Thank you

I'd like to thank All the Retrorides Team for a unforgettable weekend

Quatermass great banter all weekend see you @ Santapod the kettle will be on Mate

hanging? me? never!

or actually hanging so bad i don't recall any conversation with you. sorry...erm where were we? ... might help to refresh my memory!

Pretty much as soon as you arrived on Sunday

Thanks to everyone who helped organise the show, it was a wonderful weekend!

Absolutely must be repeated next year

See, this is a great reflection of the general vibe and frendliness of the whole weekend. Starting a thread just to say thanks. How nice.
For this to be the first time the event has been put on I find it incredible that it attracted so many cars, and so many types. Back when I used to do classic car shows it was very much club orientated, and clubs would to a certain extent keep themselves to themselves. The whole place was like one big club, a feeling that ive not really encountered at a show before. I was supposed to be turning up with a mate but he dropped out so I turned up on my own. Almost as soon as I got out of the car I was welcomed, and authough ive been on this forum for a while i hadnt been to an rr event before so i I could do is recognise cars and look for the owners. It worked out and by the end of the weekend it was feeling very community-like.

Was great to finaly meet you aswell Hotwire. This has to happen again, Pid says it will be a crime if it doesnt and I might have the chance of bringing something far more cooler and age appropriate next time. Having the car show on the track was a great idea, doing it at Goodwood could make this absolutly massive next time, like it wasnt big enough already.

So yeah, thank you to the whole team for making it possible, and hotwire for starting retro rides all that time ago. It was a special weekend.

Such a good weekend! We drove down from Glasgow in the limo (only 2 of us due to some dropouts). Arrived at the campsite on Friday and straight away folks were chatting, such a friendly atmosphere which lasted the full weekend.

The show had so much variety, was great to see different cars out on track all day and equally great to see some absolutely beautiful machines parked up during the day on both Saturday and Sunday.

It's been by far the best show I've ever attended and we'll definitely be back! Just wish I could get the time off work for the Gathering too but that wont happen unfortunately...

Thanks to everyone involved in organising and running the event!

SO glad I'm not the only one with a deep sense of resentment against those utter dicks. I went over twice to reason with them and then as I stared into their saucer-sized mad eyes and they honked and barked at me, I knew there was nothing good that could come out of asking them to stop, so I just had to turn around and go back again. They were utterly blasted and beyond any kind of reason or control. Sunday morning when I finally woke up and walked past their gazebo thing in the middle of their tents, they had destroyed everything they'd brought with them. Smashed everything up. I'm amazed they didn't burn their pitch down. They had kicked over their barbecue/fire thing, kicked over all their chairs and tables and scattered all their stuff everywhere. I'm willing to bet good money they didn't tidy any of that up before they left.

I really don't know what they thought the event was. I think they got it confused with some kind of music festival flood-therapy session for under-developed cretins. I can only hope the got stopped by the police for drunk/drug induced driving as they left because they were still at it at 4am and yet they were up by 9:30am staggering around and starting their cars.

Utter knobs.

I think the thing to do next time is for a bunch of RR regulars to put their names into a hat to volunteer as a campsite peace-posse. We could swap mobile numbers and then anything like that happens again and the Goodwood ground staff have gone home, we can gather in sufficient numbers to deal with it and if necessary to remove them from the site.

I don't know quite how that would work and how we would control it but I'm sure a bunch of us would stand a better chance than just one of us.

I think I can answer that. I think the 11pm curfew was also the time for the contract hired security staff to make a final pass and then leave. They weren't Goodwood people they were just hired (by Goodwood I presume) and I would personally be amazed if Goodwood were going to keep them onsite all night. They went home and we were left to our own devices until the morning shift.

That bunch of people were quite canny because they switched the music off and piped down completely at 11pm both nights... waited half an hour or so, and then resumed their fun. I'm surprised you didn't hear them but for me they were utterly unmissable as they were directly across the fire divide from me. Their music was not blaringly loud, just too loud and also too late to be acceptable. Added to that was their drunken shouting, the sounds of things being knocked over, hyena-like laughing and singing along badly to the songs they were listening to.

Aside from that though... a thoroughly enjoyable weekend, I agree!