an old Morgan 3 wheeler with more modern looking tyres that made me go a bit silly, LOVE these... Confusing gears on everything... GN Cyclecar, everything was amazing, you could see the valves moving, it seemed to have 2 spinny cylindrical things instead of a crank, it sounded like nothing I have ever heard, very cool... Another odd 3 wheeler... We had no idea what this car was, when we saw the bonnet mascot and an 'A' badge we nicknamed it Albert. Lo and behold, the dash plaque said it was an 'Albert Car' how random haha. This reminded me of the Napier-Railton from RRG a few years back, was amaze! Gorgeous flathead roadster pulled in later in the day... Coventry Climax powered (Cooper I think)was one of the fastest and most modern machines there... The Bantam... This Frazer-Nash was sooo interesting, it had obviously been used hard all its life and had so many old holes and things hacked away in it, and some form of top hat looking thing that appeared to have been shot with a shotgun! Cool 7 based special with cheeseholed chassis was very nippy... Engines and dials and things...don't think they were designed to look gorgeous, but they do... 3rd instalment coming up with my car of the show and a few questions...
	Last Edit: Oct 27, 2014 8:56:21 GMT by micrat

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micrat South East Building a Kanjo styled Cinquecento :) Posts: 1,176	VSCC Sprint day @ Goodwood 25/10/2014 picsmicrat @micrat
	Oct 27, 2014 9:11:16 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	OK, nearly done! Car of the show, for me, was this, it sat soooo well, and I had naughty thoughts about what it would be like with a modern bike lump or 3 cylinder turbo in... OOF. Question time, can someone please tell me what relevance the gold turtle has to old Alfa Romeo cars? And finally, some modern content, I didn't even know there was such a thing as a 2 series, but this brace of 2 series racers was there, I loved the way the over-fenders filled the original petrol flap area and the secondary filler was added in, its the little touches... Well done if you made it this far, enjoy


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Seth South East MorrisOxford TriumphMirald HillmanMinx BorgwardIsabellaCombi Posts: 15,521	VSCC Sprint day @ Goodwood 25/10/2014 picsSeth @seth
	Oct 27, 2014 9:42:04 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	Wonderful stuff! You are right, that low-down Seven is a great little thing. Your second turtle photo gives the answer to your question. It is related to Tazio Nuvolari one of the greatest racing drivers of all time and a frequent Alfa driver. I suspect that the GN has a regular crankshaft hidden inside and the twin cylindrical spinny things are perhaps magnetos driven from the crank to provide ignition for each side of the V?
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micrat South East Building a Kanjo styled Cinquecento :) Posts: 1,176	VSCC Sprint day @ Goodwood 25/10/2014 picsmicrat @micrat
	Oct 27, 2014 10:47:32 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	Oct 27, 2014 9:42:04 GMT Seth said: Wonderful stuff! You are right, that low-down Seven is a great little thing. Your second turtle photo gives the answer to your question. It is related to Tazio Nuvolari one of the greatest racing drivers of all time and a frequent Alfa driver. I suspect that the GN has a regular crankshaft hidden inside and the twin cylindrical spinny things are perhaps magnetos driven from the crank to provide ignition for each side of the V? Of course! Nice one! Nuvolari rings a bell now, what a plonker I look haha. I think my brain had been scrambled from the cost of a bacon roll, I'm sure their piggies are free range but at that price I expect them to be skydiving and cliff jumping not just walking around a field. Cheers


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elstro1988 Part of things Posts: 46	VSCC Sprint day @ Goodwood 25/10/2014 picselstro1988 @elstro1988
	Oct 27, 2014 22:25:47 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	Been going to VSCC events for years - great day out and value. The racing is always awesome - these guys do not let the age of the cars detract them from hard dicing. A sombre note was that in April at Silverstone, one young lad died after a really nasty barrel roll at Brooklands in 1921 GN after charging hard through the field. There is the stereotype that everyone is called Rupert or Hubert and wears tweed and it's all tally-ho-old-bean-let's-warm-up-the-Bentley but there's members of all ages and bank balances in the VSCC.
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106e30 Part of things Posts: 247	VSCC Sprint day @ Goodwood 25/10/2014 pics106e30 @106e30
	May 12, 2015 11:45:07 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	The Frazer Nash belongs to Dougle who owns Longstone tyres, he is an awesome driver, gets the back out on every corner. Most of these events are just a social gathering, drink, race , drink and drink some more. I've just got back from Montlhery so I will do a write up over the weekend
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HoTWire Administrator Posts: 26,999	VSCC Sprint day @ Goodwood 25/10/2014 picsHoTWire @admin
	May 12, 2015 14:09:06 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	Thanks for the sharing VSCC is best CC
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micrat South East Building a Kanjo styled Cinquecento :) Posts: 1,176	VSCC Sprint day @ Goodwood 25/10/2014 picsmicrat @micrat
	May 13, 2015 10:08:39 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	May 12, 2015 11:45:07 GMT 106e30 said: The Frazer Nash belongs to Dougle who owns Longstone tyres, he is an awesome driver, gets the back out on every corner. Most of these events are just a social gathering, drink, race , drink and drink some more. I've just got back from Montlhery so I will do a write up over the weekend Look foward to seeing it!


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