Club Arnage

Are any of you planning to go to Goodwood at the end of the month?

I popped in today on the way home and the art deco garage is coming along nicely.

Don't forget Guys n Dolls, Chav's are not welcome. This is now 'official' from Lord March.

Everyone must be in period 40's, 50's and 60's stuff. sh*t, I threw away my Carnaby St. stuff 10 yrs ago!!!

I'll also be getting a few free tickets as Mrs Leftie's boss is racing and I'm ment to be pitcrew   photographer!

I shall be going to, drove past this evening to see the stands going up.

Can't make it,  I'm going to a couple of ALMS races at the end of the month.... ;D

Outside chance of going in a 'work' capacity- thats if you class pissing about with lovely old racecars work!
 Should know on Monday. If not, have fun you guys!

http://www.bonhams.com/cgi-bin/public.sh/pubweb/publicSite.r?sContinent=EUR&screen=Catalogue&iSaleNo=15344

The Bonhams sale has an amazing collection of photo albums from Geoffrey Goddard coming up for auction.

(some pretty smart cars are going under the hammer as well that I expect will reach crazy prices)

Bollocks,  can't make it as I'm 1st mate on yacht delivery to CI & Brittany.

I see from the papers that Lord M has designated it a "pro-smoking" event! ;D  "Just to keep things in period..."

Don't forget your camera. We want to see plenty of pics 8)

I'll be there saturday and sunday, swilling shampers with the Commer Set.

I'll be there for the whole 3 days - as an exhibitor!

Andy-2-cobras (now 1 cobra) has now become a bonafide replica car manufacturer - producing a turnkey close copy Aston Martin DBR2 for £35,000 + vat.

Drop by the stand and have a chat, we will have a rolling chassis, aluminium front end and (hopefully) a completed customer car on the stand.

Andy's business is AS Motorsport.

http://www.ara-racing.co.uk/ (http://www.ara-racing.co.uk/)

http://rupert8766.fotopic.net/c1355394.html

http://rupert8766.fotopic.net/c1355394_25.html

Started early, some from the test day!

Wow, that looks a fantastic car, although I'm sure the so-called purists would quibble with an XK engine in an Aston.

I'll be seeing you at the weekend then Mr Brown, please increase the corporate hospitality budget accordingly!!

Two more packs of Pringles then  8)

Steve, I don't know what you're doing about accommodation but I could make available a certain vehicle which might assist you in having a comfortable night's sleep and fit in with the period of the event too.

Many thanks for the offer Andy.
My sister lives in Chichester (brother in law is marshalling at Goodwood) so we've blagged her floor.
Will probably stay in Wokingham on Friday night (floowing a couple of CA type sherbets)  ::)

A very enjoyable two days at Goodwood was had by several Zarses. We saw a bit of Steve Brown and the wonderful AS Aston DBR2 replica. He and Andy Two-Cobras seemed very busy indeed and their voices were on the point of exhaustion by closing on sunday.

The highlight of our saturday was to be invited through the security barrier and given a tour of the WWII display aircraft. Of course, they don't let just anyone in there, they strictly keep the "ordinary people" and hoy-poloy well away from such valuable machines. Not so Team Zarse.

Needless to say, I was asked if i would like to sit in a Spitfire. Wood eye! What a privilege! The Spirit of Kent (or MY Spitfire as I now prefer to call her ;)) was still hot and ticking from her last display. She smelt of hot oil, fuel and a sort of indescribable old aeroplane aroma. I got to move the elevators, ailerons and rubber pedals, and to push the fire button located on the joystick and go "DAGA-DAGA-DAGA". God it felt smooth, totally unlike the slightly artificial feel of a Piper or Cessna. No wonder it's been described as a Gentleman's sports aeroplane. When I closed the canopy things became amazingly claustrophobic. How the hell those guys could see anything not at 30 degrees to centre is beyond me. The rear veiw mirror on the Commer is more effective in terms of seeing what's coming up behind you. Anyway, such was my reluctance to exit, they nearly had to get the crash axe out to prize me from the seat I can tell you!

All in all I consider myself to be a jammy jammy bastard.  ;)

Very enjoyable day out. Change of plan meant i went yesterday. Sorry i missed Steve and Andy did try in the morning, but you were watching the first race and later you looked too busy. Nice car though, the aluminium bonnet was very nice.
Shame about the Martin Stretton crash. Very lucy to escape with a broken elbow from a monster crash.
Here's some pics i, not by me i must add.

http://rupert8766.fotopic.net/c1361686_1.html

http://www.pbase.com/steephill/revival2007

For me Goodwood was hard work, but very rewarding.  The ASM DBR2 reproduction www.asmotorsport.co.uk (http://www.asmotorsport.co.uk) received a great deal of interest and attention.  Andy and I talked our voices out for 3 days (and had to repair them with best bitter each evening).

Good to see Andy Z etc.  I also managed to slip away to watch a bit of racing on Sunday (Brooklands Trophy / TT race / Sussex Trophy) and will upload some photos soon.  Plus the real DBR2 won it's race - good stuff.